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Government Management (government + management)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting75%

Selected Abstracts

Assessing and Managing Environmental Risk: Connecting Local Government Management with Emergency Management

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2009
Scott Somers
Ensuring that a community is prepared to deal with a disaster is among the many tasks public managers are charged with addressing. Disaster preparedness and response requires adherence to standard planning practices, yet disasters are typically unpredictable. Dealing with disasters, therefore, requires a blend of traditional management skills and improvisation. Furthermore, like other aspects of administrative leadership, the top administrator must blend initiation and responsiveness in interactions with elected officials and a careful delineation of responsibility in handling actual emergencies. This article discusses how local administrators assess risk and balance preparedness needs within a universe of daily operational needs. Managing environmental risk is also explored from a political and legal context. [source]

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 2 2009
Thomas J. Bonfield
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Openness, Uncertainty, and Social Spending: Implications for the Globalization, Welfare State Debate

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2009
Irfan Nooruddin
We extend the literature on openness and spending in developing countries arguing that the effect of increasing openness depends on both regime type and the level of openness. Democracies respond to increases in openness by increasing spending while dictatorships respond by decreasing spending. However, the degree to which countries pursue the strategy of choice depends on the level of openness. In autarkic countries, an increase in import competition has more severe consequences for perceptions of job insecurity and dislocation. In response, government management of openness will be more vigorous under these conditions regardless of whether the leader increases or decreases spending. Economic selection mechanisms at work will produce an outcome wherein, at higher levels of openness, further import liberalization has smaller effects on perceptions of job insecurity and dislocation. Hence, both the demand and the supply of government management of openness will be lower. [source]

Citizen engagement and local government management

NATIONAL CIVIC REVIEW, Issue 2 2009
Evelina Moulder
First page of article [source]