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作者:Kiefer, John J.; Montjoy, Robert S.
作者单位:University of Louisiana System; University of New Orleans
摘要:Hurricane Katrina revealed a lack of preparedness in disaster management networks covering the New Orleans area. This paper focuses on the operation of networks in preparing to evacuate residents in advance of a major disaster. There are two cases: the relatively successful evacuation of residents who left by private conveyance and the widely publicized failure to providefor those who could not or would not leave on their own. We trace the actions and inactions of various players to reach conc...
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作者:Menzel, Donald C.
作者单位:Northern Illinois University; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
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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:Kim, Soonhee; Lee, Hyangsoo
作者单位:Syracuse University
摘要:Sharing knowledge and information is an important factor in the discourses on electronic government, national security, and human capital management in public administration. This article analyzes the impact of organizational context and IT on employees' perceptions of knowledge-sharing capabilities in five public sector and five private sector organizations in South Korea. Social networks, centralization, performance-based reward systems, employee usage of IT applications, and user-friendly I...
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作者:Williams, DW
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
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作者:Bryson, John M.; Crosby, Barbara C.; Stone, Melissa Middleton
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society-business, nonprofits and philanthropies, the media, the community, and government-must collaborate to deal effectively and humanely with the challenges. This article focuses on cross-sector collaboration that is required to remedy complex public problems. Based on an extensive review of the literature on collaboration, the article p...
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作者:Leach, William D.
作者单位:California State University System; California State University Sacramento
摘要:This article provides a framework for assessing the democratic merits of collaborative public management in terms of seven normative ideals: inclusiveness, representativeness, impartiality, transparency, deliberativeness, lawfulness, and empowerment. The framework is used to analyze a random sample of 76 watershed partnerships in California and Washington State. The study reveals the exclusionary nature of some partnerships and suggests that critical stakeholders are missing from many partners...
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作者:DeHart-Davis, Leisha; Marlowe, Justin; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位:University of Kansas
摘要:Feminist scholars of public administration have critiqued the dominance of masculine imagery in public administration theory and practice. However, public service motivation is one area of public administration discourse that contains both feminine and masculine imagery. Focusing on Perry multidimensional public service motivation scale, the authors borrow from a range of social science literatures to contend that compassion is a feminine dimension of public service motivation, whereas attract...
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作者:Hood, Christopher
作者单位:University of Oxford
摘要:To what extent did the extensive system of managing public services by targets, introduced by Tony Blair's New Labour government in the United Kingdom in 1998, reproduce the classic gaming responses associated with the Soviet Union and other centralized performance-setting systems? Combining evidence from documentary sources and interviews with high-level officials in the Whitehall bureaucracy, the author suggests that the three classic types of target gaming can be identified in this public m...
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作者:Khademian, Anne M.
作者单位:Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University