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作者：Hicklin, Alisa; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.; Meier, Kenneth J.
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University
摘要：Scholars of public management have consistently found that management matters, but little research has considered how much management matters or whether the link between management and performance may be contingent on various factors. This article further investigates the link between management and performance by examining the functional form of the relationship. Analyses using data from 1000+ public organizations point to some diminishing returns. Results suggest that networking with other o...
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作者：May, Peter J.; Workman, Samuel; Jones, Bryan D.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Federal agencies are routinely confronted with requests from policymakers that they must address in some manner. These range from routine directives to cut through red tape to exceptional demands to alter policy priorities. We theorize that how attention is organized by public bureaucracies affects their responses. We draw on a variety of scholarship about public bureaucracies to develop a theory about the bureaucratic organization of attention and its consequences. In illustrating these notio...
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作者：Reenock, Christopher M.; Gerber, Brian J.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; West Virginia University
摘要：Under political uncertainty, legislative coalitions have incentives to insulate policy from future coalitions. While there is evidence of legislators' use of agency design to insulate the bureaucracy from elected officials, little is known about the ultimate consequences of such design choices on the policy participation of interest groups. How such design choices affect group access is important because of the centrality of groups in providing both bureaucratic accountability and information ...
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作者：Lubell, Mark; Fulton, Allan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This article emphasizes the critical role of local policy networks for the implementation of agricultural watershed management and the adoption of environmental best management practices. Local networks facilitate diffusion of innovations, the development of social capital, and cultural change. All of these elements are essential for the ability of watershed management programs to successfully solve the water quality collective action problems caused by agricultural nonpoint source pollution. ...
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作者：Wood, B. Dan; Marchbanks, Miner P., III
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：The president's role as chief executive depends on the quality and tenure of political appointees who assist with the constitutional charge to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. This study explores the determinants of the duration of political appointee service. Using an agency theory framework, we propose that appointee tenure depends on financial incentives, executive-legislative conflict, solidary, and material benefits offered by the president, as well as implicit incentives t...
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作者：Provan, Keith G.; Kenis, Patrick
作者单位：University of Arizona; Tilburg University
摘要：This article examines the governance of organizational networks and the impact of governance on network effectiveness. Three basic models, or forms, of network governance are developed focusing on their distinct structural properties. Propositions are formulated examining conditions for the effectiveness of each form. The tensions inherent in each form are then discussed, followed by the role that management may play in addressing these tensions. Finally, the evolution of governance is explored.
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作者：Llorens, Jared J.; Wenger, Jeffrey B.; Kellough, J. Edward
作者单位：University of Kansas; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：In the past, researchers in the field of public administration have been hindered in their ability to study trends in the representation of women and minorities in state government due to limitations in data availability. This article develops an alternative approach to examining the representation of women and minorities in state government bureaucracies over the period from 1987 to 2002. Based on estimates constructed using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey, our analy...
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作者：Ansell, Chris; Gash, Alison
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Over the past few decades, a new form of governance has emerged to replace adversarial and managerial modes of policy making and implementation. Collaborative governance, as it has come to be known, brings public and private stakeholders together in collective forums with public agencies to engage in consensus-oriented decision making. In this article, we conduct a meta-analytical study of the existing literature on collaborative governance with the goal of elaborating a contingency model of c...
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作者：Campbell, David E.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
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作者：Jewell, Christopher; Bero, Lisa
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Francisco
摘要：Notice and comment provisions in agency rulemaking provide an important mechanism for the public to contribute to policy. Yet there is limited research on how interest groups participate in this process. California's passage of an ergonomics standard in 1997, the only current state statute in the country, provides a useful, high salience policy case for examining public commentary. Between an initially proposed comprehensive standard and the enactment of a much weaker regulation occurred the l...
