{"title":"Public administration at a crossroad: Five enduring challenges","authors":"M. Holzer","doi":"10.1177/15396754221110591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221110591","url":null,"abstract":"The field of public administration has long promised to produce a wide range of services, and for millennia government did so. However, in the course of the last 50 years, public trust has declined precipitously in the US. The public sector faces five crosscutting challenges in reversing that decline. Although the public sector does produce at a high level, there are serious deficiencies in the utilization of human resources, in making the case for government performance to the public, in identifying innovations that could enhance services, in speaking to the agendas of elected officials, in confronting the naïve assumptions of the business model of government, and in empowering bureaucratic resistors to help avoid disastrous decisions.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"125 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42462225","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":"When it matters to keep promises: Funding of retiree benefit and government borrowing cost","authors":"Jinhai Yu","doi":"10.1177/15396754221099004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221099004","url":null,"abstract":"While funding of retiree benefits has become a critical challenge to the fiscal sustainability of U.S. local governments, little is known about the consequences of public expenditures on OPEBs and pensions. This study examines whether and when annual contributions to other post-employment benefits (OPEBs) plans affect government borrowing costs. By reducing unfunded liabilities, OPEB contributions may decrease borrowing costs. As two parts of deferred employee compensation, expenditure tradeoffs may exist between OPEBs and pension contributions. Fiscal capacity can further moderate these expenditure tradeoffs. Results show that, as U.S. city and county governments make more contributions to OPEB plans, they pay lower borrowing costs when the pension contribution is low and when fiscal capacity is low. They pay higher borrowing costs when the pension contribution is high and when fiscal capacity is low. These findings suggest that the savings of borrowing costs from OPEB contributions depend on the tradeoffs between OPEB and pension expenditures and the availability of fiscal resources.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"162 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44412765","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":"Can machine understand public administration literature? Applying text mining for systematic review","authors":"Hanjin Mao, Huafang Li","doi":"10.1177/15396754221109319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221109319","url":null,"abstract":"Systematic reviews summarize the progress of studies and pave roads for future research in an academic field. However, conducting a systematic literature review can be burdensome and time-consuming. Computer-assisted methods such as text mining techniques have been increasingly applied to improve systematic reviews in public administration. To test the reliability of using text mining for systematic literature reviews, this study uses clustering, topic modeling, automatic multi-term extraction, and text network to systematically review articles published in Chinese Public Administration Review from 2002 to 2019. By comparing machine-produced topics with existing human-coded themes, findings show that applying text mining methods for systematic reviews can be reliable and effective with cautions. The study also offers practical suggestions for researchers to apply text mining methods for systematic literature reviews.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"226 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49345357","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":"E-participation in contemporary China: A comparison with conventional offline participation","authors":"P. Xu, Kristin Johnson, Ashlea Rundlett","doi":"10.1177/15396754221107115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221107115","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the resource theory of political participation, we compare the determinants of Internet-based e-participation and conventional offline political participation in China by employing data from an original survey conducted in 2013. We find that e-government and other online platforms provide more equal participation opportunities to Chinese citizens traditionally lacking political resources. Although non-party members and non-elites are disadvantaged in conventional offline participation, they are not in e-participation, especially through using e-government systems. Internet/computer access and Internet skills push individuals away from conventional offline participation, and frequent social media users are more likely to engage in e-participation. Taken together, these results suggest that e-government and other online platforms offer the genuine potential to expand the scope of participation and empowers those traditionally disadvantaged in China.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"150 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48232094","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":"Managing the COVID-19 crisis by fiscal strategies: Lessons from four countries","authors":"Yu Shi, Can Chen, Sungjin Park","doi":"10.1177/15396754221101129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221101129","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 Crisis is urgent, global in scale, and has generated a massive impact globally. During the outbreak of the crisis, well-designed fiscal strategies play a critical role in effective crisis management. This article uses an international and comparative perspective to find fiscal strategies used by four countries including China, South Korea, the United States, and Italy to manage the COVID-19 crisis for the period of April 2020 to December 2021. It examines key similarities and differences regarding to these major fiscal strategies adopted by the four countries. This article offers important lessons and summarizes effective practices for other countries that were considering fiscal strategies to manage and deal with the economic and fiscal impacts induced by the COVID-19 crisis.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"3 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48492323","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":"How does local autonomy shape the revenues of small municipalities? Evidence from Illinois home rule municipalities","authors":"Xin Chen","doi":"10.1177/15396754221104381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221104381","url":null,"abstract":"Although long governed by “Dillon’s Rule” that makes localities a “creature” of the state, the U.S. municipalities have always desired some degree of local autonomy. One of the ways in which states grant autonomy to local governments is through a designation of “home rule.” Most prior studies of the effects of home rule on local governance have focused on relating large municipalities. This article explores the effect of adopting home rule on small municipalities by looking at municipalities’ revenues. Focusing on Illinois municipalities, this article conducts a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to provide causal evidence. The empirical evidence shows that the adoption of home rule has a positive and statistically significant impact on the level of total own-source revenue, especially for local sales taxes and other taxes, but it has limited influence on property taxes. In addition, while home rule significantly increases revenue diversification for small municipalities, it has little influence on revenue stability.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"75 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45323652","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":"Economic development collaboration in public administration research: A systematic literature review","authors":"Liu Chen","doi":"10.1177/15396754221105315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221105315","url":null,"abstract":"Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) approach, this article investigates 85 articles on economic development collaboration in public administration research, published between 1990 and 2022. Economic development collaboration is the process of interaction among multiple economic development organizations in order to tackle economic development problems that cannot be resolved by single organizations. This systematic review demonstrates seven key aspects of economic development collaboration studies: (1) research questions, (2) collaboration types, (3) empirical designs and methods, (4) antecedents of economic development collaboration, (5) mechanisms of economic collaboration, (6) outcomes of economic development collaboration, and (7) research limitations. Based on these results, this article identifies strengths and weaknesses in economic development collaboration research and concludes with a future research agenda.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"15 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42718101","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":"Challenges of Asian international students in the U.S. Public affairs programs: A cross-discipline review","authors":"Yahong Zhang, Lois L. Warner, Hanjin Mao","doi":"10.1177/15396754221102671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221102671","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have perceived a globalization process in higher education and recognized the influx of international students, especially students from Asia, in the U.S. programs of public affairs as a factual aspect of the globalization of the academic profession. However, the studies that examine international students’ experiences and challenges in the public affairs programs have remained scarce. This article broadens the literature review to multiple disciplines in order to understand the common challenges experienced by Asian international students while it identifies the particular challenges of international students in public affairs programs. Based on the cross-discipline literature review, this article highlights the lessons that American public affairs programs can take in order to provide more accommodating and inclusive educational environments to international students. It also recognizes the missing areas in the literature about the challenges of Asian international students in American public affairs programs that future studies are expected to investigate.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"55 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48841097","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":"Creating ‘good citizens’ through community policing: A study of youth police club in the colonial Hong Kong","authors":"L. Ho, Kin-man Wan, C. Ho","doi":"10.1177/15396754221099003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221099003","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the implementation of community policing in Hong Kong with reference from the evolution of the police youth club: Junior Police Call (JPC) programme which targetted the student population. The JPC was established in the 1970s and widely regarded as a very successful community policing initiative of the Royal Hong Kong Police (RHKP) to re-legitimise itself after the territory-wide social confrontation in 1966 and 1967. We analysed the reflection from JPC administrators and participants in a police district with a large school children population, to explore the strategy adopted by the police authorities to practice this community policing programme uncommon in colonial policing. Our study found the police strategically resocialized the youth with the collaboration with schoolteachers and local elites. However, the successful creation of ‘good citizens’ was still overshadowed by her concern for the emergence of social consciousness that might delegitimize the colonial governance.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"87 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44532062","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}
M. Zhang, Ying Ma, Mengmei Liu, Huijuan Zhang, Yunsoo Lee
{"title":"Managing municipal waste in China from a standpoint of social governance","authors":"M. Zhang, Ying Ma, Mengmei Liu, Huijuan Zhang, Yunsoo Lee","doi":"10.1177/15396754221098997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221098997","url":null,"abstract":"The research on municipal waste management is getting some traction from both scholars and practitioners. However, few studies have systematically reviewed this issue in China. Therefore, the purpose of our paper is to respond to this lacuna by systematically reviewing the research on urban waste management in China. In addition, we addressed the difficulties encountered by multiple stakeholders with respect to municipal waste management and provide a coherent understanding from a social governance perspective. Drawing on a systematic literature review, we analyzed 40 papers on social governance of waste management. The synthesis of previous studies demonstrates that although government deserves credit for guiding other actors, it cannot effectively safeguard the interests of all stakeholders. We integrated previous findings and gleaned suggestions for governments to implement strategic waste management.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"29 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46830111","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}