Does Democracy Matter? A Transatlantic Research Design on Democratic Performance and Special Purpose Governments
Does Democracy Matter? A Transatlantic Research Design on Democratic Performance and Special Purpose Governments
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民主重要吗？
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2006
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C. Skelcher
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C. Skelcher
公共管理研究的下一大步是超越管理是否重要的问题，回答这个问题：民主重要吗？公共管理纪律在很大程度上忽视了民主结构对业绩的影响，部分原因是公共服务组织的宪法设计变化有限。最近特殊目的政府的数量和类型的增加使组织人口在民主结构参数上有了更广泛的分布。作为正式结构和非正式做法的作用，在界定和衡量“民主绩效”方面的概念和方法方面的进展为学者提供了知识基础。在这些假设中，民主绩效要么是因变量，要么是自变量。英美两国语境变量的差异使得跨大西洋比较研究成为一个有价值的命题。关于“民主重要吗？”的研究策略。已经出发了。
The next big step in public management research is to move beyond the question of whether management matters to answer the question: does democracy matter? The public management discipline has largely ignored the impact of democratic structure on performance, partly because of limited variation in the constitutional design of public service organizations. Recent growth in the number and types of special purpose governments offers an organizational population with a wider distribution on the democratic structure parameter. Conceptual and methodological advances in delimiting and measuring "democratic performance" as a function of formal structures and informal practices provide an intellectual infrastructure for scholars. Hypotheses are derived in which democratic performance is either a dependent or independent variable. Differences in contextual variables in the United Kingdom and the United States make transatlantic comparative research a worthwhile proposition. A research strategy for generating knowledge on "does democracy matter?" is set out.