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作者:Koppell, Jonathan G. S.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:To thrive in 2020, we must conceive of the field of public administration in the broadest possible terms. Phenomena that typically have been treated peripherally in our literature are emerging center stage in recent years, confirming that the old boundaries of our discipline do not reflect contemporary reality. After reviewing three key developments the rise of mixed and nongovernmental institutions in public polity, the increasing importance of market mechanisms, and the assertion of meaningf...
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作者:Roberts, Alasdair
作者单位:Suffolk University
摘要:Throughout the era of economic liberalization (1978-2007), a significant amount of governmental power was transferred to technocrat-guardians who were carefully buffered from elected officials. Democratic processes, it was said, had to be disciplined through such reforms if nations were to thrive in a globalized economy. This way of thinking about reform was already under assault beta' re the financial crisis, and it was even more widely questioned during the crisis, as critics doubted the qua...
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作者:Andrew, Simon A.; Feiock, Richard C.
作者单位:University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要:Paul Krugman's work is much celebrated in the fields of international trade and economic geography, recognized with the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. Although his work is less prominent in public administration, it has important implications for the study of political fragmentation, collaboration, economic development, and service delivery in metropolitan areas. The authors discuss how Krugman's core-periphery model adds a critical piece to the regional governance puzzle by explaining the con...
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作者:Stone, Melissa M.
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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作者:Hou, Yilin; Brewer, Gene A.
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:Governments often use multiple policy instruments for pursuing policy goals with mutually reinforcing effects. These effects include supplementation and substitution. This article examines both effects by studying two instruments of state budget stabilization policy: general fund balances and budget stabilization funds. States normally maintain budget surpluses in the general fund. In recent decades, many also created separate budget stabilization funds to guard against economic downturns. Emp...
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作者:Lyles, Alan
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Baltimore
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作者:Paarlberg, Laurie E.; Lavigna, Bob
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
摘要:Despite growing evidence about prosocial motivations and their effects on employee behavior, how can new public service motivation research translate into more effective management practices-which, so far, regrettably remain underdeveloped? Increasingly, public service motivation studies have moved from understanding what motivates public servants to exploring how public service motives influence performance. Similarly, greater attention is now paid to the practices of transformational leaders...
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作者:Seibel, Wolfgang
作者单位:University of Konstanz
摘要:The political role of public administration holds an ambiguous status in public administration theory. The dominant paradigms of the discipline offer more or less negative perspectives. Max Weber's notion of bureaucracy conceives public administration as the apolitical tool of government, while the public choice school conceives it as the realm of individual selfishness and rent seeking at taxpayers' expense. In this unfavorable epistemological environment, positive concepts of what makes publ...
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作者:Kraeger, Patsy
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
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作者:Xu, Hua; Cui, Huiyu
作者单位:Auburn University System; Auburn University; Auburn University Montgomery; Dongbei University of Finance & Economics
摘要:Personal income tax has grown in importance in China's revenue system. Revenue from personal income tax was more than 2 trillion RMB yuan for the first half of 2008, a 27 percent increase from the previous year. And while similarities exist between China and the United States, distinctive features separate the two. Hua Xu of Auburn University at Montgomery and Huiyu Cui of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics underscore the need for equitable personal income tax reform in China. Using l...