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作者:Perry, James L.; Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Coursey, David; Littlepage, Laura
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要:This study examines the relationship between public service motivation and antecedents believed to be important determinants of moral commitment. Research conducted during the past decade indicates that public service motivation is a valid construct that is useful for predicting outcomes that are important to public organizations and to society. The sample for the empirical study consists of winners of the Daily Point of Light Award and the President's Community Volunteer Award. Antecedents st...
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作者:Stephenson, Max O., Jr.
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作者:Fn'Piere, Patricia A
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作者:Wichowsky, Amber; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:Governments increasingly require administrators to develop outcome measurements that reflect a program's impact on society. But standard approaches to performance measurement have neglected the impact on citizenship outcomes-the individual civic capacities and dispositions and social bonds of civic reciprocity and trust. The concept is adapted from the growing policy feedback literature in political science, which offers strong empirical evidence that certain policies have measurable effects o...
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作者:Berry, Carolyn; Krutz, Glen S.; Langner, Barbara E.; Budetti, Peter
作者单位:New York University; New York University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Kansas; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Tulsa
摘要:Many policy problems require governmental leaders to forge vast networks beyond their own hierarchical institutions. This essay explores the challenges of implementation in a networked institutional setting and incentives to induce coordination between agencies and promote quality implementation. It describes the national evaluation of the Assuring Better Child Health and Development program, a state-based program intended to increase and enhance the delivery of child development services for ...
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作者:Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:This article examines learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. The author examines the case of a crisis response network dealing with an exotic animal disease outbreak. The article identifies the basic difficulties of learning under crisis conditions. The network bad to learn most of the elements taken for granted in more mature structural forms-the nature of the structural framework in which it was working, bow to adapt that framework, the role and actions appropriate...
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作者:Howell-Moroney, Michael
作者单位:University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要:More than five decades have passed since Charles Tiebout wrote his seminal 1956 paper, often cited as the classic apologetic for locally based systems of metropolitan governance. This essay traces the impact of Tiebout's work and subsequent scholarship in public choice, identifying important lessons and lingering issues. Although public choice has demonstrated that polycentric systems are adept and flexible in producing and providing municipal services and a variety of interlocal agreements, t...
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作者:Billis, David
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者:Bryer, Thomas A.
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
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作者:Nigro, Lloyd G.
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Georgia State University