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Integrating the neo-Weberian state and public value International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Edoardo Ongaro
Two thematic areas have grown in significance in the contemporary scientific literature of public governance, public administration and public management over the past 20 to 30 years: the theory and practice of public value, and theorisation of the neo-Weberian state (NWS). In this paper, we argue that, while these two important thematic areas have so far developed in a mostly unconnected way from
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Like a bridge over troubled water: Wellbeing and trust in governance during turbulent times International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Eran Vigoda-Gadot, Zehavit Levitats
The COVID-19 pandemic extended interest in the relationships between citizens and governments in turbulent times of crises and emergencies. While the pandemic generated a critical existential threat to the lives of many, it also had a significant effect on the quality of life and on the wellbeing of even larger populations. This paper deals with the relationship between the wellbeing of citizens and
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Transformational leadership and public employee performance: The mediating roles of employee participation and public service motivation International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Yen Thi Tran, Trang Cam Hoang
Despite the growing attention given to the connection between transformational leadership (TL) and job performance (JP), the precise mechanisms driving this association remain inadequately understood. This research delves into diverse causal factors that elucidate the TL–JP relationship. Drawing upon both TL theory and self-determination theory, the study explores the mediating role of employee participation
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In unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Caroline Howard Grøn, Niels Opstrup, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen, Anders Ryom Villadsen
Public service bargains (PSBs) have become a central heuristic to understand the relationship between politicians and senior bureaucrats. In this article, we add to the existing literature by exploring how both politicians and senior bureaucrats make sense of a PSB in disequilibrium. Based on individual and focus group interviews and six case studies of breakdown in the bargain, we find that bargains
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Transparency in the use of assets confiscated from mafia organizations International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Marco Bisogno, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Francesca Citro, Giovanni Vaia
Several remedies can be adopted in the fight against organized crime and mafias. One of the most effective is the confiscation of their assets. After confiscation, assets can be used to provide services to citizens, frequently thanks to the support of non-profit organizations. With a focus on Italy, this study investigates the transparency of the confiscation process and the factors that explain why
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Assessing the role of gender-related aspects in public budgeting debates: A view of the central level in Germany International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Sarah Mueller, Iris Saliterer, Sanja Korac
The paper explores how members of parliament (MPs) address gender-related aspects in the budgeting process at the central level in Germany, a country that pursues gender equality as a global object...
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“Money is not an issue!”: Hospital CFOs’ narratives about handling a sudden shift in managerial focus International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Margit Malmmose, Lars Dahl Pedersen
The sustained political and managerial focus on cost containment and efficiency in hospitals has been altered by COVID-19-related concerns about public health. Through a novel qualitative study in ...
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Institutional geography: effects of physical distance on agency autonomy. International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Dag Ingvar Jacobsen, Jarle Trondal
Establishing government agencies outside ministerial departments is frequently justified by a need to safeguard agency autonomy. In addition to ‘formal agencification’, that is, erecting formal bar...
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Interpreting digital governance at the municipal level: Evidence from smart city projects in Belgium International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Terlizzi, Massimo Guarino, Nathalie Crutzen
This article adopts an interpretive approach to investigate how local policy-makers portray and justify their own visions of digital governance initiatives at the municipal level. Our investigation...
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Achieving sustainable development through developmental states in the 21st century International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 M. Shamsul Haque
This paper explores the growing significance of sustainable development evident in recent global concerns for the worsening conditions of environmental degradation and natural disasters. Despite th...
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Lockdown, information quality, and political trust: An empirical study of the Shanghai lockdown under COVID-19 International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Yida Zhai, Guanghua Han
Many countries have adopted various measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The regulation measures of lockdown have triggered changes in public political trust in the government (inc...
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Fighting depopulation in Europe by analyzing the financial risks of local governments International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Andrés Navarro-Galera, Dionisio Buendía-Carrillo, María Elena Gómez-Miranda, Juan Lara-Rubio
Throughout Europe, one of the main problems facing policymakers is that of falling rural populations. In many cases, this is aggravated by high levels of local government borrowing. Although resear...
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Analysis of the perception of digital government and artificial intelligence in the public sector in Jalisco, Mexico International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Edgar A. Ruvalcaba-Gomez, Javier Cifuentes-Faura
The advancement and continuous development of information and communication technologies highlights the importance of analysing and monitoring the development and capabilities of governments to use...
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A commentary on “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings” International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Edmund C. Stazyk
This commentary on the article “Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings” considers the merits of the authors’ arguments and offers several rec...
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Different strokes for different folks? The translation of public values into official meanings International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Arild Wæraas, Hogne Lerøy Sataøen
It is well known that the meanings of public values can vary significantly across different settings, given their abstract nature. Despite this knowledge, however, the public values literature has ...
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Factors influencing political corruption. An empirical research study of regional governments International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Daniel Raya-Quero, Andrés Navarro-Galera, José Luis Sáez-Lozano
International organisations assert that political corruption is a major global problem. However, it is still unclear how to combat corruption. Previous research has studied corruption in central or...
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Comply while keeping your autonomy, or the art of managing paradox through dialogue International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Aurélien Ragaigne
Our paper analyses the role of dialogue in managing the autonomy and compliance paradox within a public authority. The literature on paradoxes presents management as being characterised by the coex...
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Drivers and risk factors of German local financial sustainability focusing on adjusted income International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Markus Frintrup, Dennis Hilgers
Analysing the financial sustainability of local governments is of great interest, as they offer a wide range of services and are close to citizens. Various organizations have pointed out the need t...
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Public auditing: What impact does the quality of the institutional framework have on the level of corruption? International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Eriole Zita Nonki Tadida
Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) are a component of a nation's institutional system. This article defines the concept of an institutional anti-corruption system centered on the SAI through four ma...
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Public management, agility and innovation: The Swiss experience with the COVID-19 loan scheme International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Christian Pauletto
Within only 10 days of March 2020, the Swiss administration had designed and implemented a loan guarantee scheme for enterprises. The implementation phase was also short: it lasted less than five m...
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What determines public affairs researchers’ motivations for policy impact? Results from an exploratory study International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 John P. Nelson, Spencer Lindsay
Although public policy and public administration are intuitively practical fields of scholarship, much public affairs research never affects practice. Previous studies have shown that one major pre...
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Organizational reputation in executive politics: Citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Julia Fleischer, Andree Pruin
In recent years, governments have increased their efforts to strengthen the citizen-orientation in policy design. They have established temporary arenas as well as permanent units inside the machin...
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Sustainable development goals in public administrations: Enabling conditions in local governments International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Marco Bisogno, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Francesca Manes Rossi, Noemi Peña-Miguel
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a challenge that many public administrations face in promoting sustainable growth. Local governments, as the governmental tier closest to citizens, should d...
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Governing aid coordination in regional platforms: the G20 Compact with Africa case International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Beatrice Fabiani, Rocco Frondizi, Noemi Rossi
The diversity and increasing number of development actors is a factor of complexity for recipient countries that puts at risk the efficiency of assistance delivery and undermines country ownership....
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Local governments’ communication on social media platforms: refining and assessing patterns of adoption in Belgium International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Vincent Mabillard, Raphael Zumofen, Martial Pasquier
This article relies on the literature on technology adoption and empirical studies on social media adoption in the public sector to analyze the case of Belgian municipalities. Our objective is thre...
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The control of the policy advice industry: how patrons defer their decision-rights to think tank boards International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Marybel Perez, Alejandro Agafonow
Patrons of think tanks—for example, governments, corporations, philanthropists, NGOs, and so forth—may control think tanks’ boards, that is, their highest decision-making body. Whether patrons are ...
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Co-production before, during, and after the first COVID-19 lockdown: The case of developmental services for youth with disabilities International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Monica Carminati, Dario Cavenago, Laura Mariani
Co-production was vital to support public services provision during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the main challenges for service providers is to make co-production sustainable. T...
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Corruption risk analysis in local public procurement: a look at the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Javier Miranzo Díaz, Agustí Cerrillo i Martinez, Ramon Galindo Caldés, Judith Castro Carranza
Over the past years, the anti-corruption strategy in public administrations has been shifting from a formal way of control towards a risk management and assessment one. However, it is not clear whe...
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Governance and public policies: Support for women entrepreneurs in France and England? International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Karen Johnston, Ekoua J Danho, Emily Yarrow, Robert Cameron, Zoe Dann, Carol Ekinsmyth, Georgiana Busoi, Amy Doyle
We extend the current literature on barriers to women’s entrepreneurship by providing the perspectives of women entrepreneurs’ lived experience of governance and public policies designed to support...
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Eradicating extreme poverty in Africa through productive inclusion: A comparative assessment of two social protection programmes in Ghana International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Seth Kwakye Amofa, Godfred Matthew Yaw Owusu, Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Moses Atta
Ghana has experimented with two social protection programmes: the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme, and the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) pilot project aimed at reduci...
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How does the government interact with citizens within an electronic governance system? Selective government responsiveness International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Kyuwoong Kyeong, Hana Ra, Jongyoon Park, Tobin Im
Democratic governments, owing to limited resources, have no choice but to respond selectively to citizens’ preferences. This study focuses on the characteristic of selective government responsivene...
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Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth? International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Rodney J Scott, Flavia Donadelli, Eleanor RK Merton
New Zealand is frequently cited as the archetypical example of New Public Management (NPM), having gone ‘further and faster’ than other jurisdictions in radically reforming their public service in ...
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Policy advice utilization in Belgian ministerial cabinets: the contingent importance of internal and external sources of advice International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Pierre Squevin, David Aubin
Ministerial cabinets hold a central place in the Belgian politico-administrative system, carrying out the bulk of policy formulation. However, they do not operate in isolation and rely on other act...
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Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Paolo Belardinelli, Nicola Belle, Paola Cantarelli, Paul Battaglio
This randomized study explores the causal mechanisms linking contingent pay to individual performance on a series of tasks mimicking real public management activities. Employing a parallel encourag...
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Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions: a systematic review of the literature International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Rik Peeters, Sergio A. Campos
The study of street-level bureaucracy has been dominated by research from the Global North. Mainstream conceptualizations are, therefore, based on observations from institutional contexts that may ...
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What the public wants and how it is best served: forensic scientists’ perceptions of the drivers of public value creation International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Karl O’Connor, Kristian Lasslett, Sabrina Bunyan, David Duffy
Government agencies are embracing the rhetoric of public value, but what does the empirical evidence tell us about drivers of its creation? One critical source of insight are the practitioners who ...
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Does process matter more for predicting trust in government? Participation, performance, and process, in local government in Japan International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Shaun Goldfinch, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Saizo Aoyagi
Trust in government and its antecedents and development remain leading policy and research concerns. Drawing on a broadly representative online survey of 3100 respondents in Japan, we examine measu...
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Impacts of decision-making process on social justice in the infrastructure equity in Ethiopia International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Ambaw Desalegn, Negussie Solomon
Equity concerns the distribution of resources and is inevitably linked with concepts of fairness and social justice. What are the decision-making processes for fair allocation of infrastructure res...
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Local government’s response to dissatisfaction with centralized policies: the “do-it-yourself” approach International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Anna Uster, Nissim Cohen
The literature on intergovernmental relationships discusses the tension between centralization and local autonomy. However, few studies question local authorities’ response when dissatisfied with c...
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Hidden pressure: the effects of politicians on projects of collaborative innovation International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Charlotte Van Dijck, Trui Steen
Collaborative innovation is increasingly put forward as a way of addressing the many wicked problems our society faces today. This article focuses on how politicians indirectly affect projects of collaborative innovation and whether stakeholders experience them as helpful or hindering to the project. The impact of politicians on projects of collaborative innovation are compared across four cases and
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Strategic alignment of open government initiatives in Andalusia International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Cristina Alcaide Muñoz, Laura Alcaide Muñoz, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
The emergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has put emphasis on the open government approach (OG), provoking a cultural change in both the citizenry (demanding new ways of collaborating with public administration and more openness in government), and in the public administrations (adapting their structures and processes to support civic participation). This article analyzes both
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An analysis of foreign residents’ perceptions and behaviors regarding digital government portal services in the Republic of South Korea International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Muhammad Aftab, Seunghwan Myeong
Governments have made significant investments to deliver information and services to governmental institutions, citizens, and businesses through e-services. The re-adoption of such governmental services has been focused on in various studies. However, this study focuses on the post-adoption of digital government services and information system quality. Therefore, evaluating the digital government portal
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Multidomain judging and administration of justice: evidence from a major emerging-market jurisdiction International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Caio Castelliano, Peter Grajzl, Eduardo Watanabe
Inefficacious courts and limited judicial resources are a ubiquitous problem in many jurisdictions worldwide. To facilitate administration of justice, court administrators must therefore resort to unconventional practices. In Brazilian state and federal courts, judges normally assigned to the disposition of cases in a single domain are often directed to dispose cases in an additional domain, thus engaging
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The digital communication tools and citizens' relationship with local governments: a comparison of Georgian and Polish cities International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Maia Maziashvili, Agnieszka Pleśniak, Izabela Kowalik
This article aims to explore the impact of digital communication tools application by citizens and the perceived usefulness of social media on the relationship between citizens and local authorities. The data were gathered in April–September 2020 through a survey (CAWI) among citizens of Poznan, Poland (n=502), and Kutaisi, Georgia (n=504), and were analyzed with structural equation modeling. The findings
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Successful remunicipalization processes in Italian waste management: Triggers, key success factors, and results International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Giulia Romano, Claudio Marciano, Mario Minoja
In recent years, many countries have experienced remunicipalization in the public service sector, especially in the fields of water and urban waste management. Using a multiple-case design, examining five successful urban waste management remunicipalizations in Italy, this study investigates the triggers, key success factors, and results of this process. We find that remunicipalization is triggered
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The journey of participatory budgeting: a systematic literature review and future research directions International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Luca Bartocci, Giuseppe Grossi, Sara Giovanna Mauro, Carol Ebdon
This systematic literature review analyses the body of knowledge on the budgeting practice known as participatory budgeting (PB). This review identifies and analyses a dataset of 139 English-language papers focused on PB in the public sector published over three decades (1989–2019) in academic journals of different disciplines. The findings shed new light on PB, by systematizing this body of knowledge
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Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Markus Tepe, Susumu Shikano, Michael Jankowski, Maximilian Lutz
Getting a grip on issues of administrative delegation is key to the performance of public organizations. The oversight game models delegation as a conflict of interest between an inspector and an inspectee to act in the interests of the former. This study tests alternative solutions to overcome ‘shirking’ in the oversight game. Specifically, we test the effect of external incentives, as implied by
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Government research institutes in the Italian policy advisory system International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Maria Tullia Galanti, Andrea Lippi
In a Napoleonic country such as Italy, ministerial cabinets have traditionally served as central advisors in the politicised policy advisory system (PAS), while evidence-based policy-making has usually been marginal. Nevertheless, recent developments in political systems have pushed for the pluralisation of the Napoleonic PAS toward a stronger demand for scientific and expert advice. Against this backdrop
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Measuring red tape in a hospital setting: A survey experiment International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Janis Luyten, Wim Marneffe
Public administration research is actively exploring alternatives for the General Red Tape (GRT) scale to measure red tape. Owing to increasing criticism on the GRT scale, scholars proposed the Three-Item Red Tape (TIRT) scale as an alternative. Using a repeated cross-sectional design, this article tests both scales in a before–after analysis of a major change in the organization of administration
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Bad government performance and citizens’ perceptions: A quasi-experimental study of local fiscal crisis International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Shugo Shinohara
The link between actual government performance and citizens’ performance perceptions has been controversial. Given the prevalence of negativity bias, however, the link between bad performance and citizens’ perceptions could appear to be strong. To explore this theoretically unconfirmed link, this study uses a quasi-experiment that contrasts a Japanese town in fiscal crisis, involving tax increases
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Editorial International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Andrew Massey
Looking back over 10 years to the March 2012 edition of the International Review of Administrative Sciences (issue 78(1)), we can see that it was a special issue. Edited by Albert J. Meijer, the issue explored Government Transparency. It included articles by Albert Meijer, David Heald, Stephan Grimmelikhusen, Gijs Brandsma, Eric Welch, Dacian Dragos, Alasdair Roberts and Itai Beeri. The special issue
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Conceptualizing talent in public sector municipalities International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Daniel Tyskbo
While talent management is considered a top priority among practitioners and constitutes a major research area, the actual meaning of talent still remains largely undefined. In response to a lack of clarity and empirical basis regarding the notion of talent, various calls have been made for exploring how organizations conceptualize talent, particularly in the public sector context. This article answers
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Harmonising public sector accounting laws and regulations of the European Union member states: powers and competences International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Karoline Helldorff, Johan Christiaens
This paper analyses the powers and competences of the EU to standardise public sector accounting of the member states and to take other EU action in the field of public sector accounting. We argue that public sector accounting forms part of the administrative organisation of the member states that is not a core EU competence. EU initiatives such as the European Public Sector Accounting Standards project
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A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Min Zhang, Xi-yang Zhao, Yun-xiao Xue, Jun Yang, Yan Zhang
With the popularity of mobile Internet technology, mobile government has become the mainstream of current government affairs management, which highlights the growing importance of exploring citizens’ intention to adopt m-government. To find the important driving factors of m-government adoption and understand what roles the cultural and technical development level play in it, this study conducted a
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Governance and tax revenue: does foreign aid matter? International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Jun Wen, Umar Farooq, Mosab I. Tabash, Ghaleb A. El Refae, Bilal Haider Subhani
This study seeks to explores the relationship among governance, foreign aid, and tax revenue. A common notion on governance is that it is a multifaceted factor, it may affect from other factor that is foreign aid. Foreign aid can hamper the governance situation and thus can reduce tax collection. To test these theoretical assumptions, we collected the numerical data from Asian economies for the years
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Pre-contractual relational governance for public–private partnerships: how can ex-ante relational governance help formal contracting in smart city outsourcing projects? International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Rui Mu, Peiyi Wu, Maidina Haershan
In the literature on relational governance, it is often assumed that relational governance emerges primarily after formal contracting and acts as a functional supplement to a formal contract. In this article, we show that especially facing deep uncertainties, relational governance can emerge before the start of formal partnerships, in the form of trust-building, exchanging resources, and fostering
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A transformative change through a coordination process and a steering agency. The case of the financial information system of the French central state International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Samuel Defacqz, Claire Dupuy
Recent scholarship has focused on how coordination mechanisms are implemented by public sector organizations, thereby paying attention to coordination as a process. This article studies the coordination process that resulted in the implementation of the interministerial financial information system of the French central state—named Chorus. Chorus is a case of an unlikely coordination process rolled
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Chronicle of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Sofiane Sahraoui
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Public service-oriented work motives across Europe: A cross-country, multi-level investigation International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Fabian Homberg, Jens Mohrenweiser
This article disentangles the country-specific institutional system at the macro level from individual-level attraction and socialization in measuring public service-oriented work motives across European countries through public–private sector comparisons. We argue that country-specific institutions shape the level of public service-oriented work motives of each country and thereby generate level differences
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Exploring performance paradox in public organizations: Analyzing the predictors of distortive behaviors in performance measurement International Review of Administrative Sciences (IF 2.397) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Sungjoo Choi, Soonae Park
Scholars have argued that utilization of quantitative performance indicators by public organizations could generate unintended consequences that might outweigh the benefits of performance measurement. We examined the relationships between goal ambiguity and external control, and distortive practices in performance measurement in public organizations. The data from 47 agencies of the central and local