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Evaluation Concerns and the Köhler Effect: The Impact of Physical Presence o…
This study examined whether increasing evaluation concerns would increase the magnitude of the Köhler effect (i.e., one type of motivation gain that has been documented to occur in small groups). Evaluation concerns were manipulated by having participants work in the physical presence or virtual presence of their coworker. As anticipated, motivation gains were significantly greater for particip…
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 795-812
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- 10464964
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- Small Group Research
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Structuring Asynchronous Discussion Groups by Introducing Roles: Do Students …
This study focused on the introduction of roles as a scripting tool in asynchronous text-based discussion groups. Five roles were selected: source searcher, theoretician, summarizer, moderator, and starter. Because existing research on role assignment often neglects to check whether the role assignment is successful, the main goal was to examine to what extent the participants enacted assigned …
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- Vol. 39, No. 6, December 2008. Page 770-794
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- 1046-4964
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- Small Group Research
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HOW POLICY-MAKERS (REALLY) UNDERSTAND GLOBALIZATION: THE INTERNAL ARCHITECTUR…
There is a growing acceptance in the literature of a potentially significant causal role for ideas about globalization in shaping the trajectory of policy and institutional reform in contemporary Europe. Yet we still know remarkably little about policy-makers' understandings of globalization, save those they choose to declare publicly. This paper contributes to the important task of operational…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 903–927, December 2010
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- 00333298
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- Public Administration
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THE POLITICS OF PARTNERSHIPS: A STUDY OF POLICE AND HOUSING COLLABORATION TO …
This paper draws on the findings from a research project on partnership arrangements between the police and housing departments on three Australian public housing estates to tackle problems associated with illicit drug activity and anti-social behaviour (ASB). The analysis focused on the setting up of the partnerships and the interactions that followed from these institutional arrangements. The…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 928–942, December 2010
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- 00333298
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- Public Administration
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TRANSLATING AGENCY REFORM THROUGH DURABLE RHETORICAL STYLES: COMPARING OFFICI…
This article directs attention to the role of ideational variables in shaping public management reform initiatives. It considers the contribution of both endogenous rhetorical styles and exogenous international fashions in explaining official agency talk in consensus and adversarial contexts. Departing from an earlier observation that convergence in talk across contexts is more likely than conv…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 943–959, December 2010
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- 00333298
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LEADERISM: AN EVOLUTION OF MANAGERIALISM IN UK PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM
This paper argues that ‘leaderism’– as an emerging set of beliefs that frames and justifies certain innovatory changes in contemporary organizational and managerial practice – is a development of managerialism that has been utilized and applied within the policy discourse of public service reform in the UK. The paper suggests that ‘leaderism’ is an evolution of entrepreneurial and cultural mana…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 960–978, December 2010
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- 00333298
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AN EXPLORATION OF WHY PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS ‘INGEST’ INNOVATIONS
Organizational change sometimes occurs as organizations ‘ingest’ innovations from without. This process represents a vital form of organizational learning and adaptation to the external environment. This study seeks to understand the factors that predict the adoption of Foreign Professional Specialty Occupation Visas, or H-1B visas, by Texas public school districts. The use of H-1B visas to hir…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 979–998, December 2010
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- 00333298
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STRUGGLING WITH AMBIGUITY: PUBLIC MANAGERS AS USERS OF NPM-ORIENTED MANAGEMEN…
Improving public sector performance involves both ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ problems. With the emphasis on the ‘doing’ problem, this study examines public managers as users of management instruments (MI) in attempts to improve the performance of public services. The article explores uses of three MIs in Finnish local government by using the conceptual framework of ambiguity. The article demonstrate…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 999–1024, December 2010
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- 00333298
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BEWARE OF MANAGERS NOT BEARING GIFTS: HOW MANAGEMENT CAPACITY AUGMENTS THE IM…
Networks and managing in the network have been central concerns of public management scholars for years (Provan and Milward 1991; O’Toole 1997; Agranoff and McGuire 2003; Herranz 2008). The literature has investigated the extent of networks (Hall and O’Toole 2004), the appropriate way to measure networks and networking behaviour (McGuire 2002; Meier and O’Toole 2005), and the role that networki…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1025–1044, December 2010
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ACTING DISCURSIVELY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UK ORGANIC FOOD AND FARMING POLICY NE…
This paper documents the early evolution of UK organic food and farming policy networks and locates this empirical focus in a theoretical context concerned with understanding the contemporary policy-making process. While policy networks have emerged as a widely acknowledged empirical manifestation of governance, debate continues as to the concept's explanatory utility and usefulness in situatio…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1045–1062, December 2010
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- 00333298
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THE IMPACT OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT ON OUTCOMES IN GOVERNANCE NETWORKS
There is a large amount of literature and research on network management strategies. However, only a limited portion of this literature examines the relationship between network management strategies and outcomes (for an exception, see Meier and O’Toole 2001). Most of the research focuses on managerial activity or networking rather than on the question of which types of strategies matter the mo…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1063–1082, December 2010
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- 00333298
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PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION, CIVIC ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS OF PUBLIC, NONPROFIT A…
Using the 2005 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes dataset, this study compares the public service motivation (PSM), and civic attitudes and actions of public, nonprofit and private sector employees in Australia. Sectoral similarities and differences were noted. This research also analyses the relationships between PSM and civic attitudes and behaviours of these groups of employees. High PSM …
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1083–1098, December 2010
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TWO MYTHS OF CONVERGENCE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORM
The literature on public management reform exhibits two intertwined convergence myths. First, a world-wide consensus on a new public management (NPM) reform agenda is seen to exist amongst policy reformers and practitioners. If this agenda is not fully implemented in all cases, this is generally explained by political and reform setbacks rather than disagreement on policy aims. Second, this NPM…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1099–1115, December 2010
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NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR THE ‘CLASSICAL CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN ADMINISTRATIO…
The article is aimed at analysing New Public Management (NPM) reforms at the local level in Germany, France and Italy. The case selection is justified by the fact that these three ‘classical’ Continental European countries have largely been missing from comparative administrative research thus far. The article focuses on local governments, since in all three countries these are considered the N…
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- Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1116–1130, December 2010
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Do Migrants Improve Their Hometowns? Remittances and Access to Public Service…
How do citizens in developing countries access public services? Scholars study this question by emphasizing the role of government, measuring government performance as household access to public services, such as clean water and sanitation. However, the authors argue that the state does not hold a monopoly on provision of such utilities: Citizens in developing countries often turn to nonstate p…
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- Vol. 44 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 3-27
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- 00104140
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- Comparative Political Studies
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The Nature, Determinants, and Consequences of Chávez’s Charisma: Evidence …
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is frequently labeled “charismatic,” but this aspect of his leadership has mostly escaped direct argument and analysis. The authors offer a measure of charisma and a reciprocal account of the relationship between charisma and performance evaluations. Data from a national survey of Venezuelans confirm that perceptions of Chávez’s charisma in 2007 were comparative…
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- Vol. 44 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 28-54
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- Comparative Political Studies
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The Role of Executive Time Horizons in State Response to AIDS in Africa
In this article the author argues that politicians’ time horizons affect the differing levels of state intervention against AIDS. Using data measuring government spending, AIDS policy, and political constraints, the author tests the presumption that the leader of a country can determine a country’s level of AIDS intervention. She looks at countries in eastern and southern Africa to explore the …
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- Vol. 44 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 55-77
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- Comparative Political Studies
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Children: From Rights to Citizenship
This article introduces the themes of children’s rights and citizenship and surveys the authors’ contributions to this volume of The Annals. The volume marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). As the most widely ratified of all human rights covenants, adoption of the CRC represents a landmark achievement in …
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- Vol. 633 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 6-16
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- 00027162
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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A Historical Context for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the C…
The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was a by-product of international commitments to human rights, but its history lies in the complex and contradictory developments of the twentieth century, when elevated expectations regarding the welfare of children confronted the realities of war. In the late nineteenth century, material conditions and reform efforts redefine…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1, January 2011.pp. 17-29
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Multigenerational Citizenship: The Importance of Recognizing Children as Nati…
This article discusses the author’s concept of multigenerational citizenship, arguing that for citizenship to be relevant for children, there needs to be a more flexible and relational approach to citizenship. Tom Paine’s theories are expanded upon, by examining the increasing acceptance, by both international and regional fora in both political and human rights, of a child’s autonomy in bringi…
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- Vol. 633 no. 1. January 2011.pp. 30-51
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- 00027162
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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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