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STRONG LEADERS? THE CHALLENGES AND PITFALLS IN MAYORAL LEADERSHIP
The questions executive mayors face regarding the fulfillment of their leadership role often reveal dilemmas and paradoxes. The subject of this article is how executive mayors cope with these dilemmas and paradoxes and whether or not the selection procedure matters. It presents results of a comparison of English elected mayors' interpretations of three dilemmas and Dutch appointed mayors' expec…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 439 - 454
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THE DEGREE OF DECENTRALIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING IN CENTRAL GOVE…
This article reports a comparative study of human resource management (HRM) practices in Europe. We focus on the extent to which decision-making authority is decentralized, that is, passed down to management, and individualized in the sense of being in the discretion of a single decision maker. Using these two dimensions, this paper gives a picture of the distinct way HR decision-making practic…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 455 - 478
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SIMILAR PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS: COMPARING REFUSE COLLECTION IN THE NET…
Because of differences in institutional arrangements, public service markets, and national traditions regarding government intervention, local public service provision can vary greatly. In this paper we compare the procedures adopted by the local governments of The Netherlands and Spain in arranging for the provision of solid waste collection. We find that Spain faces a problem of consolidation…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 479 - 495
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THE EU COMITOLOGY SYSTEM: WHAT ROLE FOR THE COMMISSION?
The literature on comitology has largely ignored the European Commission's actual behaviour in the daily workings of the numerous comitology committees that were designed to control it. On the basis of survey data of Danish and Dutch representatives on nearly all comitology committees, this paper investigates the Commission's role in the system. We find that the Commission acts both as a mediat…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 496 - 512
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CULTURE IN ACTION: THE 'ROTTERDAM APPROACH' AS MODERNIZATION THROUGH TRADITION
This article discusses the relation between administrative culture and the capacity to act. It analyses how the Dutch city of Rotterdam radically altered its safety and 'livability' approaches in the face of new challenges, and how the city used its cultural make-up and traditions in doing so. This takes its importance from that fact that local governments are almost continuously confronted wit…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 513 - 527
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NETWORKING LITERATURE ABOUT DETERMINANTS OF NETWORK EFFECTIVENESS
Since the early 1990s, public networks have been implemented in many countries to solve 'wicked' public problems, addressing such issues as health, social care, local development and education. While considerable research has been carried out into public networks, both managers and scholars are left with some doubts about network effectiveness. In fact literature on this topic has been highly f…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 528 - 550
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PUBLIC SERVICE USE AND PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL NOTE ON THE NATURE…
Citizen surveys often measure service use as well as perceived performance, typically in the form of quality or satisfaction ratings. But little attention has been paid to the relationship between public service use and satisfaction. How do the service ratings or satisfaction judgements of frequent users differ from those of infrequent users? Is the direction of the use-satisfaction relationshi…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 551 - 563
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TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING POLICY SUCCESS
Claims that a particular policy has been a 'success' are commonplace in political life. However, a few of these claims are justified in any systematic way. This article seeks to remedy this omission by offering a heuristic which practitioners and academics can utilize to approach the question of whether a policy is, or was, successful. It builds initially on two sets of literature: Boyne's work…
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- Volume 88 Issue 2, June 2010. Pages 564 - 583
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Assessing Group-Level Constructs Under Missing Data Conditions: A Monte Carlo…
The authors reviewed recently published research on small groups and teams to understand how within-team nonresponse is reported and handled. They used Monte Carlo simulation to investigate how data-handling choices affect measurement reliability and hypothesis testing under conditions of random and systematic nonresponse. More complete reporting of nonresponse is recommended by the authors, an…
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010. pp. 281-307
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Expecting the Worst? The Dynamic Role of Competitive Expectations in Team Mem…
This study proposes that individual competitive expectations play a critical role in understanding team performance, as expectations shape individual reactions to team behaviors. Expectations, of course, do not always match behavior. When an individual thinks a team task is going to be easy and cooperative and instead meets with competitive rather than cooperative behaviors, that individual is …
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010. pp. 308-329
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Social Ostracism in Task Groups: The Effects of Group Composition
Social ostracism—being ignored or excluded—threatens needs for self-esteem, belongingness, control, and meaningful existence. In the conventional laboratory paradigms, a lone participant is ostracized by either confederates or imagined group members and then completes measures of threatened needs. This approach prohibits asking questions about the group dynamics involved in ostracism situations…
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010. pp. 330-353
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Is a Good Deed Constructive Regardless of Intent? Organization Citizenship Be…
This article develops a theory about how motives behind organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) affect the amount of OCB reciprocated, group cohesion, and group performance. First, the article investigates the interpersonal exchange between peers and how motive perceived by the receiver affects his or her level of reciprocation. Second, it examines the individual attribute of interdependence …
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- Vol. 41 no. 3, June 2010.pp. 354-375
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Gendered Challenge, Gendered Response: Confronting the Ideal Worker Norm in a…
This article integrates research on gendered organizations and the work-family interface to investigate an innovative workplace initiative, the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE), implemented in the corporate headquarters of Best Buy, Inc. While flexible work policies common in other organizations "accommodate" individuals, this initiative attempts a broader and deeper critique of the organiz…
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- Vol. 24, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 281-303
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Sexual Subjectivity Revisited: The Significance of Relationships in Dutch and…
In-depth interviews with white middle-class Dutch and American girls demonstrate two important differences in the cultural beliefs and processes that shape their negotiation of heterosexuality. First, Dutch girls are able to integrate their sexual selves into their relationships with their parents, while reconciling sexuality with daughterhood is difficult for the American girls. Second, Americ…
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- Vol. 24, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 304-329
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Masculinity, Bargaining, and Breadwinning: Understanding Men’s Housework in…
This research uses data from 18 countries to investigate cross-national differences in the effect that men’s income relative to their spouses has on their involvement in housework. The author hypothesizes that gender expectations will be more salient in men’s household bargaining in contexts where the traditionally masculine and breadwinning-related activities of paid work and earning income ar…
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- Vol. 24, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 330-354
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Grinding On the Dance Floor: Gendered Scripts and Sexualized Dancing at Colle…
In this article, the author explores the gendered dynamics of "grinding," sexualized dancing common at college parties. Drawing on the observations of student participant observers, the author describes the common script for initiating this behavior. At these parties, men initiated more often and more directly than women, whose behaviors were shaped by a sexual double standard and (hetero-) rel…
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- Vol. 24, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 355-377
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Economic Dependence in Marriage and Husbands’ Midlife Health: Testing Three…
Prior research suggests that midlife husbands have worse health when they earn less than their wives; however, the mechanism(s) for this relationship have not been evaluated. In this study, the author analyzes 1,319 heterosexual married couples from the Health and Retirement Study to explore three theoretically grounded mechanisms. The author begins by assessing two well-established family rela…
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- Vol. 24, No. 3, June 2010. pp. 378-401
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The Structure of Reciprocity
Reciprocity is one of the defining features of social exchange and social life, yet exchange theorists have tended to take it for granted. Drawing on work from a decade-long theoretical research program, I argue that reciprocity is structured and variable across different forms of exchange, that these variations in the structure of reciprocity have profound effects on the emergence of integrati…
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- Vol. 73, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 119-131
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Marking the Turn: Obligation, Engagement, and Alienation in Group Discussions
In group conversations, not speaking is the state of affairs experienced by most people most of the time; I refer to this as “conversational latency.” Hypothesizing that conversational latency affects one’s discursive options, I analyze the association between latency (operationalized as the number of turns that elapsed since the current speaker last spoke) and turn-initial words (e.g., but, oh…
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- Vol. 73 no. 2 June 2010. pp. 132-151
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Making Way and Making Sense: Including Newcomers in Interaction
In our everyday interactions as they unfold in real time, how do we do including? This article examines a specific set of interactional moments when the potential to be included (or not) recurs: when a newcomer arrives to some social scene where two or more already-present persons are actively engaged in some activity and that newcomer displays interest in joining into their activity. I show ho…
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- Vol. 73 no. 2 June 2010. pp. 152-175
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