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This short communication describes the digital archive created of official dot.gov and official government social media websites during the shutdown of the United States federal government from 1 to 16 October 2013. It dis- cusses...
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This short communication describes the digital archive created of official dot.gov and official government social media websites during the shutdown of the United States federal government from 1 to 16 October 2013. It dis- cusses the digital landscape against which the shutdown occurred,outlines the process of creating an archive of shutdown websites, and considers what the archive can teach us about the public face of government during the shutdown.
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This study looks at purposeful and legitimizing types of performance information use in local governments. Drawing on a survey of Austrian mayors who are at the politico-administrative apex of local government, the paper shows tha...
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This study looks at purposeful and legitimizing types of performance information use in local governments. Drawing on a survey of Austrian mayors who are at the politico-administrative apex of local government, the paper shows that purposeful and legitimizing uses of performance information coexist, but they appear to be negatively associated. In exploring the contextual and organizational conditions under which legitimizing uses prevail over purposeful ones, the analysis shows that oversight (coercive) and political (normative) pressures, hierarchical culture, and low-performance information availability foster the dominance of the legitimizing use type over the purposeful one.
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Information technologies (IT) act as an enabler for policy implementation in the U.S. federal government. While federal agencies increasingly rely on advanced digital technologies to execute new policy initiatives, many agencies a...
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Information technologies (IT) act as an enabler for policy implementation in the U.S. federal government. While federal agencies increasingly rely on advanced digital technologies to execute new policy initiatives, many agencies are struggling with maintaining decades old legacy systems. This study investigates how national politics affects IT investment profiles in U.S. federal agencies. Drawing on a range of literature from the political science, public administration, and information systems (IS) disciplines, we hypothesize that a federal agency's capacity-building IT investments are associated with (i) legislative approval for the chief executive, (ii) government dividedness, and (iii) the agency's ideological characteristic. With a panel data set from 135 federal agencies and bureaus in 2003-2016, our empirical analyses produce several intriguing findings. For instance, when the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are controlled by the President's ruling party, federal agencies are predicted to invest approximately 8.32% more in new IT development and modernization than when the opposition party holds the majority in both chambers. We contribute to the IS literature by demonstrating that budget allocation decisions between IT development and maintenance in governments are affected by political environments. We also offer several policy prescriptions in IT management for policymakers and practitioners in the public sector.
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Abstract Single‐use technology (SUT), a blessing or a curse? A blessing, because of its flexibility and capacity to significantly accelerate construction and commissioning of new facilities, as shown for mRNA vaccines during the ...
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Abstract Single‐use technology (SUT), a blessing or a curse? A blessing, because of its flexibility and capacity to significantly accelerate construction and commissioning of new facilities, as shown for mRNA vaccines during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Or a curse, because of the many challenges of managing single‐use assemblies within a company, the substantially increased supplier dependency, and opposing business interests of suppliers and end users. In this paper, the authors share an integrated strategic approach that addresses the issues that affect the business‐success of end users.
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Efficient governments, defined as those that provide digital public services and effectively support their citizens through modern tools and channels, can be the result of a variety of factors, including education, urbanization, i...
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Efficient governments, defined as those that provide digital public services and effectively support their citizens through modern tools and channels, can be the result of a variety of factors, including education, urbanization, infrastructure, and economic growth as measured by GDP per capita. Existing research, however, has not provided a convincing answer to this question. At the same time, there is an undeniable increase in the availability and use of digital government services, with disparities in the range of services offered and access to infrastructure. Based on an empirical data set from 2008 to 2020, we propose an investigation into the determinants of e-government use in European Union countries. We use quantitative analysis based on the generalized method of moments (GMM) to explain why people use e-government. Furthermore, we substantiate the results found using the GMM methodology applied to panel data with Granger causality, which shows the contribution of variables to the current values of the other variables over time, highlighting the powerful influences between them. We discovered that education is the most important determinant factor for e-government use in the European Union, but there are some surprising findings, such as the negative correlation between internet use and e-government indicators, or the fact that a better government does not automatically result in economic growth. Rather, a developed country establishes the foundation for its citizens to use public services efficiently.
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In previous articles, we have discussed the investigation and punishment of misbehaving scientists by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services. While these were often characterized b...
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In previous articles, we have discussed the investigation and punishment of misbehaving scientists by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services. While these were often characterized by the "Alice in Wonderland" notion of punishment before verdict, the actions of the Appeals Boards in overturning several egregious claims was heartening to many scientists. In this article, we discuss a new avenue for punishing miscreants/pillorying the innocent: The False Claims Act (FCA). Topics considered include: i) history of the FCA, ii) what is a claim? iii) when is a claim false? iv) but I did not mean to cheat, and v) what is the penalty?.
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In this framing paper for the special issue on land use tools for mitigating boom and bust dynamics we present a framework to analyze the effects of dramatic ups and downs on communities. The explicit aim of this framework is to i...
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In this framing paper for the special issue on land use tools for mitigating boom and bust dynamics we present a framework to analyze the effects of dramatic ups and downs on communities. The explicit aim of this framework is to identify the potential of land use tools, broadly understood, to mitigate the effects of these cycles. Application of our framework entails a deep analysis of the development path of the community, or its governance path. We make the argument that such analysis can help to get a precise picture of the effects of boom and bust and at the same time help find ways of moving forward and identify coordination tools that could work in the context of that particular governance path. We argue that land use tools are more effective when they are part of a cohesive strategy for long-term development, yet that such linking and embedding is not always possible. We highlight the importance of institutional capacity and flexibility in tempering boom and bust and allowing opportunities for adaptation. We list common pitfalls, problematic policy prescriptions and mention goals to be encouraged. In some cases unrecognized forms of coordination, both formal and informal, can be potentially helpful in capacity building towards mitigating boom and bust. In cases where strategy is unlikely, under particularly difficult conditions, we suggest to focus on capacity building in what we call transitional governance. This governance configuration is meant to have a limited lifespan and provides the conditions from which strategy and associated land use tools can be envisioned and implemented.
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In light of the trajectory of wildlife governance in the United States, the future of sustainable use of wildlife is a topic of substantial interest in the wildlife conservation community. We examine sustainable-use principles wit...
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In light of the trajectory of wildlife governance in the United States, the future of sustainable use of wildlife is a topic of substantial interest in the wildlife conservation community. We examine sustainable-use principles with respect to good governance considerations and public trust administration principles to assess how sustainable use might fare in the 21st century. We conclude that sustainable-use principles are compatible with recently articulated wildlife governance principles and could serve to mitigate broad values and norm shifts in American society that affect social acceptability of particular uses. Wildlife governance principles emphasize inclusive discourse among diverse wildlife interests, which could minimize isolated exchanges among cliques of like-minded people pursuing their ambitions without seeking opportunity for sharing or understanding diverse views. Aligning governance practices with wildlife governance principles can help avoid such isolation. In summary, sustainable use of wildlife is likely to endure as long as society 1) believes the long-term sustainability of wildlife is not jeopardized, and 2) accepts practices associated with such use as legitimate. These are 2 criteria needing constant attention. (c) 2017 The Wildlife Society.
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In the United States, particularly in high-cost urban areas, local resistance to multifamily housing development has been widely noted. In many metropolitan areas, legal authority over land-use regulation is assigned to jurisdicti...
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In the United States, particularly in high-cost urban areas, local resistance to multifamily housing development has been widely noted. In many metropolitan areas, legal authority over land-use regulation is assigned to jurisdictions that often are very small, and some scholars argue that this small-scale local control institutionalizes neighborhood-level opposition to new construction. Using census tracts as units of analysis, we assess the relationship between the population size of the city, county, or township that regulates a tract’s land use and the change in multifamily units between two recent waves of the American Community Survey (2008–2012 and 2014–2018). Results of regression analysis indicate that larger jurisdictional population size is indeed associated with increased multifamily construction. However, the relationship applies only for jurisdictions with populations exceeding 100,000 and decays at jurisdictional populations of more than 1 million. This nonlinearity may reflect quasi-monopolistic land-use control in the largest jurisdictions.
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ContextDespite woodland expansion being advocated via a number of Scottish policy documents, barriers to woodland creation remain. These include contested views about land use, concerns about trade-offs between ecosystem services,...
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ContextDespite woodland expansion being advocated via a number of Scottish policy documents, barriers to woodland creation remain. These include contested views about land use, concerns about trade-offs between ecosystem services, and a lack of synergy between policies and plans.ObjectivesTo use existing published sources and stakeholder feedback and input to determine the values that different Scottish stakeholders have for woodland expansion, and to translate these into alternative storylines, or visions. To identify areas of common ground and divergence between the visions.MethodsWe present a mixed-method approach combining a document analysis, a stakeholder workshop and semi-structured interviews.ResultsThe five visions elicited illustrate that at national level there is a great deal of consensus between stakeholders that woodland expansion can offer valuable public benefits, and that mechanisms should be put in place to provide long-term funding for these. Important areas of divergence include compatibility of woodland with current agricultural and sporting practices, and the extent of Land Reform and Community Empowerment. Landscape scale' collaboration and decision making is widely favoured for governing decisions about woodland expansion and other land use changes.ConclusionsBy articulating the range of different objectives for woodland expansion, and capturing stakeholder suggestions for how governance could be adapted to achieve each vision, the results provide a synthesis of potential overarching ways forward for woodland expansion policy. The visions have also stimulated dialogue between national level stakeholders, suggesting they may be able to support necessary discourse as part of strategic land use planning.
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