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作者：Svara, James H.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The Winter Commission report of 1993 stressed cities with the mayor-council form of government and emphasized removing barriers to executive authority in large cities. In order to assess and update the report, it is important to recognize that a majority of cities with populations over 100,000 use the council-manager form, in which restrictions on the executive and fragmented authority are unlikely to be present because of the constitutional principles on which the form is based. There has bee...
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作者：Hall, Jeremy L.; Jennings, Edward T., Jr.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Kentucky
摘要：Recent attention to best practices has resulted in a complex array of terminology and a number of compendia of effective practices that may be daunting to public policy makers and administrators seeking solutions to important public problems. This study clarifies these distinctions and builds on them to create a decision tool that will help policy makers as they use best practice information in program adoption or development. Decision makers must know their goals in seeking out best practices...
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作者：Anagnoson, J. Theodore
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
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作者：Thompson, Frank J.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：This article draws on the contributions to this issue and related evidence to assay the extent to which the states and larger local governments have moved in directions endorsed by the Winter Commission in 1993. The commission's recommendations targeted (1) the political context of state and local governance, with a particular focus on executive leadership, campaign finance reform, and citizen engagement; (2) the specifics of public administration, with primary emphasis on empowering managers ...
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作者：Candreva, Philip J.; Brook, Douglas A.
摘要：The Government Accountability Office believes the answer to the U.S. Defense Department's persistent management problems is to be found in the creation of a new position, chief management officer, to oversee defense business transformation. The recommendation for this position is reviewed and used to raise questions and spur inquiry in the areas of evidence-based reform, the relationship between policy and administration, auditor overreach, and sustaining reforms through transition. The latter...
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作者：Hawkins, Ernest
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作者：Bowman, James S.; Knox, Claire Connolly
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：This work examines attitudes about ethics in American government during the turbulent time from the end of the past century to the beginning of the new. Using data from a national survey, the authors explore views toward ethics in society and integrity in public agencies, with an emphasis on the code of ethics of the American Society for Public Administration. The results not only reveal considerable continuity over the years but also suggest that individual managers are increasingly empowered...
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作者：Svennson, Joergen; Trommel, Willem; Lantink, Tineke
作者单位：University of Twente; University of Amsterdam
摘要：Progress in New Public Management research requires careful comparison of different organizational approaches to public tasks, preferably within a single political and institutional setting. This paper presents a study of three approaches to reemployment services, a recent development in the Netherlands. How do bureaucratic, networked, and market-based forms of organization function with regard to the new public aim of second-tier reemployment in the Netherlands? It appears that there is no si...
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作者：Azimi, Vida
作者单位：Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas
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作者：Plant, Jeremy F.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
