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作者：Allen, Madaline; Drolc, Cody A.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Administrative burdens can deter individuals from engaging with government programs before they ever encounter formal application requirements. Drawing on the administrative burden framework and theories of heuristic decision-making, this study examines how prospective applicants form early judgments about program accessibility when presented with varying levels of compliance costs. Using three survey experiments centered on a fictional grocery benefit (N = 2,407, N = 965) and a one-time feder...
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作者：Wright II, James E.; Headley, Andrea M.; Cho, Younghyun
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix; Georgetown University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：This study investigates leadership representation and the perceptions of public employees, specifically focusing on a fire department led by a Black fire chief. Drawing from literature on representative bureaucracy and relational demography, we explore how leadership representation influences street-level bureaucrats' views on diversity and representation within the organization. Through in-depth interviews with both Black and White firefighters, we find distinctions in their perceptions regar...
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作者：Li, Mingxu (Emma); Fay, Daniel L.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Administrative burden scholarship typically examines rules and regulations affecting access to public benefits during initial citizen-state interactions. Scholars agree that individual burdens function as hidden politics because policy changes during implementation through bureaucratic discretion. Less is known about bureaucratic behavior or hidden politics enforced on third-party service providers maintaining compliance. In this article, we address this by examining noncompliance burdens impo...
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作者：Deslatte, Aaron; Stokan, Eric; Chung, Juwon
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County
摘要：This article examines the relationship between social vulnerabilities and the attention paid to them by local governments. Drawing from collective action and cognitive theories, we conceptualize planning as an organization-level inference process of selecting strategies to minimize gaps between expected and desired futures. Responding to public administration scholars who have called for advancing theories of managing risks, we examine whether local planning processes are responsive to communi...
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作者：Hjortskov, Morten; Ahrensberg, Nanna Vestergaard; Hansen, Jesper Asring Jessen; Holm, Jakob Majlund; Andersen, Simon Calmar
作者单位：Aarhus University; Aarhus University; Aalborg University
摘要：The challenges of implementing public policies and interventions have long been recognized, and a wide range of well-documented barriers frequently hinder effective implementation. We develop a framework of implementation support approaches, distinguishing between two types: fidelity and professional responsibility. We test the framework in a large-scale, preregistered field experiment involving 250 Danish schools implementing an evidence-based reading intervention. Regression results show tha...
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作者：Andersen, Simon Calmar; Guul, Thorbjorn Sejr
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Performance management is used by governments worldwide to incentivize professionals in schools and other public organizations. Yet, much research shows that these incentives may generate perverse dysfunctional effects. Based on a Bayesian model of learning, we propose that simply providing professional teachers with performance information-without changing their extrinsic incentives-may be enough to make them update their beliefs about their students and act accordingly. However, measuring pe...
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作者：Bygballe, Lena E.; Kvalshaugen, Ragnhild; Kokkonen, Anne Helena
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; University of South-Eastern Norway
摘要：Purpose-oriented networks (PONs) face multiple tensions, but although their existence is well-documented, there is limited research on how network tensions emerge and how they are managed over time to enable network sustainability. We conducted a longitudinal process study of a public PON in the natural hazards field in Norway to explore how network participants experience and manage network tensions. The study identifies four tension-managing practices that help sustain networks. The analysis...
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作者：Love, Alexander
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：Public participation processes promise that citizens will be heard, but rarely guarantee they will be heeded. This distinction between procedural acknowledgment and substantive influence lies at the heart of bureaucratic responsiveness, yet these two forms of responsiveness are often conflated in empirical research. I demonstrate that in federal rulemaking, procedural acknowledgment (being heard) is empirically distinct from substantive policy influence (being heeded). Drawing on theories of b...
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作者：Anastasopoulos, Lefteris Jason; Kang, Inkyu
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Recent growth in the use of randomized and quasi-experiments in public administration and policy research has advanced the ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships. However, many studies adopt static conceptions of causality, focusing on snapshots or time-averaged effects while overlooking how the effects change over time. This oversight is problematic, as interventions of scholarly interest, such as leadership training or the adoption of new technologies, are likely to produce impa...
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作者：Wei, Wenchi; Chen, Xin; Ni, Xing
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Sun Yat Sen University; Renmin University of China
摘要：This study examines incomplete participation in social benefit programs by focusing on individual income tax refund claims in China. Despite growing evidence on this issue, there remains a need to directly compare the effectiveness of addressing behavioral barriers versus alleviating administrative burdens in promoting program take-up. Moreover, when administrative burdens are targeted, it is unclear whether reducing learning, compliance, or psychological costs is most effective. To address th...
