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作者：Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germa
作者单位：University of Barcelona
摘要：In April 2009, the U.S. government unveiled its blueprint for a national network of high-speed passenger rail (HSR) lines, aimed at reducing traffic congestion, cutting national dependence on foreign oil, and improving rural and urban environments. In implementing such a project, it is essential to identify the factors that might influence decision making and the eventual success of the HSR project, as well as to foresee the obstacles that must be overcome. The authors review, summarize, and a...
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作者：Moulton, Stephanie
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Private organizations are increasingly relied on, explicitly and implicitly, to carry out public objectives. But given that profit and public motives are not always aligned, why do private firms behave in publicly responsible ways? Specifically, how do diverse regulative, economic, normative, and cultural influences combine to enable or constrain publicly responsible behavior? This analysis focuses on a specific group of private actors: mortgage lenders. Through semi-structured interviews with...
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作者：Kim, Soonhee; Lee, Jooho
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Nebraska System
摘要：This article examines the relationship between electronic participation (e-participation) and trust in local government by focusing on five dimensions of the e-participation process: (1) satisfaction with e-participation applications, (2) satisfaction with government responsiveness to e-participants, (3) e-participants' development through the participation, (4) perceived influence on decision making, and (5) assessment of government transparency. Using data from the 2009 E-Participation Surve...
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作者：Newswander, Chad B.
作者单位：University of South Dakota
摘要：The pursuit of the common good must be understood from the reality that governing is ugly. The ability to grapple with situations that are ambiguous requires administrators to be cognizant of action that might be suspect but necessary to accomplish the public interest. This often requires them to become active players. John Rohr postulates that the U.S. Supreme Court's standards of strict scrutiny is one approach that could be used to justify such action. Building on this line of thinking, the...
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作者：Perry, James L.; Radin, Beryl A.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; American University
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作者：Carpenter, Daniel P.; Krause, George A.
作者单位：Harvard University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：This article examines the application of organizational reputation to public administration. Organizational reputation is defined as a set of beliefs about an organizations capacities, intentions, history, and mission that are embedded in a network of multiple audiences. The authors assert that the way in which organizational reputations are formed and subsequently cultivated is fundamental to understanding the role of public administration in a democracy. A review of the basic assumptions and...
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作者：White, Joseph
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：The extensive literature about the George W. Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) has not emphasized an issue that appears quite clearly in interviews with senior Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and congressional staff. Budget analysis can pursue efficiency in two ways. One, the object of traditional analysis, involves assessing programs to understand the ratio of inputs to outputs within an agency, and thus the effects of more or less funding. Another approach, te...
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作者：Mizrahi, Shlomo
作者单位：Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
摘要：This article establishes a framework for explaining the ways in which citizens, as clients of public services, attempt to deal with situations of combined market and government failures. Under certain conditions, citizens are driven to create self-production mechanisms that often are extralegal or illegal. When faced with such social initiatives, politicians often support them, either passively or actively, by institutionalizing the new mechanisms. The article explains the evolution of the sel...
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作者：Heinrich, Carolyn J.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This research empirically assesses the quality of evidence that agencies provided to the Office of Management and Budget in the application of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), introduced in 2002 to more rigorously, systematically, and transparently assess public program effectiveness and hold agencies accountable for results by tying them to the executive budget formulation process and program funding. Evidence submitted by 95 programs administered by the U.S. Department of Health an...
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作者：Schmidle, Timothy P.
