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作者：Bertelli, AM
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The New Public Management has a paramount implication for the delegation of authority to implement public policy, namely, that efficient delegations are designed according to the substance of the task to be performed. In other words, the government must be able to choose the best agent to carry out a particular task, which implies that the set of agents must not be confined to actors and departments within the bureaucracy. This flexibility of form creates the incentives behind the quango, and ...
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作者：O'Kelly, Ciaran; Dubnick, Melvin J.
作者单位：Queens University Belfast; University System Of New Hampshire; University of New Hampshire
摘要：Using the concepts of thick and thin relationships as the basis for ethical behavior, this paper critiques the emphasis on discretion in the mainstream administrative ethics literature and argues that moral and other dilemmas facing public administrators provide a more useful frame. Two examples drawn from the UK Hutton Investigation into the death of David Kelly are used to demonstrate the relevance and usefulness of this approach.
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作者：McDermott, KA
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要：Since the 1980s, most of the states and the U.S. federal government have enacted policies based upon the theory of standards-based education reform. These policies attempt to use incentives to overcome the difficulty of implementing policy in a loosely coupled system. This article presents a case study of the implementation of standards-based reform in Massachusetts. The case study shows how poorly thought-out incentive structures, lack of capacity, and lack of trust impeded implementation of ...
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作者：Yackee, SW
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Students of politics have identified a variety of actors who appear to influence the federal bureaucracy's implementation of public policy, including Congress, the president, and interest groups. These lines of research, however, have often portrayed interest groups as actors with indirect influence (who, for example, work through or with Congress), rather than assessing the direct influence of interest groups on bureaucratic policy outputs. I conduct a test of direct interest group influence ...
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作者：Pandey, Sanjay K.; Wright, Bradley E.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：This article is a systematic effort to study a key theoretical question from the vantage point of public sector organizational behavior. Most political science models, with a primary interest in democratic control of bureaucracy, study the political influence on the bureaucracy from an agency theory perspective. Organization behavior literature, on the other hand, is focused largely on the study of individual-level phenomena in private organizations and does not incorporate political context a...
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作者：Nutt, PC
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Public and private sector decision making is studied with an experiment. The study compares decision making in a tax-supported general purpose governmental agency with that done by a business firm selling to a market, using a simulation to capture differences in the preferences and practices of mid-level managers working in the two sectors. The simulation calls for participating managers to assess the risk and prospect of adopting budgets tailored to match each sector. A cognitive culture that...
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作者：James, O
作者单位：University of Exeter
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作者：Ho, ATK
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Purdue University in Indianapolis
摘要：This article studies the decades-long question, Does performance measurement matter? by examining how and why Midwest mayors perceive value in performance measurement. The results show that the tool is perceived positively, but its impact on decision making depends on whether performance measurement is integrated into strategic planning, goal setting, and internal communication between city council members and departmental staff and on whether major stakeholders are involved in developing perf...
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作者：Dull, M
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：The George W. Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) follows a sequence of president-initiated budget reforms. The pattern is puzzling in that past reforms have tended to drain staff resources, failed to take hold, and yielded little or no political advantage. Given the track record of past initiatives, why has the Bush administration chosen to invest Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and agency resources in PART? This article briefly traces PART's development and, pla...
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作者：Gilmour, JB; Lewis, DE
作者单位：William & Mary; Princeton University
摘要：This article investigates the impact of performance, as measured by the OMB performance budgeting initiative called Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART), on recommendations in the President's budget. In a multivariate analysis using data from the FY 2005 budget, with appropriate controls for the political content of programs, we find that the PART scores have a statistically significant impact on budget decisions within OMB. We find that PART scores have a larger impact on small and mediu...
