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作者：Crepaz, Michele; Kneafsey, Liam
作者单位：Queens University Belfast; Trinity College Dublin
摘要：Transparency in public institutions is relevant only in so far as the disclosed information is useful for the stakeholders who access it. Hence, we ask: what do users do with the information they obtain through transparency laws? Despite the growing interest in transparency research, the ways transparency portals are used to gather information remain strikingly understudied. We study the use of proactively and reactively disclosed information under four different transparency laws. Data are co...
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作者：Du, Juan; Yi, Hongtao
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Disentangling the relationship between economic development and environmental protection has attracted much attention from public administration scholars. While traditionally scholars approach the relationship from either a substitutive or a complementary perspective, we offer a nuanced perspective by examining how the target-setting on economic growth shapes environmental performance. This article proposes an explanation for the impacts of gross domestic product growth targets on environmenta...
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作者：Xiong, Wei; Zhong, Ninghua; Wang, Feng; Zhang, Muyang; Chen, Bin
作者单位：Tongji University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：The New Public Management (NPM) has achieved many successes in public service delivery, but practitioners frequently observed failures in developing and transitional economies. For instance, China's public-private partnerships (PPP) since 2014 have failed to transfer risks to the private sector, to involve private skills and expertise, and to reduce local government's debt. This article claims that PPP failures in China are associated with the contractual type of nonconcessions and the contrac...
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作者：Qian, Jing; Lu, Jiahuan; Zhao, Jianzhi
作者单位：Princeton University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Fudan University
摘要：This manuscript conducts both a narrow and wide replication of Brudney et al. (2005, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 15[3], pp. 393-419), focusing on the scope, perceived effectiveness, and antecedents of contracting out. The replication joins the original study in indicating that state agencies widely used contracting out in service delivery, but their perceived effects on service costs and quality were mixed. The replication coincides with the original study in suggesti...
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作者：Munoz Aravena, Waleska Tatiana
作者单位：Universidad de Concepcion
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作者：Laage-Thomsen, Jakob
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Recent work on consultants and academics in public policy has highlighted their transformational role. The paper traces how, in the absence of an explicit government strategy, external advisors establish different organizational arrangements to build Behavioral Insights in public agencies as a new form of administrative expertise. This variation shows the importance of the politico-administrative context within which external advisors exert influence. The focus on professional expertise adds t...
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作者：Hughes, Sara
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Parker, Charles F.; Stern, Eric K.
作者单位：Uppsala University; Uppsala University; Centre of Natural Hazards & Disaster Science (CNDS); State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID-19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives-psychological, bureau-organizational, and agenda-political-developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the underestimation of the coronavirus threat by th...
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作者：Randma-Liiv, Tiina
作者单位：Tallinn University of Technology
摘要：Multiple actors involved in the provision of e-participation initiatives add to the complexity of organizational design and blur accountability and ownership relations. This study addresses the following research questions: How are different organizations and their units involved in the supply of e-participation initiatives? How does the multiplicity of actors affect cross-boundary collaboration, ownership, and accountability relations in the implementation of e-participation initiatives? The ...
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作者：Voorn, Bart; van Genugten, Marieke
作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：While we have increasing knowledge of causes and effects of municipal corporatization, we know relatively little about governance of municipally owned corporations (MOCs). The literature has pointed to various governance problems that can occur when MOCs are owned by multiple municipalities. We conduct six case studies into Dutch jointly owned MOCs to understand governance problems that occur in these MOCs and coordination mechanisms used to overcome these problems. We find various governance ...
