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作者：Hefetz, Amir; Warner, Mildred E.
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Haifa
摘要：Analysis of local government contracting decisions typically focuses on transactions costs related to service characteristics, especially asset specificity and difficulty of contract management. This analysis expands the focus to include market characteristics (competition), citizen characteristics (public interest in the service delivery process), and place characteristics (metro status and public management) and finds these are the more important factors. A 2007 survey of US city managers' r...
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作者：Lejano, Raul P.; Leong, Ching
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：Notwithstanding the growing use of interpretive analysis in public administration and policy research, its fullest potential for evaluating intractable public conflict has yet to be tapped. We develop a mode of narrative analysis, partly based upon Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, that shows promise for analyzing public disputes. We illustrate this with a case study in Los Angeles involving a contentious proposal to inject recycled wastewater into the city's water supply. The analysis reveals that...
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作者：Torenvlied, Rene; Akkerman, Agnes
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：This study brings together two perspectives on managers' reported levels of red tape. The work motivation perspective explains how managers' characteristics, such as work engagement (alienation) or commitment, affect their reported levels of red tape. The external control perspective explains how managers' feedback relations with external actors and organizations reduce miscommunications and conflicts between multiple sources of rules, regulations, and procedures. Hypotheses are derived about ...
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作者：Jennings, Edward T., Jr.; Hall, Jeremy L.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Kentucky
摘要：The contemporary policy environment makes persistent demands on agency officials to use the best information available when making decisions about policies, programs, and practices. State and federal legislation calls on agencies to incorporate evidence-based practices (EBP) in their programs. Using data from a 2008 survey of state agency directors, we examine the extent to which state government agencies draw upon various sources of information to guide their decisions about programmatic oper...
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作者：Borins, Sandford F.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Though the use of narrative has become widespread through many disciplines, it has yet to establish a strong footing in public administration. The article first explains why narrative analysis has not been incorporated into mainstream public administration as the latter has become increasingly empirical, quantitative, and hypothesis driven. The article then outlines a number of key narratological concepts that could readily be applied to the field. Demonstrating the possibilities they offer, t...
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作者：Ingold, Karin; Varone, Frederic
作者单位：University of Bern; University of Geneva
摘要：The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) pays special attention to so-called policy brokers when explaining policy change. However, this prominent policy approach neither clearly defines who the policy brokers are nor identifies under which institutional rules they have an influence on policy processes and outputs. This article thus formulates two theoretical hypotheses that complement the ACF and then proceeds to undertake the first empirical testing of these hypotheses within the Swiss climate...
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作者：Heckman, Alexander C.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Franklin University
摘要：This study analyzes the impact of management quality, spending, problem severity, and political factors on states' air pollution control outcomes and provides insights for improving the measures and methods used in public management and government performance research. The analysis illustrates the importance of selecting proper outcome measures and taking into account the interaction of management and spending when conducting empirical analysis into the causes of government performance. Additi...
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作者：Boardman, Craig
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Despite a large body of scholarship elucidating mechanisms for aligning participant behaviors with public service goals in boundary-spanning collaborations, the most challenging of these collaborations-those with potential for lacking both common goals and common resources-have received relatively little attention from public management scholars. This study investigates approaches to structure and authority by managers of this sort of collaboration, specifically by the managers of cooperative ...
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作者：Feeney, Mary K.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Multiple public administration survey research projects have asked respondents to assess the level of red tape in their organizations. Many of these surveys use the following questionnaire item: If red tape is defined as 'burdensome rules and procedures that have negative effects on the organization's effectiveness,' how would you assess the level of red tape in your organization? Unfortunately, no research has tested the ways in which the language used in this item may bias responses. This re...
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作者：Malatesta, Deanna
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis
摘要：The article reviews the relevant theory and research linking information and bargaining efficiency and presents results of an analysis of negotiation times associated with 290 franchise renewal agreements. Data reveal three main findings: (1) information revealing a history of poor performance by the supplier resulted in a 74% increase in negotiation time, (2) a 1% increase in the value of a contract increased negotiation time by 18%, and (3) the participation of an expert resulted in a 24% de...
