Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration最新文献

{"title":"Is there passion for public service in authoritarian bureaucracies? Exploring public service motivation across regime types","authors":"Guillem Ripoll, Martin Rode","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2035238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2035238","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although previous research has explored broadly the determinants of public service motivation (PSM), little is known about how it is affected by formal institutional variations. This article examines the presence of PSM in the bureaucracies of democratic and autocratic political regimes. Merging data from the four waves of the International Social Survey Programme with a recent classification of regime types, this study confirms that autocracies seem neither to diminish public servants’ levels of PSM, nor hinder its cultivation. In fact, we find indications that PSM is likely to be higher in autocracies, where the positive effect of relatedness on PSM is also stronger than in democracies, albeit the latter is partially non-significant. Future research and practical implications of the findings are further discussed.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"10 1","pages":"93 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88317777","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":"“Expecting children to be dragons” in an east asian context: Parental expectations of children choosing a career in the public sector","authors":"Chung-an Chen, Chengwei Xu, Dongjie Chen","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2039073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2039073","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In East Asia, where a culture of submission to authority dominates, parental expectations significantly influence children’s career choices. A recent empirical study conducted in Taiwan shows that children are more inclined to pursue a public service career when influenced by their parents’ expectations. The present study asks two questions: why do parents in East Asia expect children to secure a career in public service? Is it a result of social pressure, parents’ own values, their socio-economic status, or all of these possible reasons? The present study uses data collected in Taiwan to answer these questions. Our findings broaden the current knowledge base of parental socialisation and its effect on children’s preference for public sector careers.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"75 1","pages":"118 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88070919","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 effects of organizational diversity perception on affective commitment","authors":"Sangsuk Kim, Geunjoo Lee","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.2011341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.2011341","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Korean government introduced the “Balanced Public Personnel Policy” in the mid-1990s. Since then, diversity in the public sector has increased dramatically. However, studies examining the effect of diversity on organisation are scant. To fill the research gap, this study analysed the effects of organisational diversity using a sample of 778 employees from 35 Korean state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The study measured social category diversity, informational diversity, and value diversity and analysed their impacts on conflict and affective commitment. The results show that (1) social category diversity decreased conflict and increased affective commitment, (2) informational diversity did not have a statistically significant impact on conflict and affective commitment, (3) value diversity increased conflict and decreased affective commitment, and (4) conflict had a mediating effect on the relationship between value diversity and affective commitment. This study shows that organizational diversity affects affective commitment and that different types of diversity have different outcomes.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"12 5 1","pages":"160 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90071013","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":"Does bureaucratic performance vary across authoritarian regimes?","authors":"Colin Knox, S. Janenova","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2022.2026794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2026794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article considers the performance of bureaucracies in two authoritarian states located in Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The former has been a consolidated authoritarian regime since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter has oscillated between a form of parliamentary democracy and authoritarianism. We examine how the countries’ bureaucracies perform under different systems of governance and find that Kazakhstan is more effective given its relatively stable political context, higher level of professionalism, and greater policy capacity amongst its officials, notwithstanding its consistent authoritarian leadership. When politicians interfere in the work of officials, it results in lower impartiality and constitutional uncertainty. This finding reaffirms previous research (using Quality of Government survey data) which calls for the separation of political and bureaucratic roles as a way of improving government effectiveness and reducing corruption.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"56 1","pages":"16 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74451755","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":"Special Issue Introduction: experiments in public administration research in the Asia-Pacific region","authors":"Cheol Liu, Tima T. Moldogaziev, C. Witko","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.2021431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.2021431","url":null,"abstract":"The use of experimental methods in the social and behavioural sciences, including somewhat belatedly the field of public administration, has recently exploded. Though public administration scholars in North America and Europe have begun using experiments extensively, experiments have been less common in the Asia-Pacific region. We are excited to offer this symposium in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration that furthers the use of experiments in public administration to improve both scholarly research and practice in the region. This symposium emerged from a conference on experimental research methods held in Seoul and sponsored by the Experimental Public Management Research Lab (ExPMR Lab) at KDI School of Public Policy and Management in December of 2019. The conference has become an annual event, with 2020 being held virtually, and it will continue to serve as an important platform in the dissemination of experimental public administration research in the Asia-Pacific region. We acknowledge the generous financial support from the ExPMR Lab and KDI School. Public administration scholars have long called for an increase in the use of experiments (Bozeman & Scott, 1992), but it was only in the last decade that experiments have been widely used in public administration research. This reflects an increasing concern with “credibility” in establishing causality in the social sciences (Angrist & Pischke, 2010). While public administration has always been, and almost of necessity will remain diverse in the methodologies it employs (Zhu et al., 2019), experiments have become more common because they are very good at allowing researchers to establish causality via randomisation, something that is difficult to attain with other designs. A recent review of experimental studies in leading public administration journals by Walker et al. (2017), however, notes their continued scarcity. Though experimental research is not as common in the Asia-Pacific region, there is a small but growing group of scholars using experimental methods, and some of their cutting-edge research is included in this volume. Chen et al. review and assess Asia-Pacific region’s capacity to produce experimental research in the lead article. This review demonstrates that, thus far, experimental methods are generally limited to a small number of universities and often involve international collaborations. The authors call for greater transparency in future scholarly research, particularly the implementation procedures in experiments, reports from experiments, and statements of future directions. The lead article is followed by an article from Shapiro, Bolsen, and Kim on framing of public messages and their influence on beliefs and attributions. Using an emphasis framing experiment, the authors test whether perceived importance of cooperation with China in solving air pollution problems in the region depends on the type of framing ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2022","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"93 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89533836","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 experimentation with impact financing: a systematic review of research on social impact bonds","authors":"Tima T. Moldogaziev, Cheol Liu, Mikhail Ivonchyk","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.2019070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.2019070","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social impact bonds (SIB) have become a novel and attractive policy tool to assist with service delivery to vulnerable groups. Since the first SIB in 2010 in the United Kingdom, hundreds of projects have been adopted, implemented, and continue to be developed around the world. A broad observation from current research concludes that there is a lack of consistent evidence on research foci and orientations with regard to this innovative policy tool. In the context of the Asia-Pacific region, research on SIBs is largely non-existent. Moreover, research from Asia-Pacific contexts is primarily focused on the (financial) product features of impact financing, at the expense of studying the process innovation aspect of SIBs in service delivery. This contrasts with research from European and North American SIBs, which exhibit a relatively heightened interest on issues in service delivery process and their impact on performance measurement, evidence auditing and evaluation, and accountability to service recipients versus investor returns. As policy experimentation continues with SIBs in the Asia-Pacific region, several key considerations remain vital and require future scholarly attention.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"10 1","pages":"81 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83706069","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 intensity of organizational transitions in government: comparing patterns in developed and developing countries","authors":"Abiha Zahra, Tobias Bach","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.1980069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.1980069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Organisational transitions in governments have long been discussed in the literature. While, more recently, organisational life cycle changes between birth and death have been the focus of research, a systematic comparison of organisational transitions across countries has barely been initiated. We aim to bridge this gap in the literature by providing comparative metrics for organisational transitions, which could be later enriched with structural data from researchers working in this domain. Termination literature mainly hails from the West, wherein this article brings in Pakistan’s developing context – long considered a terra incognita in comparative research – and breaks new analytical ground by comparing the intensity of organisational transitions in Pakistan with those of developed countries. The lack of vivid variance in the intensity of transitions among developing and developed countries, raises interesting questions as to the relationship between the intensity of structural reform and administrative performance. The article thereby seeks to encourage future comparative research.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"316 1","pages":"152 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85420512","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":"Shifting discourses of nature in participatory processes for environmental management","authors":"Pat Barrett, Raven Cretney, Priya Kurian, Naomi Simmonds","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.1972322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.1972322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The increasing use of participatory processes in environmental governance and management has implications for the way different conceptualisations of nature and the environment are recognised within environmental decision-making. This article draws on a case study of the Ōngātoro Maketū estuary restoration initiative in Aotearoa, New Zealand, to examine how shifting discourses of nature and the environment intersect with the exercise of power to influence decision-making on the estuary. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of an archive of historical policy and planning documents, and 25 in-depth interviews with participants involved in the restoration initiative. The analysis demonstrates that despite a participatory process that often reinforced the dominant cultural paradigm and power relations, it created the space for different knowledge forms including western science and Māori knowledge to help improve the quality of decisions. We argue that well-designed participatory processes have much potential to address the growing complexity and uncertainty underpinning environmental governance and management.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"389 1","pages":"315 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73425886","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":"Institutional correlates of public service motivation: family, religion, and high school education","authors":"Taehee Kim, Kiwhan Kim, Sangmook Kim","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.1977968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.1977968","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence of the extent to which social institutions play a role in the development of public service motivation (PSM). This study investigates institutional factors affecting first-year undergraduate students’ PSM, focusing on family, religion, and high school education in Korea. It uses two-wave survey data collected from first-year undergraduate students at a public university in Korea (n = 202). The test results show that parental teaching and participation in extracurricular activities (creative experiential learning activities) are positively associated with overall PSM and most of its individual dimensions, and religion is positively associated with the dimension of commitment to public values. This study provides support for the process theory holding that PSM is influenced by social institutions throughout an individual’s childhood and adolescence. The implications and limitations of this study are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"25 1","pages":"214 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80103710","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":"Citizens’ perception of government responsiveness: building an engaged citizenry","authors":"I. Novikova, Saltanat Liebert","doi":"10.1080/23276665.2021.1966815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2021.1966815","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Responsiveness is one of the tenets of good governance. In the post-Soviet setting, in which government officials view provision of public services to the population as government largesse, the perception of government responsiveness is particularly important in building active and engaged citizenry. This study explores a potential link between citizen perceptions of local government responsiveness among residents of squatter settlements in the Kyrgyz Republic and citizen-municipal government collaboration. Based on a survey of 914 urban squatter settlers in Bishkek, the article examines how residents of slums perceive the responsiveness of different levels of government in improving their communities’ access to basic urban services. Lower level of governance is found to be associated with higher levels of perceived responsiveness. Participation in informal demand-making and self-help activities is positively associated with perceptions of government responsiveness, especially when it comes to the city administration.","PeriodicalId":43945,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration","volume":"73 1","pages":"298 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75361094","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}