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{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}