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Frictions on Both sides of the Counter? A Study of Red Tape Among Street-Level Bureaucrats and Administrative Burden Among Their Clients Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jonas Krogh Madsen
Administrative burden research shows that onerous and dysfunctional policy design can have detrimental outcomes among policy recipients. But less is known about the intermediary role played by the street-level bureaucrats who enforce these policies in practice. Using two separate surveys of 775 unemployment benefit recipients and 107 counselors in the Danish unemployment benefit system, I find that
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The Hierarchical Configurations of Policy Networks: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Urban Transport Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Julie Runde Krogstad, Jarle Trondal
This study sheds light on a commonly overlooked aspect in network literature: the potential for hierarchized behavior within networks. Providing a longitudinal case study of decision-making behavior in urban transport policy networks, the study also adds to calls for longitudinal studies in the field of public administration. By analyzing documents and interviews, the study reveals the gradual shift
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Another Civil War in America? Comparing the Social Psychology of the United States of the 1850s to Today Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Montgomery Van Wart, Jeremy L. Hall, Cary M. Barber, Miranda McIntyre
Scholars warn that another American civil war is increasingly plausible, if still unlikely; professional political commentators express greater concerns. This study examines the likelihood of another U.S. civil war by comparing perspectives of the 1850s with those of today by using a negative social capital framework as the analytic lens. The analysis finds striking similarities between the two periods
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Autonomy by Decree: How Administrative Law Shapes Bureaucratic Autonomy in Four Administrative Traditions Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Daniel Carelli, B. Guy Peters
Administrative law is a not a frequent subject of research in public administration, but it can reveal a great deal about the functioning of the public sector and governance in general. The nature of administrative law is, we argue, closely linked with administrative traditions, and therefore administrative law is an especially apt focus for comparative analysis. This article discusses administrative
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You Get What You Pay for: An Analysis of Public Contracts for Engineering Services Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Caio César de Medeiros-Costa
To understand the effects of bidder’s strategies on contractual modifications, this study utilized econometric methods and a database containing 5,434 engineering service contracts from Brazilian federal government. The results demonstrate the effects arising from the trade-off between the low prices presented in the contractor selection phase and the contractual performance measured by contract modifications
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Do Service Providers Play a Market Stewardship Role in Social Care Quasi-Markets and Should They? Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Celia Green, Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon
Market stewardship of social care quasi-markets has been an important area of inquiry. While most focus has been on central government stewardship, local level actors can also play a role. Using a case study of the Australian National Disability Insurance scheme, this article focuses on both how service providers can be market stewards and whether they should be. Findings suggest that while some aspects
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Tackling Persistent, Boundary-Spanning Problems Through Collaborative Innovation: Lessons From the Clean Sweep Initiative in Buffalo, NY Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Katharine Robb, Ashley Marcoux, Eleanor Dickens, Jorrit de Jong
To tackle persistent boundary-spanning problems with limited resources, some cities engage in collaborative innovation, combining expertise, effort, and creativity within and outside city hall to overcome limitations of conventional practices and siloed work. This article illustrates how collaborative innovation works in practice by examining specifics of how the Buffalo Clean Sweep Initiative, unique
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The Influence of Transparency on Municipal Taxation: An Empirical Analysis Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Javier Cifuentes-Faura, Bernardino Benito, María-Dolores Guillamón
Local government officials are accountable to citizens, who increasingly demand more transparency given the amount of taxes they pay. This paper analyses the relationship between municipal tax revenues and transparency in Spain. Based on a sample of 141 Spanish municipalities with more than 15,000 inhabitants and applying least squares regression and instrumental variable analysis based on two-stage
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Does Citizen Sector-based Preference Relate to Citizen Satisfaction with Public Service Organizations? Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Jae Bok Lee
Scholarly attention has predominantly focused on citizens’ evaluations of public service organizations that deliver government-funded services, particularly in a single-sector public service provision. As a result, we have limited understanding of how multisectoral provision operates from a citizens’ perspective. Against this backdrop, this study explores how citizens disparately evaluate their providers
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Opportunism in Performance Goal Setting in the Public Sector: Evidence from South Korea Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Hyung-Woo Lee, Soonae Park
This study examines the circumstances under which public organizations establish easy performance goals, analyzing nationwide data collected from cabinet departments in central and local government agencies in South Korea. Several factors have been identified as contributing to the tendency of public organizations to set easily achievable goals. Firstly, local governments tend to establish less challenging
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Tightly Bound, Loosely Interpreted: Meta-Governance and Local Institutional Adaptation in the Implementation of the Smart Cities Mission India Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Greg Marsden, Louise Reardon, Morgan Campbell, Sanjay Gupta, Ashish Verma
This paper explores the implementation of the Indian Government’s Smart Cities Mission in four cities. The Mission was to be delivered through a tightly specified governance form, known as a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), although its function (smart urban renewal) was left more open. The national reform was, however, silent on how the SPV would work within the pre-existing network of actors. Using
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Professional Development Leadership: Scale Development and Validation Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Clara Siboni Lund
Professional development leadership (PDL) aims to facilitate a shared understanding of professional quality and to influence employees to realize this understanding in practice. PDL can be important in overcoming clashes between managerial and professional logics and influencing professional work to support organizational goal attainment. This article develops and validates two PDL measurement scales
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School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Iuliia Shybalkina, Tina Nabatchi
Participatory budgeting (PB) fosters community engagement in the allocation of public funds. Although its popularity has diminished in general-purpose governments, it is gaining traction in school districts. Yet research on PB’s managerial implications remains scarce. This study analyzes a PB process in a New York school district, examining key stages, participants, and engagement dynamics using quantitative
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Using Collaborative Governance to Regulate Sober Living Facilities: Structures and Strategies for Mitigating the Influence of Powerful Actors in Multi-Sectoral Networks Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kaila Witkowski, Travis A. Whetsell, N. Emel Ganapati
With the growing number of opioid-related deaths, many local governments are assembling collaborations with the goal of providing timely and tangible responses to the overdose epidemic. Although the purpose of such collaborations is to bring multi-sector stakeholders together to provide policy recommendations, the inclusion of organizations with divergent interests and differing levels of power can
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The Values of the Management of Value Conflict Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Berry Tholen
An increasing number of strategies for dealing with value conflicts in public management have been presented. These include Cycling, Firewalling, Casuistry, Incrementalism, and so on. A closer look reveals an apparent contradiction. The strategies are presented as forms of practical rationality to go beyond instrumentalist approaches and find answers in the common interest, but at the same time they
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Between Suspicion and Benevolence: How the Social Status of Initiators Plays a Role in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Assessments of Citizens’ Initiatives Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Vivian Visser, Willem de Koster, Arwin van Buuren
Citizens with a lower social status are underrepresented in participatory democratic innovations like citizens’ initiatives. Much research focuses on the barriers to participation that these citizens experience. The current study concentrates on civil servants tasked with advising on what initiatives to support and how. Informed by research on the social construction of target groups and the use of
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Which Police Departments Make Black Lives Matter? Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Robert Maranto, Wilfred Reilly, Patrick J. Wolf
Black Lives Matter (BLM) has gained support across racial lines and considerable financial backing. Yet it is unclear whether social science has responded with research likely to save Black lives. To encourage more applied research and related public discussion, we rank police departments in the 50 largest U.S. cities by their effectiveness in keeping homicides low and not taking civilian lives, while
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When Outsiders Step In: Investigating the Phenomenon of Reputational Support Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Johanna Kuenzler
This article introduces reputational support: when individuals who are not part of a public organization publicly explain or promote that organization. Whereas existing research focuses on organizations’ reputation management, reputational support highlights the relevance of unassociated actors’ behavior in organizations’ environment. Relying on social psychology insights, I explore an extreme case
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Boundary Spanning in Local Governance: A Scoping Review Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 William Stephens, Ronald van Steden, Linda Schoonmade
Complex societal challenges require collaboration between organizations, often with conflicting priorities and ways of working. Connecting organizations has come to be referred to as boundary-spanning. There is a need to understand the features of boundary-spanning at the local level, since policy-makers and practitioners from different sectors need not only to work together but also to relate to the
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Working-Class Women and the Progressive Era Development of Public Administration: The Case of Margaret Bondfield Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Hindy Lauer Schachter
Using a case study of British trade union organizer Margaret Bondfield, this article begins the task of adding a working class perspective to accounts of women’s participation in Progressive era ur...
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Social Equity and Clientele Participation: A Cross-National Study of Immigrant Education Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Miyeon Song, Seung-Ho An, Kenneth J. Meier
How public participation shapes effective and equitable service outcomes has been extensively discussed but rarely tested in the public administration literature. This article examines how parent p...
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Indonesian Women’s Civil Service Leadership: Analysis of Career Progression Opportunity and Constraint Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Helen McLaren, Emi Patmisari, Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Cassandra Star, Ida Widianingsih
Women in Indonesia’s civil service (n = 320) were surveyed about their career advancement. Analysis of variance identified differences in career progression, and post-hoc comparisons were tested us...
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Anti-Corruption Policy and Whistle-Blowing Intentions: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Meritocratic Civil Service Systems Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Don S. Lee, Annemarie S. Walter, Soonae Park
How does an anti-corruption policy shape bureaucrats’ intentions to whistle-blow? Anti-corruption research suggests that civil servants with certain characteristics are more or less likely to blow ...
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The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture? Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid
This study examines vaccine allocation policy during the COVID-19 pandemic by applying a hierarchical, a negotiation, and a cultural perspective. It addresses how vaccine allocation principles unde...
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Why Do the Public Participate in Community Regeneration Co-production? The Case of He Ping, Tianjin Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Zhang Xu’e, Wen Fenghua, Tang Zhengxia
The public’s co-production behaviors are influenced by individual and organizational factors. This article analyzes these factors using 2110 questionnaire data from He Ping, Tianjin. Results show t...
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Including the Most Excluded? A Qualitative Study on the Address Registration for People Experiencing Homelessness in Belgium Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Laure-lise Robben, Griet Roets, Martin Wagener, Wim Van Lancker, Koen Hermans
In many European countries, one needs a permanent address to be entitled to social rights. To address this minimum prerequisite, mechanisms for administrative inclusion are in place for persons exp...
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COVID-19 Communication Management on Facebook Pages of Local Governments Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Diego Ravenda, Maika M. Valencia-Silva, Josep M. Argiles-Bosch, Josep García-Blandón
We examine how Italian municipalities manage COVID-19 communication on their official Facebook pages. For this purpose, we apply an automatic topic modeling procedure on a sample of 76,139 posts pu...
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Does National Culture Influence Global Policy Diffusion: Evidence From Gender Mainstreaming Policy Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jing He
This study aims to pinpoint the combinations of national cultural traits that influence the global diffusion of gender mainstreaming. First, we have updated national culture indices using factor an...
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Social Identity and Cooperative Behavior by Public Administrators Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Danyao Li
Scholars suggest that coproduction may exacerbate inequity in the delivery of services because citizens with high need may have fewer resources to commit to the process. We explore whether differen...
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Frontline Bureaucratic Attitude toward Administrative Integration: Does Organizational Configuration Matter? Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Fangda Ding, Bo Wen, Jongmin Shon
The attitudes of frontline bureaucrats play a crucial role in the implementation of administrative restructuring. Administrative integration is a type of administrative reform that can fundamentall...
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Theoretical Perspectives on Bureaucrats: A Quest for Democratic Agents Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Ana Železnik, Danica Fink-Hafner
While the relationship between bureaucracy and democracy has gained attention in historical cycles, the literature on the roles of bureaucrats in relation to democracy has become increasingly fragm...
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Exploring Niche Alteration in Nonprofit Organizations Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Duncan J. Mayer, Robert L. Fischer
The organizational niche is a concept integral to organizational ecology, reflecting an organization’s mission, expertise, capacity, and resource requirements. The choice of niche is crucial to the...
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Representation, Diversity, and Organizational Performance: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration in the Context of South African Local Government Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Sergio Fernandez, Robert Cameron, Hongseok Lee
Representative bureaucracy and workforce diversity have become central topics in the field of public administration. Although representation and diversity are distinct concepts, public administrati...
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The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 M.Kerem Coban
This article problematizes the political economic drivers of policy (non-)design, instrument choice, and how prolonged non-design could trigger policy accumulation with serious implications for pol...
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Formal and Informal Accountabilities and Accountability Management: Impact on Work Performance Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Kwangseon Hwang
This study empirically examines the relationship between several accountability aspects and perceived work performance in the specific context of child-welfare services in the State of Virginia. Th...
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Neither the Magic Bullet Nor the Big Bad Wolf: A Systematic Review of Frontline Judges’ Attitudes and Coping Regarding Managerialization Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Émilien Colaux, Nathalie Schiffino, Stéphane Moyson
How do frontline judges perceive managerial reforms, and how do they cope with them? We relied on concepts from street-level bureaucracy to systematically review the effects of managerial technique...
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Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Papers Citing Dunleavy et al.’s (2006) “New Public Management Is Dead—Long Live Digital-Era Governance”: Identifying Research Clusters and Future Research Agendas Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Beomgeun Cho
I trace the bibliometric evolution of “New Public Management Is Dead” by Dunleavy et al. to investigate how the seminal paper influenced the administrative reform debate. They suggested Digital-Era...
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A Cross-Sectional Study on the Relationship Between Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Role Identity and Their Discretionary Decision-Making Practice toward Citizen-Clients Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Didde Cramer Jensen, Michael Mulbjerg Pedersen
This study tests the hypothesis that the role identity of street-level bureaucrats is related to variation in their discretionary decisions in relation to the behavior of citizen-clients. The study...
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Opposites But Similar? Technocracy and Populism in Contemporary European Democracies Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Francesco Maria Scanni
The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of two political phenomena: populism and technocracy. Often seen as opposites, the two factors are linked by some elements: both are desc...
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Client Participation and Conditionality: Navigating Conflicting Normative Demands in Employment Services Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Mathias Herup Nielsen, Merete Monrad
The further involvement of citizens in the processing of their own cases is attracting attention as a possible strategy for improving the quality of employment services across national borders. How...
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Does Local Government Competition Reduce Environmental Governance Performance? The Role of Public Value Conflict and Media Sentiment Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Bin Guan
With the increasing attention paid to environmental protection and sustainable development in various countries worldwide, the relationship between local government competition and environmental go...
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Venue Shopping in Multiple Streams: Campus Free Speech Policy Adoption in Wisconsin Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Brian Stelbotsky, Luke Fowler
Wisconsin’s Campus Free Speech Act provides a unique case study to examine the intersection of venue shopping and the multiple streams framework. After some initial traction, entrepreneur ran into ...
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The institutionalization of public innovation: Evidence from Indonesia Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 I Putu Yoga Bumi Pradana, Wahyudi Kumorotomo, Ely Susanto
This study examines the critical factors contributing to institutionalizing creative ideas into a formal innovation and their difference in the regulatory-pillar output of innovation, which public ...
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Transparency Versus Populism Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Gregory Michener
This article theorizes and analyzes the relationship between populist leaders and government transparency. Employing a paired comparison of leaders in Brazil and the United States before and during...
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The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come? Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Frank Hendriks, Charlotte Wagenaar
While deliberative citizens’ assemblies and plebiscitary referendums have long been perceived as antithetical, the idea of combining the two democratic instruments for better connecting administrat...
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The Multiplexity of Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: Testing the Intra-Sector and Cross-Sector Network Contexts Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Huan-Sheng Lin, Chu-Chien Hsieh, Don-Yun Chen
While disaster management provides an ideal testbed for interorganizational collaborative networks that pursue disaster assistance goals, limited research examines how multiplexity in multidimensio...
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Immigrants and Passive Representation in the U.S. Public Service: 2000-2018 Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Christopher A. Simon, Michael C. Moltz
Representative bureaucracy has been a prominent construct in U.S. governance literature for more than three quarters of a century. Passive representation is an important first step toward active re...
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COVID-19 Risk Perception and Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Measures Among Local Government Officials in the U.S.: A Test of Cultural Theory of Risk Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Tamara Dimitrijevska-Markoski, Julius A. Nukpezah
This study relies on the cultural theory of risk to examine how cultural biases (hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism, and fatalism) of local government officials affect their COVID-19 risk per...
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Mini-publics, Social Legitimacy and Institutional Collaboration: Some Inherent Trade-offs and Three Alternative Design Strategies Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Stefania Ravazzi
Over the last few decades, an increasing number of governments have promoted the setting up of so called “mini-publics” to integrate policymaking processes in an attempt to improve policy decisions...
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Accountability Pressure and Intraorganizational Dynamics in Japan’s Public Procurement Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Yoshinobu Nakanishi
Public accountability may involve dysfunction. However, few empirical studies explain when and how external accountability pressure and subsequent intraorganizational dynamics cause dysfunctions. T...
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Sector-Switching, Bureaucratic Reputation, and Citizen Evaluation of Performance: Evidence From a Large-Scale Experiment in India Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Taha Hameduddin, Roberto Vivona
Amid crises of trust in government, the legitimacy of public organizations has never been more important. In this context, access to performance information ensures democratic control, and thus leg...
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Ending the Transformation Before the Goal is Fulfilled: The Case of Head Start Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Ilana Shpaizman
To make a comprehensive policy change, actors often turn to the gradual path where they introduce small-scale changes hoping that their accumulation will meet their goal over time. Nonetheless, the...
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Race in the Middle: Exploring the Impacts of Managerial Differences on Organizational Performance Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Erin Melton Robinson, Meredith Walker Anderson, Sadé A. Walker
Public administration studies often fail to address the role of middle management in organizations. On the whole, most scholarship focuses on either top-level or street-level bureaucrats while the ...
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Cross-Theoretical Compliance: An Integrative Compliance Analysis of COVID-19 Mitigation Responses in Israel Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Anne Leonore de Bruijn, Yuval Feldman, Christopher P. Reinders Folmer, Malouke E. Kuiper, Megan Brownlee, Emmeke Kooistra, Elke Olthuis, Adam Fine, Benjamin van Rooij
To understand the question why people obey or break rules, different approaches have focused on different theories and subsets of variables. The present research develops a cross-theoretical approa...
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Representative Bureaucracy and Perceptions of Social Exclusion in Europe: Evidence From 27 Countries Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Luciana Cingolani
Representative bureaucracy theory predicts that mirroring social groups in the composition of the bureaucracy will lead to inclusive policies and less overall exclusion of diverse individuals. Whil...
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Imagining an Otherwise Global Public Administration Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Muhammad Azfar Nisar, Ayesha Masood
Global public administration remains an incomplete project with contested notions of its aims and objectives. Given its disputed nature we focus on developing a negative definition of global public...
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Democracy at Risk: The Public Employee Freedom of Speech Crisis Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Robert Roberts
The article argues that the Pickering/Connick/Garcetti line of cases defining the First Amendment freedom of speech rights of public employees provides them little protection when they engage in or...
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Public Channels of Access and State-Citizen Encounters in the Namibian Tax System Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Johanna Söderström, Marcus Wangel
The ability to access the state as a taxpaying citizen is important for the purposes of building trust and reciprocity, voicing grievances and disseminating knowledge, and strengthening tax complia...
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Harnessing the Power of Words to Address the COVID-19 Crisis Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Katherine Farrow, Gilles Grolleau, Naoufel Mzoughi
Behavioral public administration theory suggests that seemingly irrelevant word choice manipulations can influence behavior. We contend that the power of words has frequently been overlooked in the...
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Heavy Lifting: Emotional Labor and Election Administration Administration & Society (IF 3.121) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Amanda D. Clark, Christina S. Barsky, Monica A. Bustinza
The American democratic system depends on the regular execution of free and fair elections, delivered by front-line public workers. Local election officials (LEOs), their staff, and temporary elect...