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作者:Rouse, J
作者单位:Ball State University
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作者:Rouse, J
作者单位:Ball State University
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作者:Fiorino, DJ
作者单位:United States Environmental Protection Agency; United States Environmental Protection Agency
摘要:Environmental policy in the United States has always been characterized by high levels of political conflict. At the same time, however, policy makers have shown a capacity to learn from their own and others' experience. This article examines U.S. environmental policy since 1970 as a learning process and, more specifically, as an effort to develop three kinds of capacities for policy learning. The first decade and a half may be seen in terms of technical learning, characterized by a high degre...
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作者:Englehart, JK
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作者:Rouse, J
作者单位:Ball State University
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作者:Stone, MM; Hager, MA; Griffin, JJ
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Urban Institute; George Washington University
摘要:This study examines a population of United Way-affiliated nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts (1) to test hypotheses generated by previous research on relationships between government funding and specific nonprofit organizational characteristics, (2) to compare differences in organizational characteristics between nonprofits receiving higher percentages of revenues From the United Way and from government sources, and (3) to explore associations between government funding and United Way an...
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作者:Denhardt, RB
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:Following Behn's observation that scientists in other fields understand the big questions of their disciplines and focus attention and their discussions on those questions, public administration scholars have attempted to identify the big questions in public management and public administration. In this article, I suggest that scholars in public administration should also be attentive to the big questions of public administration education, those timeless and enduring concerns that speak to th...
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作者:McSwite, OC
作者单位:Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; George Washington University
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作者:Wert, JL
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Southeast
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作者:Provan, KG; Milward, HB
作者单位:University of Arizona
摘要:Although cooperative, interorganizational networks have become a common mechanism for delivery of public services, evaluating their effectiveness is extremely complex and has generally been neglected. To help resolve this problem, we discuss the evaluation of networks of community-based, mostly publicly funded health, human service, and public welfare organizations. Consistent with pressures to perform effectively from a broad range of key stakeholders, we argue that networks must be evaluated...