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作者：Conant, Lisa
作者单位：University of Denver
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作者：Singla, Akheil; Stritch, Justin M.; Feeney, Mary K.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：Public managers and organizations are often encouraged to take a proactive role in finding solutions to the challenges that face their communities. These challenges require meeting increasingly high expectations for public service provision with ever reducing resources. This research investigates the relationship between change in resource constraints-as measured by longer and shorter term financial condition-and the entrepreneurial orientation of US local governments. Theoretically, it remain...
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作者：Sorensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob
作者单位：Roskilde University; Nord University
摘要：Initially, governance networks were intended as tools for making public governance more effective. Yet, scholars have argued that governance networks also have the potential to democratize public governance. This article provides an overview of theoretical arguments pertaining to the democratizing impact of governance networks. It claims that the initial celebration of the pluralization of public governance and the subsequent call for a democratic anchorage of governance networks should give w...
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作者：van Loon, Nina Mari; Jakobsen, Mads Leth
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：How frontline employees cope with perceived work pressure may be of direct influence on policy outcomes. This study contributes to the street-level bureaucracy literature in several ways. First, we study both passive client-oriented and active system-oriented coping. Second, we analyse how these coping behaviours relate to work pressure and work autonomy. Finally, this article analyses whether these relationships are conditioned by the performance regime. Using a unique set-up of hospital empl...
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer
作者单位：University of Oslo; Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
摘要：Political appointees from different parties from that of their ministercross-partisan appointees (CPAs)are increasingly found in the core executive. Ministerial advisory scholarship has overlooked CPAs, while the coalition governance literature sees them as spies' and coalition watchdogs'. This article argues theoretically and demonstrates empirically that this conceptualization is overly limited. The empirical basis is a large-N survey of political appointees from two Norwegian coalitions, an...
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作者：Ballart, Xavier; Rico, Guillem
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要：While the foundational claim that PSM attracts individuals to the public sector is well established in the research literature, much uncertainty still exists about its influence on the choice between the public versus the nonprofit sector, which also frequently exhibits a strong public service mission. Little is known also about how discrete dimensions of PSM differ in their effects on such job preferences. This article addresses these shortcomings by drawing on a study that combines the measu...
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作者：Lavee, Einat; Cohen, Nissim; Nouman, Hani
作者单位：University of Haifa; University of Haifa; University of Haifa
摘要：Previous literature demonstrates that when street-level bureaucrats believe that the policy as designed is not desirable, they utilize various strategies to change the situation. This study suggests that when street-level bureaucrats believe that fixing a policy through the manner in which it is implemented is not enough, they will try to influence the design of the policy directly. Three factors promote this decision: public perceptions revealed in their interactions with clients, professiona...
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作者：Ingold, Jo
作者单位：University of Leeds
摘要：The involvement (or engagement) of employers is critical to the success and effectiveness of active labour market programmes (ALMPs), yet little is known about how street-level organizations (SLOs) delivering them interact with employers. This article draws on interviews with 'employer engagement' staff in SLOs contracted to deliver the UK's principal ALMP, the 'Work Programme'. Conceptualizing these staff as 'boundary spanners' who operated both within SLOs and at the physical boundaries betw...
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作者：Schmidt, Arjen; Boersma, Kees; Groenewegen, Peter
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：When a policy sector is confronted with a relatively strong and steep decline in legitimacy, we speak of an institutional crisis. We know little about the causes or consequences of these crises. This article explores how institutional crises are managed. It focuses on the effects of management strategies observed in a case study of an institutional crisis in the Netherlands. While we found that policy elites displayed a tendency to maintain the status quo of a policy sector, we also found that...
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作者：Van Meerkerk, Ingmar; Kleinhans, Reinout; Molenveld, Astrid
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Delft University of Technology
摘要：Despite the growing attention given to community-based initiatives in the delivery of public services, little is known about their durability. This article focuses on Dutch community enterprises (CEs) as an emerging form of community-based initiatives in urban regeneration. Due to their self-organizing and (largely) voluntary character, CEs face considerable governance challenges to sustain activities over time. Based on the literature, we examine the interplay of four key conditions in relati...
