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作者:Marks, Peter K.; Gerrits, Lasse M.
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
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作者:Blair, Dan G.
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作者:Gusmano, Michael K.
摘要:The responsiveness of the bureaucracy to political control is a long-standing issue for scholars in public administration. The legitimacy of decisions made by the bureaucracy often depends on the technical merits of these decisions, but deliberative decision making involving a broad array of relevant stakeholders offers another potential source of legitimacy for executive agencies. In this article, the author examines efforts to expand the role of the public in decision making at the U.S. Food...
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作者:[Anonymous]
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作者:Clark, Benjamin Y.; Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Jang, Sung-Gheel
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University
摘要:This article investigates how communications advances affect citizens' ability to participate in coproduction of government services. The authors analyze service requests made to the City of Boston during a one-year period from 2010 to 2011 and, using geospatial analysis and negative binomial regression, investigate possible disparities by race, education, and income in making service requests. The findings reveal little concern that 311 systems (nonemergency call centers) may benefit one raci...
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作者:Lee, Christopher D.
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作者:Durant, Robert F.; Ali, Susannah Bruns
作者单位:American University
摘要:Levels of citizen estrangement from government in the United States have risen rather consistently since the late 1960s and have reached all-time highs in recent years. Evidence is accumulating in political science research to suggest that public administrative theory may have contributed to this trend since the Progressive Era in the early 1900s. The authors develop this thesis by arguing that administrative theory in the United States has persistently portrayed public managers as bridge buil...
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作者:Shrestha, Manoj K.
作者单位:University of Idaho
摘要:Most research examining the relationship between social capital and outcomes focuses on either internal social capital or external social capital. This article examines the impact of both internal and external social capital on the success of self-organizing community initiatives. A study of community water projects in a developing country, Nepal, shows that communities that enjoy less internal conflict and more external partnerships are more likely to be successful in securing agency funds fo...
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作者:Eichenthal, David R.
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作者:Metzenbaum, Shelley H.