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作者:Heimstaedt, Maximilian; Dobusch, Leonhard
作者单位:University of Innsbruck
摘要:Transparency is in vogue, yet it is often used as an umbrella concept for a wide array of phenomena. More focused concepts are needed to understand the form and function of different phenomena of visibility. In this article, the authors define organizational transparency as systematic disclosure programs that meet the information needs of other actors. Organizational transparency, they argue, is best studied as an interorganizational negotiation process on the field level. To evaluate its meri...
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作者:Brook, Douglas A.
作者单位:Duke University
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作者:McGuire, William; Hoang, Phi Cong; Prakash, Aseem
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Tacoma; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要:This article investigates the mechanisms that voluntary environmental program (VEP) participants adopt to reduce pollution. The focus of this article is the 33/50 program, a VEP introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1991 and discontinued in 1995. The program called for emissions reductions for 17 chemicals reported to the Toxics Release Inventory. Using a sample of approximately 12,000 plants, the relationship between 33/50 program participation and adoption of pollution re...
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作者:Isett, Kimberley R.; Hicks, Diana M.
作者单位:University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要:Electronic media has enabled new forms of communication with the potential to provide more effective means of conveying evidence to public servants. This article explores what is known about the use of these new capacities in public affairs to visualize the results of research. The authors first explore the value of visual engagement for increasing comprehension. Then, they examine what is known of studies of the effectiveness of visualization and offer basic design principles that underpin ef...
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作者:McCabe, Barbara Coyle; Ponomariov, Branco; Estrada, Fabyan
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要:Accreditation, long used to signal quality among hospitals and universities, has been available to police, fire, and public works departments since the late 1980s. For public service departments, accreditation is a voluntary process that demands significant organizational resources without a guaranteed outcome. Why would city officials devote scarce resources to such an endeavor? Two explanations are examined. First, accreditation may be a rational response to a history of trouble or the poten...
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作者:Yi, Hongtao
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:Comparing and evaluating the performance of governance networks are important tasks for researchers and practitioners of network governance and public administration. Limited by the lack of network data across space and time, the study of network performance and effectiveness at the network level is not on pace with advances in theories and methodologies in network analysis. With a novel methodology to measure clean energy governance networks using hyperlink network analysis across the contigu...
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作者:Andrasik, Kristi
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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作者:Martin, Eric C.
作者单位:Bucknell University
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作者:Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei
作者单位:University of Kansas
摘要:This article examines the decades-long practices of performance budgeting in different countries and their associated challenges from a multilayered institutional framework. Based on theory and lessons learned, the article recommends an array of strategies to address institutional and organizational barriers. It also proposes to reconceptualize performance budgeting as a performance budget management system and suggests how multiyear budget planning, financial risk assessment, policy planning,...
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作者:Kim, Jaeok; Kiesel, Andre
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要:This article explores racial disproportionality in criminal justice processing in an era of punitive criminal justice policies and mass incarceration. Using arrest data from New York State, the authors compare the racial disparity in prison sentencing with the disparity at arrest while controlling for crime type and criminal history of the arrest population. Findings show that the racial disparity in prison sentencing at the state level is established before courts begin criminal case proceedi...