-
作者:Emmert, Mark
-
作者:Jilke, Sebastian; Van de Walle, Steven; Kim, Soonhee
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; KDI School of Public Policy & Management
摘要:This introduction to the symposium on experimental methods in public administration shows how using experimental methods generates not only research that is empirically credible, but also relates to the real world of public administration. The ten articles in the symposium subject classic public administration theories or hypotheses that have been generated in nonexperimental research to rigorous testing using experimental methods. The first group of articles consists of studies with citizens ...
-
作者:Wilson, Joyce
-
作者:Cornish, Paul J.
作者单位:Grand Valley State University
-
作者:Kelman, Steven; Sanders, Ronald; Pandit, Gayatri
作者单位:Harvard University; Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation
摘要:Senior government executives make many difficult decisions, but research suggests that individual cognitive limitations and the pathologies of groupthink impede their ability to make value-maximizing choices. From this literature has emerged a normative model that Irving Janis calls vigilant problem solving, a process intended for the most complex decisions. To explore its use by senior public officials, the authors interviewed 20 heads of subcabinet-level organizations in the U.S. federal gov...
-
作者:Banks, Gary
作者单位:Australia & New Zealand School of Government
-
作者:Amsler, Lisa Blomgren
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:Scholars have engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the relationships among management, politics, and law in public administration. Collaborative governance presents new challenges to this dynamic. While scholars have made substantial contributions to our understanding of the design and practice of collaborative governance, others suggest that we lack theory for this emerging body of research. Law is often omitted as a variable. Scholarship generally does not explicitly include collaboration as...
-
作者:Christensen, Robert K.
作者单位:Brigham Young University
-
作者:Knup, Elizabeth
-
作者:Roberts, Robert N.
作者单位:James Madison University