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作者:Hood, Christopher; Piotrowska, Barbara Maria
作者单位:University of Oxford; University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要:Why do frequently criticized input controls survive in the management of public spending while apparently more enlightened output/outcome controls come and go? The question matters, because output/outcome controls are often assumed in public financial management and related literature to lead to superior policy performance as compared with input-focused approaches. We tackle the question by applying qualitative push-pull analysis to compare one key type of input controls (administration cost [...
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作者:Brummel, Lars
作者单位:Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Utrecht University
摘要:Public agencies have to deal with accountability demands from various societal stakeholders. Stakeholders may address their accountability demands via formal stakeholder arrangements but can also use social media for account-holding purposes. This contribution analyzes to what extent these different venues of social accountability affect the perceived relevance of societal stakeholders to agency-CEOs-their so-called stakeholder orientation. By combining quantitative and qualitative data, this ...
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作者:Min, Naon; Yang, Kaifeng
作者单位:Sookmyung Women's University; Renmin University of China
摘要:Organizational publicness is a foundational construct for public administration. It has largely been conceptualized deductively and focuses mostly on the macro- and meso-levels of analysis, leaving under-explored how public employees perceive it at the micro-level. Through a grounded theory analysis of state government employees' interview data, this study aims to uncover public officials' perceptions about organizational publicness. We find that participants' perception of organizational publ...
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作者:Lu, Jiahuan; Guan, Shanshan; Dong, Qiang
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Beijing University of Technology; China Agricultural University
摘要:The increasing reliance on commercial income in the nonprofit sector (nonprofit commercialization) in various countries has become a highly contested topic. In recent years, Chinese nonprofits have also paid growing attention to commercial activities and revenue. However, empirical studies on the commercialization of Chinese nonprofits are limited. This study conducts the first empirical research to examine the scope and antecedents of nonprofit commercialization in China. Through a nationwide...
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作者:Trondal, Jarle
作者单位:University of Oslo; University of Agder
摘要:This study carries two distinct contributions to extant literature. Theoretically, it introduces an organizational approach to the study of public governance. Empirically, it demonstrates how the organizational architecture of government represents a stable and systemic capacity for public governance across time. The study establishes how stability serves as an enduring feature of public governance and how this is anchored in the organizational architecture of government systems. Moreover, str...
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作者:Liu, Yongzheng; Qiao, Mo; Wei, Hailun
作者单位:Renmin University of China; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); Renmin University of China
摘要:This study examines how ethnic diversity shapes the design of intergovernmental fiscal relations in regimes such as China, where local accountability and resident mobility are largely absent. We argue that in these regimes, ethnic diversity largely captures potential social conflicts and instability, consequently requiring a higher level of fiscal centralization and regional equalization from upper-level governments to preserve social stability. Using provincial and sub-provincial level panel ...
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作者:Bello-Gomez, Ricardo A.; Rutherford, Amanda
作者单位:Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:When an executive departs, some organizations experience a vacancy while others do not. Recent research shows that the occurrence and length of vacancy instances within and across sectors varies widely. However, the causes of such variance in vacancies have yet to be carefully addressed by public management research. This study explores the determinants of executive vacancy, focusing specifically on organizational-level characteristics of size, performance, and sector as well as the role of an...
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作者:Lyu, Peng-Hui; Zhang, Ming-Ze; Liu, Chuan-Jun; Ngai, Eric W. T.
作者单位:Sichuan University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要:Public administration is a discipline with considerable history, and is also a diverse, interdisciplinary field in social science. To analyze its evolution, discover the present research foci, and predict future development trends, this study applied scientometrics visualization technology to evaluate over 72,000 scientific articles from the 1920s to 2020s. This research referred to the SSCI and JCR databases to gather scientific data of the discipline and the journals' impact factor. Conseque...
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作者:Rubado, Meghan E.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要:In the US system of decentralized federalism, competitive dynamics among local governments are not incompatible with successful interlocal collaboration. Municipalities often collaborate with competing jurisdictions in the same region to provide services and solve problems. Yet, competitive relations among municipalities are expected to complicate collaboration, escalating transaction costs due to divergent goals and lack of trust. This article uses the Institutional Collective Action framewor...
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作者:Su, Su; Ni, Xing
作者单位:University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; South China Normal University
摘要:This inquiry aims to investigate how the relational dynamics are imprinted on two critical dimensions of bribe-taking: corruptibility and corruption risks. Two treatments were randomly administered to 1400 subjects: single versus repeated interactions and strangers versus weak ties. The findings suggest that repeated interactions induce bigger bribe sizes, but also increase risks from whistleblowing and internal auditing. Weak ties mitigate bribe-taking willingness. Nevertheless, when coupled ...