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Does Public Service Performance Affect Top Management Turnover?
Political and organizational theories suggest that the turnover of chief executives and other members of senior management teams are likely to be influenced by public service performance. We use a panel data set of 148 English local governments over 4 years to test this proposition. The empirical results show that performance has a negative effect on turnover, but that this effect is weaker for…
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- Vol. 20 Suppl 2 July 2010.pp. i261-i279
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- 10531858
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- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
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The Political Payoff from Performance Target Systems: No-Brainer or No-Gainer?
Assuming elected politicians have some incentive to adopt public service management systems that will help secure their reelection, this article tests 11 hypotheses about political payoffs to incumbents from ambitious performance target systems. The data come from central performance targets for health and education in Great Britain in the early 2000s and are analyzed through a consilience ap…
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- Vol. 20 Suppl 2 July 2010.pp. i281-i298
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- 10531858
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- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
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Development and Evaluation of the Arabic Filial Piety Scale
Objective: To examine the validity and reliability of a new Arabic Filial Piety scale (AFPS) for use with informal Arab caregivers. Background: Filial piety, a term used to describe a set of family values in relation to parental care. This is the first measure of this construct for use with Arab populations in Israel. Method: A random sample of 250 informal Arab caregivers field tested a new AF…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 356-367
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- 10497315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Social Work Discharge Planning in Acute Care Hospitals in Israel: Clients’ …
Objective: To examine the associations of patients characteristics, hospitalization factors, and the patients or family assessment of the discharge planning process, with their evaluation of adequacy of the discharge plan. Method: A prospective study. Social workers from 11 acute care hospitals in Israel provided data on 1426 discharged patients. At 2-week postdischarge, 407 patients and 659 …
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 368-379
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Correlates of Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcomes Among Israeli Femal…
Objectives: This study examines potential predictors (e.g., attachment style, frequency of therapeutic treatment sessions) of client-rated therapeutic alliance between the social worker and client. The relationship between therapeutic alliance and clients psychological outcomes (hope and posttraumatic stress symptoms [PTSs]) was also assessed. Methods: The study sample included 95 of 193 fema…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 380-390
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The Mothering of Women Abused by Their Partner: An Outcome Evaluation of a Gr…
Findings of an outcome evaluation of a mothering group intervention with women abused by their partners are presented, based on measurements of intervention and control groups before, immediately after, and 3 months after the intervention. At Time 1, both groups reported moderate well-being, high parental self-efficacy, and low mothering-related stress. Comparisons within the intervention group…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 391-402
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An Evaluation of a Group Treatment Program With Youth Referred to the Juvenil…
This study assesses the outcomes of group intervention program with violent juveniles. The intervention is based on the ecological approach of Edleson and Tolman (1992). Forty-eight juveniles referred to the juvenile probation service because of violent crime completed the 16 sessions of the intervention. Participants completed questionnaires addressing their attitudes toward violence, perpetra…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 403-409
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Developing Learned Resourcefulness in Adolescents to Help Them Reduce Their A…
This article describes a school-based aggression reduction intervention program aiming to impart highly aggressive adolescents with a learned resourcefulness repertoire, using Ronen and Rosenbaums four-module self-control model. Intervention aimed to teach adolescents that aggression is changeable behavior resulting from how they think and feel, emphasizing cause-effect relations; to facilitat…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 410-426
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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Testing Group Supervision in Fieldwork Training for Social Work Students
This study monitors group supervision for students field training in a Bachelors Degree in Social Work (BSW) program and compares it with the experience of the students receiving the traditional individual supervision. The experimental group supervision model is implemented in two consecutive years. Students experiences are compared at three points in time: before pilot study began; at the e…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 427-434
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Learning Teams and Virtual Communities of Practice: Managing Evidence and Exp…
In the past decade, the Israeli Ministry of Social Affairs has been engaged in an ongoing effort to change the capacity of social service organizations and social workers across the country to use and create knowledge in order to achieve the best outcomes for the people they serve. Although there is an ever-growing mandate in Israel to demonstrate outcomes and use effective strategies, social w…
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- Vol. 20 no. 4 July 2010.pp. 435-446
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Contrasting the core beliefs regarding the effective implementation of wind p…
This paper analyses patterns in beliefs about the implementation of wind power as part of a geographical comparison of onshore wind power developments in the Netherlands, North-Rhine Westphalia and England. Q methodology is applied, in order to systematically compare the patterns in stakeholder views on the institutional conditions and changes in the domains of energy policy, spatial planning a…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 535 - 558
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- 09640568
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- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
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Enhancing consultation practices on Air Quality Management in local authorities
Schedule 11 of the Environment Act 1995 underpins the requirement for consultation on air quality issues. The ongoing air quality review and assessment process represents one of the largest locally based science policy and communication initiatives ever undertaken in the UK. This paper outlines the practice of consultation and communication for Air Quality Management (AQM) and reviews the inter…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 559 - 571
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Comparing two sets of forest cover change knowledge used in forest landscape …
Forecasts of future resource states are central to resource management planning. Many simulation models and planning tools are used to produce such forecasts and apply knowledge of resource change dynamics as key input. Consistency among knowledge sources is therefore important to avoid knowledge ambiguity and uncertainty in resource forecasts and management plan outcomes. Using Ontario's borea…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 591 - 613
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A case study on project-level CO2 mitigation costs in industrialised countrie…
This paper analyses CO2 emissions reduction costs based on project data from the Climate Cent Foundation (CCF), a climate policy instrument in Switzerland. Four conclusions are drawn. First, for the projects investigated, the CCF on average pays 63/ton. Due to the Kyoto Protocol, the CCF buys reductions only until 2012. This cut-off increases reported per ton reduction costs, as the additional…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 657 - 676
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Shifting paths to conservation: policy change discourses and the 2008 US farm…
From 2004 until 2006, reform of US agricultural subsidy programmes seemed a likely result of pressure from the World Trade Organization. Many groups saw this pressure as an opportunity to 'green' farm policy by crafting environmental service payments that could replace crop subsidies. Yet the 2008 US farm bill fell short of such drastic changes. This paper uses discourse analysis to trace the d…
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- Volume 53, Issue 5 July 2010 , pages 639 - 655
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Compensation Benchmarking, Leapfrogs, and the Surge in Executive Pay
Scholars frequently argue whether the sharp rise in chief executive officer (CEO) pay in recent years is efficient or is a consequence of rent extraction because of the failure of corporate governance in individual firms. This article argues that governance failure must be conceptualized at the market rather than the firm level because excessive pay increases for even relatively few CEOs a …
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010. pp. 1671–712
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- 00029602
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- American Journal of Sociology (AJS)
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Toward a Historical Sociology of Social Situations
In recent years there has been a growing call to historicize sociology by paying more attention to the contextual importance of time and place as well as to issues of process and contingency. Meeting this goal requires bringing historical sociology and interactionism into greater conversation via a historical theory of social situations. Toward this end, the authors of this article draw on Ervi…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1713–52
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Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contempora…
The expansion of the U.S. penal system has important consequences for poverty and inequality, yet little is known about the imposition of monetary sanctions. This study analyzes national and state?level court data to assess their imposition and interview data to identify their social and legal consequences. Findings indicate that monetary sanctions are imposed on a substantial majority of the m…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1753–99
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Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation…
AIDS media lead unexpected lives once distributed through urban space: billboards fade, posters go missing, bumper stickers travel to other cities. The materiality of AIDS campaign objects and of the urban settings in which they are displayed structures how the public interprets their messages. Ethnographic observation of AIDS media in situ and interview data reveal how the materiality of objec…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1800–52
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A Signal Juncture: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and Post‐Accord Labor Relat…
This essay uses a deviant case analysis of the 19952000 Detroit newspaper strike to critique and revise theories of strike activity. As the formal institutions regulating industrial relations in the United States have declined, workplace struggles have expanded or reentered into other arenas of the state and civil society. In addition, the essay develops the methodological concept of a signal…
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- Volume 115 Number 6 May 2010.pp. 1853–94
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