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作者：Barbera, Carmela; Sicilia, Mariafrancesca; Steccolini, Ileana
作者单位：University of Bergamo; University of Essex; University of Bologna
摘要：Citizens' participation and direct initiatives are on the rise, including in assessing public service performance. Performance measurement and government-citizen interactions have been traditionally studied separately in public administration scholarship. To bridge this gap, this article integrates these two bodies of literature, proposing a typology of approaches to government-citizen interactions in public service performance assessment and highlighting their features. It also discusses the ...
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作者：O'Shea, Cian; Palcic, Donal; Reeves, Eoin
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; University of Limerick
摘要：This paper examines how contractual governance in a public-private partnership evolved over a 16-year period. It adopts a novel approach by revisiting an earlier analysis of Ireland's first PPP contract for school's infrastructure. We examine contractual governance at two distinct levels: the contract management level (between government and contractor) and the operational level (between school principals and facilities managers). We find that contractual governance between contracting parties...
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作者：Taylor, Cody R.; Afshan, Saman; Lawrence, Kara L.
作者单位：North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
摘要：Embracing participatory budgeting in meaningful ways gives the citizenry an increased voice in allocating local government funds. Using an integrated social equity framework, we compare ten communities in the U.S. that have implemented participatory budgeting. Qualitative interviews of public managers involved in participatory budgeting revealed that, when designed with equity in mind, PB can promote access, fairness, and quality, leading to meaningful outcomes for marginalized groups, such as...
