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Country of Origin and Representative Bureaucracy Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Jason A Grissom, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Richard Hall
A large body of research shows that clients of government services benefit from the presence of bureaucrats with whom they share race or ethnicity. These benefits arise from active or symbolic representation, which scholars argue are grounded in the shared backgrounds, language, and values that race and ethnicity proxy. We suggest that these shared connections are likely to be even more salient for
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User involvement as a catalyst for collaborative public service innovation Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Chesney Callens
Innovation in public services is propelled by collaborations between public actors, private actors and service users. A substantial literature has centered on the benefits of user involvement in public services, but how user involvement can stimulate collaborative innovation is still largely unknown. This article develops and tests a theoretical framework based on the combined effect of 1) the empowerment
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Do Vacancies Hurt Federal Agency Performance? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Christopher Piper, David E Lewis
The combination of the high workload associated with keeping top executive branch positions filled and political dysfunction has led to longer and more frequent periods of vacancies in the U.S. executive branch. While scholars commonly claim that such vacancies are harmful for performance, this claim has been difficult to evaluate because of theoretical disagreement, conceptual confusion, and measurement
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Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change: Configurations of Macro- and Meso-Level Institutional Logics Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Fengxiu Zhang, Eric W Welch
Climate change can bring about large-scale irreversible physical impacts and systemic changes in the operating environment of public organizations. Research on preconditions for organizational adaptation to climate change has produced two parallel lines of inquiry, one focusing on macro-level norms, rules and expectations and the other on meso-level culture, design and structure within the organization
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Agency independence, campaign contributions, and favouritism in US federal government contracting Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Mihály Fazekas, Romain Ferrali, Johannes Wachs
The impacts of money in US politics have long been debated. Building on principal-agent models, we test whether and to what degree companies’ political donations lead to their favoured treatment in federal procurement. We expect the impact of donations on favouritism to vary by the strength of control by political principals over their bureaucratic agents. We compile a comprehensive dataset of published
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Understanding Public Participation as a Mechanism Affecting Government Fiscal Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from Participatory Budgeting Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Jinsol Park, J S Butler, Nicolai Petrovsky
This study aims to advance our knowledge about the role of public participation in formulating budgetary decisions of local governments. By focusing on participatory budgeting as a prominent form of public participation in the budgetary process, we posit that participatory budgeting serves two important roles in aligning the fiscal outcomes of local governments with citizen preferences: (1) increased
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Participants Leave Collaborative Governance Arrangements Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-04-16 Xin Chen, Andrew A Sullivan
What drives collaborating participants to leave collaborative arrangements? Collaboration is a dynamic and emergent process rather than a static condition. Previous studies focus on collaboration’s emergence and performance; few empirical studies examine why participants stop collaborating. We address this question by studying how the history and structure of the Illinois enterprise zone program relate
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Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Carolin Auschra, Jörg Sydow
This paper proposes a practice-based perspective on how managers resource goal-directed networks in the public sector, especially those governed by a network administrative organization. While previous literature shows that network managers need to acquire and allocate resources in order to achieve network goals, little is known about specific resourcing practices and related challenges to resourcing
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Dismantling or disguising racialization?: Defining racialized change work in the context of postsecondary grantmaking Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Heather McCambly, Jeannette A Colyvas
Grantmaking organizations (GMOs) exert considerable influence on education systems, public policy, and its administration. We position the work of GMOs—in the distribution and management of funds for the public good—as a form of public management. Using recent work on racialized organizations from sociology, critical theories of race, and institutional theory, we address the role of GMOs in dismantling
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Assessments of Digital Client Representations: How Frontline Workers Reconstruct Client Narratives from Fragmented Information Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Ida Bring Løberg
Street-level bureaucrats assess increasing amounts of digital, often text-based, client representations. These representations have been criticized for oversimplification. However, frontline workers have also been known to develop simplified perceptions, or “shortcuts,” in their work. This study explores frontline workers’ assessments of digital client representations using observations of fifteen
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Deconstructing Burnout at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Generation in Local Government Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Cynthia J Barboza-Wilkes, Thai V Le, William Resh
In recent years, there have been multiple calls for public administration scholars to adopt an intersectional approach to the study of diversity within public organizations. This paper empirically examines the simultaneous influence of multiple dimensions of individual identity on employee burnout. We advance a better understanding of disparities in individual well-being outcomes for public servants
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To Act or Not to Act? How Client Progression Affects Purposeful Performance Information Use at the Frontlines Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Maria Falk Mikkelsen, Mogens Jin Pedersen, Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen
Public service organizations periodically collect and disseminate performance information that enables frontline employees to act based on two aspects of performance: current performance (how is the client performing right now?) and performance progression (is the client performing better, similarly, or worse than previously?). Yet knowledge of how frontline employees use performance information about
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Not Too Much, Not Too Little: Centralization, Decentralization, and Organizational Change Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Hala Altamimi,Qiaozhen Liu,Benedict Jimenez
Abstract The outcomes of centralized or decentralized decision making in public organizations have been a subject of intense debate in the literature for more than a century now. This study revisits this debate by examining whether the degree of centralization influences the implementation of four types of organizational changes: reorganization, service contracting, technology adoption, and performance
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When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf Protection in Mandated Collaboration Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-05 Brian Y An, Shui-Yan Tang
Most studies in collaborative governance examine system-level or agency-level drivers of the horizontal dimension of collaboration, i.e., the specific forms of collaboration among an existing set of actors. Few have examined the vertical dimension, i.e., what actors are involved and the scope of collaboration. This study examines the latter issue by studying the implementation of the California Sustainable
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Search in response to negative performance feedback: Problem-definition and solution-generation Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 van der Joris Voet
Behavioral theory states that decision-makers engage in search in response to a performance shortfall. However, public administration research has remained remarkably inattentive of decision-makers’ attention. This study conceptually disentangles problem-defining and solution-generation as two distinct search objectives, in order to test theoretical expectations concerning individual decision-makers’
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“As Expected”: Theoretical Implications for Racialized Administrative Power as the Status Quo Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Grant H Blume
This article posits that racialized administrative power is the status quo in the United States and results from a wicked problem broadly construed as institutional racism. Acknowledging a baseline reality of racialized administrative power in the US allows public administration theory to more directly grapple with the institutional racism that paradoxically may seem too big and complex to empirically
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Discretionary responses in frontline encounters: Balancing standardization with the ethics of office Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, Anja Svejgaard Pors
Policy reforms of public service encounters often seek to control, delegate, or eliminate discretion at the frontline. In this paper, we show that rather than eclipsing discretion, the technologies meant to standardize and optimize decision-making in public service delivery introduce rough categorizations and scripts for action that make new types of discretionary responses and workarounds necessary
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Activating the ‘Big Man’: Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Adam S Harris, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Christian Schuster
Public service delivery by African states is often characterized as particularist, favoring ethnic, personal or political networks of those inside the state over universalist, pro-social services to citizens. One explanation for particularist service delivery focuses on societal patronage norms, with ‘Big Men’ providing for members of their networks. Despite the prominence of this line of reasoning
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Human-AI Interactions in Public Sector Decision-Making: ‘Automation Bias’ and ‘Selective Adherence’ to Algorithmic Advice Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Saar Alon-Barkat, Madalina Busuioc
Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly adopted as decisional aides by public bodies, with the promise of overcoming biases of human decision-makers. At the same time, they may introduce new biases in the human-algorithm interaction. Drawing on psychology and public administration literatures, we investigate two key biases: overreliance on algorithmic advice even in the face of ‘warning
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Slipstreaming for public sector reform: How enterprising public sector leaders navigate institutional inertia Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Shibaab Rahman, Julian Teicher, Julie Wolfram Cox, Quamrul Alam
We situate public sector leaders as actors who deal with competing institutional demands, and examine how public sector leaders can facilitate reform implementation in the face of institutional inertia in a transitional setting, Bangladesh public administration. Bases on 32 interviews with current and former Bangladeshi civil servants and local public administration experts supported by secondary analysis
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The Enduring Role of Sector: Citizen Preferences in Mixed Markets Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Eva M Witesman, Chris E Silvia, Curtis Child
What role does sector play in citizens’ perceptions of products or services in mixed-market settings where governments compete with for-profit and nonprofit vendors, or when governments partner or contract with private-sector providers? Do the public and nonprofit sectors have an advantage over for-profit providers? Using choice-based conjoint analysis with a nationally representative paid consumer
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Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Victor Ray, Pamela Herd, Donald Moynihan
This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs that serve as inequality reproducing mechanisms. To develop this concept, we examine administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. Using
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Individual Agency in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Implementation of Policy Reforms: The Role of Their Policy Evaluation and Self-Efficacy Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Søren C Winter, Maria Falk Mikkelsen, Peter Rohde Skov
I denne artikel udvikler og tester vi en forholdsvis enkel teori på individniveau om det offentlige frontpersonales implementeringsadfærd. Artiklen systematiserer og etablerer en syntese af indsigter fra Ajzens teori om planlagt adfærd, Banduras teori om oplevet selvværd (self-efficacy) og implementeringslitteratur. På denne baggrund hævder vores teori, at frontarbejderes beslutninger om implementering
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Resisting or facilitating change? How street-level managers’ situational work contributes to the implementation of public reforms Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Lars Klemsdal, Tone Alm Andreassen, Eric Breit
Managers of street-level organizations play an important role in the successful implementation of public reforms. A prevailing view within the public administration literature is that this work involves the adaptation between reforms and local contexts, where divergence is viewed as a form of resistance to change. The paper challenges this prevalent reform-centric view by introducing a situation-centric
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Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Donald Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, Julie Sutherland
A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the administrative burdens created when individuals attempt to match themselves to state-created categories. Matching
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Following the paper trail: Systematically analyzing outputs to understand collaborative governance evolution Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Emily V Bell, Tomás Olivier
Collaborative governance has emerged as a popular approach to address complex governance problems. In recent years, research within this tradition has studied the linkage between outputs—agreed upon courses of action and outcomes—and the impacts of those actions. Yet, collaborative arrangements (‘collaboratives’) are likely to vary depending on their context and policy domain, making it difficult to
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The Dynamics of Sources of Knowledge on the Nature of Innovation in the Public Sector: Understanding Incremental and Transformative Innovations in Local Governments Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Julio C Zambrano-Gutiérrez, Jose A Puppim de Oliveira
Understanding the effects of different sources of knowledge acquisition in public organizations has become widely promoted for overcoming sociotechnical challenges through innovation. This study divided the sources of knowledge into external and internal learning mechanisms to assess their divergent effects on incremental and transformative innovations in 82 local governments involved in green and
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Why Are Counterfactual Assessment Methods Not Widespread in Outcome-Based Contracts? A Formal Model Approach Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Sergio G Lazzarini, Sandro Cabral, Sergio Firpo, Thomaz Teodorovicz
Counterfactual assessment techniques involving treated and control groups, such as randomized control trials, might be used in outcome-based contracts to avoid rewarding or sanctioning service providers for social outcomes that they did not cause. However, few outcome-based contracts adopt payment rules based on counterfactual assessment techniques. Potential explanations are that these techniques
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When Tensions Become Opportunities: Managing Accountability Demands in Collaborative Governance Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Seulki Lee
Accountability in collaborative governance comprises a tangled web of vertical and horizontal accountability relationships. While different accountability mechanisms are apparently complementary, they also clash with each other, producing serious accountability tensions. This study explores how actors in collaborative governance experience and manage conflicting accountability demands in the context
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Developing the Theory of Pragmatic Public Management through Classic Grounded Theory Methodology Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Joseph A Hafer
Public administration scholars argue that further research is needed to understand ordinary day-to-day behaviors of the traditional government agency in the era of inter-organization collaboration and governance, including reconciling traditional bureaucratic management theories with modern-day cross-sector governance theories. I answered this call by utilizing classic grounded theory methodology to
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The Myth of Mayoral Leadership in Local Government Resource Allocation: A Multilevel Analysis with Brazilian Municipalities Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Ricardo C Gomes, Stephen P Osborne, Erika Lisboa
Resource allocation is paramount to local government strategic planning. There is, however, a gap in studies examining the determining factors of resource allocation decisions in the public sector. This study contributes to the public management literature by providing additional theories for explaining local government resource allocation in a very important sector in the local government context:
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Use of Boilerplate Language in Regulatory Documents: Evidence from Environmental Impact Statements Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Tyler A Scott, Nicholas Marantz, Nicola Ulibarri
Administrative procedures are intended to increase transparency and help agencies make better decisions. However, these requirements also increase agency workload. Understanding how public agencies satisfy procedural requirements is a critical facet of agency performance. This analysis focuses on the language used in Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) required by the US National Environmental Policy
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Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance: The Case of Probation and Medicaid Reform in California Counties Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Aeric A H Koerner, Jocelyn M Johnston
This article examines whether and how the capacity of a street-level organization moderates its ability to perform effectively in the context of a public program reform. We use the case of California probation departments during the phased implementation of the state’s Low-Income Health Program, a major Medicaid reform that offered critical new services for many probation citizens/clients, namely,
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Acres for the Affluent: An Interactive Model of Nonprofit Resources and Demand Heterogeneity Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Samantha Zuhlke
According to the theory of government failure, nonprofit organizations emerge when governments fail to provide goods or services to a public with heterogeneous demands. This study approaches this fundamental theory of the nonprofit sector from a pluralist political viewpoint, marrying the theory of government failure to resource-driven nonprofit arguments via updated modeling and measurement strategies
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Representative Bureaucracy and Organizational Justice in Mediation Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Patrick F Hibbard, Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Michael Scott Jackman
Studies of representative bureaucracy (RB) argue public organizations reflective of the public they serve exhibit better outcomes, especially when serving underrepresented groups. RB theory attributes improved outcomes either to the actions representative bureaucrats take (active representation), or a greater perception of trust and legitimacy toward them by service recipients (symbolic representation)
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Conflict Contagion: How Interdependence Shapes Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Polycentric Systems Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Danielle M McLaughlin, Jack M Mewhirter, Mark Lubell
In this article, we bridge and extend concepts from behavioral game theory and the Ecology of Games Theory of Polycentricity (EGT) to test possible mechanisms for conflict contagion across the array of actors and policy forums that constitute a polycentric governance system. We argue that actors who experience conflict in one forum will develop similar strategies in other forums, which then impacts
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Disaster Experience and Governments’ Savings: The Moderating Role of Organizational Capacity Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Sungyoon Lee, Gang Chen
The increasing risk of natural and human-induced disasters has caused considerable costs to governments. Governments’ savings can function as a mechanism to mitigate such revenue or expenditure shocks due to disasters. While past studies have examined how recessions affect government reserves, to date, few studies have tested how a government’s past experiences of natural disasters affect the level
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Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-10-09 Elizabeth Linos, Krista Ruffini, Stephanie Wilcoxen
Government agencies around the world struggle to retain frontline workers, as high job demands and low job resources contribute to persistently high rates of employee burnout. Although four decades of research have documented the predictors and potential costs of frontline worker burnout, we have limited causal evidence on strategies that reduce it. In this article, we report on a multicity field experiment
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Sexual Orientation and Organizational Justice in the Federal Service: Exploring Differences through an Intersectional Lens Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Gregory B Lewis, M Blake Emidy
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees perceive less justice in the federal service than do their heterosexual colleagues. The “double jeopardy” hypothesis suggests that this will be especially true for LGBTs with a second stigmatized identity, but intersectionality theory is less clear about whether being LGBT will have a larger impact on other marginalized groups than on gay white
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Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of the US Administrative State Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Scott Limbocker, William G Resh, Jennifer L Selin
To preserve democratic accountability, the actions of federal agencies remain subject to review by elected officials in the legislative and executive branches. Yet given the vast scope and complexity of the modern federal government, elected officials cannot possibly intervene in all agency matters. This leaves the courts to evaluate agency actions. Applying Rosenbloom’s separation of powers theory
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A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers’ Career Advancement Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Hongtao Yi, Catherine Chen
Local public managers are mobile in their career trajectories. While the extant public administration literature has predominantly examined this topic from a leadership turnover perspective, few studies have approached the career trajectories of local managers from a holistic, system-level angle. This article draws upon the vacancy chain literature and frames local managers’ interconnected career trajectories
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Meta-Analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 David Lee, ChiaKo Hung
Over the past few decades, collaboration has flourished in the public administration and policy fields as a rational means to solve complex issues and improve public service performance. Through a meta-analysis of 26 studies with 251 effect sizes, this investigation provides novel perspectives for understanding the effects of different collaborative partnerships on performance. To test these mechanisms
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Moderating Diversity, Collective Commitment, and Discrimination: The Role of Ethical Leaders in the Public Sector Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-11 Kuk-Kyoung Moon, Robert K Christensen
Despite public administration’s growing interest in personnel diversity and ethical leadership, little is known about the effectiveness of ethical leadership in managing diverse public workforces. Can ethical leadership moderate the relationships between demographic diversity and key organizational outcomes? To answer, we synthesize four theories about demographic diversity, ethical leadership, and
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The Forest Ranger (and the Legislator): How Local Congressional Politics Shape Policy Implementation in Agency Field Offices Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-04 Cory L Struthers, Tyler A Scott, Forrest Fleischman, Gwen Arnold
Research on political control over government bureaucracy has primarily focused on direct exercises of power such as appointments, funding, agency design, and procedural rules. In this analysis, we extend this literature to consider politicians who leverage their institutional standing to influence the decisions of local field officials over whom they have no explicit authority. Using the case of the
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Community Foundations as Network Conveners: Structuring Collective Agency for Child Education and Development System Impact Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-04 Donna Sedgwick, Robin H Lemaire, Jessica Wirgau, Lauren K McKeague
The resource investment and flexibility necessary to support the development of collective agency among autonomous organizational actors can be substantial. Public agencies, with their rigid budget cycles and regulatory burdens, often struggle with providing the resources needed to forge this type of system building to address complex community issues. Community foundations, as anchor institutions
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Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007–2019) Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Benny Geys, Zuzana Murdoch, Rune J Sørensen
Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model of political selection, this article contributes to such debates by studying whether and how the incentives of public employees as both consumers and producers of public services
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Public-Sector Honesty and Corruption: Field Evidence from 40 Countries Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Markus Tepe, Omer Yair
This study presents a theoretical model of honest behavior in the public sector (public-sector honesty) and its relationship with corruption. We test this model empirically by utilizing and extending a unique data set of honest behavior of public- and private-sector workers across 40 countries, gathered in a field experiment conducted by Cohn et al. (N = 17,303). We find that public-sector honesty
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Competition, Ownership, and the Impact of Government Outsourcing on Employees Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Ole Helby Petersen, Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Yosef Bhatti, Kurt Houlberg
Government outsourcing to third-party vendors is widespread and intended to strengthen the organizational incentive to deliver public services more efficiently. However, it is unclear how outsourcing influences the public workforce, and little is known about the effect on employees who change from working for the government to working for the vendor receiving the outsourcing contract. In this article
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Administrative Groupings and Equality in Public Service Provision Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Sarah Yde Junge
Scarcity in public service agencies requires a prioritization of resources, and inherent to all prioritizations is a comparison of the cases. Despite the amount of research that has been conducted on the prioritization process, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the underlying comparison. Drawing on insight from the street-level bureaucracy literature, this study suggests that the administrative
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Exit, Voice, and Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Izabela Correa, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
Democratic backsliding has multiplied “unprincipled” political principals: governments with weak commitment to the public interest. Why do some bureaucrats engage in voice and guerrilla sabotage to thwart policies against the public interest under “unprincipled principals,” yet others do not? Despite its centrality in contemporary governance, this conundrum has not seen quantitative research. We address
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Comparing Systemic and Individual Sources of Racially Disparate Traffic Stop Outcomes Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Kelsey Shoub
The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor brought discussions of race and policing to the forefront in the summer of 2020 in the United States, spurring protests and calls for policing reform. However, enacting successful reforms curtailing racially biased policing requires understanding whether bias is widespread, likely tied to systemic sources, or the work of a few racist officers. This study
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Managing Diversity Differently: The External Environment and Cross-Sector Differences in Diversity Management Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Austin M McCrea, Ling Zhu, Morgen S Johansen
A growing literature identifies the external environment as a key driver of diversity management in frontline public services. With many public services spanning the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, the degree to which ownership moderates the link between the environment and diversity management practice is an important area that has received little attention. Using longitudinal data on nearly
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Do Minimum Charity Care Provision Requirements Increase Nonprofit Hospital Performance? Examining Hospitals’ Responses to Regulatory Changes Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Michah W Rothbart, Nara Yoon
Institutional form is believed to influence organizational behavior and performance in producing collective goods such as healthcare services. Recent efforts in the United States seek to increase healthcare services provided by hospitals, but it is unclear whether and how these organizations respond to the policy changes. In this study, we examine the extent to which nonprofit hospitals change their
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Do Cogovernance and CSOs Supplement Municipal Capacity for Service Delivery? An Assessment of Differences in Simple versus Complex Services Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Renzo de la Riva Agüero
Municipal governments in the Global South vary in their ability to provide not only complex social services, like environmentally proper solid waste disposal, but even simple services, like trash collection from the streets. This article examines whether variation in service provision outcomes is associated with service-specific municipal administrative capacity, locally embedded civil society organization
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Accountability and Affective Styles in Administrative Reporting: The Case of UNRWA, 1951–2020 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Ronny Patz, Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir, Klaus H Goetz
This contribution theorizes on the emergence of affective styles in the accountability reporting of public agencies. Under conditions of multiple accountability towards heterogeneous stakeholders, public agencies are expected to make increased use of sentiment in their reporting. Agencies’ differentiated modulation of positive and negative sentiment results in four ideal-typical affective styles: technocratic
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“It’s Not Over When It’s Over”―Post-Decision Arrangements and Empirical Legitimacy Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Jenny de Fine Licht, Mattias Agerberg, Peter Esaiasson
A chronic problem for democratic governments is generating legitimacy for policy decisions that go against substantial groups of citizens’ legitimate interests. The primary means of achieving this aim involve the arrangements through which policy decisions are made. Whereas research in the field has tended to focus on the arrangements leading up to a decision, this paper draws attention to developments
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Government Grants, Donors, and Nonprofit Performance Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Jason Coupet, Madeline Schehl
Nonprofits engaged in public service provision can receive funding from both donors and governments. Much of the nonprofit performance theory suggests that donors are unlikely to base donation decisions on nonprofit production. However, governments may prioritize performance in nonprofit funding decisions. We combine study internal production reports for the years 2010–2016 from 535 Habitat for Humanity
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Corrigendum to: Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Jager N, Newig J, Challies E, et al.
“Pathways to Implementation: Evidence on How Participation in Environmental Governance Impacts on Environmental Outcomes” by Nicolas W. Jager et al. (10.1093/jopart/muz034).
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The Professional Agency Narrative—Conceptualizing the Role of Professional Knowledge in Frontline Work Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Mathilde Cecchini, Gitte Sommer Harrits
The street-level bureaucracy literature teaches us that frontline workers draw on both policy logics and social, cultural, and personal logics in their work. This has been conceptualized as the state agency narrative and citizen agency narrative, and it is both well documented and well theorized. However, the literature on street-level bureaucracy and frontline work is remarkably silent on how to understand
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Finding Your Crowd: The Role of Government Level and Charity Type in Revenue Crowd-Out Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Nathan J Grasse, Elizabeth A M Searing, Daniel G Neely
The literature on the relationship between government funding and private donations finds evidence of both crowd-out (a reduction in private donations due to the receipt of government funding) and crowd-in (increased donations rather than a reduction). This study uses organizational-level data and information regarding funding from multiple levels of government in Canada to provide an important contribution