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作者:Warner, Mildred E.; Hefetz, Amir
作者单位:Cornell University; Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要:The privatization experience of U.S. municipalities shows declining use of complete contracts and a dramatic rise in mixed public private delivery (joint contracting) of city services. The analysis here shows that city managers have recognized the need to move beyond a simple dichotomy between market delivery and public planning to an approach that balances concerns with efficiency, market management, and citizen satisfaction. The New Public Management stresses the importance of competition an...
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作者:Burke, Brendan F.; Cho, Chung-Lae; Wright, Deil S.
作者单位:Suffolk University; Ewha Womans University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:Executive leadership in state government is examined at two levels, both from the perspectives of the heads of state administrative agencies responding to mail question surveys in 1994, 1998, and 2004. At one level, the status and strength of the governor in controlling and leading the executive branch are assessed. At the second (agency) level, state executives (and their agencies) are assessed on four criteria that are connected, directly or indirectly, with the aims of the Winter Commission...
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作者:Chalekian, Paul M.
作者单位:Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno
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作者:White, Richard D., Jr.
作者单位:Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
摘要:George Tenet served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1997 to 2004, an intense period spanning the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and covering the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Few other central intelligence directors have served for so long, so energetically, or amid so much controversy. This profile examines the steep trajectory of Tenet's career, his response to the al-Qaeda threat, the role he played during the invasi...
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作者:Shields, Patricia M.
作者单位:Texas State University System; Texas State University San Marcos
摘要:The origins of the influential American philosophy classical pragmatism and of American public administration overlap. On the surface, it appears that classical pragmatism had no influence on the emerging field of American public administration. Why were the two never properly wed? This essay first traces the historical connections that link public administration and classical pragmatism. Second, using a framework that is simple to remember the tenets of classical pragmatism-practical, plurali...
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作者:Svara, James H.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:Dwight Waldo's conception of the politics-administration question might be better understood as a relationship that contains elements of separation and intermixture rather than a dichotomy, according to this author-commentator. To suggest that Waldo came to support the dichotomy presumes agreement about the meaning of the concept that is missing in Waldo's writings and in the public administration literature.
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作者:Brecher, Charles; Wise, Oliver
作者单位:New York University
摘要:Collaborations between nonprofit and public sector organizations have become an increasingly important phenomenon in state and local public service delivery since the publication of the Winter Commission report in 1993. This article focuses on one of the less studied types of public-nonprofit collaborations, those in which philanthropic support from nonprofit organizations supplements the resources and activities of public agencies. Drawing on the case of nonprofit-as-supplement collaborations...
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作者:Chalekian, Paul M.
作者单位:Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno
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作者:Hollarn, Pat
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作者:Montjoy, Robert S.
作者单位:University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans; Auburn University System; Auburn University
摘要:The performance of election systems in the United States depends heavily on complex networks of people, tasks, organizations, and relationships, as well as the voting technology that has received so much attention since the presidential election of 2000. Public administration has much to contribute to our understanding of these systems. This article provides an overview of the field, highlighting linkages to theoretical approaches in public administration and emphasizing the importance of mana...