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作者：Villadsen, Anders R.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article investigates how executive succession influences the comprehensiveness of structural changes pursued by public organizations. Executive successions are important events for organizations that provide salient opportunities for introducing organizational change, yet little research has analyzed this relationship. The author argues that the less familiarity a new executive has with the organization and the field in which it works, the more likely it is that comprehensive organization...
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作者：Ganapati, N. Emel
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Although social capital has made inroads into the public administration literature, little is known about the gender dimensions of social capital in the context of a disaster. This article examines what kind of benefits, if any, social capital offers for women who are affected by disasters. Studying this question is important because it would help public administrators overcome the unique vulnerabilities of women and strengthen their capabilities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering...
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作者：Hartman, Eric
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作者：Neshkova, Milena I.; Kostadinova, Tatiana
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Practitioners and scholars of postcommunist politics disagree on the accomplishments of administrative reforms in new Eastern European democracies. The transformation of the public sector after 1989 has aimed to consolidate the democratic process and enhance economic development. Skeptics, however, argue that administrative reforms face serious challenges in the context of economic liberalization, insufficient capacity for modernization, and cultural legacies of the past. The authors judge ref...
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作者：Rodriguez-Tejedo, Isabel
作者单位：University of Navarra
摘要：This article investigates the factors that determine the configuration of budget stabilization funds, also known as rainy day funds, along their two most important dimensions: deposit and withdrawal requirements. These funds are created to accumulate savings in order to reduce the impact of adverse fiscal conditions during downturns. The effectiveness of such funds depends greatly on their institutional structure, and yet most states choose configurations that compromise their efficacy. Using ...
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作者：Fattore, Giovanni; Dubois, Hans F. W.; Lapenta, Antonio
作者单位：Bocconi University; Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Kozminski University; European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies
摘要：New Public Management (NPM) recently has been compared and contrasted with public governance (PG) to illustrate shifts in conceptions of public administrations and in reform agendas. The authors develop measures to capture the relevance of NPM and PG in textual discourse and investigate the extent to which they have entered the political debate. Content analysis of electoral programs for the 2005 Italian regional elections reveals that even in this legalistic country, considerable attention wa...
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作者：Guy, Mary E.; McCandless, Sean A.
作者单位：Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Children's Hospital Colorado
摘要：Social equity is rooted in the idea that each person is equal and has inalienable rights. Because of America's unique blend of social, religious, economic, and political characteristics, we value this concept despite, or perhaps because of, the simultaneous tensions of a capitalist economy, which requires inequality, set within a democratic constitutional system, which assumes equality. The impossibility of simultaneously achieving inequality and equality produces episodic corrections. This wa...
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作者：Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Public management by numbers has experienced an international policy boom in recent decades, and big claims have been made about its performance-enhancing effects. But it is hard to assess such claims systematically, even though we can find dramatic anecdotes of cases in which management by numbers seems to have had performance-weakening as well as performance-enhancing effects. In an attempt to build on studies that have gone beyond critiquing the statistical validity and reliability of perfo...
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作者：Witesman, Eva M.; Wise, Charles R.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：The public administration literature has long identified public administrators as key players in achieving government reform. Public managers may be motivated to provide employee access to training in governance skills by several factors, including the need to fulfill the current functions of government, to expand employee responsibilities, or to reform administrative processes and/or programs. The authors examine the impact of public managers on the availability of governance skills training ...
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作者：Holmes, Maja Husar
作者单位：West Virginia University
