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作者:Meier, KJ; Polinard, JL; Wrinkle, RD
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University of Texas System; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
摘要:The most common view of political institutions and their control over bureaucracy is the principal-agent model That model assumes that politicians and bureaucrats disagree over goals and the means to obtain those goals It also assumes that bureaucrats have access to valuable information that politicians do not have. Agricultural credit is a policy area that does not fit these assumptions. In it we find a version of bottom-line oversight, whereby the agency has clear goals and political institu...
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作者:Johnston, JM; Romzek, BS
作者单位:University of Kansas
摘要:Medicaid reform, which has been central to state government reform throughout the United States, represents conceptual and implementation challenges for practitioners and scholars. This article investigates one such reform, in Kansas, where the state contracted with nonprofit agencies for Medicaid case management services We examine policy rationales for this social service reform in light of the actual economic and management environments. We offer a typology of contract management complexity...
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作者:Portz, JH; Reidy, M; Rochefort, DA
作者单位:Northeastern University
摘要:The spread of managed rare is rapidly transforming the nation's health rare system. Less well noted, however, is the way this transformation is also reshaping Medicaid-and other public health-care bureaucracies-across administration internal operations, and policymaking areas. In this article, we examine how managed care has contributed to reinventing government in such bureaucracies, paying particular attention to shifts in organisational mission, competitive contracting, performance measurem...
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作者:Lentz, C
作者单位:Texas State University System; Sam Houston State University
摘要:Governments are increasingly concerned with personnel rests. This article investigates determinants of teacher salaries in Illinois school districts (Fiscal Year 1989-1990) from three perspectives: local characteristics of the school districts, the ability of citizens and communities to pay, and composition of the property tax base. Each perspective is examined at four salary levels. Of the local characteristics, districts with large numbers of teachers or more experienced teachers pay higher ...
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作者:Carroll, JD
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Syracuse University; Brookings Institution
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作者:Wong, W
作者单位:Syracuse University
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作者:Levine, AL
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
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作者:Levine, AL
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
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作者:Luton, LS
作者单位:Eastern Washington University
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作者:Tummala, KK
作者单位:Kansas State University