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作者:Lachance, Janice R.
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作者:Balfour, Danny L.; Newbold, Stephanie P.
作者单位:Grand Valley State University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
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作者:Dodaro, Gene L.
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作者:Porumbescu, Gregory A.; Lindeman, Meghan I. H.; Ceka, Erica; Cucciniello, Maria
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Northern Illinois University; Northern Illinois University; Bocconi University
摘要:Voluntary policy compliance is an important yet rarely studied topic in public administration. To address the paucity of research, this article proposes and empirically tests a conceptual framework that ties policy transparency and policy understanding to voluntary policy compliance intentions. The reasoning is that the extent to which citizens understand a policy contributes to their intentions to comply with that policy. Further, the authors argue that policy transparency indirectly influenc...
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作者:Fleischman, Forrest
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:Herbert Kaufman's The Forest Ranger is considered a landmark study of how organizations can be structured to elicit compliance from field officials, yet there have been few attempts to validate Kaufman's claims. The author argues that the outcomes observed by Kaufman resulted from interplay between organizational structure and political context-a variable that Kaufman ignored. This argument is supported by case studies of two agencies with structures similar to Kaufman's U.S. Forest Service bu...
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作者:Kirkpatrick, Ian; Vallascas, Francesco; Veronesi, Gianluca
作者单位:University of Warwick; University of Leeds; University of Leeds
摘要:Although public management reforms around the world have given business experts an enhanced role in the governance of public sector organizations, the impact of this change is poorly understood. Drawing from the literature on board human capital as a theoretical framework and focusing on the case of hospital boards in the English National Health Service, this concern is addressed by investigating whether increasing the presence of individuals with business expertise has any significant relatio...
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作者:Berry, Frances Stokes
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida State University
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作者:Reed, David S.
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作者:Holzer, Marc
作者单位:Suffolk University
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作者:Oyun, Gerel
作者单位:American University of Sharjah
摘要:This article examines the interstate spillover effect of Medicaid expenditures for home-and community-based services (HCBS) and tests the relationship between fiscal decentralization and public spending. Based on the theory of interstate strategic interaction, an empirical model is specified that explicitly accounts for interdependence in states' spending decisions. The model is estimated by applying spatial econometric methods to panel data for the 50 U.S. states for 2000-2010. Findings show ...