-
作者：Weibel, Antoinette; Rost, Katja; Osterloh, Margit
作者单位：University of Liechtenstein; University of Zurich
摘要：Current reforms in the public sector are characterized by the introduction of businesslike incentive structures, in particular the introduction of pay for performance schemes in public institutions. However, the public sector has some specific characteristics, which might restrict the naive adoption of pay for performance. Our article analyzes whether the impact of pay for performance on performance is bound to conditions, and if this is the case, under which conditions pay for performance has...
-
作者：Mullin, Megan; Daley, Dorothy M.
作者单位：University of Kansas; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：In an era of devolution, collaboration between state and local institutions could be an effective tool for state governments to capitalize on local knowledge and respect local autonomy, while maintaining consistent standards and enforcement. However, the benefits to local agencies are less clear. Local agency personnel may have goals that diverge from their state counterparts and significant constraints on their resources, forcing them to consider the opportunity costs of collaboration. This a...
-
作者：Andrews, Rhys; Entwistle, Tom
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Cross-sectoral partnerships are increasingly seen as a solution to the most pressing social problems facing contemporary societies. Sectoral rationales for partnership suggest that public, private, and nonprofit organizations each possess distinctive advantages that can enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public agencies' efforts to address social issues. We present an exploratory quantitative examination of this argument, using primary and secondary data from 46 UK local gove...
-
作者：Keiser, Lael R.; Miller, Susan M.
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：The bureaucracy has a profound impact on the direction of policy when it determines eligibility for a variety of government programs. Given the significance of eligibility determination for policy and the fact that street-level bureaucrats have great latitude when interpreting eligibility standards, organized interests have an incentive to try to influence the application of eligibility rules. Despite this, few researchers have explored the impact of organized interests on eligibility determin...
-
作者：Darnall, Nicole; Potoski, Matthew; Prakash, Aseem
作者单位：George Mason University; Iowa State University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Stakeholders who seek to reward or punish businesses for their environmental programs often cannot observe these organizations' internal policies and operations. To address these informational problems, and signal their beyond-compliance environmental commitments, some businesses are participating in voluntary environmental programs (VEPs). This article examines whether business managers associate the brand value of VEPs-due to their differing program sponsors-with the perceived preferences of...
-
作者：Keller, Ann C.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Organizations that provide scientific information to policy makers face the difficult challenge of maintaining scientific credibility while establishing their political relevance. A growing body of research examines how assessment organizations meet the potentially competing expectations of science and policy communities. However, existing research has failed to produce generalizable findings. This study draws together theoretical approaches in science studies and organization theory to develo...
-
作者：Foldy, Erica Gabrielle; Buckley, Tamara R.
作者单位：New York University; City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：Ample research documents the ubiquity of routines in street-level practice. Some individual-level and organizational-level research has explored how to break street-level routines, but little has looked at the work group level. Our study observed teams of state child welfare workers over 2.5 years, documenting whether they discarded old routines and learned new ones. Results suggest that team characteristics such as clear direction and reflective behaviors had greater influence on team learnin...
-
作者：Brecher, Charles; Brazill, Caitlyn; Weitzman, Beth C.; Silver, Diana
作者单位：New York University
摘要：This article uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework to identify the stakeholders and their coalitions in the arena of after-school policy, which drew much new attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond stakeholder analysis to include identification of core and secondary value conflicts and of opportunities for policy analysis to help strengthen coalitions and pressures for chan...
-
作者：Nohrstedt, Daniel
摘要：This study applies the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to developments in Swedish nuclear energy policy in the 1970s and 80s. In an effort to contribute to the refinement and debate regarding the generalizability of ACF theory, the objective is to assess the utility of ACF assumptions when applied in this case. The study explores hypotheses about advocacy coalition stability and examines the motivations explaining policy change in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the 1986...
-
作者：Yackee, Jason Webb; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We provide the first empirical assessment of the ossification thesis, the widely accepted notion that procedural constraints on federal agencies have greatly hindered the ability of those agencies to formulate policy through notice and comment rule-making. Using data that cover all active federal rule-writing agencies from 1983 to 2006, our results largely disconfirm the ossification thesis. Agencies appear readily able to issue a sizeable number of rules and to do so relatively quickly. Indee...
