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作者：Hong, Sounman; Kim, Youngrok
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：This article explores how political principals weigh loyalty and competence in public personnel decisions. Exploiting the abrupt shift in political leadership following the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of Korea, the authors examine how the newly elected president made the decision to retain or dismiss 118 agency heads appointed by the previous administration. The evidence shows the importance of loyalty in managerial survival: those who had a political patronage relationship with the...
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作者：Mughan, Sian
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Higher levels of government motivate municipal consolidations as a tool to increase efficiency in the local government sector, yet research shows that consolidations typically fail to deliver the promised spending reductions. Since mergers often require significant changes to institutional structures, one explanation is that local decision makers can substantially influence the outcomes of the consolidation process. To explore this possibility, this article contrasts encouraged but voluntary m...
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作者：Hall, Jeremy L.; Battaglio, R. Paul
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
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作者：Robinson, Scott E.; Pudlo, Jason M.; Wehde, Wesley
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Oral Roberts University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The complexity of the modern information ecosystem raises many questions for public organizations. In the context of emergency management, information (such as warning messages) is communicated not only from a source of authority to the public but also between members of the public. The authors use a series of storms that affected Oklahoma in the spring of 2016 to test propositions related to how information about tornado warnings reached the public and who received and shared information abou...
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作者：Elkomy, Shimaa; Cookson, Graham; Jones, Simon
作者单位：University of Surrey; New York University
摘要：Contracting out of public services, especially ancillary services, has been a key feature of New Public Management since the 1980s. By 2014, more than 100 pound billion of U.K. public services were being contracted out annually to the private sector. A number of high-profile cases have prompted a debate about the value for money that these contracts provide. Value for money comprises both the cost and the quality of the services. This article empirically tests the contestability and quality sh...
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作者：Nichols, Vanessa Cruz; LeBron, Alana M. W.; Pedraza, Francisco I.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：To what extent do people become less trusting of the government under threatening policy contexts? The authors find evidence that Secure Communities, a bureaucratic program that enhances immigrant policing through collaboration between local law and immigration enforcement agencies, spurs mistrust among Latinos but not non-Latinos. This article focuses on the politics of immigration and health, two issue areas marked by large-scale bureaucratic developments over the last 50 years. The authors ...
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作者：Pasha, Obed
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
摘要：As performance management systems gain popularity in police agencies, they are increasingly being criticized for their ineffectiveness at reducing crime and for encouraging abuse of authority. Scholars and practitioners, however, argue that these systems can be effective if they are implemented properly with the use of best practices. This article contributes to this debate by evaluating the impact of performance management systems and associated best practices on improving police performance....
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作者：Hall, Jeremy L.; Battaglio, R. Paul
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
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作者：Lewis, Gregory B.; Boyd, Jonathan; Pathak, Rahul
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：Are state governments fulfilling their responsibilities to be model employers of women and minorities? Using U.S. Census Bureau data on individual employees from 1980 to 2015, this article looks at how much progress state governments have made toward eliminating racial and gender pay differences. It examines whether differences in education, age/experience, citizenship, English ability, hours worked, and occupation explain the pay differences. Patterns and explanations vary substantially by gr...
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作者：Shrestha, Manoj K.
作者单位：University of Idaho
摘要：Studies of network effectiveness in the collaborative public program setting commonly have found that actors with more organizational partners, more indirect (bridging) ties to other partners, and more cohesive relationships among partners have greater success in implementing projects. This article contributes to this literature by developing and testing hypotheses about how strength of relationships, measured by frequency of contacts, moderates these results. In the context of community water...
