衡量美国公共机构政策自由裁量权的新标准

IF 5.2 1区 管理学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Natalie L Smith, Susan Webb Yackee
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美国官僚机构经常发布影响美国人生活的重大公共政策决定。政府机构的领导者在做出这些决策时,基于对其机构可用政策自由裁量权的主观理解。随着时间的推移,自由裁量权已成为官僚政治和公共行政文献中一个重要的理论概念,但却很少有人对其进行直接测量。在本文中,我们创建了一个衡量机构政策自由裁量权的新指标。研究表明,自由裁量权来自于官僚机构的主要政治委托人:民选行政长官、立法者和利益集团。我们利用美国州行政长官项目的数据和三角法计算出 1978 年至 2018 年间 8955 个州级机构的自由裁量权区域得分。然后,我们通过一系列构建验证评估对该测量方法进行了评估。文章为自由裁量权的可操作性提供了一种创新的、可推广的方法,将推动未来组织行为学、公共管理学和官僚决策学的学术研究。
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A New Measure of U.S. Public Agency Policy Discretion
The U.S. bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans’ lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literatures, but it is rarely measured directly. In this article, we create a new measure of agency policy discretion. We draw on research suggesting that discretion is derived from the bureaucracy’s key political principals: the elected executive, legislators, and interest groups. We use data from the American State Administrators Project and trigonometry to calculate the discretion area scores for 8,955 state agencies between 1978 and 2018. We then evaluate the measure through a series of construct validation assessments. The article offers an innovative and generalizable way to operationalize discretion that will advance future scholarship in organizational behavior, public administration, and bureaucratic decision-making.
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8.50
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11.90%
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory serves as a bridge between public administration or public management scholarship and public policy studies. The Journal aims to provide in-depth analysis of developments in the organizational, administrative, and policy sciences as they apply to government and governance. Each issue brings you critical perspectives and cogent analyses, serving as an outlet for the best theoretical and research work in the field. The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is the official journal of the Public Management Research Association.
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