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{"title":"Exploring the potential for blockchains in fragile states","authors":"Mohammad Qadam Shah, I. Murtazashvili, J. Murtazashvili, Martin Weiss","doi":"10.1177/15396754231189828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231189828","url":null,"abstract":"Blockchains have been hailed as a game-changing institutional technology. Most of the analysis of blockchains focuses on their uses in the Global North. Though there is increasing consideration of their uses in the Global South, few studies consider the uses of blockchains in fragile states. In this paper, we consider the potential for blockchain deployments by governments, international organizations, and citizens in fragile states. We find that government deployments are unlikely in fragile states, though blockchains can be useful through their increasing use by aid organizations and by providing people with opportunities, such as access to cryptocurrencies. Blockchains may be revolutionary, but the extent to which they have improved the lives of people in fragile states is questionable.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46423156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expanding the analytical scope of tools for advancing representative bureaucracy: A comparative analysis of Hong Kong and Macau","authors":"Wei Li","doi":"10.1177/15396754231190664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231190664","url":null,"abstract":"Studying the contexts and features of locally-relevant tools of representative bureaucracy (RB) adopted in Hong Kong and Macau during the decolonizing and post-colonial periods could contribute to the literature of RB originated from Western contexts. The study found that political contexts of societal pressure, decolonization, and power handover to China have been driving the choice of RB tools in two places. Political contexts also explained different and similar implementation paces and effects of RB tools in two places. The paper suggests that the analysis of RB shall not be limited to one or two passive RB tools that target government input but be expanded to include the choice and effects of RB tools that target government processes, output, and outcome. The expanded analytical scope of RB will be useful for post-colonial contexts where the colonial legacies often co-exist with unequal representation among groups, and where state capacity is often weak.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42253664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Culture of corruption in the smart service system of global governance","authors":"Wiyono, E. Purnomo, Linayati Lestari","doi":"10.1177/15396754231185320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231185320","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to determine the culture of corruption in the global government smart service system in the last 5 years, from 2018 to 2022. This research used a qualitative method with a library research approach. The research data was obtained from the Scopus database of 318 articles. Data analysis in this study used VOSviewer and NVivo 12 plus devices. Through 318 article documents, the results showed that the United Kingdom had the highest contribution of artistic documents, and the University of South Africa was affiliated with the highest number of document publications of the 10 other affiliates. The “moral and ethical” movement within government agencies is expected to restore trust in the community and create conditions for a social environment that rejects, even opposes, and punishes acts of corruption.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65402799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Myanmar’s budgetary punctuations before and after the 2011 budget reforms: Budget incrementalism and punctuated equilibrium theory","authors":"Win Thiri Myaing, S. Lim","doi":"10.1177/15396754231179019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231179019","url":null,"abstract":"Myanmar has implemented budget reforms to decentralize its budgeting processes, and this study intends to investigate how those reforms have affected its allocation patterns based on budget incrementalism and punctuated equilibrium theory. We empirically analyzed the government’s spending in seven sectors over 19 years. We found that political and institutional changes have different effects on different sectors. The sectors that the government paid attention to and set as highly prioritized policies showed more punctuation. After the reform, the government paid more attention to capital budgets to achieve its political goals, leading to more punctuation in the capital budget. We also examined the directions and frequencies of budget punctuation before and after the reform by extending the punctuated equilibrium theory literature based on both corrective and trend models. Different budget punctuation patterns were observed with different frequencies across sectors due to the unique characteristics of each sector and changing policy priorities over time.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43635572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy advocacy, network formation and network governance","authors":"Hongtao Yi, Meng Yuan","doi":"10.1177/15396754221145421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221145421","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the mechanisms underlying the formation of U.S. national clean energy policy network. Informed by the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework, this article develops and tests hypotheses regarding cooperation versus coordination hypotheses regarding the reasons underlying clean energy policy actors’ networking activities. Using a webcrawler data collection strategy and measuring policy network with hyperlink network, a data set of network relationships among the clean energy policy actors is collected. Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) are applied to test the proposed hypotheses, and results show strong empirical evidence supporting cooperation hypotheses, with partial support for coordination hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43748977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crypto altruism: Applying blockchain to charitable and humanitarian activities","authors":"Mikayla Novak","doi":"10.1177/15396754231175173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231175173","url":null,"abstract":"Charities and humanitarian organizations have come under closer scrutiny over recent years. Highly publicized financial scandals, together with criticisms concerning the cost, effectiveness, and underlying motivations of certain charitable and humanitarian activities, appear to have corroded public trust. Can recent innovations in blockchain assist in improving nonprofit effectiveness and, through it, trust amongst donors, beneficiaries, and broader communities? This paper deploys a “cost of trust” framework to assess blockchain potential in reinforcing trust in charitable and humanitarian operations. Blockchain has been touted by its advocates as a potential solution for charities to reduce the cost of trust, by: (i) enabling observable funding flows; (ii) enforcing conditions regarding funding disbursement and use; and (iii) facilitating direct giving. Despite a growing number of use cases, limitations of this technology in reducing the cost of trust are also recognized in respect of complex relationships between donating and trust perceptions in heterogeneous environments.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46701307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Sergey O Shokhin and Ekaterina V Kudryashova, <i>The Legal Framework for Strategic Planning in Contemporary Russia: Monograph</i>","authors":"Anton B Didikin, Konstantin V Davydov","doi":"10.1177/15396754231164773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231164773","url":null,"abstract":"Many of the public management concepts that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century are still in use in the 21st century. One of these century-old, but still relevant instruments of public governance is planning. Throughout the process of falls and rises during the 20th century (Minzberg, 1994) modern strategic planning concept evolved into one of the means of efficient public governance in the evergrowing complexity of social processes. Although strategic management is an area of serious academic inquiry, there is still a need for better understanding of its theoretical basis and practical implementation. General approaches to strategic planning are crystallizing out of theoretical discussions fueled by the studies on specific countries’ experiences. In 2022 Shokhin S.O., Kudryashova E.V. published “The Legal Framework for Strategic Planning in Contemporary Russia.” MGIMO Publishing House publishes such book across a range of social science disciplines in various formats and in different languages trying to reach the educated community around the world. The new volume is another attempt to make the Russian administrative practices and scientific findings more accessible for academics and practitioners around the world. This is important for maintaining the diversity of views in social sciences. The book presents a few milestones in the evolution of the strategic planning concept. Some milestones have been forgotten by social science researchers now. For example, in 1922 the country which was mostly relying on plans in its social-economic development appeared on the political map of the world. We speak about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR). The publication of the book marks this centennial anniversary. In the first chapter the authors look closer at the historical processes. For instance, they mention the first largescale economy recovery plan in Soviet Russia—the GOELRO—the Government Electrification of Russia plan of 1920. Later this mega-plan transformed into a socialeconomic development plan. The authors highlight the influence of the GOELRO success on the recovery and development plans of European countries later in the 20th century. Additionally, the 5-years plans for social-economic development, and their underlying doctrine of planning are discussed in the first chapter. The historic legal framework for planning is presented in this chapter for the reader including the constitutional provisions, the laws on planning as well as the interaction between different documents with legal, political, or quasi-legal nature (we mean here the special form of documents called “directives”1). This detailed historical overview in the first chapter is very useful, because the authors demonstrate the influence of the historical context on the later developments in strategic planning. After the discussion of historical, political, and international context of current strategic planning in Russia the authors focus on the Federal law","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135772589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public participation at the local level in China—How does it work? A perspective from within","authors":"Khaldoun AbouAssi, Rui Wang","doi":"10.1177/15396754231162943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754231162943","url":null,"abstract":"Public participation is widely adopted in managing public affairs, especially at the central level in many countries. This article examines the current status of public participation in a Chinese local government environmental agency, through the eyes of its employees. We find that informational and consultative forms of public participation are common; other forms of participation that require decision authority sharing are not absent. Regardless, public participation is perceived to be used for its instrumental benefits. The lack of time for citizens to participate and for the agency to manage participation are the major obstacles; the need for a top political decision and more public awareness are needed for the agency to engage the public meaningfully. The good news is that most public sector employees, especially managers, hold a positive view of public participation.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42354626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Energy efficiency expenditures in cities with municipal-owned utilities","authors":"Hongtao Yi, D. Matkin","doi":"10.1177/15396754221145396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221145396","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, local governments have taken an increasingly prominent role in the use and promotion of so-called “green” technologies. Cities and counties that own their own utilities have a unique set of opportunities and incentives to involve citizens in “green” initiatives. Some of those governments invest significant levels of resources on energy efficiency programs, others invest a little, and others are yet to initiate “green” initiatives. We examine this issue with data from municipal-owned utilities in cities with populations over 25,000. We test these relationships with Heckman Selection Models and compare the results with those of investor-owned utilities. We find that the decision to initiate energy efficiency programs is associated with state regulations, siting difficulties and the availability of generation units. We also find that expenditure levels to support those programs are associated with the availability of local retail partners, citizens’ ideological orientation, and demand changes.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47094276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Public sectors and nonprofit organizations use of social media to communicate compassion during crisis","authors":"Wanzhu Shi, Fei Luo, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, A. A. Gonzalez","doi":"10.1177/15396754221143446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221143446","url":null,"abstract":"Using compassion is an important public communication strategy associated with many positive outcomes. While research on compassion has grown in many fields, few studies have explored the role of compassion in crisis communication. This study fills the gap in the research to examine if public sectors and nonprofit organizations used compassion on their social media content and how it impacts public emotion in a winter freeze crisis in Texas. Facebook posts from four local agencies were analyzed to investigate the role of compassion in crisis communication during this emergency. The results highlight the value of using compassion on social media in crisis communication. Facebook posts containing compassion components significantly increased online public engagement. Furthermore, compassion functioned to decrease negative emotions and bolster positive emotions among the public. Media richness did not exert any significant impact on public reactions. Policy implications for government agencies and non-profit organizations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49320948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}