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Texas Public Pensions: A Common Pool Resource Perspective 得克萨斯州公共养老金：共同资源视角

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241273976

John McCaskill, Teodoro Benavides, James Harrington

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Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority 种族、生活经验、代表性和歧视：分析种族多数的代表能力

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241275715

Ryan J. Lofaro, Alka Sapat

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The Conditional Effects of the Transformational Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Emotional Exhaustion: Roles of Deep Acting and Emotional Intelligence 变革型领导行为对领导者情感枯竭的条件效应：深度行为和情商的作用

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241273978

Aqsa Ejaz, Samina Quratulain, Ashiq Hussain Aulakh, Jose Cando-Naranjo, Meghna Sabharwal

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Lack of Gender Representation in Academia: The Experiences of Female STEM Students 学术界缺乏性别代表：STEM 女学生的经历

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241267918

Maayan Davidovitz, R. G. Cinamon

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Impatiently Waiting: Women Managers, Professionalism, Psychological Costs, and the Reduction of ER Wait Times 不耐烦地等待：女性管理者、职业精神、心理成本与缩短急诊室等候时间

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241269852

Austin M. McCrea

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What Determines Civil Servants’ Error Response? Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment 是什么决定了公务员的错误反应？联合实验的证据

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241267941

Caroline Fischer, Kristina S. Weißmüller

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Reducing Administrative Burdens for Vulnerable Groups: The Role of Job Security and Organizational Commitment 减轻弱势群体的行政负担：工作保障和组织承诺的作用

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241268263

Donavon Johnson, Milena Neshkova

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Public Accountability and Bureaucratic Discretion: Why do Internal Auditors Stretch the Boundaries of Their Role? 公共问责与官僚自由裁量权：内部审计师为何扩大其作用范围？

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241265893

Dana Natan-Krup, Shlomo Mizrahi

{"title":"Public Accountability and Bureaucratic Discretion: Why do Internal Auditors Stretch the Boundaries of Their Role?","authors":"Dana Natan-Krup, Shlomo Mizrahi","doi":"10.1177/02750740241265893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241265893","url":null,"abstract":"Our goal is to identify the factors that encourage internal auditors in the public sector to use their discretion when conducting audits. By investigating multiple relationships between principals and agents, we show how complex structural conditions and accountability pressures influence public auditors’ discretion in the choice of audits they decide to conduct. To test our theoretical model and hypotheses, we created a closed-ended questionnaire distributed to a sample group of Israeli auditors. Our findings reveal a conditional effect between the factors related to the internal and external work environments of internal auditors. Our analysis indicates that internal support for internal auditors’ professional authority is significantly related to their inclination to stretch the boundaries of their role when they strongly believe that their direct principals are concerned about the expectations of the public and the audit committee regarding accountability. Nonetheless, individual auditing experience in the public sector was not significantly related to their professional approach. Our bottom-up approach emphasizes the role of citizens’ democratic awareness and their demand to support the broad scope of gatekeepers, rather than just explanations about the role of elites. Moreover, our conclusions emphasize the role of internal support for the auditors’ professional authority and question the role of their perceived independence in the approach they adopt to auditing.","PeriodicalId":22370,"journal":{"name":"The American Review of Public Administration","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141776029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Book Review: Street-Level Public Servants: Case Studies for a New Generation of Public Administration by Rinfret, S. R. 书评：街头公务员：新一代公共行政案例研究》，作者：Rinfret, S. R.

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241259497

Sun Gue (Susan) Yang, Sarah L. Young

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In Search of Fundamental Fairness and Equal Protection: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Shaping American Democracy 寻求基本公平和平等保护：美国最高法院在塑造美国民主中的作用

The American Review of Public Administration Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/02750740241242057

Ellen V. Rubin, Keith P. Baker, Youjung Song, J. Edward Kellough

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