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作者：Kim, Sangmook
摘要：Public service motivation (PSM) assumes that civil servants are characterized by an ethic to serve the public. Perry identified a multidimensional scale to measure PSM with four components: attraction to policy making (APM), commitment to public interest, compassion, and self-sacrifice. But there is little research on the generalizability and applicability of the dimensions and scale of PSM in the other countries. This study tests whether the structure of PSM observed in the United States by P...
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作者：Kwon, Myungjung; Berry, Frances S.; Feiock, Richard C.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Local governments in the United States have adopted a variety of economic development tools and strategies to revitalize and compete. This research considers two questions. First, what factors influenced early and late adopters of strategic economic development policy tools, and second, how are the factors that influence policy adoption in the latter period of time different from the factors that influence early adoption? The article develops a framework developed from literatures in strategic...
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作者：Lambright, Kristina T.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：This article uses agency and stewardship theories to explain different motivations for contracted providers to properly use service monitoring tools. To examine different motivations for proper tool use, seven case studies were conducted on early childhood programs in three communities in Upstate New York. The case studies specifically focused on the reporting forms that the early childhood programs completed. Data sources included (1) interviews with government agency and contracted provider ...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Kansas
摘要：Political support is an important environmental factor in public management, and over the past few decades, the implementation of results-oriented reforms has become highly influential as well. However, few studies have examined the impact of these two factors on employee attitudes and behaviors. This article proposes that the extent of results-oriented reforms and political support from elected officials-025EFas perceived by managers-025EFhas a significant influence on managerial practice and...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：The credibility of performance information provided by government agencies to their stakeholders is critical to performance-based accountability and policy learning. However, the public administration literature has rarely paid attention to the determinants of honest performance reporting. This study draws on the multi-actor principal-agent model and examines how bureaucratic politics (external and internal) and organizational practice (participation and culture) affect an organization's perfo...
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作者：Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：How governments design institutions for the revelation of information depends on how the costs and benefits are distributed across affected groups. In this study I examine the incidence of different kinds of constituencies and how governments give citizens access to information that affects them. A number of important studies have sought to understand the effect of such rules on the revelation of private information and policy outcomes, but we know little about the sources of those rules. Do t...
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作者：Percival, Garrick L.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Duluth
摘要：The network theme has emerged as an important component of public management and public policy research. Previous inquiries into policy networks have often relied on a limited number of cases making it difficult to assess the systematic influence of policy network characteristics on policy outputs and outcomes across different contextual environments. Using a study of California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), this research investigates whether variation in county implement...
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作者：Thomson, Ann Marie; Perry, James L.; Miller, Theodore K.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This article conceptualizes and measures collaboration. An empirically validated theory of collaboration, one that can inform both theory and practice, demands a systematic approach to understanding the meaning and measurement of collaboration. We present findings from a study that develops and tests the construct validity of a multidimensional model of collaboration. Data collected using a mail questionnaire sent to 1382 directors of organizations that participate in a large national service ...
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作者：James, Oliver
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：Expectations disconfirmation and expectations anchoring are two increasingly influential approaches to understanding individuals' satisfaction and dissatisfaction with public services. This article assesses hypotheses from these approaches for two local public services in England provided by local authorities: overall public services from the authority and household refuse collection services. Consistent with the expectations disconfirmation hypothesis, performance minus expectations is positi...
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作者：Damanpour, Fariborz; Schneider, Marguerite
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; New Jersey Institute of Technology
摘要：Studies of the association between innovation characteristics and innovation adoption at the level of organization are scarce. This study develops direct and moderating hypotheses for the relationship between innovation characteristics, manager characteristics, and innovation adoption in public organizations. The hypotheses are tested using survey data on the adoption of 25 innovations in 725 local governments in the United States and data from a panel of experts. The findings suggest that bot...
