-
作者:Nisar, Muhammad A.
作者单位:Lahore University of Management Sciences
摘要:An important research agenda in public administration is to investigate how formal and realized public policy influences the lives of marginalized social groups. Recently, reinvigorated research on administrative burden can make useful contributions to this line of inquiry. Using ethnographic research methods, this article analyzes administrative burden experienced by the Khawaja Sira-individuals culturally defined as neither men nor women-of Pakistan in getting a legal ID. In doing so, this a...
-
作者:Lee, Jeongyoon; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Park, Hyun Hee
作者单位:Ball State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; Kookmin University
摘要:This study explores how policy funding context-defined as whether funding for a social service policy domain is discretionary or mandated-affects network structures in social service domains. We present comparative findings from two social service policy networks which differ with respect to funding context: A 47-actor adult basic education policy network that is funded discretionarily and a 40-actor mental health policy network where spending is mandated. Both are located in a US state we pse...
-
作者:Nowlin, Matthew C.
作者单位:College of Charleston
-
作者:Vinopal, Katie
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:With the substantive effects of racial and ethnic representation well-documented in the representative bureaucracy literature, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to better understanding the causal mechanisms underlying these effects. One explored but yet unresolved issue is whether the benefits of representation stem from individual (direct)-versus organizational (indirect)-level pathways, or both. The current study advances this conversation by testing the effect of both levels...
-
作者:Haeder, Simon F.; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位:West Virginia University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要:US presidents-working through the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)-influence administrative agencies by directing agencies to modify their regulatory policy proposals before finalization. We identify two competing hypotheses from the literature to explain this presidential intervention. First, some scholars hypothesize that presidents are more likely to change proposals when the submitting agency's political ideology differs from the president's. Second, others argue that pr...
-
作者:Baekgaard, Martin; Mortensen, Peter B.; Seeberg, Henrik Bech
作者单位:Aarhus University
摘要:The public administration literature has been dominated by questions about how politicians can control the bureaucracy's application and implementation of laws at the back end of the policy process. Much less scholarly attention is devoted to the influence of the bureaucracy on the content and composition of the policy agenda at the front end of the process. Agenda setting is a fundamental aspect of politics, and this article examines the influence of the bureaucracy on the policy agenda and t...
-
作者:Tepe, Markus; Prokop, Christine
作者单位:Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要:This study tests the effect of studying public administration and self-reported Public Service Motivation (PSM) on risk preferences. We conduct a compound lottery choice experiment with monetary rewards to measure risk behavior and a post-experiment survey to measure risk attitudes and PSM on three student subject pools. Empirical findings suggest that: First, students of public administration consider themselves more risk averse, but they do not behave more risk averse in the compound lottery...
-
作者:Deslatte, Aaron; Swann, William L.; Feiock, Richard C.
作者单位:Northern Illinois University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要:Local government managers face fundamental, value conflicts when they engage urban land use issues. Despite the planet's ongoing urbanization, managerial influence on land use policy remains an under-examined arena. Local governments are routinely asked to balance economic, ecological, and social equity concerns when making choices between alternative land use policy tools. Are local government sustainable development efforts more strategic, comprehensive, and inclusive than when led by profes...
-
作者:Chand, Daniel E.; Schreckhise, William D.; Bowers, Marianne L.
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Kent State University; Kent State University Salem; Kent State University Kent; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要:Immigration judges (IJs) preside over cases related to immigration law, determining whether an individual should be granted asylum. The few prior studies of IJs have focused on factors of interest to judicial politics scholars, such as characteristics of the judge or applicant in a case. Drawing from public administration literature, we add a new set of factors related to local and state context in which the IJ works. Using multilevel regression analysis, we examine the decisions of 245 IJs ma...
-
作者:Tummers, Lars
作者单位:Utrecht University
摘要:Workers on the frontline of public service, such as teachers and social workers, cannot provide unlimited support to all their clients, because of among else scarce time and money. To deal with this, they use various coping strategies. We analyze one important coping strategy such street-level bureaucrats can use: prioritizing motivated clients over unmotivated clients. We study the effect of this coping strategy on job performance, as rated by their supervisors. In other words, do street-leve...