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作者：Royo, Sonia; Yetano, Ana; Acerete, Basilio
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：There is widespread acceptance that current institutions are inadequate to address the challenges of sustainable development. At the same time, there is an urgent need to build awareness and increase capacity for promoting action with respect to environmental protection at the local level. This article analyzes the Web sites of the environment departments of European local governments that signed the Aalborg Commitments to determine the extent to which they are using the Internet to promote e-...
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作者：Tang, Shui-Yan; Callahan, Richard F.; Pisano, Mark
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Southern California; University of San Francisco; University of Southern California
摘要：This article analyzes local government fiscal sustainability as a common-pool resource (CPR) problem. Comparing the experiences of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino City, and San Bernardino County, California, the analysis applies a framework developed from three decades of CPR research to show the importance of six micro-situational variables-communications with the full set of participants, known reputations of participants, high marginal per capita return, entry or exit capabilities, longe...
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作者：Frampton, J. Scott
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作者：Teixeira, Pedro N.; Rocha, Vera; Biscaia, Ricardo; Cardoso, Margarida Fonseca
作者单位：Universidade do Porto; Universidade do Porto
摘要：Financial stringency has been an increasing concern in the higher education sector, especially in the aftermath of the financial crisis. As a result, public higher education institutions have been under increasing pressure to diversify their funding sources through tuition fees and other nonpublic revenues. This article reflects on the institutional impact of those changes by analyzing a panel of 30 higher education institutions from the Portuguese public university and polytechnic sectors for...
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作者：Reid, Mike
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作者：Washington, Val
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作者：Oberfield, Zachary W.
作者单位：Haverford College
摘要：Public management strategies have an inherent temporal component: managers take action at one time, and employees or organizations respond at a later time. However, it is common to study such strategies using atemporal research. Concerns about the inadequacy of this approach have led scholars to advocate for public management research that incorporates time. Because following this advice is difficult, it is important to evaluate how the omission of time affects the understanding of public mana...
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作者：Moore, Mark H.
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard University
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作者：Magee, Joe C.; Frasier, Clifford W.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：The authors identify status and power as the principal bases of influence for public managers and describe how managers can use this conceptual distinction to increase their influence. Status is defined as the degree to which one is respected by one's colleagues, and power is defined as asymmetric control over valued resources. Different social and relational processes govern (1) how people determine who is, and who ought to be, high status versus powerful and (2) how status and power affect i...
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作者：Georgiou, Ion
摘要：Recent years have seen attempts to make sense of the politics-administration dichotomy. Triangulating among historical research, empirical observations, new models of interaction between politicians and administrators, and the division of the literature into schools, novel ways of understanding and examining the dichotomy have developed. These have been largely thematic and have revealed the extent of a literature spanning more than 120 years. Because of its size, a complementary structural an...
