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作者：Edwards, Daniel (David), Jr.; Darnall, Nicole
作者单位：George Mason University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Today, more regulatory provisions are in place for protecting low-income minority populations who shoulder a disproportionate amount of environmental risk. Recognized as communities of environmental justice, industrial facilities located within these areas bear greater legal liabilities for and societal scrutiny of their environmental impacts. The authors off er compelling evidence that, in an effort to avoid regulatory and societal claims that they are disproportionately harming minority and ...
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作者：Walker, Richard M.; Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George A.; Meier, Kenneth J.; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong; Cardiff University; Cardiff University; Cardiff University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：New empirical evidence suggests that service performance is shaped by the strategies adopted by public organizations and the networking behavior of public managers. Strategy captures two central behavioral aspects of public organizations: the way in which objectives and actions are selected (processes), and an organization's approach to service delivery (content). Networking is similarly concerned with the behavior of public managers as they interact with others. These twin themes are linked i...
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作者：Forrer, John; Kee, James Edwin; Newcomer, Kathryn E.; Boyer, Eric
作者单位：George Washington University; George Washington University; George Washington University; George Washington University
摘要：Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are growing in popularity as a governing model for delivery of public goods and services. PPPs have existed since the Roman Empire, but their expansion into traditional public projects today raises serious questions about public accountability. This article examines public accountability and its application to government and private firms involved in PPPs. An analytical framework is proposed for assessing the extent to which PPPs provide (or will provide) goo...
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作者：Barnow, Burt S.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Despite the wide-ranging use of performance measures within the public sector and the growing use of performance bonuses to recognize performance achievements, the use of formal performance standards adjustment procedures in public performance measurement systems is relatively rare. Burt S. Barnow of Johns Hopkins University and Carolyn J. Heinrich of the University of Wisconsin-Madison set forth the basic arguments in favor of and against the use of formal or informal procedures for adjusting...
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作者：Crosby, Barbara C.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Imagine that citizens and public officials working together over the next decade are able to maximize the democratic potential of today's shared-power, no-one-in-charge world and achieve more sustainable modes of living together on Earth. The article focuses on the development of shared or collaborative approaches to leadership, ideas for developing integrative leadership practices that harness new (and old) communications and information technologies, and means of feeding knowledge back and f...
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作者：Toonen, Theo
作者单位：Delft University of Technology; Delft University of Technology; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：This essay examines the remarkable careers of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom, exploring polycentricity and human management of common property resources from the no-name fields of public administration in the late 1950s, through the metropolitan public service industries and public choice approach to democratic administration in the 1960s and 1970s and the institutional analysis of common pool resource management of the 1980s and 1990s. It continues with the diagnosis of the self-governing capabili...
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作者：Amirkhanyan, Anna A.
作者单位：American University
摘要：What is the effect of contractors' nonprofit and for-profit ownership on the scope and nature of performance measurement used by government agencies? Quantitative and qualitative data were generated through semistructured interviews administered to a sample of state and local public agencies and private contractors across five jurisdictions. The findings of this study suggest that monitoring officers working with nonprofit rather than for-profit contractors are more likely to rely on qualitati...
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作者：Kim, Soonhee
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Based on the Asia Barometer Survey of 2003, 2004, and 2006, government performance, citizen empowerment, and citizen satisfaction with self-expression values are associated with public trust in government in Japan and South Korea. This study finds, first, that government performance on the economy, controlling political corruption, the quality of public services, crime, and attention to citizen input are significantly associated with broad public trust in government in both Japan and South Kor...
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作者：Wright, Bradley E.; Grant, Adam M.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：As public service motivation research gains momentum, important questions emerge regarding its origins and consequences that are not addressed by existing research. The authors identify some fundamental public service motivation assumptions, including critical gaps in our current understanding of its basic tenets. The authors then discuss specific research studies that, by virtue of their findings and designs, may fill in and inform such apparent gaps. Their aim is to chart new concrete direct...
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作者：Bryson, John M.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Strategic planning is now a ubiquitous practice in US. governments and nonprofit organizations. The practice has become widespread for many reasons, but the chief one is the evidence that strategic planning typically works, and often works extremely well. Improvements in strategic planning practice are likely to come as it is seen and researched in its full richness as a practice, or set of practices. Several predictions are offered about the future of strategic planning practice and research.
