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作者:Soss, Joe; Fording, Richard; Schram, Sanford F.
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Kentucky; Bryn Mawr College
摘要:Drawing on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and statistical analysis of administrative data, this article explores the operation of performance management in the Florida Welfare Transition program and its effects on decisions to sanction welfare clients. Unlike most econometric research on welfare sanctions, we approach sanctioning as an organized practice that reflects, not just client characteristics and behaviors, but also organizational needs, routines, values, authority relat...
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作者:Getha-Taylor, Heather; Holmes, Maja Husar; Jacobson, Willow S.; Morse, Ricardo S.; Sowa, Jessica E.
作者单位:University of Kansas; West Virginia University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Colorado Denver; Children's Hospital Colorado
摘要:Although there is no shortage of general studies and theories of leadership, the same cannot be said for public leadership. This concern surfaced as a critical issue among scholars at the 2008 Minnowbrook III conference. Drawing from that discussion, this article calls for invigorating the study of public leadership within public administration (PA). We present the case for public leadership, that is, leadership for the public good, where challenges are complex, stakeholders are many, values a...
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作者:Walker, Richard M.
作者单位:University of Hong Kong
摘要:This essay complements that of Hou et al. (Hou, Yilin, Anna Ya Ni, Ora-orn Poocharoen, Kaifeng Yang, and Zhirong Zhao. 2010. The case for public administration with a global perspective. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 20) on globalized public management. It focuses on public management as an interdisciplinary design science that reconnects with the themes of prior discussion, make links to the current array of theoretical and conceptual frameworks already in use, and disc...
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作者:Rayner, Julie; Williams, Helen M.; Lawton, Alan; Allinson, Christopher W.
作者单位:Durham University; Swansea University; University of Hull; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Leeds
摘要:This article conceptualizes public service ethos as a multidimensional construct and develops a framework that explains first, why individuals are motivated by this ethos (Public Service Belief); second, how they deliver public services in accordance with this ethos (Public Service Practice); and third, what ends they perceive it to endorse (Public Interest). Despite considerable interest in public service ethos within the public administration literature, research is constrained by the absenc...
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作者:Walker, Richard M.; Damanpour, Fariborz; Devece, Carlos A.
作者单位:University of Hong Kong; Universitat Jaume I; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要:Management innovations (MIs) are widely adopted, but their influences on organizational performance are little researched in public settings. Positing that the MI-performance relationship is complex and is conditional over other characteristics of the organization, we examine the influence of MI on organizational performance both directly and indirectly through performance management (PM). PM is an important organizational process characteristic arising from public management reform and in its...
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作者:Isett, Kimberley R.; Mergel, Ines A.; LeRoux, Kelly; Mischen, Pamela A.; Rethemeyer, R. Karl
作者单位:Columbia University; Syracuse University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要:This article examines the road that network scholarship has followed in Public Administration. We look at the historical drivers of the use of networks in practice and scholarship in the field and discuss how that has shaped the current literature. The body of the article focuses on the current challenges that network scholars face in the discipline, specifically basic theoretical issues, knowledge about formal networks, knowledge about informal networks, and methodological issues. We close th...
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作者:Nabatchi, Tina; Goerdel, Holly T.; Peffer, Shelly
作者单位:Syracuse University; University of Kansas; Long Island University; Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus
摘要:This essay identifies two problems that impede the ability of public administration to govern effectively in dark times. First, public administration has failed to adequately acknowledge itself as an arbiter of political conflict and as a discipline responsible for shaping societal affairs. Second, the field is entrenched in a bureaucratic pathology that limits its capacity to address complex policy problems. We argue that these issues show a clear need for the reinvigoration of democratic eth...
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作者:Moynihan, Donald P.; Fernandez, Sergio; Kim, Soonhee; LeRoux, Kelly M.; Piotrowski, Suzanne J.; Wright, Bradley E.; Yang, Kaifeng
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Syracuse University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要:Much of the appeal of performance measurement is explained by its image as a simple and value-neutral way to monitor and improve government. But contemporary governance is characterized by complexity. Few public officials have the luxury of directly providing relatively simple services, the context in which performance regimes work best. Instead, they must work in the context of a disarticulated state, with policy problems that cross national boundaries and demand a multi-actor response. At th...
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作者:Villadsen, Anders R.
作者单位:Aarhus University
摘要:This study examines structural embeddedness of political executives as an antecedent of policy isomorphism in municipalities. Surprisingly, little public management research investigates the institutional and structural backgrounds for decision making and action. This article argues that the social network of political executives constitutes a conduit in which information as well as expectations and pressures flow. The study uses rare full relational network data of Danish mayors to analyze ex...
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作者:Bozeman, Barry; Moulton, Stephanie
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Empirical publicness explains organizations on the basis of their mix of political and economic authority, whereas normative publicness seeks to identify, prescribe or infuse public values. The scholarly traditions developed by these two types of publicness have tended not to overlap and for very good reason-blending empirical and normative theory and purpose is a problem of longstanding, one presenting practical and epistemological challenges. We seek to integrate these two different publicne...