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The Practice and Origins of Performance Measurement: Assessing the Sunnyvale Model, 1984–2023
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Few regulatory reforms are as celebrated or emulated as the performance measurement system of Sunnyvale, California, which inspired the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and countless other national and local efforts. This study presents the first longitudinal, cross‐programmatic analysis of a performance measurement system ...
Joyce Kasing Tagal +2 more
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Practical privacy-aware opportunistic networking [PDF]
, 2011 Opportunistic networks have been the study of much research — in particular on making end-to-end routing efficient. Users’ privacy concerns, however, have not been the subject of much research. What privacy concerns might opportunistic network users have?
Parris, Iain, Henderson, Tristan
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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional
Jake Phillips
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ACADEMIA International Journal for Social SciencesThe rapid growth of digital workplace monitoring technologies—keystroke logging, screen capture, tracking email, and GPS—has changed the employment relationship in the post-COVID world. While companies think of this type of monitoring as the foundation of accountability and performance management and a layer to protect corporate data, employees view ...
null Muhammad Pervaz Khan +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the mechanisms through which institutional corruption and engagement in corruption at the societal level may be normalized to the extent that citizens adopt an instrumental approach to corruption. Such an approach means that the public accepts corrupt practices and sees them as reasonable, as long as they achieve results ...
Shlomo Mizrahi, Shani Bar
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Corruption and Uneven Development: Why Anti‐Corruption Fails in the EU's Most Vulnerable Regions
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article challenges the assumption that legal harmonization within the European Union ensures effective anti‐corruption governance. Despite EU‐compliant frameworks, institutional integrity remains highly uneven across subnational territories. We introduce the Regional Integrity Framework (RIF), a diagnostic approach that integrates citizen
Ina Kubbe +3 more
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Political Fictionality: Vladislav Surkov and the Rise of the Authorial State
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article introduces the concept of political fictionality as a theoretical framework for analyzing the convergence of literary authorship and political power in Russia during the Putin era, using Vladislav Surkov—a longtime presidential advisor and ideologue as well as fiction writer under the pseudonym Natan Dubovitskii—as its principal ...
Ekaterina Vassilieva
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“Who here is a volunteer?” Peacebuilding, brokerage, and moral authority in Papua New Guinea
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a critical examination of the global peacebuilding industry as it has operated in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and is based around the author's experience as a volunteer broker to the United States Agency for International Development Papua New Guinea Peace Project.
Michael Main
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Apocalyptic Visions and Ecofeminist Narratives in Three Southeast Asian Women's Fiction
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Apocalypse that describes ‘end‐of‐world’ scenarios have been especially prolific in the past few decades since the climate crisis has prophesied the imminent destruction of natural and human habitats. Apocalyptic literatures present insights into the various problems that beset humanity currently and extrapolate the inevitable consequences ...
Chitra Sankaran
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