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Abductive analysis in qualitative public administration research Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Merlijn van Hulst, E. Lianne Visser
Public administration scholars and practitioners need to know how state‐of‐the‐art research is conducted. This article aims to contribute to the dialogue on qualitative analysis. Focusing on abductive analysis, it further unpacks and explicates the process and practices through which theoretical insight can be created from qualitative data. We offer four principles that guide abductive analysis: (i)
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Effective public administration strategies for global “new normal”. By Perfecto G.AquinoJr., Revenio C.JalagatJr. (Eds.), Singapore: Springer Books. 2022. pp. 243. $169.99 (ebook) December. ISBN: 978‐981‐19‐3116‐1 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Roya Hayatina Latua Silawane, Galung Triko
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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A systematic review of person-environment fit in the public sector: Theorizing a multidimensional model Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 G. Breck Wightman, Robert K. Christensen
Following PRISMA guidelines, this study offers a systematic review of 78 articles on person-environment (P-E) fit in the public sector. The study reveals both an emphasis on supplementary person-organization (P-O) fit and its relationship to public service motivation (PSM). We also find evidence of both bottom-up and top-down processes that mutually adjust to determine fit over time. Building on these
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From social categorization to implicit citizenship theories: Advancing the socio-cognitive foundations of state–citizen interactions Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Rick Vogel, Dominik Vogel, Marlen Christin Liegat, David Hensel
Public administration research has recently paid increasing attention to public employees' social categorization of citizens and the consequences thereof for administrative decision-making. We advance this line of scholarship by theorizing the concept of implicit citizenship theories (ICTs) and elaborating it in four sequential empirical studies. ICTs are implicit assumptions about citizens' typical
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Exploring the limits of collaboration and the fragility of its outcomes: The case of community policing Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Andrea M. Headley, Vaiva Kalesnikaite
Understanding collaboration between the government and community leaders or organizations is essential for effectively delivering services and creating public value. Interorganizational collaboration is particularly salient in communities of color when considering how historic exclusions of marginalized voices have inhibited equity. This study draws upon 88 in‐depth, semistructured interviews on collaboration
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Burden tolerance: Developing a validated measurement instrument across seven countries Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Martin Baekgaard, Aske Halling, Donald Moynihan
The emergence of the administrative burden literature has generated new theoretical, conceptual, and empirical knowledge. However, the accumulation of comparable knowledge is limited by the lack of validated measurement of core concepts. This article validates a four‐item scale of burden tolerance, that is, people's acceptance of state actions that impose administrative burdens on citizens and residents
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Trust, collaboration, and participation in governance: A Nordic perspective on public administrators' perceptions of citizen involvement Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Isak Vento
This study analyzes public administrators' trust in citizens' capacities to participate in governance, their collaborative tendency, and the association between these factors and public administrators' willingness to implement citizen involvement efforts. The purpose of the study is to examine whether public administrators' trust in citizens' participatory capacities predicts a willingness to implement
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Indian Preference and the status of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the federal service: Employment, earnings, authority, and perceptions of fairness Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Gregory B. Lewis, Jack F. Williams
Public administration scholars have largely ignored American Indians and Alaska Natives in their studies of racial disparities in the federal service, despite strong reasons to believe they face discrimination. Using three large federal data sets (the American Community Survey, federal personnel records, and the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey), we compare the status of American Indians and Alaska
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Bridge over troubled waters? Experimental evidence into the influence of leadership on employees' collaborative engagement Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Anders Barslund Grøn
It is not easy to secure and sustain efficient interorganizational collaboration in hierarchically demarcated and functionally specialized public sectors. This article investigates whether and how public leaders can motivate and catalyze their own employees to engage in behaviors that foster and support collaboration across organizational jurisdictions. Using survey data from 555 occupational therapists
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Liberal democratic accountability standards and public administration Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Christopher Koliba
This paper serves as a renewed call for public management scholars and public leaders in liberal democracies to be the champions of accountability standards that are explicitly and implicitly inherent to liberal democratic forms of governance. This call is particularly salient amid increasing populism, polarization, and democratic backsliding. Drawing from the historical and contemporary political
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
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“Chat‐Up”: The role of competition in street‐level bureaucrats' willingness to break technological rules and use generative pre‐trained transformers (GPTs) Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Neomi Frisch‐Aviram, Gabriela Spanghero Lotta, Luciana Jordão de Carvalho
Organizations worldwide are concerned about workers using generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), which can generate human‐like text in seconds at work. These organizations are setting rules on how and when to use GPTs. This article focuses on street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) intentions to use GPTs even if their public organization does not allow its use (tech rule‐breaking). Based on a mixed‐methods
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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Crisis coordination in complex intergovernmental systems: The case of Australia Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) 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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A meta-analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) 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 6.1) 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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Connecting founding and dissolution: A demographic study of the US nonprofit sector Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) 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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Unethical leadership, moral compensation, and ethical followership: Evidence from a survey experiment with Chilean public servants Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) 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 6.1) 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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Crowdsourced data in public administration research: A review and look to the future Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) 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 6.1) 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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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 6.1) 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 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 V. Kalyani
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Knowing what you pay for: Does benefits information increase bond referenda support? Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Mikhail Ivonchyk
This article examines the impact of including benefits information on voter support in school bond referenda. It proposes that benefits information can increase voter support and mitigate the negative impact of tax implications. The proposition is tested empirically through a survey experiment, using random assignment and a nationally representative sample. The findings provide causal evidence supporting
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Keeping the magic alive: The multiple functions of magic concepts Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, Sven Siverbo, Marte Winsvold
Despite scholarly fascination with magic concepts, empirical research on how they fare in practice is scarce. This study explores how magic concepts retain their magic when used in public organizations. Using survey data and case studies, we identify “trust” as a magic concept in Scandinavian municipalities and develop a typology of its four central functions. We find that the concept of trust is used
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Automated, administrative decision‐making and good governance: Synergies, trade‐offs, and limits Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ulrik B. U. Roehl, Morten Balle Hansen
Automated, administrative decision‐making (AADM) is a key component in digital government reforms. It represents an aspiration for a better and more efficient administration but also presents challenges to values of public administration. We systematically review the emerging literature on use of AADM from the perspective of good governance. Recognizing the inherent tensions of values of public administration
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The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kutsal Yesilkagit, Michael Bauer, B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre
Liberal democracy has become vulnerable to illiberal political movements and the gradual erosion of democratic institutions. To safeguard liberal democracy, we propose the concept of the Guardian State, which embraces liberal principles while acting as a defensive barrier against illiberal tendencies. We need strong administrative institutions that uphold liberal democratic norms and resist pressures
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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Frontline employees' responses to citizens' communication of administrative burdens Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Aske Halling, Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen
The literature on administrative burdens demonstrates that citizens may experience different kinds of administrative burdens when interacting with the state. However, we know little about whether citizens' communication of these experiences affects how frontline employees implement compliance demands. Building on the street‐level bureaucracy and administrative burden literature, we hypothesize that
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Does she belong here? Women in leadership positions and organizational performance in gendered institutions Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Sungjoo Choi, Yeongjun Ko
Gender diversity in leadership positions may not always bring desirable outcomes for an organization as diversity researchers have argued. Female leaders are less likely to contribute to effectiveness of their organization when it is male‐dominated and has strong masculine culture. We tested a nonlinear relationship between gender diversity at the top and organizational performance and the moderating
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Invisible and indispensable: Using the lowly request for proposals to advance public value Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Weston Merrick, Pete Bernardy, Patrick Carter
Requests for Proposals (RFP) may be the pinnacle of bureaucratic mundanity. Yet, hidden within this apparent monotony are powerful tools to advance public values. Federal, state, and local government grants deploy staggering sums, reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. With these distributions, the executive branch is often delegated substantial discretion. These are choices of
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Focusing on the individual in cross‐sectoral collaboration: A configurational approach Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Khaldoun AbouAssi, Sungdae Lim, Ann O' M. Bowman, Jocelyn M. Johnston
Research focuses on various macro and meso aspects of collaboration and less on the individuals who make decisions about their organizations' collaborations. Organizational leaders make these decisions based on their interpretations, influenced by their personal characteristics. Existing studies examining organizational outcomes such as a decision to collaborate typically consider these characteristics
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Advancing open access to PAR Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Katherine Willoughby, Jos Raadschelders, Hongtao Yi, Preston Phillips
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Moving from coproduction to commonization of digital public goods and services Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Sébastien Shulz
The hybridization of digital commons and public administration institutions led by bureaucratic entrepreneurs is a relatively recent phenomenon that has received limited attention in the literature. The term coined to describe this evolution is the “commonization” of digital public goods and services. I define commonization as the integration of shared property, peer production, and self-governance
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Public service motivation and public sector employment in Korea Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Harin Woo, Sangmook Kim
This study aims to investigate whether individual differences in public service motivation (PSM) between the public and private sectors are a cause or a consequence of choosing a job, testing self-selection and socialization hypotheses using a longitudinal dataset from a nationally representative cohort in Korea. The study uses two samples from the data of three successive waves (t − 2, t, t + 2) surveyed
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Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the COVID-19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Namhoon Ki, David Lee
This study examines the impact of crisis-induced telework during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 on public sector employees' job satisfaction (JS) and retention intention (RI). Analyses of the 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data reveal a negative association between the amount of COVID-induced telework and the federal employees' JS and RI. However, this negative effect is mitigated by offering adequate
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The effectiveness-equity tradeoff when resources decline: Evidence from environmental policy implementation in the U.S. states Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Sanghee Park, Jiaqi Liang
Despite a voluminous literature on resource availability and the implications for organizational performance, little is known about how changes in government agencies' resources impact their policy implementation activities and goal prioritization. This article explores how changes in resources affect regulatory enforcement activities by types of resources and policy implementation activities, and
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Public values and sector service delivery preferences: Public preferences on contracting from simple to complex human services Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Jaclyn Piatak, Colt Jensen
Nonprofit and for-profit providers play an increasing role in public service delivery, but we know little about what shapes public service delivery preferences. Responding to calls to put the “public” back in public values theory, we examine the influence of public values on sector service delivery preferences for government, nonprofit, or for-profit delivery across six service areas ranging from simple
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-26
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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(De)Centering Whiteness through community dialogues about safety problems and solutions Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Kathryn S. Quick
What happens to problem-solution pathways when racism is prominent in a public policy issue and a group of stakeholders—the majority of whom are White—dialogue about desired policy changes? I examine this question through a case study of community dialogues about policing, safety, race, and White privilege after Philando Castile was killed by a police officer. Through longitudinal, ethnographic analysis
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Social affordances of agile governance Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Ines Mergel
Agile refers to a work management ideology with a set of productivity frameworks that support continuous and iterative progress on work tasks by reviewing one's hypotheses, working in a human-centric way, and encouraging evidence-based learning. In practice, public administrations have started to use agile principles and methods to plan projects, work in short sprints, iterate after receiving feedback
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Inconvenient truths about logistic regression and the remedy of marginal effects Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Michael Howell-Moroney
Logistic regression is a standard technique in public administration research. However, there are two inconvenient truths about logistic regression of which scholars should be aware. First, logistic regression results are difficult to interpret. Raw coefficients are expressed in an enigmatic log odds scale and odds ratios are regularly misinterpreted as risk ratios. Second, logistic regression results
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Designing cross-sector collaboration to foster technological innovation: Empirical insights from eHealth partnerships in five countries Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Koen Verhoest, Chesney Callens, Erik Hans Klijn, Lena Brogaard, Jaime García-Rayado, Steven Nõmmik
This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public-private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific partnership characteristics lead to innovation in health care services. The study compares 19 eHealth partnerships across five European countries and uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test the hypotheses.
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How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Andrew Podger, Donald F. Kettl
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Many public administrators are struggling with the relationship between themselves—most of whom are career civil servants—on the one hand, and those political officials who are elected or appointed on the other, and with whom they must deal every day. That struggle has even spilled over into the debate in the US and elsewhere over the existence and influence of a so-called “deep state”
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Writing impactful reviews to rejuvenate public administration: A framework and recommendations Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Bert George, Lotte B. Andersen, Jeremy L. Hall, Sanjay K. Pandey
Literature reviews have become widespread in public administration, especially in the past decade. These reviews typically adopt widely-accepted approaches with many drawing upon systematized approaches to review in fields like medicine and psychology. Public administration, however, is a professional, design-oriented discipline, focused on enhancing theory to solve real-life policy, administrative
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-14
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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Does participation predict support for place brands? An analysis of the relationship between stakeholder involvement and brand citizenship behavior Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Laura Ripoll González, Erik Hans Klijn, Jasper Eshuis, Erik Braun
This article studies in how far participation of stakeholders enhances their active support for place brands, conceptualized in this study as Brand Citizenship Behavior (BCB). Combining insights from governance and branding theory this article uses survey data (N = 162) among stakeholders involved in branding processes of two Dutch regions. The analysis shows that more intense participation in the
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Building global public administration knowledge: Leveraging the power of collaboration Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Shahjahan Bhuiyan, James L. Perry
Public administration has been seeking to develop a global knowledge base, dating back to the early days of the field. Despite expressed interest in building such a knowledge base, scholars continue to criticize overly narrowly public administration knowledge, which tends to favor developed countries and the Global North. This article applies principles from collaboration theory, which was developed
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How citizens want to “see” the state: Exploring the relationship between transparency and public values Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Sabina Schnell, Jiho Kim, Greg Munno, Tina Nabatchi
Although transparency is recognized as an important public value, few studies examine how citizens see the relationship between transparency and other public values. To empirically investigate this relationship, we distinguish among five types of transparency and explore their associations with different views of “good” government and other public values. Using survey data and Q methodology, we find
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Bureaucratic professionalization and cabinet management: How civil servants in presidential democracies are treated differently Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Don S. Lee
How does bureaucratic structure shape presidential strategy in managing top executive posts? The comparative literature on cabinet formation focuses heavily on presidential legislative strategy, largely overlooking the administrative dimension of cabinet management. This article fills this gap by examining how bureaucratic professionalization shapes the president's strategy in distributing and managing
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Who benefits from work-life programs? Lessons in gender and race from OPM's Federal Work-Life Survey Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Shilpa Viswanath, Jung Ah (Claire) Yun, Lauren Bock Mullins
Engaging the US Office of Personnel Management's inaugural Federal Work-life Survey (2017), this study deconstructs the gender and race differences in employee satisfaction with federal work-life programs. We examine whether women of color employees in particular stand to benefit differently from the federal work-life programs in comparison to their male and white colleagues. Notably, this study operationalizes
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Public Management Frontiers in Guaranteed Income Programs: Advancing Implementation Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Evan Berman, Lauro Gonzalez, Eduardo H. Diniz, Mário Aquino Alves
This viewpoint analyzes recent experiments in guaranteed income (GI) projects and identifies implementation issues that extend the frontiers of public administration. GI programs provide low-income individuals with substantial and regular cash with few or no strings or conditions attached, and are being used to assist the lower income population, including informal workers who are left out of many
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Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Nicola Bellé, Paolo Belardinelli, Maria Cucciniello, Greta Nasi
We conducted three randomized experiments to investigate whether and to what extent citizens' expectations toward waiting times for public service delivery are influenced by reference points, either in the form of social or numerical references. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, our results provide convergent evidence of reference dependence. Specifically, informing citizens that waiting