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The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Kutsal Yesilkagit, Michael Bauer, B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre
Liberal democracy has become vulnerable to illiberal political movements and the gradual erosion of democratic institutions. To safeguard liberal democracy, we propose the concept of the Guardian State, which embraces liberal principles while acting as a defensive barrier against illiberal tendencies. We need strong administrative institutions that uphold liberal democratic norms and resist pressures
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Aske Halling, Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen
The literature on administrative burdens demonstrates that citizens may experience different kinds of administrative burdens when interacting with the state. However, we know little about whether citizens' communication of these experiences affects how frontline employees implement compliance demands. Building on the street‐level bureaucracy and administrative burden literature, we hypothesize that
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Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Sungjoo Choi, Yeongjun Ko
Gender diversity in leadership positions may not always bring desirable outcomes for an organization as diversity researchers have argued. Female leaders are less likely to contribute to effectiveness of their organization when it is male‐dominated and has strong masculine culture. We tested a nonlinear relationship between gender diversity at the top and organizational performance and the moderating
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Invisible and indispensable: Using the lowly request for proposals to advance public value Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Weston Merrick, Pete Bernardy, Patrick Carter
Requests for Proposals (RFP) may be the pinnacle of bureaucratic mundanity. Yet, hidden within this apparent monotony are powerful tools to advance public values. Federal, state, and local government grants deploy staggering sums, reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. With these distributions, the executive branch is often delegated substantial discretion. These are choices of
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Focusing on the individual in cross‐sectoral collaboration: A configurational approach Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Khaldoun AbouAssi, Sungdae Lim, Ann O' M. Bowman, Jocelyn M. Johnston
Research focuses on various macro and meso aspects of collaboration and less on the individuals who make decisions about their organizations' collaborations. Organizational leaders make these decisions based on their interpretations, influenced by their personal characteristics. Existing studies examining organizational outcomes such as a decision to collaborate typically consider these characteristics
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Advancing open access to PAR Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Katherine Willoughby, Jos Raadschelders, Hongtao Yi, Preston Phillips
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Moving from coproduction to commonization of digital public goods and services Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sébastien Shulz
The hybridization of digital commons and public administration institutions led by bureaucratic entrepreneurs is a relatively recent phenomenon that has received limited attention in the literature. The term coined to describe this evolution is the “commonization” of digital public goods and services. I define commonization as the integration of shared property, peer production, and self-governance
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Public service motivation and public sector employment in Korea Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Harin Woo, Sangmook Kim
This study aims to investigate whether individual differences in public service motivation (PSM) between the public and private sectors are a cause or a consequence of choosing a job, testing self-selection and socialization hypotheses using a longitudinal dataset from a nationally representative cohort in Korea. The study uses two samples from the data of three successive waves (t − 2, t, t + 2) surveyed
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Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID-19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Namhoon Ki, David Lee
This study examines the impact of crisis-induced telework during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 on public sector employees' job satisfaction (JS) and retention intention (RI). Analyses of the 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data reveal a negative association between the amount of COVID-induced telework and the federal employees' JS and RI. However, this negative effect is mitigated by offering adequate
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The effectiveness-equity tradeoff when resources decline: Evidence from environmental policy implementation in the U.S. states Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Sanghee Park, Jiaqi Liang
Despite a voluminous literature on resource availability and the implications for organizational performance, little is known about how changes in government agencies' resources impact their policy implementation activities and goal prioritization. This article explores how changes in resources affect regulatory enforcement activities by types of resources and policy implementation activities, and
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Public values and sector service delivery preferences: Public preferences on contracting from simple to complex human services Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Jaclyn Piatak, Colt Jensen
Nonprofit and for-profit providers play an increasing role in public service delivery, but we know little about what shapes public service delivery preferences. Responding to calls to put the “public” back in public values theory, we examine the influence of public values on sector service delivery preferences for government, nonprofit, or for-profit delivery across six service areas ranging from simple
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-26
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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Confronting whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Kathryn S. Quick
What happens to problem-solution pathways when racism is prominent in a public policy issue and a group of stakeholders—the majority of whom are White—dialogue about desired policy changes? I examine this question through a case study of community dialogues about policing, safety, race, and White privilege after Philando Castile was killed by a police officer. Through longitudinal, ethnographic analysis
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Social affordances of agile governance Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Ines Mergel
Agile refers to a work management ideology with a set of productivity frameworks that support continuous and iterative progress on work tasks by reviewing one's hypotheses, working in a human-centric way, and encouraging evidence-based learning. In practice, public administrations have started to use agile principles and methods to plan projects, work in short sprints, iterate after receiving feedback
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Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Michael Howell-Moroney
Logistic regression is a standard technique in public administration research. However, there are two inconvenient truths about logistic regression of which scholars should be aware. First, logistic regression results are difficult to interpret. Raw coefficients are expressed in an enigmatic log odds scale and odds ratios are regularly misinterpreted as risk ratios. Second, logistic regression results
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Designing cross-sector collaboration to foster technological innovation: Empirical insights from eHealth partnerships in five countries Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Koen Verhoest, Chesney Callens, Erik Hans Klijn, Lena Brogaard, Jaime García-Rayado, Steven Nõmmik
This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public-private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific partnership characteristics lead to innovation in health care services. The study compares 19 eHealth partnerships across five European countries and uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test the hypotheses.
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How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Andrew Podger, Donald F. Kettl
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many public administrators are struggling with the relationship between themselves—most of whom are career civil servants—on the one hand, and those political officials who are elected or appointed on the other, and with whom they must deal every day. That struggle has even spilled over into the debate in the US and elsewhere over the existence and influence of a so-called “deep state”
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Writing impactful reviews to rejuvenate public administration: A framework and recommendations Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Bert George, Lotte B. Andersen, Jeremy L. Hall, Sanjay K. Pandey
Literature reviews have become widespread in public administration, especially in the past decade. These reviews typically adopt widely-accepted approaches with many drawing upon systematized approaches to review in fields like medicine and psychology. Public administration, however, is a professional, design-oriented discipline, focused on enhancing theory to solve real-life policy, administrative
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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Does participation predict support for place brands? An analysis of the relationship between stakeholder involvement and brand citizenship behavior Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Laura Ripoll González, Erik Hans Klijn, Jasper Eshuis, Erik Braun
This article studies in how far participation of stakeholders enhances their active support for place brands, conceptualized in this study as Brand Citizenship Behavior (BCB). Combining insights from governance and branding theory this article uses survey data (N = 162) among stakeholders involved in branding processes of two Dutch regions. The analysis shows that more intense participation in the
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Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Shahjahan Bhuiyan, James L. Perry
Public administration has been seeking to develop a global knowledge base, dating back to the early days of the field. Despite expressed interest in building such a knowledge base, scholars continue to criticize overly narrowly public administration knowledge, which tends to favor developed countries and the Global North. This article applies principles from collaboration theory, which was developed
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How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Sabina Schnell, Jiho Kim, Greg Munno, Tina Nabatchi
Although transparency is recognized as an important public value, few studies examine how citizens see the relationship between transparency and other public values. To empirically investigate this relationship, we distinguish among five types of transparency and explore their associations with different views of “good” government and other public values. Using survey data and Q methodology, we find
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Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Don S. Lee
How does bureaucratic structure shape presidential strategy in managing top executive posts? The comparative literature on cabinet formation focuses heavily on presidential legislative strategy, largely overlooking the administrative dimension of cabinet management. This article fills this gap by examining how bureaucratic professionalization shapes the president's strategy in distributing and managing
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Who benefits from work-life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work-Life Survey Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Shilpa Viswanath, Jung Ah (Claire) Yun, Lauren Bock Mullins
Engaging the US Office of Personnel Management's inaugural Federal Work-life Survey (2017), this study deconstructs the gender and race differences in employee satisfaction with federal work-life programs. We examine whether women of color employees in particular stand to benefit differently from the federal work-life programs in comparison to their male and white colleagues. Notably, this study operationalizes
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Public Management Frontiers in Guaranteed Income Programs: Advancing Implementation Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Evan Berman, Lauro Gonzalez, Eduardo H. Diniz, Mário Aquino Alves
This viewpoint analyzes recent experiments in guaranteed income (GI) projects and identifies implementation issues that extend the frontiers of public administration. GI programs provide low-income individuals with substantial and regular cash with few or no strings or conditions attached, and are being used to assist the lower income population, including informal workers who are left out of many
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Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Nicola Bellé, Paolo Belardinelli, Maria Cucciniello, Greta Nasi
We conducted three randomized experiments to investigate whether and to what extent citizens' expectations toward waiting times for public service delivery are influenced by reference points, either in the form of social or numerical references. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, our results provide convergent evidence of reference dependence. Specifically, informing citizens that waiting
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Risk aversion and public sector employment Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Ahrum Chang
This study examines whether public sector workers are more risk averse than those in the private sector and, if so, whether risk-averse individuals self-select themselves into the public sector or public employees become more risk averse during their career. Drawing on portfolio theory that individuals assemble their asset portfolio that maximizes expected return within an acceptable level of risk
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Measuring the construct of public sector creativity: Development of a validated scale Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Glenn Houtgraaf, Peter Kruyen, Sandra van Thiel
Public sector creativity—public servants coming up with novel and useful ideas—is the origin of solutions and innovations central to public sector organizations' ability to optimally serve society's interests. Despite its relevance and argued limitations, an adequate scale and framework to assess public servants' creativity remained absent. Using three quantitative (n = 2434/n = 1157/n = 621) and two
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“We're not there to lead”: Professional roles and responsibilities in “citizen-led” co-production Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Caitlin McMullin
Although co-production is typically understood as occurring when “regular” producers involve citizens in service delivery, co-production also takes place in relation to services that are initiated and/or controlled by citizens. Based on theories and typologies of co-production and the facilitation of citizen initiatives, we propose that there exists a spectrum of co-production where citizens are at
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Holding out for a hero: Linking hiring duration and managerial fit Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 G. Breck Wightman
Although prolonged executive vacancies are often viewed negatively, decision-makers often extend the hiring duration in an attempt to identify the right fit. What is the relationship between the hiring duration and the level of fit in the new hire? Using the presidential hires of elite colleges and universities in the United States between 2005 and 2019, this study identifies the effects of executive
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It's about time! Temporal dynamics and longitudinal research designs in public administration Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Zuzana Murdoch, Muiris MacCarthaigh, Benny Geys
Many of the fundamental research questions in public administration relate to individual- or organization-level temporal dynamics, including the impact of public sector reforms, (in)stability of public policies and organizations, development of public service motivation, or the workplace socialization of public employees. However, theoretical, methodological, and empirical public administration scholarship
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Trauma-informed organizational climate and its impact on first responder burnout during COVID-19 Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Andrea M. Headley, Kaila Witkowski, Christa Remington, N. Emel Ganapati, Santina L. Contreras
First responders experience work-related challenges in higher magnitudes than other occupations. Organizational elements may mitigate or exacerbate burnout for first responders during public health emergencies (e.g., COVID-19). This mixed methods study of first responders in the United States aims to (1) assess the relationship between a trauma-informed organizational climate (TIC) and burnout; (2)
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Toward a better understanding of local service provision: Implications for studying the determinants of production choice Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Scott Lamothe, Meeyoung Lamothe
Researchers studying local governance, especially alternative service delivery arrangements, have long relied on the ICMA ASD survey to examine the scope and nature of service provision and production at the local level. Building upon Lamothe et al. (Public Administration Review, 2018, 78: 613) findings that raise questions concerning the accuracy of the ASD survey and resulting misconceptions about
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Evaluating turnover intention as a proxy for behavior in the federal public service: Evidence from two surveys of senior civil servants Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Scott Limbocker, Mark D. Richardson
Studies of turnover in the federal public service often study intention rather than behavior and studies that evaluate the reliability of intention as a proxy for that behavior are rare. This article uses a novel data set that measures exit intention and behavior for the same senior civil servants to evaluate two aspects of the reliability of turnover intention as a proxy for behavior: (1) prediction
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Sector attraction and the role of job information: Evidence from a conjoint experiment Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Ivan P. Lee, Sebastian Jilke
Are public and private employees different? And is this difference due to the fact that different people are attracted to work for government rather than companies? It has been proposed that individuals with certain characteristics, such as having high levels of risk aversion or public service motivation (PSM), are more likely to self-select into public service. This study argues that this sector attraction
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Street-level discretion, personal motives, and social embeddedness within public service ecosystems Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Stephen Knox, Norin Arshed
Drawing on the sense of community responsibility concept, we explore the enterprise policy ecosystem in an extensive qualitative study of Scotland. We present a processual model which explains how policies are shaped in an on-going dynamic through street-level managers' individual agency. Our findings reveal that driving the process is an interplay between personal motives (compassion, relational strength
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Coping with administrative tasks: A cross-country analysis from a street-level perspective Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Maria Tiggelaar, Sandra Groeneveld, Bert George
Administrative tasks often are an unavoidable aspect of the daily work of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs). These burdensome tasks are job demands that can cause stress and put a strain on SLBs' working experience and performance. So far, few studies have searched for job resources that can help SLBs cope with this aspect of their daily work. This study analyzes how performing administrative tasks results
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Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Julia Fleischer, Philippe Bezes, Kutsal Yesilkagit
Structural duration conveys stability but also resilience in central government and is therefore a key issue in the debate on the structure and organization of government. This paper discusses three core variants of structural duration to study the explanatory relevance of politics. We compare these durations across ministerial units in four European democracies (Germany, France, The Netherlands, and
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In search of public values in performance budgeting studies Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Alfred Tat-Kei Ho, Chen Shen, Yan Xu
Performance budgeting is inevitably linked to policy priorities, and priorities are fundamentally the expression of public values. Through a bibliometric analysis of past studies, this study shows that over time, the performance budgeting literature is linked to more diverse values beyond efficiency and effectiveness concerns. Transparency, democracy, participation, inclusiveness, and other political
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Body-worn cameras and representation: What matters when evaluating police use of force? Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 James E. Wright, Dongfang Gaozhao, Brittany Houston
Public administration scholarship seeks to understand ways to increase accountability within the policing profession. We employ an online conjoint experiment to disentangle the effects of both representation and body-worn cameras (BWC) on police accountability and legitimacy. In the experiment, we ask participants to rate the likelihood that a police use of force incident prompts an investigation when
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It's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Martin Baekgaard, Matthias Döring, Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen
Research suggests that citizens often abstain from taking up benefits for which they are eligible because of the costs of learning about how to apply for and the compliance and psychological costs associated with taking up benefits. But to what extent can such burdens be altered simply by changing the way rules are communicated? Bridging literatures on administrative burden, communication theory, and
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Does collective citizen input impact government service provision? Evidence from SeeClickFix requests Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Kaylyn Jackson Schiff
Does collective citizen input impact government priorities and performance in service provision? As cities increasingly offer interactive issue reporting options through online platforms and mobile apps, I investigate whether comments and follows on requests drive faster issue resolution. I theorize that this input signals issue validity, severity, or scrutiny, assisting city administrators in prioritizing
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Institutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel S. Schiff, Ian T. Adams, Joshua McCrain, Scott M. Mourtgos
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools. While prior work emphasizes the technological features driving public opinion, we investigate how public trust and support for AI in government vary with the institutional context. We administer a pre-registered survey experiment to 4200 respondents about AI use cases in policing to measure responsiveness
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‘Feeling out’ the rules: A psychological process theory of red tape Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Randall S. Davis, Sanjay K. Pandey
Over the past 30 years, red tape has emerged as a key concept in public management. Yet, researchers continue to debate the relative merits of system-centric versus individual-centric approaches. In this article, we articulate an individual-centric psychological process theory, a theory that confronts the ‘modularity assumption’ relegating the subjective individual experience as inconsequential in
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Digital resilience in wartime: The case of Ukraine Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Gulsanna Mamediieva, Donald Moynihan
A key topic in digital government is how to improve public services. The global pandemic focused attention on the use of digital in the context of crisis. Here, we consider how a digital innovation in response to a different type of crisis, examining Ukraine's response to Russia's invasion of 2022. We describe how the government engaged in what we characterize as digital resilience, that is, the use
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When do bureaucrats respond to external demands? A theoretical framework and empirical test of bureaucratic responsiveness Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Dovilė Rimkutė, Joris van der Voet
Bureaucrats must balance neutral competence with responsiveness to external demands. As external demands are simultaneous and multidimensional, this study analyzes bureaucratic responsiveness according to bureaucratic actors' prioritization decisions. Using a discrete choice experiment followed by qualitative interviews in the context of EU agencies, we investigate to what extent bureaucratic responsiveness
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Nature or nurture? Agency life-cycles as a function of institutional legacy, political environment, and organizational hardwiring Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Bjorn Kleizen, Muiris MacCarthaigh
A growing body of literature attempts to explain the life-cycles of public sector organizations. Of particular interest have been the form and incidence of their birth and termination, and connecting these events to such variables as legal status and political ideology. Less attention has been given to the effect of intermediary life-cycle events, the tasks performed by agencies, and their policy domains
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In search of the silver-lining: Police officers' attributions and responses to stakeholder critique Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Kate E. Horton, Gabriele Jacobs, P. Saskia Bayerl, Mila Gascó-Hernández, Marloes Rothengatter, Karen Elliott, Stefanie Giljohann, Claudia Lenuţa Rus
Tensions between police organizations and (community) stakeholders have taken center stage in recent years, with an escalation in protests and divisive rhetoric observed in many countries. Using attribution theory, this study examines how police officers interpret negative stakeholder feedback and how these interpretations shape their behavioral responses. Qualitative analysis based on 148 interviews
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To coordinate or not? A configurational approach to understand public organizations' emergency preparedness coordination Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Tianyi Xiang, Yifan Chen
With increasing hazard risks, coordinating public agencies to address emerging threats has become a pressing challenge for public administration. However, little empirical research explores why some public organizations actively coordinate with others in preparation for future crises while others do not. The related research relies on correlation-based approaches and generates inconclusive findings
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Advancing the frontiers of genomic public administration: From genetics to administrative attitudes, behaviors, and practices Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Lei Tao, Shui-Yan Tang, Bo Wen
Biology's increasing applicability to the social sciences can inspire new approaches to public administration research and practice. Drawing on advances in behavioral genetics, genomic public administration may push its frontiers by examining the genetic foundations of administrative behaviors. While public administration scholars have pioneered the use of the twin design to assess the heritability
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Local government cyber insecurity: Causes and recommendations for improvement Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Donald F. Norris, Laura Mateczun, William Hatcher, Wesley L. Meares, John Heslen
In this paper, we address several facets of the problem we call local government cyber insecurity—a problem that plagues such governments across the nation, if not the world. We describe this problem and discuss its manifestations in local governments. This is followed by our analysis of why, on average, local government cybersecurity is managed and practiced so poorly. Next, we discuss several constraints
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Do reputational threats influence the rigidity of US agencies? A dynamic panel data approach Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Jan Boon, Jan Wynen, Koen Verhoest
What happens to organizational rigidity when public organizations faced reputational threats over time? Do they take external criticism as incentives to become less rigid and more innovative and flexible through employee involvement and empowerment? Or do reputational threats paradoxically contribute to the very rigidity that is often stereotyped as inherent parts of government? Building on threat-rigidity
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Facing the human capital crisis: A systematic review and research agenda on recruitment and selection in the public sector Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Mette Jakobsen, Ann-Kristina Løkke, Florian Keppeler
As a human capital crisis poses urgent challenges across multiple countries, public administration scholars and practitioners are concerned with recruitment and selection questions. Literature evolves with an increasing pace whereby clarity over the state-of-the-art and gaps in recruitment and selection research in the public sector is needed to direct future research and practice. We conducted a review
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Modes of network governance revisited: Assessing their prevalence, promises, and limitations in the literature Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Steven van den Oord, Patrick Kenis, Jörg Raab, Bart Cambré
The systematic literature review takes stock of the empirical literature on the governance of organizational networks. The analysis is based on empirical papers citing Provan and Kenis (2008) as the seminal article on the governance of networks. We synthesize key findings on the modes of network governance, contingency factors, and network-level tensions. The review provides insights into how the contingency
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Telework in public organizations: A systematic review and research agenda Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Valentina Mele, Paolo Belardinelli, Nicola Bellé
After a relatively slow policy intervention and scholarly take-up, recent developments created the urgency for massive efforts to implement and regulate telework in public organizations. We contribute to this debate through a systematic review of 120 studies across disciplines. Findings from our analysis reveal a few established antecedents of telework, including individual characteristics like family
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Information use in public administration and policy decision-making: A research synthesis Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Paola Cantarelli, Nicola Belle, Jeremy L. Hall
This article presents a research synthesis of 162 studies focusing on information use for decision-making in public administration, management, and policy. The findings reveal that a significant proportion of work is centered around performance management and policy implementation. Notably, around one third of the reviewed studies adopt a behavioral science perspective. The analysis predominantly includes
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Theories and theorizing in public administration: A systematic review Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Fabian Hattke, Rick Vogel
Theories and theorizing are central to scholarship on public administration (PA). Only a few attempts have been made to review the theories applied in PA broadly and systematically, to take stock of the theoretical repertoire, and to engage scholars in critical reflection on how they “do” theorizing. This study analyzes the theoretical landscape of PA scholarship with a novel combination of bibliometrics
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Hot town, corruption in the city: Assessing the impact of form of government on corruption using propensity scores Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Whitney Afonso, Kimberly Nelson
This research explores the relationship between form of government and corruption using national municipal level data (1990–2020) using competing theoretical models; the principal–agent model and the professionalism–performance model. The principal–agent model suggests that the additional scrutiny provided by the electoral process will lead to a lower risk of corruption under the mayor–council form