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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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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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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Green Dreams, Concrete Realities: Overcoming Climate Hurdles in American Mid-Sized Cities

Urban Affairs Review, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 3, 2025

There exists a contradiction in the literature on city size and policy outcomes between those who expect positive relationship mid-sized cities to be best at providing services. I evaluate this context of climate through original fieldwork four cities. Additionally, existing studies focus internal practices for policy, while broader urban politics emphasizes intersectional nature economic political context. how these previous findings, drawn from research large or small communities, apply find that, my cities, is more nuanced than findings expect, institutions, state capacity, environmental coalitions all play crucial role. Finally, highlight importance overcoming physical legacy industrialization.

Язык: Английский

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The Infrastructures of Tomorrow: Integrating Local Planning and Management for Climate Resilient Stormwater Systems

State and Local Government Review, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 4, 2025

Local governments tend to produce disjointed planning and implementation responses ambiguous problems. This study adapts a cognitive science framework known as active inference investigate local government resilience management processes. We contend that disconnects between reflect the inadequacy of “knowledge infrastructure” systems which could enable more adaptive responses. Using mixed-methods approach stormwater in U.S. state Indiana, we find evidence municipalities integrate efforts relative experienced flooding impacts. However, they are less likely proactively develop information on longer-term or distant climate

Язык: Английский

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Sustainable Inclusion through Performance-Driven Practices

Опубликована: Апрель 24, 2025

How can organizations better achieve inclusion, equity, and superior performance from diversity? Decades of stalled progress require a wider range policies. Applying system thinking approach to transdisciplinary synthesis research findings, the authors' comprehensive framework guides inquiry practice by identifying problematic dynamics. Comparative case studies reveal, in contrast, favorable dynamics intergroup contact that result an evolved elaboration practices for inclusive interactions, socialization, accountability. Over time, when promoted mission attainment, applied all members, customized workgroup, generate performance.

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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