Public Administration

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• From triumph to crisis: Neoliberal economic reform in postcommunist countries AI翻译
  作者：Zemandl, Eva
  作者单位：Nottingham Trent University
• Co-production as a route to employability: Lessons from services with lone parents AI翻译
  作者：Lindsay, Colin; Pearson, Sarah; Batty, Elaine; Cullen, Anne Marie; Eadson, Will
  作者单位：University of Strathclyde; Sheffield Hallam University; University of Sheffield; University of Strathclyde
  摘要：Policy-makers claim to support personalized approaches to improving the employability of disadvantaged groups. Yet, in liberal welfare states, mainstream activation programmes targeting these groups often deliver standardized, low-quality services. Such failures may be related to a governance and management regime that uses tightly defined contracting and performance targets to incentivize (mainly for-profit) service providers to move people into any job as quickly as possible. This article dr...
• Policy drift: Shared powers and the making of US law and policy AI翻译
  作者：Beland, Daniel
  作者单位：University of Saskatchewan
• How participant values influence reasons for pursuing voluntary programme membership AI翻译
  作者：Carter, David P.; Heikkila, Tanya; Weible, Christopher M.
  作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
  摘要：Among the policy instruments used to pursue social and environmental goals, voluntary programmes are seen as 'win-win' opportunities. Despite a sizeable literature documenting reasons individuals opt into voluntary programmes, little attention has been paid to why participants are motivated by certain reasons more than others. This article addresses this gap. Using data from a survey of organic producers in the United States Department of Agriculture's organic certification programme, we exami...
• Explaining the survival of public organizations: Applying density dependence theory to a population of US federal agencies AI翻译
  作者：Van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; Boin, Arjen; Kofman, Celesta; Kuilman, Jeroen; Kuipers, Sanneke
  作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; Tilburg University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
  摘要：Why do some public organizations survive for many decades, whereas others are terminated within a few years? This question of organizational survival has long intrigued public administration scholars. To explain longevity, public administration research has focused on organizational design features and adaptive capacities. The results have been inconclusive. This article explores an additional explanation for survival and demise: the density dependence theory as formulated in the field of orga...
• Rethinking the 'open functional' approach: Ideas, problem pressure and reform in the contemporary welfare state AI翻译
  作者：Hannah, Adam
  作者单位：University of Melbourne
  摘要：Recognition that welfare states continue to change has fostered debate about the relationship between ideas and policy problems in driving governments towards reform. To move the debate forward, this article proposes a modification of Barbara Vis and Kees van Kersbergen's 'open functional approach'. It first argues that while policy problems may provide 'functional pressure' to reform, this pressure is significant only in so far as inaction would risk electoral punishment. Reform pressure is h...
• Biased, not blind: An experimental test of self-serving biases in service users' evaluations of performance information AI翻译
  作者：Christensen, Julian
  作者单位：Aarhus University
  摘要：Based on literature about motivated reasoning, this article proposes that choosing a public service provider from among competing options may bias service users in a positive direction when evaluating the performance of their chosen provider. Users are expected to defend their choice through processes of goal reprioritization, meaning that they will alter the weight they assign to given pieces of information depending on the (in)convenience of that information. This article uses nine experimen...
• Autonomy and managerial reforms in Europe: Let or make public managers manage? AI翻译
  作者：Bezes, Philippe; Jeannot, Gilles
  作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole des Ponts ParisTech; Universite Gustave-Eiffel
  摘要：Drawing on a survey of top executives in central governments in 11 European countries (N=5,190), this study explores variations in the extent and scale of managerial autonomy across and within European states. The article is based on a comparative, multidimensional and relational approach to autonomy. Confirming predictions of qualitative studies, it shows that these variations can partly be explained by the intensity of New Public Management (NPM) reforms and provides a typology of European c...
• When the state meets the street: Public service and moral agency AI翻译
  作者：Hupe, Peter
  作者单位：KU Leuven; University of Birmingham
• Formal institutions, informal institutions, and red tape: A comparative study AI翻译
  作者：Kaufmann, Wesley; Hooghiemstra, Reggy; Feeney, Mary K.
  作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Groningen; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
  摘要：Firms across the globe are affected by red tape, but there is little academic research on how country-level institutions shape red tape perceptions. Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that a variety of formal and informal country-level institutions affect perceptions of red tape in the private sector. We test our hypotheses using six data sources, including the World Economic Forum and the World Bank. Our results indicate that red tape is weakly associated with a country's level of form...