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Learning to govern: A typology of ministerial learning styles Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 John Boswell, Jessica C. Smith, Daniel Devine, Jack Corbett
A quirk of the Westminster system is that Ministers invariably have to “learn on the job”. Yet “learning” has been surprisingly understudied in work on executive government in Britain especially. In this paper, we offer a systematic account of Ministerial learning based on a comprehensive analysis of the Ministers Reflect archive—the largest dataset of research interviews with former Westminster ministers
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Getting what you expect: How civil servant stereotypes affect citizen satisfaction and perceived performance Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Isa Bertram, Robin Bouwman, Lars Tummers
This study tests whether civil servant stereotypes affect how citizens experience public service delivery. Using a pre‐registered survey vignette experiment (n = 1130), we activate civil servant stereotypes (negative, positive, or control) and assess whether this affects subsequent perceptions and evaluations of public services. Results indicate that stereotypes shape experiences, with the activation
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Do monetary or nonmonetary incentives promote citizens' use of a government crowdsourcing: A case of the City of Omaha's 311‐type of crowdsourcing platform Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Danbee Lee, Yeonkyung Kim, Jooho Lee
Increasing numbers of local governments have adopted crowdsourcing platforms to engage citizens in public service provisions. As citizen engagement plays a critical role in the success of government crowdsourcing, we focus on incentive strategies to facilitate it. While studies have considered monetary incentives the primary motivator traditionally, recent research has examined the potency of nonmonetary
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Examining attitudes toward public participation across sectors: An experimental study of food assistance Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Anna Amirkhanyan, Fei Roberts, Kenneth J. Meier, Miyeon Song
Public views of government are linked to trust, coproduction, regulatory compliance, and political participation. This study focuses on factors shaping public attitudes toward government programs by exploring whether direct participation in governance matters for how the public evaluates the performance of government programs. With an experiment involving governmentally funded food assistance, we randomize
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Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ivy S. Liu, Hongtao Yi
Organizational learning has long been recognized as a key determinant of success, yet research often overlooks how individual mechanisms initiate and drive collective learning over time. Utilizing policy tourism as an indicator of intercity learning, we construct an interlocal learning network among US cities from 2009 to 2016. Employing a temporal exponential random graph model, our findings suggest
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The Politics of Collaborative Public Management: A Primer. By RobertAgranoff, AlekseyKolpakov, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 322. ISBN: 9781003385769 Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Md Eyasin Ul Islam Pavel
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Applying an intersectional understanding of extra work behavior and emotional exhaustion in local public service Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Brian Y. An, Cynthia J. Barboza-Wilkes, William G. Resh
In recent years, public administration scholars have started paying attention to intersectionality of government workforce identities and its implications for diversity management. This study unpacks how the intersection of multiple identities increases the transaction costs inherent to underrepresentation by looking at employee engagement in uncompensated extra-role behaviors and its effect on emotional
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Are public sector accounts trusted? Exploring the verdict of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in the United Kingdom Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Laurence Ferry, Henry Midgley
Legislatures face difficult challenges holding modern bureaucratic democracies to account due to the scale, complexity, and diverse impacts on citizens' lives. One way that democracies bridge the gap between the legislature and executive is through financial accounts of government departments. This paper examines whether financial accounts are trusted by MPs in the UK Parliament for purposes of transparency
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How young adults explain their intention to participate in online direct citizen participation Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Annelieke C. van den Berg, Sarah Giest, Sandra Groeneveld
Facilitating direct citizen participation through online channels is considered as an opportunity for including harder to reach groups in participation. Because young adults (18-25) are heavy internet users, this group is expected to be easier to include online. Evidence shows, however, that also in online direct participation young adults remain underrepresented. To better understand this discrepancy
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Managing crises as if no one is watching? Governance dilemmas from a public perspective Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Alexa Lenz
In the midst of ongoing crises, understanding how citizens perceive administrative crisis management is more relevant than ever. Combining organizational literature with insights from legitimacy research, this article scrutinizes how the public evaluates governance decisions concerning prominent crisis management dilemmas: flexibility versus stability, inclusion versus exclusion, and equity-based versus
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Ignoring by complying: How public officials handle hybridity to pursue the goals of new public governance Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Mathias H. Nielsen, Niklas A. Andersen
The article draws on insights from the literature on street-level bureaucracy to analyze how public officials experience and deal with challenges arising from hybrid governance. Empirically, we focus on managerial staff and front-line workers employed in Danish employment service delivery organizations, respectively. We develop the term “ignoring by complying” to describe how informants pursue ideals
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Handbook on gender and public administration. By P. Shields, N. Elias (Eds.), Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2022. pp. 434. 280.00 USD for print, 65.00 USD for ebook, ISBN: 9781789904734, 178990473 Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Chloe G. White
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There is no conflict of interest associated with this submission.
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The power of framing: The role of information provision in promoting whistleblowing Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Riccardo Novaro, Greta Nasi, Maria Cucciniello, Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen
Whistleblowing policies are seldom effective in inducing civil servants to report misconduct. While current literature focusses more upon the identification of the chief factors that prevent witnesses from reporting, it overlooks potentially effective strategies to stimulate active behavior. In particular, it neglects the framing and impact of information provision. According to the prospect theory
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Skeptic, enthusiast, guarantor or believer? Public managers' perception of participatory budgeting Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Francesca Manes-Rossi, Rebecca Levy Orelli, Mariafrancesca Sicilia
Participatory budgeting (PB) aims to enhance citizens' participation in local government. While there is a significant body of literature on PB, few studies investigate the role of internal actors in its management. This study aims to understand public managers' perceptions of the whole PB process. Using the Q-methodology on a sample of Italian local governments experienced in PB, we analyze the perspectives
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Rebel with a cause: The effects of leadership encouragement and psychological safety on professionals' prosocial rulebreaking behavior Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Bernard Bernards, Eduard Schmidt, Sandra Groeneveld
A core idea of bureaucratic organizations is that rule-following is a necessary precondition to pursue the public interest. However, rules may sometimes become dysfunctional, burdensome, and even interfere with public value delivery. In those situations, professionals sometimes engage in prosocial rule-breaking (PSRB), rather than rule-following, with the aim to deliver meaningful public services.
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The impact of service separation on value: A longitudinal study of user and provider experiences in a mental health service Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Higor Leite, Ian R. Hodgkinson, Ana Vitória Lachowski Volochtchuk
Digital innovations are changing how public organizations deliver services through the creation of service separation. Service separation refers to the decoupling of service production and consumption in digital platforms, which affects both users and providers alike. Since the global pandemic, service separation has become established in many healthcare settings, though little is known about how it
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Which job attributes attract individuals high in public service motivation and self-efficacy to a public service job? Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Nathan Favero, Mogens Jin Pedersen, Joohyung Park
Which job attributes attract prospective high-performing individuals to a job in the public sector? Research shows that the particular attributes of a job influence perceptions of job attractiveness. Moreover, public service motivation (PSM) and self-efficacy are valuable individual-level traits for public service performance. This article examines how variation within particular job attributes that
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When do bureaucrats choose to unburden clients: A randomized experiment Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Donavon Johnson, Milena Neshkova
Prior work refers to burdens in citizen-state interactions as administrative, even though most originate from the desk of politicians, not administrators. Even more, bureaucrats often act to unburden their clients via the discretionary powers they wield. This perspective has largely been overlooked in extant research. The present study asks under what conditions bureaucrats alleviate the burdens levied
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Modeling political mimetic isomorphism versus economic and quality factors in local government privatizations Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Cristina M. Campos-Alba, Jorge Chica-Olmo, Gemma Pérez-López, José L. Zafra-Gómez
Numerous studies have considered the economic impact and political influence of privatization. However, the theoretical approaches previously applied to model privatization, whether economic or political, have not obtained robust results. To address this question, we present a new political approach, based on mimetic isomorphism, which enables us to more accurately define the relationship between privatization
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Interpreting performance information: Motivated reasoning or unbiased comprehension? A replication and extension Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lena Brogaard, Jonas Krogh Madsen, Ole Helby Petersen
Despite a growing number of studies on how prior beliefs distort citizens' interpretation of performance information for service providers, little is known about whether prior beliefs matter equally across different services and types of providers. In this study, we provide a wide replication and extension of the experimental design used in Baekgaard and Serritzlew (2016) with three types of providers
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Exploring collaboration dynamics and representation in environmental justice councils Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Graham Ambrose
A collaboration's ability to convene diverse stakeholders and knowledge is often associated with success. However, a more nuanced evaluation of representation is needed to understand if meeting-level factors (e.g., who attends as well as including facilitators or external technical experts) influence representation. This article examines representation via two-way communication in meetings to explore:
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Measuring civil service politicization with career data: Backstage and frontstage political experience of top civil servants in the German ministerial administration Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Sylvia Veit, Stefanie Vedder
Based on an understanding of politicization as an increase in the relevance of political criteria in the selection and deselection of civil servants, this article proposes an innovative approach to measure civil service politicization with individual-level career data. For this purpose, two core types of political experience in civil servants' careers are distinguished: frontstage political experience
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Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016) Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Benny Geys, Per Lægreid, Zuzana Murdoch, Jarle Trondal
The organizational theory approach to public administration emphasizes that organizational features of public bureaucracies shape civil servants' role perceptions and opinions. This study brings forward a novel refinement of this theoretical framework by arguing that such processes of organizational resocialization require intertemporal consistency of the organizational environment. We empirically
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Losing control is not an option. Resource allocation to police oversight agencies in Western states Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Sebastian Roché, Simon Varaine
Independent police oversight is a specific government delegated function that has been neglected by scholars of regulation. The main goal of this article is to understand the allocation of state resources to independent police oversight agencies (POAs) in the post delegation stage. We test whether the aim of delegation is better governance in complex areas to increase police agents' accountability
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Does increasing auditors' independence lead to more forceful public auditing? A study of a Canadian internal audit reform Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Catherine Liston-Heyes, Luc Juillet
The value of auditing as an instrument of accountability depends upon the independence of auditors. However, the extent to which auditors feel free to review the operation, compliance, and performance of public programs and objectively communicate findings to stakeholders has rarely been assessed. A Canadian public service reform in 2006 introduced institutional safeguards to bolster the independence
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Actor roles in co-production—Introducing intermediaries: Findings from a systematic literature review Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Nathalie Haug
Public service ecosystems are used to understand how multiple actors co-produce public services and create public value. Especially interactions between public service providers and service users are essential. However, systematic examinations of these interactions and what roles the different actors play are rare. This study closes this gap by conducting a systematic literature review with three main
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Opening the “black box” of public administration: The need for interpretive research Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 María Verónica Elías
Important research questions in public administration and management cannot be studied through the scientific method. A fundamental example is how public administrators utilize their discretion and judgment in their everyday work. Inquiring into the process of administrative practice has been characterized as “opening the black box” of public administration and policy implementation—that is, how people
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How rediscovering nodality can improve democratic governance in a digital world Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Helen Margetts, Peter John
In Hood's (1983) classic “NATO” scheme, nodality—centrality and visibility in information networks—is one of the four tools of government. Despite its potential as a resource to effect policy change, contemporary scholars have largely neglected this unique policy tool. However, the growing prominence of digital platforms in public life prompts a rediscovery of this concept. The decisive shift is the
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Agencies on the parliamentary radar: Exploring the relations between media attention and parliamentary attention for public agencies using machine learning methods Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jan Boon, Jan Wynen, Walter Daelemans, Jens Lemmens, Koen Verhoest
The news media frame political debate about public agencies, and enable legislators with incomplete information to monitor and act upon agency (mal)performance. While studies show that the news media matters for parliamentary attention, the contingent nature of this relation has been understudied. Building on agenda-setting theory, this study theorizes that the effect of newspaper coverage is contingent
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Paths to trust: Explaining citizens' trust to experts and evidence-informed policymaking during the COVID-19 pandemic Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Angelos Angelou, Stella Ladi, Dimitra Panagiotatou, Vasiliki Tsagkroni
The COVID-19 pandemic brought forward new questions about the efficient implementation of arduous public policies. Drawing evidence from the pandemic, this article argues that, during crises, policymakers will often opt for evidence-informed policymaking, hoping for better results. In line with previous studies, we show that citizens trust more policies coming from experts rather than policymakers
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Achieving collaborative innovation by controlling or leveraging network complexities through complexity leadership Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Chesney Callens
Recent innovation research in the public sector demonstrates the advantages of collaborative innovation, but also recognizes the complex character of collaborative innovation processes. These complexities might both stimulate and hinder collaborative innovation. Through a qualitative comparative analysis of empirical data from 19 public–private innovation partnerships (PPIs) in five European Countries
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Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Martin Sievert, Jonas Bruder
Administrative burdens appear to influence citizens' perceptions of welfare policies and attitudes toward beneficiaries. However, empirical evidence that has disentangled different state actions' effects on policy perceptions is scarce. We applied a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial survey experiment and manipulated the conceptually distinct state actions implemented in German unemployment benefits. We investigated
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CORRIGENDUM Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-09-04
In the article [1], the affiliation of the first author were incorrect. Funding information was also added. The affiliation of Don S. Lee should be 1Graduate School of Governance and Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea. The author is not affiliated to: 1School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. The correct
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How personnel allocation affects performance: Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areas agency Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Gus Greenstein
Many government agencies operate with fewer personnel than they need to perform effectively. Yet little research has explored how agencies might allocate their personnel so as to maximize performance with the personnel they have. I address this gap through a study of Brazil's federal protected areas agency, which manages the world's third largest system of conservation areas. Based on 66 interviews
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Towards inclusive public administration systems: Public budgeting from the perspective of critical race theory Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán, Meagan M. Jordan, Philip G. Joyce
While there is a developing consensus that governments need to address systemic racism, public administration scholarship has not played a large role in supporting policymakers who want to achieve that end. To institutionalize that effort, we analyze the budget process as a setting to identify inequities and incorporate social equity given its overarching reach across all programs and policies. This
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Coproduction of core and complementary tasks in times of service decline: Experimental evidence Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Peter Rasmussen Damgaard, Niels Opstrup, Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen
Citizen coproduction has long been recognized as a lever to maintain service quality in times of service decline, but the key notion that citizens will “pitch in” and coproduce in times of service decline has undergone little empirical scrutiny. Using elderly care in Denmark as empirical setting, we conduct a survey experiment with a two-by-two factorial design in a representative sample of elderly
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Are public spaces welcoming to all? A conjoint experiment on cultural representation and inclusionary practices in museums Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Zachary Mohr, Alexandra Olivares, Jaclyn Piatak
While art should be for everyone, public institutions like museums are not always inclusive to all members of society. Arts participation varies by sociodemographic characteristics despite the numerous benefits of the arts. To date, much of the research has focused on how visitor characteristics influence museums, but how do museum characteristics influence arts participation? We employ a conjoint
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Performance appraisal justice and employees' work engagement in the public sector: Making the most of performance appraisal design Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Lorenza Micacchi, Francesco Vidé, Giorgio Giacomelli, Marta Barbieri
Regarding organizational justice, performance appraisal (PA) systems are among the most crucial mechanisms shaping the employee work experience. Nonetheless, research has mostly neglected to explain the relationship between the characteristics of PA systems, employees' perceptions of PA justice, and work engagement in the public sector. Based on a combination of observational and experimental data
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Whole-of-government and joined-up government: A systematic literature review Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Naomi Aoki, Melvin Tay, Stuti Rawat
We conducted a systematic literature review of 340 journal articles (1992–2021) pertaining to whole-of-government (WG) and joined-up government (JUG)—two terms that denote public sector efforts to promote cross-boundary work and restructuring. This review clarifies and renews our understanding of developments with respect to WG/JUG research. While JUG articles do not appear to be increasing, the number
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Which managerial reforms facilitate public sector innovation? Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Ringa Raudla, Zachary Mohr, James W. Douglas
A key question of public sector innovation (PSI) scholarship is: which factors influence innovation? This paper focuses on managerial practices as drivers of PSI and addresses two research questions. First, how have the main types of managerial reforms—pertaining to marketization, results-orientation, and collaboration—influenced PSI? Second, how have different features of public sector reform strategies
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Fostering employee innovation: Linking person–organization fit to innovative behavior through knowledge sharing and reward perception Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Jaeyong Lee, Myung H. Jin
The core foundation of data-driven public administration is establishing a digital platform that enables collaboration between various subjects and stakeholders; for this, active interaction among employees of an organization and their innovations in deriving creative ideas and actions are essential. Reflecting this, this study focused on promoting employees' innovative behavior (IB) through the activation
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Cutback management strategies and citizen evaluation of government Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Carla Flink, Xiaoyang Xu
Through a behavioral approach, citizen evaluations of government performance have been an area of study in public administration. Research has explored how different factors influence citizens’ perceptions of public organizations, such as public sector bias and reference points. Understudied in this literature is how citizens evaluate government based on their use of financial management strategies
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Shaping influence in governance networks: The role of motivations and information exchange Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Jose Antonio Reyes-Gonzalez, Filip Agneessens, Marc Esteve
In governance networks, some actors might have more influence than others in the group's collective decision-making. This paper investigates whether an actor's prosocial and/or self-interested motivations to participate in a governance network help predict its level of influence in the group. We argue that information exchange is an important mediator in this relationship because an actor's tendency
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What motivates users to report service-related issues? A study on coproduction in a smart public service Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 A. Paula Rodriguez Müller, Amandine Lerusse, Trui Steen, Steven Van De Walle
Public service providers increasingly encourage users to actively coproduce as a means to enhance public service provision. But what drives users to coproduce? Using a unique combination of survey and actual behavior log-data of 9992 smart public service users who reported service-related issues, we examine the extent to which users' self-centered and community-centered motivations are associated with
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Permanently provisional: An ethnographic analysis of responsive governance practices in and through meetings Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 E. Lianne Visser
Scholars of responsive forms of governance tend to analyze agreements, arrangements, and architectures. Yet, these forms of governance also require actual actors to act and interact, something that has been scarcely empirically studied. Taking a practice-theoretical approach, I explore how responsive governance is accomplished in and through meetings. This study is based on participant observation
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What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance? Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Eloy Oliveira, Gordon Abner, Shinwoo Lee, Kohei Suzuki, Hyunkang Hur, James L. Perry
In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil servants to at-will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule F, has stimulated a partisan debate about dismantling the merit system in the US federal government. A substantial international body of evidence has developed during the last three decades about the effects of administrative practices
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Buying green in U.S. local government: Internal commitment and responsiveness to external pressures Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Ana-Maria Dimand, Milena I. Neshkova
This study investigates how green purchasing in local governments varies as a function of the organization's internal commitment, operationalized by the stage of institutionalization of green public procurement (GPP), and external pressures from various stakeholder groups. GPP, a value-based innovation justified on the grounds of intergenerational equity, is an important tool governments can use to
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Seeing the nudge from the trees: The 4S framework for evaluating nudges Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Stuart Mills, Richard Whittle
Nudging is a popular and influential approach in policymaking. Yet, it has faced substantial criticism from several policy perspectives, with growing concern raised about the efficacy of some nudge interventions. This article offers an evaluative framework for nudging which captures these various perspectives. Our 4S framework highlights the importance of nudges being sufficient, scalable, and subjective
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Unpacking hybridity: Development and first validation of a multidimensional instrument to profile hybrid professionals Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Amelia Compagni, Paola Roberta Boscolo, Giorgio Giacomelli, Marco Sartirana
Hybrid professionals, that is, professionals who have transitioned to managerial roles, have emerged in numerous public settings. Through in-depth qualitative methodologies, the literature has shown a good degree of heterogeneity in the way hybrid professionals perceive and manage their hybridity. In this study, we aim to develop a theory-based, multidimensional instrument able to capture such heterogeneity
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Creating a public service topology: Mapping public service motivation, public service ethos, and public service values Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Eva M. Witesman, Lawrence Walters, Robert K. Christensen
Public service motivation (PSM), public service values (PSV), and public service ethos (PSE), we argue, constitute theoretically complementary dimensions of public service psychology. Using multi-dimensional scaling (MDS), we also empirically map the three constructs to identify their interrelationships as constituent parts of a public service topology. Using a survey of public and private employees
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Civil servant tactics for realizing transition tasks understanding the microdynamics of transformative government Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Rik B. Braams, Joeri H. Wesseling, Albert J. Meijer, Marko P. Hekkert
The transition literature argues that governments have an essential role in facilitating societal transitions. The current paper aims to provide a theoretical and empirical understanding of this government role by analyzing the work of entrepreneurial civil servants. These civil servants try to execute transition tasks but are often resisted by their colleagues who invoke dominant traditions in Public
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Promoting Citizens' willingness to participate in coproduction in public service through information frames Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Yan Wang, Jinfeng Zhang
Public service provision reform widely calls for coproduction. Based on the framing effect theory, we took waste sorting as a research context and explored the effects of goal frames and temporal frames on citizens' willingness to participate in coproduction through two between-subject survey experiments. We found that citizens' participation willingness was significantly increased when using goal
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Regional network-building for complexity: A region-oriented policy response to increasing and varied demands for older person care in the Netherlands Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Oemar van der Woerd, Iris Wallenburg, Wilma van der Scheer, Roland Bal
Networks are increasingly seen as promising generic solutions to complex public problems. This article analyzes network-building in action within a specific regional setting as an attempt to cope with increasing and varied demands for older person care, studying everyday organizational and policy activities of actors. Drawing on a qualitative in-depth case study of a regional network in Zeeland—the
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Styles of regulatory discretion: A comparative analysis of the British and Israeli education legislation Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Nir Kosti
Regulatory discretion is a central theme in the study of regulation and governance. However, little attention has been paid to the question of how countries vary in the way they design regulatory discretion. This article fills this gap by conceptualizing styles of regulatory discretion according to a novel conceptual framework that distinguishes between three dimensions of regulatory discretion: obligation
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Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Martin Baekgaard, Jonas Krogh Madsen
Administrative burden research claims that target group members are likely to experience learning, compliance, and psychological costs when interacting with government programs. We argue that the mere anticipation of such interactions may translate into experiences of administrative burden. Utilizing a large-scale dataset with responses from 2276 Danish social benefit recipients, we estimate how proximity
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Enabling boundary spanners in public–private collaboration: The impact of support and role autonomy on reducing role stress Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Shreya Anna Satheesh, Ingmar van Meerkerk, Stefan Verweij, Tim Busscher, Jos Arts
Boundary spanners are pivotal in developing effective public–private collaboration in public infrastructure projects. As boundary spanners have to account for different interests, perspectives, and ways of working in public–private collaborations, engaging in boundary-spanning activities often comes with role stress, which can negatively impact their job performance. However, despite the significant
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Can gender-responsive budgeting change how governments budget?: Lessons from the case of Ecuador. Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán
Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) has been introduced in over 80 countries to mitigate gender inequities. We evaluate if these reforms can influence policy making and enhance gender-oriented accountability. Our analysis follows the process-tracing methodology and includes over 20 in-depth interviews. Our findings show significant public administration obstacles to GRB, but success is possible in institutions
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The design roots of policy problems: Unpacking the role of procedural tools in design fitness and resilience Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Altaf Virani, Azad Singh Bali, Benjamin Cashore, Michael Howlett, M Ramesh
While policy design scholars have made significant conceptual and empirical advances in identifying and evaluating procedural tools, there has been a little focus on understanding how they interact with the more traditional “substantive” elements of a policy mix and their critical functions in policy mix designs. As a result, there is uncertainty about how procedural tools affect policy effectiveness—at
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A comparative study of governance changes on the perceptions of accountability in Fire and Rescue Services in England Public Administration (IF 4.013) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Katarzyna Lakoma
Public organizations are increasingly held accountable by multiple institutions and standards. This study explores how key actors perceive accountability changes in Fire and Rescue Services in England. However, few studies have examined perceptions of accountability where long-established governance arrangements are changing. The UK's Policing and Crime Act 2017 provided for a new model of governance