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作者：Knill, Christoph; Steinbacher, Christina; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：In response to societal demands, democratic governments constantly adopt new policies. As existing policies are rarely abandoned, policies accumulate over time. Policy accumulation bears the challenge of overburdening implementation bodies, hence undermining policy effectiveness. Any escape from this situation requires democratic governments to strike a balance between policy responsiveness and effectiveness. We posit that the extent to which countries are able to achieve this depends on the v...
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作者：Gofen, Anat; Lotta, Gabriela; Marchesini da Costa, Marcelo
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE); Getulio Vargas Foundation; Insper
摘要：Imposing significant challenges for both street-level implementation and policy (re)design, crises alter the environment for street-level policy entrepreneurship (SLPE), wherein street-level bureaucrats engage in policy formulation processes to secure future policy outcomes. Nevertheless, like street-level implementation in general, SLPE is studied during ordinary times but rarely during crises. Focusing on community-health workers in Brazil during the Covid-19 crisis uncovered a defensive mot...
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作者：Igalla, Malika; Edelenbos, Jurian; van Meerkerk, Ingmar
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Increasingly, Western local governments are dealing with community-based initiatives (CBIs) of citizens providing public services. Municipalities possess critical resources CBIs generally lack, including subsidies, buildings, and exposure. There is still little knowledge on CBIs' factors for government support. Therefore, this study adopts an organizational perspective distinguishing among institutionalization (intraorganizational, e.g., organizational size and democratic legitimacy) and inter...
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作者：Deters, Henning; Falkner, Gerda
作者单位：Danube University Krems; University of Vienna
摘要：In the European Union (EU), agenda setting is formally centralized at the European Commission. During the last decade since the Lisbon Treaty, however, this agenda-setting monopoly was challenged by other institutions against the backdrop of the Treaty change, intergovernmental crisis management, politicization, and more informal legislative bargaining. This symposium therefore surveys the emerging agenda-setting powers of the EU's other main institutional actors in their relation to the Commi...
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作者：Thau, Mads; Mikkelsen, Maria Falk; Hjortskov, Morten; Pedersen, Mogens Jin
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Public decision-makers increasingly rely on satisfaction surveys to inform budget and policy decisions. Yet, our knowledge of whether, and under what conditions, this input from public service users provides valid performance information remains incomplete. Using a preregistered split-ballot experiment among government grant recipients in Denmark, this article shows that the ordering of survey questions can bias satisfaction measures even for highly experienced and professional respondents. We...
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作者：Geeraert, Arnout; Drieskens, Edith
作者单位：Utrecht University; KU Leuven
摘要：What explains the reversal of transnational private rule-making authority? Embedding constructivist insights within a rational principal-agent model, this article advances a five-step sequential process that nuances the traditional explanation of delegitimation. It argues that entrepreneurs must first successfully promote the belief that the high costs of ineffective private policies follow from the private rule-setter's flawed institutional attributes. Subsequently, a de-delegation solution t...
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作者：Fowler, Luke
作者单位：Boise State University
摘要：The author examines policy implementation as an exercise in coping with ambiguity (i.e., different ways of thinking about the same issues) on the one hand and uncertainty (i.e., lack of information) on the other. Functions are how implementers figure out the best way to make a policy work in practice and processes are how organizations formalize mechanisms that make behaviours more predictable. Using programme evaluation data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a mixed method...
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作者：Zhang, Fengxiu; Stritch, Justin M.; Welch, Eric W.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：The tension between bureaucratic and democratic values has characterized significant debates in the field of public administration. In this article, we ask, does public managers' confidence in their organizational administrative capacity affect citizen participation? Using managerial confidence in organizational response capacity (ORC) during crises as a vehicle to investigate the tension between democratic and administrative values, we examine whether an administration-centric approach to man...
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作者：Zamboni, Lucila M.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：The objective of this study was to explore how emergency responders' experience, beliefs and organizational context influence their decision-making processes and their interaction with their clients. The study includes 27 interviews with 911 emergency responders to unveil the underlying factors which lead responders to act in favour of some of their clients, that is, actively represent them, while limiting their representation of others. The study is situated at the intersection between the st...
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作者：Fusi, Federica; Feeney, Mary K.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：This research investigates whether political, social and economic characteristics of local communities are related to data sharing between city departments and businesses and nonprofit organizations. Research about data sharing typically emphasizes managerial, organizational and technological factors in departments, largely neglecting community characteristics. The willingness to share data depends on the relationships between the government and external stakeholders, and these relationships a...
