PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION AND POLITICS: BEHAVIOURAL CONSEQUENCES AMONG LOCAL COUNCILLORS IN SWITZERLAND

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ritz, Adrian
• 署名单位: University of Bern
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12193
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1121-1137
• 关键词: organizational citizenship behavior; instrument; management; employees; issues; bases; korea; time

摘要

This study expands our knowledge about public service motivation in the context of politics as a concept defined by self-interested and other-interested motives. Current research shows the importance of other-interested public interest as a person-environment fit variable. We test the assumption that self-interested motives differ in regard to behavioural outcomes of local councillors when compared to other-interested motives. Using a dataset of 8,111 local government councillors in Switzerland, our analysis reveals that self- and other-interested motives have different behavioural outcomes, and that the rational motive of attraction to policy-making acts solely as a moderator between resistance within council and seeking re-election. The utility of these findings for the further development of theory on public service motivation and implications for future research are also discussed.