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作者：Stephenson, Max O., Jr.
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作者：Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Rail safety has emerged as a significant issue in the past two years as a result of two major factors: a statistical lack of improvement in rail safety in the past decade, and a catalytic event in the form of a major derailment involving loss of life at Graniteville, South Carolina, in January 2005. The convergence of long-term leveling of rail safety indicators and the shock of a major rail accident prompted the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask the Government Accountability Office to as...
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作者：Berman, Evan M.; West, Jonathan P.
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; University of Miami
摘要：This study assesses perceptions of managerial emotional intelligence in local government, as well as the practices and polices affecting it. Though few cities offer training programs for managers that are called emotional intelligence, many cities engage in activities that target or address EI skills. This study finds improvement opportunities for managers to become better attuned to the feelings of others and themselves, to better know their own strengths and weaknesses, to better deal with t...
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作者：Khovanova, Kseniya M.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
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作者：Levine, Aaron D.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Five states now provide funding for stem cell research, and many states are developing or debating stem cell research policies. Despite this interest, little data exist to help policy makers design policies or forecast the impact of new legislation. This article reports novel data from two surveys: one directed at those most affected by these policies-stem cell scientists-and one at a group of biomedical researchers working in less contentious fields. These data identified relatively high mobi...
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作者：Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of Oxford
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作者：Tolbert, Caroline J.; Mossberger, Karen; McNeal, Ramona
作者单位：University of Iowa; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Northern Iowa
摘要：Examining the rankings of American states in one fast-growing policy area, e-government, states with the most sophisticated and comprehensive policies varied over a five-year period. What factors account for change in digital government policy innovation over time? Using time-series analysis and 50-state data, the authors find that state institutional capacity is important for continued innovation. They also find an association between reinvention in state governments and the institutionalizat...
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作者：Hildebrand, David L.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：In the foregoing essay, Patricia M. Shields argues that public administration and administrators should support a much greater incorporation of classical pragmatism than has been the case to date. This paper supports that conclusion by focusing on classical pragmatism's central benefit to public administration: its ability to provide the field with a claim to objectivity that it badly needs, but which Shields barely mentions. It shows how objectivity is closely connected to a pragmatic concept...
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作者：Overeem, Patrick
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：Dwight Waldo (1913-2000) is commonly known as a heterodox critic of the dichotomy between politics and administration. But is this reputation supported by his writings? It seems to be primarily based on The Administrative State (1948) and other early publications, in which he conceptualized politics/administration narrowly as deciding/executing and, indeed, sharply criticized it. Waldo's later publications, by contrast, offer much broader conceptualizations and a more ambivalent, even positive...
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作者：Chapman, Jeffrey I.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：At the state and local level, fiscal sustainability is the long-run capability of a government to consistently meet its financial responsibilities. It reflects the adequacy of available revenues to ensure the continued provision of the service and capital levels that the public demands. After examining separate revenue and expenditure trends for state and local governments, this article identifies three specific sets of pressures that affect subnational fiscal sustainability-cyclical, structur...
