the first goal of the current research is to investigate the relation between the management styles and the managerial efficiency. the second goal of the research is to rank managers according to their managerial styles in the executive agencies in mazandaran. consequently, the data were gathered using questionnaires. the sample size was 150. the collected data were further analyzed by spss and...

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 exemplifies high-stakes legislation that attracted the interest of the public, legislators, academics, policy advocates, and executive agencies. This paper explores how these actors combined to generate intellectual support for this act within the legislative process. Limitations of the contemporaneous research required that the available evidence b...

On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use “behavioral science insights to better serve the American people.” The articles in this special section were already in press when the order was issued, and this serendipity further underscores the timeliness of this special section. These articles propose many examples of t...