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作者：Blauberger, Michael; Schmidt, Susanne K.
作者单位：Salzburg University; University of Bremen
摘要：The European Union (EU) has to reconcile free movement rights with national welfare states. Case law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has broadened rights to welfare of economically inactive or marginally active EU citizens. Applying the Court's jurisprudence, which is vague and specific at the same time, poses serious challenges for national administrations. Vague criteria for individual assessments have to be translated into mass procedures. And legislative corrections of the case law ...
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作者：Maley, Maria
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：There are increasing concerns that the line between political and public service roles is becoming blurred, and that political advisers may be politicizing the work of public servants. Underlying this is the fundamental value conflict between responsiveness and impartiality and the challenge of balancing neutral competence and responsive competence in government. In Australia and Canada the norm of impartiality is challenged by the movement of staff between partisan ministers' offices and the ...
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作者：Linos, Elizabeth; Reinhard, Joanne; Ruda, Simon
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：How to increase diversity in the police is an unanswered question that has received significant political and media attention. One area of intervention is the recruitment process itself. This study reports the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in a police force that was experiencing a disproportionate drop in minority applicants during one particular test. Drawing on insights from the literatures on stereotype threat, belonging uncertainty and values affirmation exercises, we rede...
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作者：Persson, Thomas; Parker, Charles F.; Widmalm, Sten
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：In this article, we investigate whether differences in social trust and impartial public administration have an impact on public confidence in EU crisis management institutions. Our assessment is based on a cross-country comparison using aggregate country-level data of the member states in the European Union. Earlier studies on the EU as a crisis manager have not carefully studied to what extent differences in social trust and administrative culture may or may not matter. Our analysis shows th...
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作者：Shpaizman, Ilana
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Policy drift occurs when actors block attempts to adjust policies to changing realities, thereby changing policy impact. We know much about the conditions for policy drifting, but lack theorization of the conditions for reversing the drift by updating the policy. This article examines when and how actors favouring drift decide to reverse it. These actors have different characteristics from those favouring policy update. Based on the case of prescription drug coverage in the US, the article arg...
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作者：Ma, Liang
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：Despite the fact that performance management has been ubiquitously adopted in the public sector across the world today, there is limited and inconclusive evidence that it improves citizen satisfaction with the government. In this article, we use survey data and multilevel modelling to analyse the effects of multiple performance management components on citizens' perceptions of government performance across 19 major cities in China. The results reveal that performance management does have a pos...
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作者：Starke, Peter
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark
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作者：Page, Edward C.
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作者：Lapuente, Victor
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
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作者：Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George; Mostafa, Ahmed Mohammed Sayed
作者单位：Cardiff University; Cardiff University; University of Warwick
摘要：Administrative intensity is arguably a major determinant of public service performance. Although a large administrative function might constitute a bureaucratic burden, it could also enable organizations to better coordinate key activities. In particular, administrative intensity may strengthen or weaken the performance effects of other key organizational characteristics, such as size and task complexity. To explore these ideas, we analyse the separate and combined effects of administrative in...
