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作者:Pierre, Jon; de Fine Licht, Jenny
作者单位:University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg
摘要:This paper presents a previously unexplored type of gaming of performance data, collaborative gaming, where the performance measurement system incentivizes the executive and an agency to game collaboratively. The paper shows how overlapping incentives between government departments and agencies to present successful implementation of programs can drive collaboration to modify performance targets and/or performance measurements. The argument is illustrated by two brief case studies of collabora...
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作者:Nguyen Long, Le Anh; Krause, Rachel M.
作者单位:University of Twente; University of Kansas
摘要:Trans-municipal networks (TMNs) have reshaped the landscape around local government action on global climate policy. Past research has focused on why cities join TMNs and the impact that membership has on local action. This study considers a potential reverse effect: namely, that cities' membership choices position them to influence TMNs' overall priorities. In considering this, we emphasize the role of network administrative organizations (NAOs) and posit that the multiple climate-related net...
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作者:Li, Mianguan; Walker, Robert
作者单位:Sun Yat Sen University; Sun Yat Sen University; Beijing Normal University; University of Oxford
摘要:Social assistance is increasingly promoted as a means of tackling poverty. However, in established democracies stable delivery has often proved difficult because of tensions between national and local government, the former desiring comprehensiveness and uniformity, the latter requiring flexibility to meet local needs. These issues are explored in the context of China andDibao, the world's largest social assistance system, with three questions posed: Do similar tensions exist in China as in th...
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作者:Thomas, M. Blair
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Valdosta State University
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作者:Aviv, Inbal; Gal, John; Weiss-Gal, Idit
作者单位:Bar Ilan University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University
摘要:Knowledge on street-level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs is in its infancy. This article contributes to this emerging field by examining three cases of successful efforts by social workers employed by local social services in Israel to introduce local policy change. These processes varied in the issues that they addressed and the length of time that the policy process took. In each case, a small number of low- and meso-street level community social workers were identified as policy entrep...
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作者:McDonald, Bruce D., III
作者单位:North Carolina State University
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作者:Ingrams, A.
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作者:McMullin, Caitlin
作者单位:Concordia University - Canada
摘要:In this article, I answer two research questions: How do different models of public management define relationships between the state and the third sector? And how do these relationships influence how third sector professionals involve citizens in co-production? I consider evidence from non-profits in France, England and Quebec to illustrate how three varying models of public management (neo-Weberian state in France, New Public Management in England, and New Public Governance in Quebec) struct...
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作者:Belardinelli, Paolo; Belle, Nicola; Cantarelli, Paola
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
摘要:We use a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to explore whether and how bounded subadditivity, and the resulting certainty effect, may lead public and private employees to prioritize their activities in ways that are suboptimal for their organizations. In a randomized controlled trial, private sector workers were more likely to join a project to which they were able to provide a small contribution that would turn the probability of success into certainty rather than an alternative proj...
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作者:Rhodes, R. A. W.; Salomonsen, Heidi H.
作者单位:University of Southampton; Aarhus University
摘要:This article applies the ideas of the core executive and court politics to Danish coalition and minority governments. It asks two questions. Do these ideas travel beyond their Westminster origins? What are the dilemmas confronting the Danish executive and its court politics? The analysis is based on documentary sources and 22 elite interviews with cabinet ministers and permanent secretaries. It identifies a duopoly of Prime Minister and Minister of Finance as a distinctive variety of court pol...