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Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics 解释公共组织对气候变化的适应：宏观和中微观制度逻辑的配置

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-05-25 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac027

Fengxiu Zhang, E. Welch

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引用次数: 5

Agency independence, campaign contributions, and favouritism in US federal government contracting 机构独立性、竞选捐款和美国联邦政府合同中的偏袒

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-05-17 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac026

Mihály Fazekas, Romain Ferrali, Johannes Wachs

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引用次数: 3

Research on Agricultural Pollution Problems and Prevention Measures in Guangxi Wuxuan County 广西武宣县农业污染问题及防治对策研究

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-05-14 DOI: 10.5539/par.v11n2p1

T. An

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Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from Participatory Budgeting 理解公众参与影响政府财政结果的机制:参与式预算的理论与证据

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-27 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac025

Jinsol Park, J S Butler, Nicolai Petrovsky

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Money Matters: The Effects of Cost in the Doping Game Between Athletes, Organizations and Customers 金钱至关重要:运动员、组织和消费者之间兴奋剂博弈的成本效应

IF 4.2 1区管理学

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI: 10.5539/par.v11n1p32

Ray Wang

引用次数: 1

Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror? 街道官员的工作满意度和市民满意度：有满意度镜子吗？

IF 4.2 1区管理学

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-13 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac022

Nicolai Petrovsky, G. Xin, Jinhai Yu

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引用次数: 5

Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective 资源目标导向网络:基于实践的视角

IF 4.2 1区管理学

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-13 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac023

Carolin Auschra, J. Sydow

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引用次数: 2

Dismantling or disguising racialization?: Defining racialized change work in the context of postsecondary grantmaking 消除或掩饰种族歧视？：在高等教育资助背景下定义种族化的变革工作

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-04-07 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac021

Heather N. McCambly, Jeannette A. Colyvas

{"title":"Dismantling or disguising racialization?: Defining racialized change work in the context of postsecondary grantmaking","authors":"Heather N. McCambly, Jeannette A. Colyvas","doi":"10.1093/jopart/muac021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Grantmaking organizations (GMOs) exert considerable influence on education systems, public policy, and its administration. We position the work of GMOs—in the distribution and management of funds for the public good—as a form of public management. Using recent work on racialized organizations from sociology, critical theories of race, and institutional theory, we address the role of GMOs in dismantling or reproducing inequalities. In doing, so we develop a new construct—racialized change work—to refer to the purposive action that organizations take to build new, equitable organizational arrangements or tear down old, inequitable ones. We develop quantifiable and testable propositions for how racialized change work might spread (engagement), how it might stick (institutionalization), and what effects it may have on producing equitable outcomes (impact). We build these propositions in the context of U.S. higher education and demonstrate their portability across areas of public policy and administration. We conclude with a discussion of our contributions back to the theories from which we draw and their relationship to public administration.","PeriodicalId":48366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46646156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information 数字客户表征的评估:一线员工如何从碎片化信息中重建客户叙述

IF 4.2 1区管理学

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac017

Ida Bring Løberg

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引用次数: 1

Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government 解构地方政府中种族、性别和代际交叉点的职业倦怠

IF 4.2 1区管理学

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2022-03-29 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac018

Cynthia J Barboza-Wilkes, Thai V Le, William Resh

{"title":"Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government","authors":"Cynthia J Barboza-Wilkes, Thai V Le, William Resh","doi":"10.1093/jopart/muac018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac018","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there have been multiple calls for public administration scholars to adopt an intersectional approach to the study of diversity within public organizations. This paper empirically examines the simultaneous influence of multiple dimensions of individual identity on employee burnout. We advance a better understanding of disparities in individual well-being outcomes for public servants. Using conservation of resource (COR) theory and applied intersectionality, we systematically measure and model differential vulnerabilities to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and loss of personal accomplishment for individuals at the intersection of gender, racial, and generational identities. Using survey data on local government employees across two neighboring large cities in California, we use ordinary least squares and ordered logit models to estimate the impact of intersectional identities on different dimensions of burnout. Our results show that younger generations of women of color are particularly vulnerable to burnout, but the experience of burnout is not uniform across groups, with each dimension of burnout revealing different vulnerable groups. These findings highlight the importance of deconstructing burnout into its discrete dimensions to better understand the experience of different socio-demographic groups of employees and develop culturally competent strategies to better support an increasingly diverse public workforce.","PeriodicalId":48366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138514298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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