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Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Aske Halling
Research has shown that administrative burdens significantly influence benefit uptake across various welfare programs in the U.S. and beyond. However, much of the existing research has focused primarily on program take-up, leaving a gap in our understanding of how burdens affect the ongoing use of welfare benefits. To address this gap, we utilize a regression discontinuity design to analyze how the
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Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public ServiceBy James L.Perry, Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 325 pp. £30.99 (paperback); £99.99 (hardback); $41.99 (ebook). hISBN: 9781108843256; pISBN: 9781108824132; eISBN: 9781108915236 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Adrian Ritz, Lorenza Micacchi
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Do Vulnerable Citizens (Really) Perceive Higher Bureaucracy Costs? Testing a Key Claim of the Administrative Burden Framework Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Rick Vogel, Anne Dahlweg, Fabian Hattke
A key claim of the administrative burden framework is that vulnerable citizens are more affected by administrative burden than others. We test this assumption using the life events survey in Germany, an official data record covering more than 10,000 administrative encounters involving more than 5000 citizens. We find support only for the psychological costs of perceived discrimination, whereas neither
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Body‐worn cameras, police arrests, and bureaucratic discretion: A large‐scale causal analysis across the United States Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Andrea M. Headley, Daniel B. Baker, Inkyu Kang
Drawing on the literature on bureaucratic discretion, this study conducts a large‐scale, nationwide causal analysis of the effects of body‐worn cameras (BWC) in the United States (US). It employs a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach using 12 years of panel data (2008–2019) covering 697 local police agencies. The findings indicate that BWC adoption had no significant effect on White
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Great Gatsby and the Global SouthBy DidingSakri, AndySumner, Arief AnshoryYusuf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 75 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN 9781009382724 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Muhammad Husein Heikal, Sandi Asep Ramdani
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Province of Origin, Decision‐Making Bias, and Responses to Bureaucratic Versus Algorithmic Decision‐Making Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Ge Wang, Zhejun Zhang, Shenghua Xie, Yue Guo
As algorithmic decision‐making (ADM) becomes prevalent in certain public sectors, its interaction with traditional bureaucratic decision‐making (BDM) evolves, especially in contexts shaped by regional identities and decision‐making biases. To explore these dynamics, we conducted two survey experiments within traffic enforcement scenarios, involving 4816 participants across multiple provinces. Results
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Medium and Message by Mail: A Field Experiment to Promote Low‐Income Assistance Programs Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Manuel P. Teodoro, Jean Smith
Limited awareness impedes take‐up in low‐income utility assistance programs, which often suffer from low uptake. This study uses a field experiment to evaluate direct mail as a means of reducing learning burdens and thereby increasing participation in financial assistance programs offered by a large American sewer utility. Employing a conjoint design, we sent customers mailings that varied by medium
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Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Xue Meng, Chaoping Li
Performance information (PI) has received significant attention in public administration research. However, evaluating the impact of public sector PI on stakeholders is challenging due to varying empirical results. Drawing on information propagation theory, as well as social and cognitive psychology, we conduct a meta‐analysis to examine the effect of public sector PI. Using 461 effect sizes from 75
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Where power and scholarship collide: Gender and coauthorship in public administration research Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Amy E. Smith, Norma M. Riccucci, Kimberley R. Isett, Leisha DeHart‐Davis, Rebekah St. Clair Sims
Publishing is a source of capital and power in academia, and coauthoring is a common way to publish. However, studies in public administration have not yet examined the structure of coauthorship patterns, how these patterns have evolved over time, or the extent to which these patterns are gendered. We use bibliometric data to examine coauthorship in public administration scholarship over four decades
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Choosing the right crowdsourcing strategy: Implications for governments' crowdsourcing initiatives Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Ana Colovic, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Jean‐Louis Liévin
Building on recent advances in crowdsourcing research, we argue that, when using crowdsourcing, governments should accurately select the crowd they wish to engage with, depending on the problem to be solved. While targeting a large crowd may be common, it is not always the most appropriate: it can waste significant resources without necessarily producing satisfactory results. We contend that the nature
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Promoting performance in multilevel governance and delivery of homelessness services Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Jordy Coutin, Juliet Musso, J. Woody Stanley
The current study contributes to practice in interagency performance management through a study of the system of federal grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to local Continuum of Care (CoC). The mixed methods design synthesizes a multivariate analysis of the relationship between grantee performance and funding levels, a national survey of CoCs and follow‐up interviews
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Citizens' perceptions of the legitimacy of independent agencies: The effects of expertise‐based and reputation‐sourced authority Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-03 Dovilė Rimkutė, Honorata Mazepus
Legitimacy is a central concern for independent agencies tasked with shaping policies. While expertise‐based and reputation‐sourced authority bases are assumed to be relevant for agency legitimacy, their individual and joint effects on citizens' perceptions lack comprehensive examination. To address this gap, the study integrates insights from bureaucratic politics, bureaucratic reputation, and cognitive
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Reducing horizontal neglect in local government: The role of informal institutions Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-27 Jostein Askim, Kurt Houlberg, Søren Serritzlew
The problem of “horizontal neglect” is fundamental to decentralization. However, while individual local authorities may lack incentives to consider the benefits and costs that their actions have on others, they are not always indifferent to these spillover effects. The study focuses on a clear case of horizontal neglect, namely the tendency of local authorities to overspend prior to merging. By employing
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Public entrepreneurial opportunities: How institutional logics shape public servants' opportunity evaluation Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-26 Petter Gullmark, Tommy Høyvarde Clausen, Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Gry Agnete Alsos
Which entrepreneurial opportunities do public servants find appealing, and what influences their evaluation? Our investigation of 14 Norwegian municipal entrepreneurial projects indicates that public servants positively assess the attractiveness of welfare, economic, and participatory opportunities. Their evaluations are shaped by public sector logics. Our contribution is twofold: first, we connect
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Celebrating 85 Years Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-26
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Issue Information Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-26
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-26
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Reducing homelessness: An intergovernmental challenge Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-21 Richard F. Callahan, Steve Redburn, Lauren Larson, Brad Riley
To increase understanding of the intergovernmental dimension of addressing homelessness, the National Academy of Public Administration in 2022 formed a Working Group of Academy Fellows. In researching three case studies that have had a measure of success, local leaders reached across geographic and functional boundaries to forge agreement on shared goals and joint strategy. Five basic tasks at the
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The Asian American experience in the federal workforce: How employees navigate the complexities of racialization Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-21 Emma Northcott, Sheela Pandey, Sanjay K. Pandey, Eiko Strader
The Asian American experience in the federal workforce remains poorly understood. This qualitative study, based on interviews with 41 Asian American federal workers, examines how this heterogeneous minority group experiences racialization in the U.S. federal government. The analysis of interview data revealed five aggregate dimensions that shape the experiences of Asian American federal employees:
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Compliance burden versus program integrity protection: A survey experiment on citizen attitudes toward administrative documentation requirements in public service policy Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-19 Rasmus Stenderup, Mogens Jin Pedersen
Public services often require formal documentation from citizens or public employees. Although these administrative requirements are commonly viewed as burdensome, they play a critical role in safeguarding program integrity. Drawing from a pre‐registered survey experiment conducted among Danish residents (n = 2004), this article examines citizen attitudes toward policy reforms that either intensify
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Governance and global collaboration in non‐democratic countries Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Hamid E. Ali
The concept of good governance (GG) has emerged from the corridors of global institutions, influencing changes, particularly in non‐democratic countries. This paper uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to address the following question: To what extent does global collaboration (GC) impact governance in non‐democratic countries? The paper incorporates proxies for GC, more deeply exploring
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Editorial: A journal update and note of appreciation Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-07 Katherine Willoughby, Jos Raadschelders, Hongtao Yi, Preston Philips
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Citizen-Centered Public Policy Making in Turkey. By Volkan Göçoğlu , Naci Karkin (Eds.), Cham: Springer Cham. 2023. pp. 476. €129.99 (hardcover); €106.99 (electronic), ISBN (hardcover): 9783031353635; ISBN (electronic): 9783031353642 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Atahan Demirkol
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Third-Party Governance: Using Third Parties to Deliver Governmental Goods and Services By Jessica N. Terman (Ed.), New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. p. 209 $51.99 (paperback). ISBN (print) 9781032261775 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Alperen Zararsiz
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The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century. By Alasdair Roberts , Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2024. pp. 192. $24.95 CAD (paperback). ISBN: 9780228022008 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-03 Eric S. Zeemering
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Street-Level Public Servants Case Studies for a New Generation of Public Administration. By Sara R. Rinfret (Eds). New York: Routledge. 2024. p. 220, Paperback $48.95 paperback edition, $170.00 Hardback edition, $36.71 eBook, ISBN 9781032417509 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-03 Md Eyasin Ul Islam Pavel
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Bureaucratic prioritizing among clients in the eyes of the public: Experimental evidence from three countries Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Paw H. Hansen, Mogens Jin Pedersen, Jurgen Willems
In response to workloads and service demands, frontline workers often prioritize among their clients when delivering public services. This article examines the implications of such bureaucratic prioritization on democratic governance, specifically the public's attitudes toward how frontline workers prioritize among clients. Using data from a pre‐registered, rank‐based conjoint survey experiment conducted
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No country for model minorities: Evidence of discrimination against Asian noncitizen immigrants in the U.S. nursing home market Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Chengxin Xu, Danbee Lee
Although public administration scholars have long been studying discriminative behavior of frontline servants of public service organizations, whether and to what extent Asians and noncitizen immigrants may suffer from frontline discrimination in the United States lacks evidential support. To fill this gap, we conducted a corresponding field experiment in the U.S. nursing home market (N = 6428). Our
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Being good and doing good in behavioral policymaking Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-29 Stuart Mills
Libertarian paternalism (LP) draws on behavioral economics to advocate for noncoercive, nonfiscal policy interventions to improve individual well‐being. However, growing criticism is encouraging behavioral policymaking—long dominated by LP approaches—to consider more structural and fiscally impactful interventions as valid responses to behavioral findings. Keynesian social philosophy allows behavioral
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Executive policymaking influence via the administrative apparatus Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-22 Susan Webb Yackee
Elected chief executives in the United States—that is, governors and presidents—routinely attempt to achieve their domestic policy goals by influencing the decision‐making of public agencies. I provide empirical assessments of the two most frequently theorized elected executive influence tactics: political appointments and the centralization of agency decision‐making. Using an expansive survey of the
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The evolving practice of UK Government ministers Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-21 Leighton Andrews, Sarah Gilmore
How can understanding the practice of government ministers help us to understand changes in public administration over time? Interviews with former UK ministers suggest that their practice has changed over the last 25 years. Their executive role has been accentuated as they have come to emphasize the importance of delivery and implementation to policy making. Reasons for that are examined, and consideration
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First impressions: An analysis of professional stereotypes and their impact on sector attraction Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-19 Mette Jakobsen, Fabian Homberg
Public sector professionals are often negatively portrayed with ascriptions such as “ineffective” and “lazy.” Such negative connotations might disadvantage public sector organizations when trying to attract applicants, as it can reflect negatively on individuals' social identities. With this pre‐registered experimental study, we examine stereotypes of public and private sector workers with and without
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Evaluating use of evidence in U.S. state governments: A conjoint analysis Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-18 Chengxin Xu, Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Shuping Wang, Weston Merrick, Patrick Carter
Evidence‐based practice (EBP) has become a global public management movement to improve constituents' lives through government decision making. However, how civil servants' decisions are influenced by scientific evidence remains unanswered. In this study, we answer two related research questions: (1) How do different elements of evidence impact civil servants' program preferences? (2) How does the
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How scholars can support government analytics: Combining employee surveys with more administrative data sources towards a better understanding of how government functions Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-15 Daniel Rogger, Christian Schuster
With the digitization of administrative systems, governments have gained access to rich data about their administrative operations. How governments leverage such data to improve their administration—what we call government analytics—will shape government effectiveness. This article summarizes a conceptual framework which showcases that data can help diagnose and improve all components of a public administration
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How does government feel? Toward a theory of institutional pathos in public administration Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 John Boswell, Jack Corbett, Dennis C. Grube, Mari‐Klara Stein
In the study of policy and administration, emotions are largely conceived as an exogenous factor that impacts on institutions and processes. Still ignored are the emotions felt and performed not just individually by civil servants, but collectively within government organizations. This article turns to insights on emotions from organizational studies to offer a conceptual framework through which to
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Political accountability and social equity in public budgeting: Examining the role of local institutions Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Wenchi Wei
This paper examines how local institutions in U.S. municipalities can affect budget allocations for socially disadvantaged groups, specifically focusing on eight key institutions related to electoral rules, power dynamics, and bureaucratic authority. Additionally, we develop a composite index to assess the overall level of (de)politicization within the local institutional framework. Theoretically,
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Legal status and refugees' perceptions of institutional justice: The role of communication quality Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-13 Emily Frank, Anton Nivorozhkin
What factors influence refugees' perceptions of justice in bureaucratic institutions? As global migration movements draw increasing attention, migrants' experiences as constituents in destination countries merit further research. Drawing evidence from the 2018 survey of refugees participating in the German Socio‐Economic Panel, this article examines the role of legal status in shaping perceptions of
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Testing the effects of merit appointments and bureaucratic autonomy on governmental performance: Evidence from African bureaucracies Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Sergio Fernandez, Faisal Cheema
Appointing bureaucrats based on merit and protecting them from excessive political interference have become bedrocks of modern bureaucracy. Populist leaders throughout the world, however, are looking to undermine merit systems and politicize bureaucracies. This study analyzes the impact of merit‐based appointments and bureaucratic autonomy on service delivery effectiveness, using longitudinal data
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Managing cyberattacks in wartime: The case of Ukraine Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-08 Iryna Fyshchuk, Mette Strange Noesgaard, Jeppe Agger Nielsen
Cybersecurity specialists face continual challenges in protecting organizations and societies from ever‐evolving cyberattacks. These challenges intensify dramatically in the context of war, yet our understanding of cyberattacks during wartime is limited. This is in part because it is difficult to gather information about cyberattacks and cybersecurity in highly tense wartime environments. Against this
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Socioeconomic Disparities, Service Equity, and Citizen Satisfaction: Cross‐National Evidence Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Miyeon Song, Seung‐Ho An, Sun Gue (Susan) Yang
The literature on citizen satisfaction has predominantly focused on the key factors of service quality, with scant attention paid to the role of equity. Furthermore, these studies often rely on a single demographic identity within a single country, limiting their scope. This study aims to address these gaps by examining how outcome disparities based on socioeconomic status (SES) affect satisfaction
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Strategic program management: Performance accountability driving use in national governments Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 Evan M. Berman, Eko Prasojo, Reza Fathurrahman, André Samartini, Geoff Plimmer, Meghna Sabharwal, Vinicius Neiva, Muhamad Imam Alfie Syarien, Desy Hariyati, Debie Puspasari, Fajar Wardani Wijayanti, Julyan Ferdiansyah
Strategic program management (SPM) is an approach for advancing the aspirations of programs and their impact. While programs are omnipresent in government, concerns exist that they are not always strategically managed. Studies that examine SPM are lacking. This study defines and conceptualizes SPM, examines it in two national governments (Brazil and Indonesia), and focuses on felt performance accountability
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“It's all about trust!” a multilevel model of the effect of servant leadership on firefighters' group task performance, adaptivity and emotional exhaustion Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Anthony Perrier, Assâad El Akremi, Caroline Manville, Mathieu Molines
How and why does servant leaders' behavior influence both performance (individual and collective) and emotional exhaustion within dynamic and extreme environments such as those of firefighters? We develop and test a multilevel model that integrates the principles of servant leadership with social exchange theory to explore how servant leadership positively influences collective task performance and
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Celebrating 84 Years Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-17
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Issue Information Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-17
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-17
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At their fingertips: What is the impact of online reporting of domestic violence? Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Marylis C. Fantoni
Global reports indicate that 307 million women have suffered physical or sexual intimate partner violence during the last 12 months. Yet, chronic underreporting of domestic violence (DV) is still a reality in the United States and worldwide. The process of going to a police station and reporting DV is extremely burdensome, leading to numerous psychological effects on the victim and lost opportunity
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A taste for government employment also rests on its political flavor Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Sharon Gilad, Raanan Sulitzeanu‐Kenan, David Levi‐Faur
The global experience of political polarization, and politicians' attacks on democratic institutions, render individuals' identification with the governing coalition, or with its opposition, a likely antecedent of their attraction to work in government. This article examines to what extent individuals' partisan alignment with the governing coalition, and perceptions of its actions as a threat to democracy
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The role of target populations in resident support for local collaboration Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Vaiva Kalesnikaite, Milena I. Neshkova, Gregory A. Porumbescu
The characteristics of populations benefiting from collaboration are mostly regarded as contextual factors in collaborative theory and research. Drawing on policy design and distributive justice theories, this study seeks to understand how public support for collaboration varies depending on the characteristics of the target population that benefits from collective action. The analysis demonstrates
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Regulatory offsetting in advanced democracies Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Yves Steinebach, Markus Hinterleitner, Xavier Fernández‐i‐Marín
The growth of rules in modern democracies burdens citizens, businesses, and administrative bodies. To address this, many governments have implemented so‐called “regulatory offsetting schemes,” requiring the removal of existing rules and regulations for each new one introduced. However, systematic knowledge on which countries have adopted these schemes and their specific designs remains lacking. Our
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Technology and women's empowerment. By Ewa Lechman , New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 279. $52.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-367-49371-4 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 Aulia Riski, Amalia Adiningtia, Devi Wahyu Utami, Nadhea Aziizatun Nabillah, Akhmad Sururi
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Dilemmas in public management in Greater China and Australia: Rising tensions but common challenges. By Andrew Podger , Hon S. Chan , Tsai-Tsu Su (Eds.), Canberra: ANU Press (Australian National University). 2023. pp. 588. USD 58.80 (paperback). ISBN: 9781760465735 (print)/9781760465742 (online, free). https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/dilemmas-public-management-greater-china-australia Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Evan M. Berman
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Working as equals: Relational egalitarianism and the workplace. By Julian David Jonker , Grant J. Rozeboom (Eds.), New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 272. £71.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780197634295 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 B. V. E. Hyde
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Building an evidence engine to promote more responsive government Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Ioana Munteanu, Kathryn E. Newcomer, Clifton Best
Public agencies require timely and reliable evidence to adapt operations and strategies quickly to effectively tackle unanticipated challenges in service to the American people. Federal agencies are generally not well equipped to take full advantage of the resources they own to effectively align with evidence needs. Guidance has been issued to fill this gap, yet federal agencies have not fully adopted
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From performance to morality: How politicians frame bureaucracy, its organizations, and public sector employees Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Jessy Hendriks, Koen Damhuis, Sjors Overman
Politicians frequently voice criticisms vis‐à‐vis bureaucracy, its organizations, and its employees. Previous studies point at the negative impact of this “bureaucratic bashing” on public sector morale, recruitment, retention, and citizen perceptions. Yet, systematic evidence on bashing remains sparse, with even less known about its counterpart: bureaucratic praising. This article aims to fill this
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The three ages of government: From the person, to the group, to the world. By Jos C. N. Raadschelders (Ed.), Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2020. pp. 316. Paper: $29.95 Hardcover: $55. Also available online (free). ISBN: 978-0-472-03854-1 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-22 David H. Rosenbloom
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Strategic public value(s) governance: A systematic literature review and framework for analysis Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Sara Thabit, Alessandro Sancino, Luca Mora
This article offers evidence‐based understanding of public value creation in multi‐actor collaborations by presenting the results of a systematic literature review of empirical studies published within the public administration field. Specifically, it focuses on two primary research questions: How do multi‐actor collaborations generate public value(s)? What types of public value(s) are created by these
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Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-15 Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, Patrick Carter
Leveraging a three-state survey of 323 civil servants and 36 interviews, representing blue and red states, this university-government-nonprofit collaborative research project aims to better understand how civil servants access and use evidence in their decision-making process. Our findings show that 54% of respondents find evidence-based practices (EBPs) useful in making budget, policy, and contracting
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Using technology to reduce learning costs and improve program comprehension: Lessons from a survey experiment on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Stephanie Walsh, Gregory A. Porumbescu, Andrea Hetling
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance to those in need, and while the program reaches many who are eligible, program participation falls short of reaching all who are eligible. One factor contributing to this gap in participation is difficulty understanding program eligibility, a common challenge with means‐tested benefit programs. Governments have attempted
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Impact of low‐performance signals on employee fraud in public organizations: Evidence from a pay‐for‐performance context Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Taek Kyu Kim
Employee fraud, defined as the misuse of organizational resources for personal financial gain, has long been a serious issue in public organizations, risking deteriorated performance outcomes. Although previous public administration research has discussed organizational cheating related to organizational performance, we need to inquire further about employee fraudulent behaviors across public organizations
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User acceptance of strategic planning: Evidence from Northern European municipalities Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Bert George, Dag Ingvar Jacobsen, Jan‐Erik Johanson, Åge Johnsen, Elias Pekkola
Strategic planning is core to public administration at all governmental levels. Evidence suggests that when conducted well strategic planning impacts several performance outcomes. Yet, public administration and strategy scholars have argued that strategic planning is not only a technical procedure. Its success is contingent upon the people involved in strategic planning. This study investigates strategic