Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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• When does employee turnover matter? Analyzing the role of organizational memory in the federal IT workforce AI翻译
  作者：Hong, Ji Hyeun
  作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
  摘要：This paper proposes a theory of organizational memory predicting that task knowledge retained in organizational structures (i.e., agency centralization and task standardization) buffers the disruptive effects of employee turnover. Using a dataset of information technology (IT) projects implemented by 94 US federal agencies between FY2015 and FY2021, estimates from fractional panel probit models reveal that both centralized authorities under chief information officers and task standardization r...
• Seeing no evil? Social vulnerabilities, collective inference, and organizational divergence AI翻译
  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...
• Implementation support: a field experiment on the effects of fidelity and professional responsibility approaches AI翻译
  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...
• A learning approach to the governance of professionals. Field experimental evidence AI翻译
  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...
• A process study of managing tensions for sustaining public purpose-oriented networks: toward a Networks as Practice perspective AI翻译
  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...
• How ensembling AI and public managers improves decision-making AI翻译
  作者：Keppeler, Florian; Borchert, Jana; Pedersen, Mogens Jin; Lehmann Nielsen, Vibeke
  作者单位：Aarhus University; Zeppelin University; University of Copenhagen
  摘要：Artificial intelligence (AI) applications transform public sector decision-making. However, most research conceptualizes AI as a form of specialized decision-support tool. In contrast, this study presents a different form of human-AI collaboration, the concept of human-AI ensembles, where public managers and AI tackle the same decision tasks, rather than specializing in certain subtasks. This is particularly relevant for many public sector decisions, where neither human nor AI predictions have...
• Why are policy actors so distrustful of each other, and how? Cognitive, behavioral, and endogenous relational sources of perceived distrust in governance networks AI翻译
  作者：Lee, Jeongyoon; Dodge, Jennifer
  作者单位：University of Kentucky; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
  摘要：In the age of collaboration and shared governance, paradoxically, distrust manifests frequently in government and political institutions and is seen as dysfunctional to democracy, making governing networks challenging. Yet, previous studies emphasize the significance of promoting trust more than addressing distrust in networks. Distrust differs from the absence of trust. It involves relationships characterized by doubt, suspicion, or opportunism. Relatively little is known about why distrustin...
• Hearing, not heeding: procedural acknowledgment and substantive influence in rulemaking AI翻译
  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...
• Revisiting coping mechanisms on the street-level: a systematic literature review AI翻译
  作者：Edri-Peer, Ofek; Cohen, Nissim
  作者单位：University of Haifa
  摘要：Street-level bureaucrats' (SLBs) coping mechanisms are an integral part of their interaction with clients, and as such have received much research attention. Since the last review of the behavioral coping mechanisms adopted by SLBs, conducted more than 10 years ago, many researchers have focused on understanding these mechanisms and what influences them. Using the PRISMA model, we conducted a systematic review of 165 studies to update our understanding and explore the manifestations of both ol...
• Mapping the temporal evolution of causal effects in public administration and policy research AI翻译
  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...