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作者：Zhang, Jinfeng; Song, Minjie; Qin, Zengqiang; Xu, Ran; Ran, Rong
作者单位：Chongqing University; Chongqing University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：Public officials are traditionally thought to be more risk-averse than private sector employees, yet consistent empirical evidence is lacking. Prospect theory posits that individuals' risk decision preferences are influenced by the framing of gains or losses, but it does not distinguish whether gains and losses pertain to personal or public interests. This study incorporates the type of interest with gain-loss framing to construct decision scenarios and compare risk preferences between public ...
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作者：Nowlan, Oscar
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article examines blame shifting, where elected officials attempt to deflect blame for negative outcomes onto other actors. While prior research suggests that citizens generally disapprove of this tactic, this study re-evaluates how contextual factors shape these reactions, focusing specifically on cases of public service failure. In many areas of public management, service delivery is delegated or contracted out to public or private organizations, raising the question of whether such inst...
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作者：Zhang, Jinfeng; Song, Minjie; Qin, Zengqiang; Xu, Ran; Ran, Rong
作者单位：Chongqing University; Chongqing University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：Public officials are traditionally thought to be more risk-averse than private sector employees, yet consistent empirical evidence is lacking. Prospect theory posits that individuals' risk decision preferences are influenced by the framing of gains or losses, but it does not distinguish whether gains and losses pertain to personal or public interests. This study incorporates the type of interest with gain-loss framing to construct decision scenarios and compare risk preferences between public ...
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作者：Nowlan, Oscar
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article examines blame shifting, where elected officials attempt to deflect blame for negative outcomes onto other actors. While prior research suggests that citizens generally disapprove of this tactic, this study re-evaluates how contextual factors shape these reactions, focusing specifically on cases of public service failure. In many areas of public management, service delivery is delegated or contracted out to public or private organizations, raising the question of whether such inst...
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作者：Ernst, Margit
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：What makes accountability work? To answer this question, public administration research has long focused on formal mechanisms--rules, audits, and performance indicators-intended to ensure that public employees answer for their actions. Yet these mechanisms alone rarely determine how accountability plays out in practice. Rather, it depends on how they are recognized, internalized, and enacted by those expected to comply. This realization has spurred growing interest in how employees perceive an...
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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：Malatesta, Deanna; Cheema, Faisal Saeed
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This study extends relational contract theory by showing how behavioral reference points can be established through policy. We theorize that contracts are governed by dual anchors: backward-looking relational history and forward-looking renewal expectations. Analyzing 430 public legal service contracts using Heckman selection models, we find relational history increases prices in amendments, revealing its dark side. A nonbinding renewal clause, however, significantly attenuates this effect, re...
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作者：Closs-Davies, Sara C.; Bartels, Koen P. R.; Merkl-Davies, Doris
作者单位：University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; University of Birmingham; Bangor University
摘要：Public administration plays a fundamental role in accountability relationships between citizens and the State, but how these take shape in public encounters is remarkably understudied. Analyzing relational dynamics within and around public encounters expands the relational perspective on accountability in public administration-challenging core assumptions of the principal-agent model underpinning studies of citizen-State accountability relationships. We conducted a critical-interpretivist ethn...
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作者：Cui, Manqian; Zhang, Xuelian; Li, Jiayuan
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：Despite the ubiquity of self-reported data in social science and public administration research, widespread concerns persist regarding common method variance (CMV) and its potential to distort observed correlations. In this article, we estimate CMV's biasing effects through five preregistered studies (including eight survey experiments) with UK and Chinese civil servants (N = 3,159), focusing on the relationship between public service motivation (PSM) and job performance-a proposition of PSM t...
