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作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：In many Western countries, policy makers are making greater efforts toward improving horizontal coordination and integration between departments and agencies within government than seemed to be the case in the mid-1980s. Joined up government is a slogan that originated in the United Kingdom but has been widely picked up elsewhere. However, not all countries are joining up, and those that are are not all doing it in the same way. After setting out some basic definitions of terms, several of the...
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作者：Gill, J; Waterman, RW
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Kentucky
摘要：How is it possible for presidents to secure real influence from political appointees if these individuals spend so little time on the job before leaving government service? Many empirical studies have noted that once appointees have learned how to do their job and have come to trust the civil servants in their agencies, they are ready to leave these posts. Yet this suggests a dysfunctional bureaucratic structure that apparently does not exist, for many studies also tell us that these same poli...
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作者：Nicholson-Crotty, S; O'Toole, LJ Jr
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Investigating the impact of management on performance in public organizations is a key challenge for public administration. To that end, we apply to a national sample of law enforcement agencies a recently developed formal model of public management. The model frames a set of specific expectations about the management-performance relationship. The study estimates the impacts of both internally- and externally-oriented managerial activities on a salient metric of law enforcement outcomes. in re...
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作者：Jones, BD
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：By 1958, a model of human behavior capable of serving as the microlevel foundation for organizational and policy studies was in place. The scientific soundness of that model is unquestioned, yet the fundamentals of that behavioral model of choice have not yet been incorporated into political science. Much analysis relies on models of rational maximization despite the availability of a more scientifically sound behavioral base. In this article I examine the reasons for and ramifications of this...
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作者：Boyne, GA
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Evidence from sixty-five empirical studies of the determinants of public service performance is critically reviewed. The statistical results are grouped on the basis of five theoretical perspectives: resources, regulation, markets, organization, and management. The analysis suggests that the most likely sources of service improvement are extra resources and better management. A research agenda for further work is identified, and recommendations are made to enhance the theoretical and methodolo...
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作者：Brown, TL; Potoski, M
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Iowa State University
摘要：Governments not only choose which services to deliver to citizens, but they also choose how to deliver those services. Governments can produce services themselves or through a variety of external production mechanisms, including contracting with other governments, private firms, and nonprofits. In this article, we apply a transaction cost framework complemented with institutional and market theories to examine governments' service production decisions. Our analyses of a 1997 International City...
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作者：Ringquist, EJ; Worsham, J; Eisner, MA
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; West Virginia University; Wesleyan University
摘要：Questions regarding the political control of administrative agencies have played a major role in reinvigorating the study of bureaucracy. Scholars have employed increasingly sophisticated analyses to demonstrate that it is possible, even likely, for elected officials to direct bureaucratic behavior. But while theoretical models derive expectations regarding both the propensity and the effectiveness of efforts at political control, nearly all empirical research has focused on only the latter. I...
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作者：Bell, LC; Rosenthal, CS
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Missing from most studies of congressional staff is the insight gained from the representative bureaucracy literature that descriptive characteristics may affect the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. In considering congressional representation as an activity mediated by staff, we ask: Does descriptive representation of congressional committee staff lead to substantive representation? We explore this question, using gender as our descriptive characteristic of interest. We produce a typology of...
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作者：Coyle-Shapiro, JAM; Kessler, I
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Oxford
摘要：The management of public servants has assumed increasing importance as public-service organizations are confronted with a rise in the demand for high-quality services in the context of limited resources. Much of the research on the treatment of public servants has focused on the notion of public-service motivation and whether the motives of public servants differ from those of private-sector employees. However, an organization's need to harness positive employee attitudes and behaviors as a me...
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作者：Page, S
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Public administration increasingly entails interagency collaboration, contracting, and other interorganizational arrangements. These loosely coupled alternatives to unified hierarchy alter the nature of managerial work. This article explores how the entrepreneurial strategies that managers find useful in hierarchical agencies apply in collaborative settings where formal authority is lacking and sustaining cooperation among partners is critical for performance. This goal is achieved by examinin...
