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{"title":"Punctuated or incremental? Macao’s budget change and governance before and after the handover","authors":"Qing Li, W. Ho, Yu Shi","doi":"10.1177/15396754221104687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221104687","url":null,"abstract":"As an export-oriented and developed micro-economy, Macao’s government budget has its own unique characteristics. Since 1999, Macao’s return to China represents a unique scenario of institutional and governance change from separation to unity of sovereignty and governance. This transition is different from the change of political regime, leadership turnover, and ruling party replacement on which the current literature focuses. By collecting budget expenditure data from 1976 to 2022, this study describes and compares Macao’s budgets, including total budget, operating budget, capital budget, and functional budget, to understand if different types of budgets have experienced incremental change or punctuated changes before and after the handover. The study finds that the total budget, capital budget, and most functional budgets show more incrementalism after the handover than before the handover, while the operating budget is more punctuated compared to the colonial administration budget.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"96 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42226013","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":"Unraveling the intricate relationship between empowerment role identity and adaptive performance: Evidence from China","authors":"Shenghao Guo, Bo Wen, Qianqian Hu, Ying-ho Kwong, Jinhan Wan","doi":"10.1177/15396754221099000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221099000","url":null,"abstract":"How to inspire employees to develop proficiency in their adaptability to fulfill new job requirements and what benefits can organizations derive from employee empowerment serve as two core questions in management literature. However, the linkage between empowerment and adaptive performance, let alone their interactions with other factors, is seldom studied. This article fills in this gap by examining the relationships among empowerment role identity, adaptive performance, authentic leadership, and leader-member exchange (LMX). Using data collected from a sample of 326 employee-supervisor dyads in China’s information, communication, and technology (ICT) industry, this article argues that LMX mediates the positive correlation between employees’ empowerment role identity and their adaptive performance. By adopting the Johnson-Neyman technique, this article further showcases the exact extent to which authentic leadership facilitates, counteracts, and undermines the mediating role that LMX plays in helping employees with empowerment needs to achieve greater adaptability.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"108 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43094709","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":"Hospital managers’ communication networks: A mixed-method study","authors":"B. Khosravi, M. Tajvar, Ebrahim Jaefaripooyan, Hannaneh MohammadiKangarani, M. Arab","doi":"10.1177/15396754221098999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221098999","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzed the problem-solving and advice-seeking networks of hospital managers working in hospitals affiliated to a university of medical sciences in Iran. This was a mixed-method study and was conducted in two stages. Initially, by conducting a qualitative study, key actors related to the hospital’s managers’ problem-solving and information/advice-seeking networks were identified and the next stage was conducted using social network analysis to identify powerful actors in the network. A questionnaire was used to collect data related to network analysis. Network properties were analyzed using density, degree centrality, and betweenness centrality. When hospital managers need help to solve work-related problems, they usually ask the university’s budget experts, followed by the University’s budget manager, the University’s financial manager, and the University’s deputy of management development and resources. In the financial advice-seeking network, the most common target of managers was the University’s financial manager, University’s budget manager, and University’s budget experts. This means that hospital managers usually seek financial advice from these people. Hospital Managers need to have a better understanding of invisible relationships because these relationships improve or may worsen collaboration and enable knowledge sharing in the organization and thus influence the decision-making process of managers.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"67 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42822307","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: Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon, A Government That Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government","authors":"Wei Li","doi":"10.1177/15396754221099002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221099002","url":null,"abstract":"Although this book was published in 2015 and contains no statistics from later than 2010, it remains the only careful and evidence-based analysis of the quality of performance data and the running costs of government after three decades of New Public Management (NPM) reform in the U.K. The first of the book’s nine chapters reviews the 30 years of NPM reforms since Margaret Thatcher’s premiership of the U.K. and proposes the major question to be addressed in the book: whether the managerial turn of recent governments has delivered effective policies, saved administrative costs and improved service quality. Chapter 2 introduces the political, economic and social context of the NPM reforms, and identifies the changes that have occurred since: the growth in the number of elected politicians and senior civil servants; fall in the overall size of the civil service; reduced autonomy of local authorities; privatization of public utilities, key industries and public service provision; weakening civil service bargain; and increased use of information technology. Chapter 3 discusses how the problem of discontinuities in performance data, a manifestation of incentives, structures and politics, prevents meaningful evaluation of the reforms’ effects on the cost-effectiveness of government programs over time. Chapter 4 demonstrates that although the running costs in terms of civil service pay have not increased substantially despite the reforms, there has been an increase in non-staff running costs, including those of contracting-out and consultancy. Chapter 5 is a case study of the effects of organizational mergers and IT adoption on the cost performance of the central tax collection department. The analysis concludes that complex tax reforms (e.g. tax credits) have increased the running costs, while IT adoption has done little to reduce them. Chapter 6 measures the quality of administrative services after the reforms using the metric of formal complaints and legal challenges. The authors convincingly argue that the increased number of complaints received by the Parliamentary Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner partly indicates the declining satisfaction with administrative quality in the 1990s and 2000s. Likewise, the increased number of judicial review applications partly indicates that the government has not been perceived to work better. Chapter 7 finds that the U.K. central government’s performance can be ranked around the middle according to several cross-country studies. Meanwhile, the effects of “agencification” on reducing departmental running costs have been small and indeed lasted only a few years before the costs increased sharply again in the late 2000s; there have also been increases in the number of Ombudsman complaints regarding the U.K. central government, the English local government and the Scottish government. Previous reviews of the book have provided perspectives from British and European scholars. However, the global diffusion of N","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"120 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48155449","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":"Research on women in public administration: A systematic review of Chinese top journal publications (1987–2019)","authors":"Juan Du","doi":"10.1177/15396754221083127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221083127","url":null,"abstract":"The study of women has made significant progress in public administration research although little is known about its development in China. This article presents a systematic review of 222 studies on women published in the 15 representative journals in the Chinese public administration discipline since the 1980s. It addresses a set of key questions relevant to research on women by systematically examining the research paradigms, topics, methods, theories, and empirical research and clarify the shortcomings of existing research. Findings of the analysis and the international frontier progress then suggest the research directions for future studies on women. It proposes that Chinese scholars should critically examine international theories, propose diverse research topics, and use up-to-date methodologies.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"40 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45878793","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":"Effective Citizen Engagement in Community Policing: The Lessons and Experience of Taiwan","authors":"Chinoh Chu, Ting-Jung Tsai, Chun-yuan Wang, Fan-shien Meng","doi":"10.1177/153967542101200202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153967542101200202","url":null,"abstract":"Community policing has gradually drawn attention in many countries since the 1990s. This new policing strategy can prevent crime, while also increasing citizen participation and justifying democratic policing. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Taiwan police agencies have adopted community policing. The practice includes the planning of police beats, community fora on safety issues, and service-orientated policing. Since one of the core tenets of community policing is citizen participation and engagement, why do some police agencies differ within the same jurisdiction? To answer this question, this paper builds a simple framework showing how a variety of external and internal factors can affect citizen engagement in community policing. The qualitative data was collected in diverse urban and rural police stations. This study provides a better understanding of how to promote citizen engagement in community policing.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"116 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47580977","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":"Introducing Notable Scholars’ Contributions to CPAR","authors":"M. McBrayer, Huafang Li","doi":"10.1177/153967542101200207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153967542101200207","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, CPAR has published a wealth of novel contributions to the field of public administration. Indeed, the journal has provided a space wherein the scholarly community can question traditional theoretical and empirical wisdom, leading to fresh perspectives in the discipline. In this issue, we are happy to re-introduce CPAR articles focusing on public values, public participation, and managerial leadership authored by leading scholars. These crucial articles are particularly relevant as we enter an era where we question the norms of individuality and efficiency.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"168 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43764010","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":"The Weberian Politics-Administration Dichotomy in Time of Global Crisis: Neutral Competence or Cadre Organizations","authors":"Michael Guo-Brennan","doi":"10.1177/153967542101200204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153967542101200204","url":null,"abstract":"The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic placed enormous pressures on local, regional, and national governments to remain responsive, open, and equitable when developing solutions to protect the public. The focus of this article is an examination of these challenges, the insufficient preparedness, and the resulting response to the pandemic through the lens of the Weberian politics-administration dichotomy. Despite the fact that China does not practice a Weberian democratic form of government, the nation has managed to become a global economic powerhouse. Through a high degree of centralized planning, China has implemented market-based economic reforms synchronous with sustained socialist practices. However, this system also presents unique challenges for effective governance. Some of these challenges are the result of the governmental system in China, the relationship between the central government and local cadre organizations. For China to continue to grow as a global leader, leadership will need to balance the pros and cons of the dichotomy between the centralized political planning and the local administration by promoting more flexibility in governance structure and the central-local relationship.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"145 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43756065","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":"Coordinated Mobilization Matters: How DidTaiwan do it during the Covid-19 Pandemic?","authors":"Chun-yuan Wang, Elaine Yi Lu, Yan-yi Chang, A. L. Huang","doi":"10.1177/153967542101200206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153967542101200206","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic hit the world hard. Ensnared by a large-scale emergency unprecedented in recent history, mobilization, the classic issue of emergency management, is under stress and test. Yet Taiwan stands out in its rather limited cases of infections despite its frequent contact with mainland China and high population density. Could its mobilization have made the difference? This article traces the steps and strategies that Taiwan took to implement a coordinated mobilization. Three strategies were highlighted: awareness mobilization by declaring emergency early on, resource mobilization by preemptively controlling, boldly incentivizing and surgically distributing resources, and agility mobilization via big data and technology to optimize the response system.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"160 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46036115","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: Ekaterina V. Kudryashova, Legal Regulation of Strategic Planning in Public Finance","authors":"A. Shashkova, N. Martin","doi":"10.22140/cpar.v12i1.292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22140/cpar.v12i1.292","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>NA</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"88 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47543608","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}