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作者：Heinrich, Carolyn J.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This study examines public management challenges faced by educational agencies that are required to set up a market for providing choice in supplemental educational services (SES) for students in underperforming schools and to hold nongovernmental providers accountable for their performance in increasing student achievement. The operations and performance of SES providers in a large urban school district, as well as how their performance in increasing student achievement relates to their marke...
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作者：Fenn, Paul; Gray, Alastair; Rickman, Neil; Vencappa, Dev; Rivero, Oliver; Lotti, Emanuela
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Oxford; University of Surrey
摘要：The safety of patients is an important responsibility of health care providers, and significant compensation costs may arise if providers are negligent. A widely debated option involves liability for such compensation being placed with the hospital rather than the individual clinician, a system known as enterprise liability. In the United States, partial adoption of enterprise liability and proposals for its universal introduction have accompanied high-profile malpractice insurance crises in t...
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作者：van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; de Jong, Gjalt
作者单位：University of Groningen; University of Antwerp
摘要：To date, quantitative assessments of the evolution of national rules have only rarely been conducted, leaving many questions ill-understood and unaddressed, particularly as to the features of rule stock evolution patterns. Can such patterns be traced, and if so, can the underlying causal mechanisms be identified? This article will address these questions. The premise is that forces endogenous to the rule system, inherent to any population of national rules, together with the demographic charac...
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作者：Brodkin, Evelyn Z.; Majmundar, Malay
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：Organizations operate as the gateway to public benefits. They are formally authorized to adjudicate claims, in the process interpreting and applying eligibility rules. Beyond their designated role, they also operate as informal gatekeepers, developing modes of operation that affect the ease or difficulty of claiming. Operational practices-both formally prescribed and informally created-can add hidden costs to claiming to the extent that they are complicated, confusing, or cumbersome. Individua...
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作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Smith, Craig R.
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Manchester; University of Arizona
摘要：Our argument connects the management of relational contracts with the management of policy networks. Thinking about bilateral, horizontal extensions of governmental authority in a state of agents can be enhanced, we claim, because of the rich offerings of relational contracting theory. We review key results from economic theories of relational contracting, provide public sector examples, and present a set of testable propositions that suggest a rationale for the creation and expansion of polic...
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作者：Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The evolution of new forms of public governance in Europe presents a challenge to methods of democratic policy making, accountability, and control that are predicated on a theory of representative democracy. The article discusses the evolution of supranational institutions and considers empirical data on the democratic performance of governance networks in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. it concludes that bureaucratic actors in the European Union and in subnational governance netwo...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Kassekert, Anthony
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Recent public management literature has emphasized the influence of public sector characteristics on employee attitudes, behaviors, and performance. This article assesses how recent management reforms, such as contracting out, civil service overhaul (also known as Title 5 exemptions or removal of civil service protections), and managing for results are associated with employee job satisfaction in the federal government. Using the Federal Human Capital Survey 2006 dataset, this article finds th...
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作者：Sosin, Michael R.; Smith, Steven Rathgeb; Hilton, Timothy; Jordan, Lucy P.
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Northern Michigan University; University of St Andrews
摘要：Many doubts have been expressed about the capacity of states to administer federally supported social service programs. This article relies on institutional theory, punctuated equilibrium theory, and evidence from two states to analyze the way states administer the programs in times of fiscal crisis. The particular context is the fiscal crisis of the early 2000s in substance abuse programs. The analysis suggest that, during the crisis, state administrative authorities and the providers they fu...
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作者：Dubnick, Melvin J.; Frederickson, H. George
作者单位：University of Kansas; University System Of New Hampshire; University of New Hampshire
摘要：Ordinarily research articles on public sector third-party governance, or the state of agents, turn to the subject of accountability in their conclusions. Rather than leaving it to the conclusions, this article takes up the subject of public sector third-party governance as a problem of accountability. To consider accountability, we studied contemporary performance measurement practices in the federal government, particularly as they are applied in five agencies of the US Department of Health a...
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作者：Teodoro, Manuel P.
作者单位：Colgate University
摘要：Professional networks are widely recognized as important sources of environmental protection policy innovation. I argue that innovations are most likely to diffuse from professions to governments under conditions of bureaucratic job mobility. When an agency head arrives from outside the government he serves, she carries both a reputation and mandate for innovation. The incentives for innovation are less potent when an agency head is promoted from within. The result is mobility-contingent profe...
