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作者：Yang, KF
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：An important but unattended consideration in citizen participation efforts is whether public officials trust citizens and, if not, whether they can formulate and implement policies that really engage, empower and emancipate citizens. This study attempts to answer four questions: Is public officials' trust in citizens relevant and important? Is it a valid construct that can be differentiated from other constructs? What factors influence its level? And how does trust influence citizen involvemen...
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作者：Norris, DF; Moon, MJ
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
摘要：American grassroots governments have rushed to join the e-government revolution. Although there is a growing body of e-government literature, little of it is empirical. Using data from two nationwide surveys, we conduct a longitudinal examination of local government adoption of e-government, Web site sophistication, the perceived impacts of e-government, and barriers to the adoption and sophistication of e-government. We also discuss correlates of e-government adoption and sophistication with ...
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作者：Schneider, AL; Ingram, HM
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of California System; University of California Irvine
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Provan, KG; Veazie, MA; Staten, LK; Teufel-Shone, NI
作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Arizona
摘要：Community partnerships or networks of collaborating public and nonprofit organizations ore an important way of addressing a wide range of problems and needs that communities face. In the academic literature, network analysis has been used to analyze and understand the structure of the relationships that make up multiorganizational partnerships. But this tool is not well-known outside the small group of researchers who study networks, and it is seldom used as a method of assisting communities. ...
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作者：Kloha, P; Weissert, CS; Kleine, R
作者单位：Michigan State University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：One of the thorniest issues of intergovernmental fiscal relations Is state oversight of local fiscal affairs. States have oversight responsibility and must take action when local governments run afoul of responsible fiscal behavior Less accepted is how states can detect local financial difficulties before they become emergencies that require state takeover. Research in the 1970s provided some assistance to states wishing to recognize local financial emergencies. But the time has come to look a...
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作者：Lewis, CW
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：This study examines U.S. public opinion on civil liberties and security in response to the politically pivotal events of September 11, 2001 -what shape it Is in, what shapes it, and what it shapes. Public opinion is a critical restraint on political and administrative action today because so many regulators, rule makers, and law enforcers are making decisions or advocating policies that directly affect the balance between liberty and security. The general importance that is popularly attribute...
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作者：Page, S
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Interpretations of the emergence of the New Public Management are split. The champions of the movement present it as a new administrative paradigm that departs sharply from past thinking and practice, whereas skeptics argue it has evolved incrementally from past administrative traditions. To assess these views, this article examines recent administrative innovations in the human services that broadly reflect the New Public Management. The findings suggest that these innovations have built incr...
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作者：Boyte, HC
摘要：Developments in public affairs that stress governance-not simply government-hold possibilities for reframing democracy. Governance intimates a paradigm shift in the meaning of democracy and civic agency that is, who is to address public problems and promote the general welfare? The shift involves a move from citizens as simply voters, volunteers, and consumers to citizens as problem solvers and cocreators of public goods; from public leaders, such as public affairs professionals and politician...
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作者：Cogburn, JD
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Texas is unique among American state governments in its approach to human resources because it has no central human resource (HR) or personnel office and no comprehensive set of centrally prescribed HR policies and procedures. Given contemporary calls for HR decentralization, Texas is an excellent case study of the practical implications of a decentralized approach to HR. This article examines findings from a survey of state agency HR directors. The results suggest that respondents do not see ...
