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There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Pierre Squevin, Valérie Pattyn, Jens Jungblut, Sonja Blum
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Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jesper Dahl Kelstrup, Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen
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Communicating climate change as a generational issue: experimental effects on youth worry, motivation and belief in collective action Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Shane Timmons, Ylva Andersson, Peter D. Lunn
Generations differ in their contribution to climate change and susceptibility to its effects. Contextualizing climate change as an intergenerational issue may therefore alter public engagement. We ...
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Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Max van Deursen, Aarti Gupta
In this article, we examine the contestations and compromises that underpin the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, with the aim to analyze whose climate action priorities are reflec...
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Contracting ‘person-centred’ working by results: street-level managers and frontline experiences in an outcomes-based contract Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Eleanor Carter, Franziska Rosenbach, Fernando Domingos, Felix-Anselm van Lier
Outcomes-based contracting (OBC) has been heralded as a mechanism for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of social programmes yet has persistently failed to deliver meaningful support for p...
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Crisis coordination in complex intergovernmental systems: The case of Australia Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Naim Kapucu, Andrew Parkin, Miriam Lumb, Russell Dippy
As the scale and intensity of disasters and crises continue to increase, planning and managing crises have become a critical policy and governance issue. Of particular importance to this topic is crisis coordination, as effective response and recovery support the continuity of operations of governments and businesses, and are essential to the economy, health, and public safety. This paper applies a
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The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Perri 6, Eva Heims
How does regulatory statehood develop from the regulatory work which governments have always done? This article challenges conventional views that regulatory statehood is achieved by transition to arm's length agencies and that it replaces court‐based enforcement or displaces legislatures in favor of less accountable executive power. To do so, we examine the major 19th‐century surge in development
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Reducing administrative burdens in an energy bill assistance program Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Michelle Graff
This article investigates the impact of categorical eligibility, a policy aimed at easing administrative burdens, on outcomes of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Through two-way fixed...
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A meta-analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Ed Gerrish, Mikhail Ivonchyk, Cleopatra Charles, Robert A. Greer, Temirlan T. Moldogaziev
State and local governments seek to save money through fiscal efficiency. One such mechanism widely studied in the literature is through the choice for financial underwriting of debt. The extant literature generally suggests that state and local governments can lower borrowing costs through a competitive method of sale. In a meta-analysis of 418 effects from 97 studies, we find that competitive sales
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Adaptive organizational network response in a crisis: The case of five European airports during the COVID-19 pandemic Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Doret de Rooij, Aura Timen, Jörg Raab
The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to the joint organizational response of private and public and here especially public health organizations. This is particularly true for airports as central connectors of global travel and trade. For five European airports, we analyzed the interorganizational response based on input from 66 of the 87 different airport partners, using two fictitious
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Unraveling spatial agglomeration patterns in agri-environmental schemes: Evidence from the improvement of steppe habitats in the Natura 2000 network in Catalonia (Spain) Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Cristina Pérez-Sánchez, Ana Beatriz Pierri-Daunt, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
The European payment for ecosystem services in the agricultural sector, or agri-environmental schemes (AES), have shown limited success in stopping biodiversity loss due to the mismatches between the scale at which they are adopted and the scale of ecological processes. This study analyzes the spatial distribution of farmer participation in the “Improvement of the steppe habitats of the Natura 2000
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Creating public value in frontline teams: an empirical exploration of shared leadership behaviour by frontline officials Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Lara van Osch, Sandra Groeneveld, Ben Kuipers
In this study, we aim to provide insight into the way in which frontline officials in teams employ leadership behaviour aimed at creating public value. We conducted 29 in-depth semi-structured narr...
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Land use scenarios for the development of a carbon-neutral energy supply – A case study from Southern Germany Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Stephan Bosch, Dominik Kienmoser
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Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Duncan J. Mayer
Despite a rich literature on nonprofit density, the founding and dissolution of nonprofit organizations remains poorly understood. This study explores the founding and dissolution in nonprofit populations including density dependence, resource concentration, government size, and hypothesizes that dissolution creates an entrepreneurial opportunity. The hypotheses are tested using county level data covering
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Non‐monetary sanctions as tax enforcement tools: Evaluating California's top 500 program J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Chad Angaretis, Brian Galle, Paul R. Organ, Allen Prohofsky
Many U.S. states and countries around the world use non‐monetary sanctions, including public disclosure, license suspension, and withholding of other government‐provided benefits or privileges, to encourage tax compliance. Little is known about the effectiveness of these programs. Using administrative tax microdata from California's “Top 500” program, we study whether notices warning of the imminent
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Creation of state organizations: experiments with ideal-type reform models in a non-Western country Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Abiha Zahra, Geert Bouckaert
By studying organizational creations, this article documents the reform trajectory of a non-Western country from 1947 to 2018, using a comparative analytical framework for the operationalization of...
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Burdens on the gateway to the state: Administrative burdens in the registration of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Laure‐lise Robben, Rik Peeters, Arjan Widlak
Population registries are the gateway to public services, benefits, and rights. However, despite clear formal rules and procedures, people eligible for registration may still face administrative burdens in obtaining access. In this article, we study the case of the municipal registration of people who experience homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands—a group that typically suffers from administrative
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Unraveling how intermediary-beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Cynthia L. Michel
As a result of policy growth, implementing agencies often face new mandates without the necessary capacity expansion to comply with, thus resorting to intermediaries. However, intermediaries are not innocuous to the implementation process, especially when they are expected to play the double role of target and intermediary, responsible for translating/interpreting regulation for beneficiaries. How
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Framing contestation and public influence on policymakers: evidence from US artificial intelligence policy discourse Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Daniel S Schiff
As artificial intelligence (AI) policy has begun to take shape in recent years, policy actors have worked to influence policymakers by strategically promoting issue frames that define the problems and solutions policymakers should attend to. Three such issue frames are especially prominent, surrounding AI’s economic, geopolitical, and ethical dimensions. Relatedly, while technology policy is traditionally
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Unethical leadership, moral compensation, and ethical followership: Evidence from a survey experiment with Chilean public servants Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Christian Schuster, Javier Fuenzalida, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling
Numerous studies associate ethical leadership with ethical behavior in the public sector. By contrast, the effects of unethical leadership in the public sector have largely not been explored. Yet, unethical leadership need not beget unethical followership. Instead, we theorize that some bureaucrats may perceive unethical leadership as a moral threat and respond to it with moral compensation and greater
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It takes (at least) two to tango: Investigating interactional dynamics between clients and caseworkers in public encounters Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Matthias Döring, Nicolas Drathschmidt, Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen
Public encounters are an essential element in citizen–state interactions. Yet, we know very little about the interactional dynamics between clients and street‐level bureaucrats. By analyzing data from interviews and participatory observations of public encounters in a social security administration context, we propose a typology of public encounters based on clients' and employees' preparedness that
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Do government performance signals affect citizen satisfaction? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Weijie Wang, Taek Kyu Kim
Previous studies have confirmed the causal effect of performance information on citizen satisfaction, but they were primarily conducted in survey experimental settings that featured hypothetical and abstract scenarios and primed respondents to look at certain aspects of performance information. Whether the causal effects hold in the real world, which is a much more complex information environment,
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One issue, two interpretations: unpacking the role of issue definition in e-government implementation Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ziteng Fan
Current research suggests that the way in which governments interpret e-government has the potential to affect e-government implementation but lacks systematic exploration. To address this gap, thi...
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OK computer: applying the public service logic on digital health services Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Barbara Zyzak, Pål Erling Martinussen
Recent attention to public service logic (PSL) has resulted in the creation of several theoretical guidelines for value creation. This empirical study applies PSL framework to explore how PSL is fi...
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Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Justin M. Stritch, Mogens Jin Pedersen, Ignacio Pezo
Crowdsourcing platforms such as MTurk and Prolific have emerged as data sources for researchers in the social sciences. This article delves into the past, present, and future use of crowdsourced data in public administration scholarship. Through a review of published articles in top public administration journals (years 2013–2022), we uncover a general growth in the use of crowdsourced data over time
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Governance by artifacts: Theory and evidence on materiality of administrative burdens Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Muhammad Azfar Nisar, Ayesha Masood
Administrative burden research has contributed to improved understanding of citizens' experiences while accessing state services. However, the significance of the material infrastructure within which citizen–administrator interactions take place remains largely absent from this line of research. To help address this research gap, this article uses ethnographic data to discuss the influence of material
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Evolution of urban land and population system coupling micro–dynamics and macro-stability: Trends and paths Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Weiqian Lei, Limin Jiao, Zhibang Xu, Xinhua Zhu
Cities are constantly dynamics, but emerge the stability of urban systems as evidenced by robust urban scaling. Both properties serve as necessary perspectives for understanding the evolution of cities and the complexity of urban systems. However, the evolution trends and mechanisms behind the above relationships, particularly concerning geographic processes, remain to be explored in depth. In this
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Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Mariya Aleksandrova, Laura Kuhl, Daniele Malerba
Social protection has gained increasing attention in global climate policy due to its potential to contribute to low-carbon, just and climate-resilient development. Unlocking climate finance for so...
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Land tenure administration in Iraq: Quantitative analysis and a comprehensive evaluation Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Laith H.M. Al-ossmi
The present study underscores its novel methodology, employing a mathematical extrapolation as a guiding framework to investigate and scrutinize the Iraqi land tenancy system. Remarkably, this innovative approach stands distinct from preceding research endeavors. Notably, its application holds potential for facilitating a comprehensive inquiry into land tenure management facets across in Iraqi jurisdictions
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Response to Diane W. Schanzenbach J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Reeves
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The case for helping boys and men in education J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Reeves
When feminist scholars cite a “gendered injustice,” it was once a safe bet that they would be referring to inequities disfavoring girls or women. No longer. The feminist philosopher Cordelia Fine, for example, now uses the term to describe the wide gaps in U.S. education where, as a group, boys and men are lagging behind their female peers (Fine, 2023). To say that the male–female education differences
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Help boys, but first do no harm J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Diane W. Schanzenbach
In his recent book, Richard Reeves (2022) brought to the fore the important challenges faced by men and boys. The rapidly changing economy and evolving social norms have been particularly hard on men, resulting in too many of them—one in nine prime-age men in 2022—not in the labor force. This in turn influences a range of additional social maladies including fewer marriages (and fewer children living
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Minding the (achievement) gap J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Diane W. Schanzenbach
Fundamentally, Reeves and I agree about the importance of boys’ educational under-achievement and the need to openly discuss and address it. I emphasize that when boys fail to thrive in school, it has downstream consequences not only for their own lives but for our nation's economic growth. Further, boys’ success need not come at the expense of girls’ success. This is not zero-sum; we all benefit when
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Conflicting economic policies and mental health: Evidence from the UK national living wage and benefits freeze J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Lateef Akanni, Otto Lenhart, Alec Morton
This study evaluates the mental health effects of two simultaneously implemented but conflicting policies in the UK: the National Living Wage and the benefits freeze policy. We employed the Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021) DID estimator to evaluate the heterogeneous policy effects, and we found that NLW leads to positive improvements in mental health. Also, we find the negative impact of the benefits
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The relationships between land tenure, cattle production, and climate change – A systematic literature review Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Manuel Francisco Díaz Baca, Leonardo Moreno Lerma, Natalia Triana Ángel, Stefan Burkart
Climate change is one of humanity’s greatest concerns because of its environmental, economic, and social impacts. Our study addresses land tenure (expressed through agrarian reforms) and traditional livestock farming (countered by practices such as silvopastoral systems) among the numerous causes of this phenomenon. To do this, we conducted a systematic literature review, based on empirical evidence
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Understanding landowner participation in the Conservation Reserve Program in the U.S. High Plains region Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Bhawna Thapa, Binod P. Chapagain, Scott T. McMurry, Loren M. Smith, Omkar Joshi
Understanding the array of financial and non-financial decision-making drivers of private landowners with vulnerable cropland for enrolling in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is critical for the success and cost-effectiveness of agricultural policies that aim to create long-term agri-environmental security. Following the underpinnings of the Theory of
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Advancing understanding of the linkages between local land policy interventions and the responsiveness of housing supply: Intervention mechanisms in the Finnish context Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Tea Lönnroth, Pauliina Krigsholm, Heidi Falkenbach, Elias Oikarinen
Land policy interventions are important ways for municipalities to implement their spatial development objectives. Such interventions may, however, generate both intended and unintended effects to housing supply and its responsiveness. It is therefore essential to better understand how and through what kind of mechanisms local land policy interventions can influence the quantity of housing supply.
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Does one plus one always equal two? Examining complementarities in educational interventions J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Umut Özek
Public policies targeting individuals based on need often impose disproportionate burden on communities that lack the resources to implement these policies effectively. In an elementary school setting, I examine whether community‐level interventions focusing on similar needs and providing resources to build capacity in these communities could improve outcomes by improving the effectiveness of individual‐level
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Evaluating policy coherence and integration for adaptation: the case of EU policies and Arctic cross-border climate change impacts Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Paula Kivimaa, Mikael Hildén, Timothy R. Carter, Claire Mosoni, Samuli Pitzén, Marja Helena Sivonen
The impacts of climate change materialize in different ways and are of varying magnitudes at different locations around the world. Adaptation is a global policy challenge because some of those impa...
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Characterizing urban spatial structure through built form typologies: A new framework using clustering ensembles Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jianqi Li, Chaosu Li
Prior research on urban form typologies has largely relied on qualitative classification methods, resulting in subjective and limited analyses. Recently, the emerging data-intensive studies often use a single clustering algorithm and parameter setting, raising concerns about the reliability of the findings. This paper introduces a novel clustering analytical framework for conducting typological studies
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Determinants of the economy in multistrata agroforestry in Ethiopia Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Pirjetta Waldén, Mari Eronen, Janne Kaseva, Mesele Negash, Helena Kahiluoto
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Do political and social accountability arrangements increase citizens’ legitimacy perceptions? A vignette experiment in the Netherlands Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lars Brummel, Lisanne de Blok
This study investigates the effects of social and political accountability arrangements on citizens’ legitimacy perceptions. Accountability arrangements are often suggested to improve the perceived...
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Mapping of community perspectives on land acquisition for biofuel investment in northern Ghana Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Moses Mananyi Kupabado, Akwasi Mensah-Bonsu
We apply Q methodology, a model with a qualitative background, albeit with rigorous quantitative analysis, to map community perspectives (concerns, attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and perceptions) towards the acquisition of communal land for a biofuel project in northern Ghana. We extracted four community perspectives, in the order of importance as follows: (1) pro-biofuel project, but pessimistic (2)
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Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Clair Cooper, Niall Cunningham, Louise J. Bracken, Marcus Collier
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social
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Araguaia biodiversity corridor cost benefit analysis: Large scale restoration and sustainable agribusiness in Amazon and Cerrado Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Andrea Lucchesi, Madhu Khanna, Paula C. Pereda, Keyi A. Ussami, Patricia G.C. Ruggiero, Victor S. Dornelas, Tess Lallement
Ecosystem restoration is an important tool for reducing ecosystem loss and contribute to diminish the negative impacts from deriving from climate change, but can be very costly. This paper focuses on the cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of recovering almost one million hectares of legally protected areas in the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor (Brazil) following the Brazilian Forest code
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Understanding municipal fiscal health: A model for local governments in the USA. By Craig S.Maher, SunghoPark, Bruce D.McDonaldIII, Steven C.Deller, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 350. $61.99 (paperback) and $160 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781032055428 Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Andrey Yushkov
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The Oxford handbook of governance and public management for social policy. By Karen J.Baehler, Washington: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 1064. $29.09 (soft cover), $144.92 (hardcover). pISBN: 9780190916329; eISBN: 9780190916350 Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 V. Kalyani
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Revealing urban residents’ intention to pay for the greening of farmland in the urban fringe by extending the theory of planned behavior: Insights from payment for ecosystem services Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Kangjie Zhang, Fuduo Li, Huanli Li, Changbin Yin
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A New Measure of U.S. Public Agency Policy Discretion Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Natalie L Smith, Susan Webb Yackee
The U.S. bureaucracy routinely issues major public policy decisions that affect Americans’ lives. Government agency leaders make those decisions based on a subjective understanding of their agency’s available policy discretion. Over time, discretion has become a prominent theoretical construct in the bureaucratic politics and public administration literatures, but it is rarely measured directly. In
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Effective climate finance coordination? Stakeholder perceptions, climate change policy implementation and the underlying political economy factors in Kenya Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Millicent Apiyo Omala, Eric Kioko, Marie Gravesen
The last two decades have seen an increase in climate financing channelled to the Global South from multiple sources, putting a spotlight on climate finance coordination challenges in recipient cou...
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The role of resource allocation for regime performance in networks for local integration policies Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 E. Diels, S. Fierascu, S. Oosterlynck, A. Hondeghem
Combining theoretical insights on complementary resources, collaborative capacity and regime performance of networks, this study aims to understand how resource allocation impacts the robustness an...
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Adapting to Organizational Change in a Public Sector High-Reliability Context: The Role of Negative Affect and Normative Commitment to Change Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Armin Pircher Verdorfer, Gerco van Ginkel
This study aims to investigate the impact of organizational change in a public sector high- reliability context. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, our theoretical model posits that change can be stressful and cause negative affective reactions toward the change, which undermine adjustment and post-change functioning. A quantitative case study was carried out on a Dutch air force squadron
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Why data about people are so hard to govern Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Wendy H. Wong, Jamie Duncan, David A. Lake
How data on individuals are gathered, analyzed, and stored remains largely ungoverned at both domestic and global levels. We address the unique governance problem posed by digital data to provide a framework for understanding why data governance remains elusive. Data are easily transferable and replicable, making them a useful tool. But this characteristic creates massive governance problems for all
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Governing the West Bank: What Role Do Elite Level Civil Servants Actively Represent? Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.072) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Karl O’Connor, Usamah Shahwan
Representative bureaucracy is used to understand original data, shedding light on the administrative side of the politico-administrative axis in one part of one of the world’s most contentious and divisive conflicts: the Palestinian Israeli conflict. We theorize and test six different theoretically existent roles of elite level bureaucrat (ELB) role conceptions in the West Bank. Using Q Methodology
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Investigating the interactions between spatiotemporal land use/land cover dynamics and private land ownership Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Ismail Ercument Ayazli
Increasing population caused by migration from rural to urban leads the cities, whose ownership is primarily public, to spread over forest areas and agricultural lands in their periphery. Today, simulation models created by geospatial data mining (GDM) techniques are frequently used to model the effects of uncontrolled urban sprawl on land use/land cover (LULC) changes. However, most of these models
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Incorporating indigenous boundaries into Australian Law Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Glenn Campbell, Lachlan Pirie
Indigenous-derived boundaries have been existent since time immemorial in Australia. The landmark decision recognised the continued existence of Indigenous customary title under the common law and the Commonwealth codified the processes for recognition and extinguishment. After thirty years of ongoing recognition, Australia is moving into the implementation and leveraging phases of legislative Native
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Socioeconomic and political settings for the land development decreasing urban green. Inside view from Moscow Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Konstantin Zakharov, Andrzej Mizgajski
The analysis shows the impact of socioeconomic factors and civil freedom on allocating green areas for investments. The research was conducted for the period 1992–2020 using the example of Moscow as the metropolis in a country with a robust centralized political system. Quantitative research methods included recognizing changes in land use, selected socioeconomic parameters, and indicators measuring