New Public Governance as a Hybrid

Опубликована: Янв. 23, 2024

This Element focuses on New Public Governance as one of the major administrative narratives our times. It offers a critical interpretation NPG hybrid tool for management, governance, and reform, arguing that coexists with is likely to gradually merge into Management. Several arguments support 'continuity hybridization' hypothesis, whereby transition from NPM occurred through retention key elements layering sedimentation process. These challenge “linear substitution” accounting NPM's persistence dominance. The develops new discusses challenges poses. Finally, it shows exploring hybridity evaluating potential in terms shift public administration understanding governance trajectories reform scenarios.

Язык: Английский

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Court-Ordered Community Service

Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2025

Community service is a common court-ordered sanction in many countries. Individuals sentenced to community must work specified number of uncompensated hours at an approved agency, typically as condition probation. A core expectation that the agencies benefit from this labor. However, very little research examines organizational and interpersonal dynamics involved when organizations with workers. What are local public nonprofit organizations' experiences workers? How do workers, themselves, experience within agencies? We address these questions through interviews 31 volunteer managers 34 workers two court jurisdictions Northeast Georgia. frame our findings management literature suggest practices could improve for both worker organization.

Язык: Английский

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Integrating Formal and Relational Contracting: The Link Between Network Structure and Contract Design in Interlocal Collaboration Agreements

Public Administration, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2025

ABSTRACT Local governments increasingly rely on contractual relationships with third parties for public service delivery, blending formal agreements relational mechanisms to reduce risks and uncertainties. While most research these contracts has focused between two parties, this work adopts a network perspective analyze how the structure of networks—especially close‐knit connections—influences contract design. We analyzed 6576 local in Iowa related safety from 2007 2017 selected 300 qualitatively code provisions. Our findings show that when there are strong shared connections tend be less formal. These results expand typical focus two‐party relationships, showing larger networks can shape balance management.

Язык: Английский

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Public Administration and Democracy

Опубликована: Дек. 8, 2022

This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political as guide designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It that value-congruity inherent in is indispensable to administrative responsibility. identifies several core democratic critically assesses systems collaborative governance, representative bureaucracy, participatory policymaking light those values. shows principle, applied these different designs, facilitates responsibility by making themselves more consistent with principles without compromising their aims. title also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Язык: Английский

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Can Governance be Intelligent?

Опубликована: Май 14, 2024

Intelligence is a concept that occurs in multiple contexts and has various meanings. It refers to the ability of human beings other entities think understand world around us. represents set skills directed at problem-solving targeted producing effective results. Thus, intelligence governance are an odd couple. We expect governments governing institutions operate intelligent manner, but too frequently we criticize their understanding serious public problems, decisions, behaviors, managerial skills, solve urgent overall governability wisdom. This manuscript deals with such questions using interdisciplinary insights (i.e., psychological, social, institutional, biological, technological) on integrating it knowledge governance, administration, management non-profit sectors. propose IntelliGov framework, may extend both our theoretical, methodological, analytical, applied digital age.

Язык: Английский

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The Courts and the President

Опубликована: Май 22, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Networks in the Public Sector

Опубликована: Авг. 18, 2022

Networks contain complex patterns of dependency and require multiple levels analysis to explain their formation, structure, outcomes. In this Element, the authors develop Multilevel Network Framework. The framework serves as (i) a conceptual tool think more deeply about network dynamics, (ii) research assist in connecting data, theory, empirical models, (iii) diagnostic analyze categorize bodies research. then systematically review literature public administration, management, policy. They apply Framework literature; identify significant gaps; examine micro, macro cross-level relations; relevant mechanisms theories. Overall Element helps readers understand classify research, use appropriate theoretical frameworks network-related problems, how networks emerge produce effects at different analysis, (iv) select models.

Язык: Английский

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Standing Up for Nonprofits

Опубликована: Май 23, 2024

This Element examines the recent history of nonprofit sector-wide advocacy at federal level, focusing on work done by national infrastructure organizations and charities, to advocate issues, such as tax incentives for charitable giving, that affect a broad range nonprofits.The draws interviews with thirty-nine state leaders policymakers well published papers journalistic accounts.It finds many are only weakly supportive sector.In end, this points an uneasy, shifting balance in sector between informal, decentralized, issue-based coalitions focused short-term, if vital, legislative victories, one hand, public good mandate embraced some advocates, which attends longer time horizons conception defense civil society, other.This title is also available Open Access Cambridge Core.

Язык: Английский

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Experts in Government

Опубликована: Дек. 18, 2023

From Caligula and the time of ancient Rome to present, governments have relied on experts manage public programs. But with that expertise has come power, power long proven difficult hold accountable. The tension between in bureaucracy policy goals elected officials, however, remains a point often bitter tension. President Donald Trump labeled these as 'deep state' seeking resist policies he believed was pursue—and developed scheme make it far easier fire deemed insufficiently loyal. age-old battles accountability sharp point, resolving tensions requires fresh look at rule law shape role governance.

Язык: Английский

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Organizing and Institutionalizing Local Sustainability

Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2022

This Element explores the role of public managers as designers. Drawing from systems-thinking and strategic management, a process-tracing methodology is used to examine three design processes whereby develop strategies for adapting climate change, build requisite capabilities evaluate outcomes. Across cases, findings highlight 'design- oriented' integration agents point areas where additional inquiry warranted. title also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Язык: Английский

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