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作者：Zeemering, Eric S.
作者单位：California State University System; San Francisco State University
摘要：Local government managers are described as key participants in the development of interlocal cooperation, but the interests of city councils in this process have gone largely unstudied. Here, the author addresses the theoretical importance of council-manager relations in interlocal public service cooperation. Three propositions identify areas of shared council-manager responsibility. Evidence from in-depth interviews with city council members is used to assess each proposition. While interloca...
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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：Dillman, David L.
作者单位：Abilene Christian University
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作者：Nigro, Lloyd G.; Kellough, J. Edward
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Trends in states' civil service reforms since the Winter Commission's report was published in 1993 are described and evaluated in the context of its recommendations. The authors argue that the commission's reform agenda relies on a public service bargain that requires public employees, elected officials, and other stakeholders to respect, trust, and support each other's efforts to serve the public interest. Its recommendations for modernizing state and local personnel systems are discussed and...
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作者：Collins, Brian K.; Gerber, Brian J.
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
摘要：Managing for social equity performance has long been a goal without much guidance for public managers. We examine social equity performance in the context of indirect governance through the administration of grant programs and, more specifically, the matching of policy responses (grant funding) to social needs. Grant program managers must allocate funding to match needs while also ensuring accountability, but common administrative models that rely on competition can undermine social equity per...
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作者：Cain, Bruce E.; Mac Donald, Karin; Murakami, Michael H.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：While there is a growing academic literature about mail-in ballots, there has been no serious academic research to date on overseas voters, even though the counting of overseas military ballots figured into the 2000 presidential election controversy. The participation of nearly 4 million overseas voters, both civilian and military, is governed by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. The authors examine the reported perceptions of military and nonmilitary voters covered by t...
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作者：Chen, Yu-Che; Thurmaier, Kurt
作者单位：Northern Illinois University
摘要：As e-government evolves into the transactions stage, governments must grapple with how to finance the development of e-transactions. The authors argue that the externalities effects of electronic transactions suggest they are appropriately financed by some combination of public investment and user charges. We propose a self-financing model adhering to two basic requirements. A flexible pricing framework is the core of the self-financing model, as it embodies both the firm's and the government'...
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作者：Boin, Arjen; Schulman, Paul
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
摘要：After the demise of the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board sharply criticized NASA's safety culture. Adopting the high-reliability organization as a benchmark, the board concluded that NASA did not possess the organizational characteristics that could have prevented this disaster. Furthermore, the board determined that high-reliability theory is extremely useful in describing the culture that should exist in the human spaceflight organization....
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作者：Guess, George M.
作者单位：American University
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作者：Montjoy, Robert S.
作者单位：University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
