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作者：Petersen, Ole Helby; Potoski, Matthew; Brogaard, Lena
作者单位：Roskilde University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：A central challenge in government contracting is fostering cooperation between buyers and sellers where contract terms are incomplete. This article introduces a framework for formal-relational contracting (FRC) in public sector contexts, where rigid regulations, competing values, and market imperfections make cooperation both difficult and valuable. FRC promotes cooperation through contract terms defining shared goals, guiding principles, and governance mechanisms. We present the theoretical f...
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作者：Li, Jixiang; Tang, Shui-Yan; Wen, Bo
作者单位：University of Macau; University of Southern California
摘要：Increasing environmental complexity and uncertainty have made organizational resilience a key concern in public administration. Yet its inherent ambiguity calls for a systematic examination of its conceptualizations, operationalizations, and applications. This meta-narrative review synthesizes 49 studies, advancing the discourse by identifying three distinct narratives-maintenance, recovery, and adaptability-and exploring how they intersect when public institutions encounter acute shocks versu...
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作者：Boykin, Emily; Bell, Elizabeth
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Augusta University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：While scholars have built considerable evidence on representative bureaucracy as a transformational independent variable, less is known about the organizational and policy conditions that motivate public institutions to invest in workforce diversity. Drawing on resource dependency theory, we argue that tuition-free college policies ('Promise Programs') will alter organizational incentives by expanding financial resources and diversifying clientele. In turn, we argue that colleges will expand w...
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作者：Sarihan, Ali
作者单位：St. Marys College of Maryland
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作者：Vogel, Rick; Dahlweg, Anne; Hattke, Fabian
作者单位：University of Hamburg; University of Bergen
摘要：A key claim of the administrative burden framework is that vulnerable citizens are more affected by administrative burden than others. We test this assumption using the life events survey in Germany, an official data record covering more than 10,000 administrative encounters involving more than 5000 citizens. We find support only for the psychological costs of perceived discrimination, whereas neither compliance nor learning costs are positively associated with vulnerability. On the contrary, ...
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作者：Meng, Xue; Li, Chaoping
作者单位：Renmin University of China
摘要：Performance information (PI) has received significant attention in public administration research. However, evaluating the impact of public sector PI on stakeholders is challenging due to varying empirical results. Drawing on information propagation theory, as well as social and cognitive psychology, we conduct a meta-analysis to examine the effect of public sector PI. Using 461 effect sizes from 75 studies, the meta-analysis reveals PI's positive effects on stakeholder attitudes, behaviors, a...
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作者：Coutin, Jordy; Musso, Juliet; Stanley, J. Woody
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：The current study contributes to practice in interagency performance management through a study of the system of federal grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to local Continuum of Care (CoC). The mixed methods design synthesizes a multivariate analysis of the relationship between grantee performance and funding levels, a national survey of CoCs and follow-up interviews with CoC administrators. Findings reveal little association between reported improvements in syst...
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作者：Chen-Florea, Alexander L. Q.
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision-making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ideologically bounded) conceptions of justice. Democracy, far from being normatively univocal, encompasses competing justice principles that yield diverge...
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作者：Chen, Tipeng; Welch, Eric W.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：Public organizations facing emergencies often coordinate with other local public and non-profit organizations for assistance. Yet we know little about the contractual relationships public organizations build with external organizations for emergency responses. Drawing from organizational theories, we explore organizational factors behind public organization decisions to contract for responses to extreme weather events. Using agency-level data merged from three national sources, we find an inve...
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作者：Link, Albert N.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
