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作者：Merriman, Ben
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：The early city management profession experienced appalling rates of attrition. This problem of professional mortality had been clearly recognized by the end of World War I: causes of attrition included threats and violence against managers, intense political interference in managers' work, and interpersonal missteps. Yet the organized management profession and advocates of the manager plan actively ignored threats and were unwilling to respond collectively or officially to political interferen...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Schulze, Kai; Schoenefeld, Jonas J.; Nicolay, Marco
作者单位：Technical University of Darmstadt; University of East Anglia; Hochschule Darmstadt
摘要：Many cities and municipalities aim to address climate change, yet their rigid administrative structures often constrain effective action. Therefore, local authorities must innovate to build administrative capacity and enable work across departmental silos. However, we lack knowledge of how such administrative innovations emerge and become more widespread. To address this gap, this article examines administrative innovation from a diffusion perspective, drawing on a novel theoretical framework ...
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作者：Nemeth, Patricia
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：Max Weber's rational-legal bureaucracy remains a vital safeguard amid populist backlash, civil service politicization, and democratic backsliding. This article reframes bureaucracy as a conditional democratic safeguard-one that depends on ethical orientation and professional integrity, not technical capacity alone. When legality is hollowed out through obedience or anticipatory compliance, institutions corrode from within. Evidence from recent cases of executive politicization illustrates how ...
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作者：Wang, Jiali; Zhu, Junming; Du, Huibin
作者单位：Tianjin University; Tsinghua University
摘要：Government attention is crucial to policy change and outcome. For local agents, their attention is explained by various factors, and a thorough understanding is needed to integrate diverse perspectives. Combining vertical, horizontal, local, and personal influences, we formulate a conditional embeddedness framework for local agents. The framework explains that agents' attention is primarily directed by principals, but this directed shift is horizontally and locally shaped by political and econ...
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作者：Stalebrink, Odd J.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University
摘要：Bethpage State Park's Black Course offers a rare historical case of administrative capacity emerging under conditions of uncertainty, fiscal constraint, and urgent public purpose during the Great Depression. Built with relief labor and without the benefit of fully developed public administration or budgeting doctrines, the project required administrators to invent workable practices as construction unfolded. Drawing on extensive archival records, this article reconstructs Bethpage as a histori...
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作者：Jiang, Hanchen
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics
摘要：The administrative burden framework suggests that citizens experience psychological costs when interacting with the state. Previous research has primarily focused on context-specific psychological costs, such as stress and loss of autonomy related to particular policies or encounters. This study expands the framework by integrating it with the relational model of authority and the stress and coping theory, and proposes that negative bureaucratic encounters have an adverse impact on citizens' g...
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作者：Yang, Wenhui; Zhu, Ruoyan
作者单位：Peking University; Xiamen University
摘要：Most networking activities in the public administration literature focus on formal networks, yet less attention has been paid to the function of informal networks, which are critical mechanisms for transmitting information and knowledge. This study fills this gap by examining the impact of informal networks on policy tourism, an important channel for policy learning and intergovernmental collaboration. Using China as a case, we indicate that local leaders' informal networks facilitate the init...
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作者：Afzal, Muhammad; Panagiotopoulos, Panos
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：Algorithms are disrupting established decision-making practices in public administration. A key area of interest lies in algorithmic discretion or how public officials use algorithms to exercise discretion. The article develops a framework to explain algorithmic discretion by drawing on status quo bias theory and bureaucratic discretion. A study with police officers in the UK shows that-while officers still value their discretion-it is resistance via the aspects of status quo bias that account...
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