Public Administration

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• Tipping the scales: The causes and consequences of administrative spending AI翻译
  作者：Darnley, Megan; Rutherford, Amanda; Rabovsky, Thomas
  作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
  摘要：The public administration literature once devoted great effort to identify the determinants of administrative intensity in organizations. While this literature has received some renewed attention, there remain questions about what aspects of organizational environments generate growth in administrative intensity, particularly as related to political oversight and external accountability mechanisms. This article aims to expand current theory on the determinants of administrative personnel and c...
• Navigating the dichotomy: The top public servant's craft AI翻译
  作者：van Dorp, Erik-Jan; 't Hart, Paul
  作者单位：Utrecht University
  摘要：How in their day-to-day practices do top public servants straddle the politics-administration dichotomy (PAD), which tells them to serve and yet influence their ministers at the same time? To examine this, we discuss how three informal 'rules of the game' govern day-to-day political-administrative interactions in the Dutch core executive: mutual respect, discretionary space, and reciprocal loyalty. Drawing from 31 hours of elite-interviews with one particular (authoritative) top public servant...
• The partisan-professional dichotomy revisited: Politicization and decision-making of senior civil servants AI翻译
  作者：Ebinger, Falk; Veit, Sylvia; Fromm, Nadin
  作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Universitat Kassel
  摘要：Politicization has an ambivalent reputation among public administration scholars. While considered an effective instrument to safeguard political control over ministerial bureaucracy, partisanship of senior civil servants is likewise associated with patronage and is deemed detrimental to professionalism and meritocracy. To scrutinize this contradiction, the article examines how the party-political background of senior civil servants influences their decision-making behaviour. Two theoretically...
• EU referendums in context: What can we learn from the Swiss case? AI翻译
  作者：Heidbreder, Eva G.; Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle; Thomann, Eva; Sager, Fritz
  作者单位：Otto von Guericke University; University of Bern; University of Exeter; University of Bern
  摘要：The rising number of referendums on EU matters, such as the Brexit and the Catalonian independence votes, highlight the increasing importance of referendums as a problem-solving mechanism in the EU. We argue that the Swiss case provides essential insights into understanding the dynamics behind referendums, which are often lacking when referendums are called for in the EU. Referendums in EU member states on EU matters differ substantially from those in the Swiss context. Nevertheless, proponent...
• Contestants, profiteers, and the political dynamics of marketization: How shareholders gained control rights in Britain, Germany, and France AI翻译
  作者：Thatcher, Mark
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Luiss Guido Carli University
• How empowering leadership reduces employee silence in public organizations AI翻译
  作者：Hassan, Shahidul; DeHart-Davis, Leisha; Jiang, Zhongnan
  作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  摘要：The intentional withholding of critical work-related information can have serious negative consequences in public organizations. Yet, few studies have examined why public employees intentionally remain silent about problems and how to prevent such behaviour. This article provides insights into how managers may lower employee silence in government organizations. We develop a model that suggests that empowering leadership by frontline supervisors reduces public employee silence, by improving emp...
• From environmental policy concepts to practicable tools: Knowledge creation and delegation in multilevel systems AI翻译
  作者：Tosun, Jale; De Francesco, Fabrizio; Peters, B. Guy
  作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; University of Strathclyde; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
  摘要：The problem-solving capacity and problem-generating potential of multilevel systems entail the need for the delegation of authority. When the problem concerned is about how to put an abstract policy concept into a practicable policy tool, the choice of the respective delegation trajectory depends on the policy models or the policy-relevant knowledge that the respective political levels can supply. When regarding the European Union (EU) level as the starting point of knowledge creation and dele...
• New private sector providers in the welfare state AI翻译
  作者：Powell, Martin
  作者单位：University of Birmingham
• Public sector employees in a challenging work environment AI翻译
  作者：Steen, Trui; Schott, Carina
  作者单位：KU Leuven; Utrecht University
  摘要：Public sector employees are expected to perform well in a work environment that is characterized by a variety of challenges. This Symposium aims to shed light on how environmental changes impact the shared identity, attitudes and behaviour of public sector employees; how public sector employees take charge of continuous change and deal with challenges in their work environment; and how organizations can help employees to tackle such work-related challenges. We identify four specific gaps in li...
• How limited representativeness weakens throughput legitimacy in the EU: The example of interest groups AI翻译
  作者：Kroeger, Sandra
  作者单位：University of Exeter
  摘要：Are the interest groups (IGs) that constitute European umbrella organizations capable of cooperating in a way that contributes to the throughput legitimacy of the EU? To answer this question, the representativeness of supranational actors is developed as the central criteria of throughput legitimacy, thereby reconfiguring throughput legitimacy as a two-level concept. Representativeness is operationalized as consisting of regular contacts between the constituent and the umbrella organization as...