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• A dynamic theoretical framework of gradual institutional changes AI翻译
  作者：Koreh, Michal; Mandelkern, Ronen; Shpaizman, Ilana
  作者单位：University of Haifa; Tel Aviv University; Bar Ilan University
  摘要：How do institutions transform? To answer that question, this article introduces a dynamic theoretical framework of gradual institutional changes. Instead of looking at each mode of gradual change-like layering or drift-as a stand-alone process, we examine how the application of one mode of change affects the opportunities of change agents to induce additional modes of gradual transformation. We first point to the fact that any single mode of change produces a real but limited transformation. N...
• How politicians use performance information in a budgetary context: New insights from the central government level AI翻译
  作者：Saliterer, Iris; Korac, Sanja; Moser, Birgit; Rondo-Brovetto, Paolo
  作者单位：University of Freiburg; University of Klagenfurt; University of Klagenfurt
  摘要：This article looks at performance information use by legislators at the central level in a budgetary context. The multi-method approach (interviews, quantitative and qualitative analysis of plenary speeches given during budget readings) allows us to draw a broader picture of the use of performance information. The findings provide new insights into different purposes of performance information use. We identify four general use types, that is, de-legitimizing, legitimizing, improving and unders...
• Implementing European case law at the bureaucratic frontline: How domestic signalling influences the outcomes of EU law AI翻译
  作者：Martinsen, Dorte Sindbjerg; Blauberger, Michael; Heindlmaier, Anita; Thierry, Jessica Sampson
  作者单位：University of Copenhagen; Salzburg University; Salzburg University
  摘要：This article analyses the implementation of European case law at the bureaucratic frontline of European member states. Theoretically, insights from street-level implementation studies are combined with judicial impact research. Empirically, we compare how EU rules on free movement and cross-border welfare are applied in practice in Denmark, Austria and France. We find that when applying EU rules in practice, street-level bureaucrats are confronted with a world of legal complexity, consisting o...
• Are transformational and transactional types of leadership compatible? A two-wave study of employee motivation AI翻译
  作者：Nielsen, Poul Aaes; Boye, Stefan; Holten, Ann-Louise; Jacobsen, Christian Botcher; Andersen, Lotte Bogh
  作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; Aarhus University; University of Copenhagen
  摘要：Transformational and transactional leadership strategies have become prominent in public administration research, but it is unclear whether they are compatible or whether they could undermine each other. We examine the combined and interactive effects of transformational and three types of transactional leadership (contingent verbal rewards, material rewards, and sanctions) on employee work motivation, conceptualized as work engagement and intrinsic motivation. Panel analyses using repeated me...
• Relational job characteristics and job satisfaction of public sector employees: When prosocial motivation and red tape collide AI翻译
  作者：Steijn, Bram; van der Voet, Joris
  作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
  摘要：Recent studies suggested that the relationship between prosocial motivation and job satisfaction is mediated by relational job characteristics (e.g., job impact and job content). Based on a study of Dutch child welfare professionals, we theorize and empirically assess how red tape negatively impacts the relational job characteristics and job satisfaction of public professionals. Our study shows that the relationship between red tape and job satisfaction is partially mediated by relational job ...
• Negative feedback, political attention, and public policy AI翻译
  作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Larsen, Soren K.; Mortensen, Peter B.
  作者单位：Aarhus University
  摘要：More than 50 years of policy research has provided evidence of negative feedback where self-correcting mechanisms reinforce stability in public policies over time. While such mechanisms are at the heart of understanding change and stability in public policies, little attention has been given to the responses of individual policy-makers to public policies as a potential driver of negative feedback. Based on a unique survey dataset of spending preferences of local government politicians covering...
• Transferring emotional capital as coerced discretion: Street-level bureaucrats reconciling structural deficiencies AI翻译
  作者：Lavee, Einat; Strier, Roni
  作者单位：University of Haifa; University of Haifa
  摘要：The discretion of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) plays a key role in policy implementation. This study offers a new perspective on the meaning of discretion under social policy reforms, which created new structural deficiencies in the work of SLBs and have raised expectations of policy implementation without offering sufficient policy responses. Under such conditions, the discretion of SLBs should be understood as coerced, more so than as a positive element of freedom and choice. As such, SLB...
• Something old, something new, something borrowed: Explaining varieties of professionalism in citizen collaboration through identity theory AI翻译
  作者：Aschhoff, Nils; Vogel, Rick
  作者单位：University of Hamburg
  摘要：Public professionals are increasingly involved in collaborative relationships with citizens to design, implement and evaluate public services. We investigate how actors derive a specific social identity from the institutional logic of cross-sectoral collaboration and how this social identity translates into the self-identities of professionals. Based on an analysis of 44 semi-structured interviews in Germany, we examine how public professionals combine the different social identities in collab...
• Understanding relationships between public service motivation and involvement in socio-political organizations: Perspectives of organizational field theory AI翻译
  作者：Prysmakova, Palina
  作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
  摘要：The study provides insights about public service motivation values and participation in socio-political organizations. It applies organizational field theory to a sample of similar public and nonprofit service providers in a border region of two independent states. The results reveal that socio-political activities bear different meanings for individuals from different sectors and countries. Thus, from an institutional perspective, despite offering similar services, the organizations studied b...
• Do consistent government policies lead to greater meaningfulness and legitimacy on the front line? AI翻译
  作者：van Engen, Nadine; Steijn, Bram; Tummers, Lars
  作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Utrecht University
  摘要：We investigate the impact of policy consistency on frontline workers' perceptions of policy meaningfulness and legitimacy. The results from an experiment involving 779 teachers indicate that policy consistency does have a positive effect on legitimacy and to a lesser extent on meaningfulness. However, the extent depends on policy content and the degree of autonomy. Overall, our findings emphasize the potential positive impact of policy consistency. Although this, to some extent, conflicts with...