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{"title":"Integrating philosophical perspectives into the study of public administration: The contribution of Critical Realism to understanding public value","authors":"Edoardo Ongaro, Yi Yang","doi":"10.1177/09520767241246654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241246654","url":null,"abstract":"Philosophical thought may provide an important contribution to the development of the theory and practice of public administration (PA). Notwithstanding such potential, however, philosophical thought has so far been limitedly employed in PA studies. To the extent philosophy has been brought into PA, three philosophies have been mainly used: Pragmatism, strands of Relativism-Constructivism, and Positivism. This paper argues that another philosophical approach can and ought to be considered much more systematically for application to foundational issues in PA studies, namely Critical Realism. The potential of this philosophical perspective is deployed to shed new light on key issues in the theory and practice of public value governance and management, a major area of academic investigation and practical application in the field of public administration and public management.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Upscaling policy pilots: Four tales in Chinese health governance","authors":"Yunpeng Song, Yanwei Li","doi":"10.1177/09520767241247987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241247987","url":null,"abstract":"Governments have widely applied policy pilots to test new policy initiatives before their full rollout. However, little is known about their upscaling styles. In this contribution, in relation to two attributes of the issues that policy pilots attempt to resolve – ambiguity and salience – we construct an analytic framework consisting of four policy-pilot upscaling styles: command replication, refinement by doing, waiting by doing, and putting on hold. Four representative cases in Chinese health governance, namely, the Sanming healthcare reform, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, medical staff’s salary reform in public hospitals, and income–expenditure two-line management in primary healthcare institutions, have been investigated to exemplify them. Our study contributes to the existing governance and policy literature by adding new building blocks to the upscaling of policy pilots.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140686853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices","authors":"Yvonne La Grouw, Oemar van der Woerd, E. Lianne Visser, Wieke Blijleven","doi":"10.1177/09520767241244981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241244981","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative approaches to governance, policymaking, and administration are believed to provide means of adequately handling wicked problems. Simultaneously, many scholars have acknowledged the difficulty of collaboration in practice. In this article, we argue that understanding the ‘small’ practices of collaborative governance and actor-positioning processes illuminates why collaborative governance is such a challenging response to wicked problems. Instead of focussing on ‘big’ collaborative approaches to ‘big’ wicked problems, zooming in on mundane dynamics demonstrates the continuous work that governing and positioning processes require, exposing the provisional nature of elements that have been argued to be vital, such as mutual trust, reciprocity, long-term commitment, authority, or autonomy. Lastly, the mundane uncovers the importance of the material, spatial, and temporal organisation of actor-positioning processes and the potential of language to inhibit or enable collaborative governance. The article ends with a reflection on how analyses of mundane dynamics may help scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and citizens to understand their own processes of engagements in collaborative endeavours and possibly temper expectations.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working for the future is more than foreseeing the future: Impact of the balanced organizational capabilities on the proactive policy orientation","authors":"Junesoo Lee","doi":"10.1177/09520767241239861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241239861","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores what kinds of (and how) organizational capabilities (benchmarking, modeling, forecasting, and backcasting), respectively and collectively, help an organization to have a more proactive policy orientation. An analysis of the public agencies in South Korea in 2021 shows several significant findings. First, all four of the organizational capabilities are conducive to a proactive policy orientation, which may be intuitively acceptable. Second, however, in contrast to expectation, the relative impact of forecasting capability on proactive policy orientation turned out to be the weakest among the four capabilities. An interpretation of these findings indicates that, proactive policies might be better produced in the organizational environment where forecasting can be supported by empirical evidence (benchmarking), methodical reasoning (modeling), and tangible planning (backcasting).","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governance without we. Wicked problems and collaborative governance","authors":"D. Bannink, Alessando Sancino, Maddalena Sorrentino","doi":"10.1177/09520767241239863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241239863","url":null,"abstract":"In this introductory article to our PPA special issue we argue that the relation between wicked problems and collaborative governance is fraught with difficulties. Doing so, we take four steps: we maintain that wicked problems are better understood as wicked actor constellations; we delve into the collaborative governance-approach and posit that it is mainly concerned with wicked problems; we then argue that collaborative governance might not be the most feasible response to wicked problems; and after that we argue that an assumption instead of actors being engaged in actor positioning processes allows a clearer understanding of policy processes in wicked actor constellations. Following this discussion, we introduce the articles featured in the special issue and discuss implications for research.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140371031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyzing determinants of whistleblowing intention with the gamification method","authors":"Nara Park, Hyunjin Song, Yoon Jik Cho","doi":"10.1177/09520767241238425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09520767241238425","url":null,"abstract":"Whistleblowing plays a critical role in building healthy transparent and responsible organizations. Whistleblowing can be challenging, however, as it may result in significant costs for the whistleblower. Facilitating whistleblowing that resists illegal and unethical behaviors within organizations requires management to enhance behavior while protecting whistleblowers. From the perspective of risk-taking, the current research examines which factors are associated with whistleblowing intention using an original approach, the gamification method. Accordingly, in addition to the effects of respondents’ characteristics including Big Five personalities, this research tests how the immediate supervisor’s sex and organizational size, which are randomly assigned by interactive webcomics using hypothetical situations and experimental questionnaires, affect whistleblowing intention. Logistic regression analysis shows openness is significantly associated with whistleblowing intention. In the hypothetical situation, whistleblowers are more likely to come forward if they have a supervisor of a different sex and/or are in a larger organization.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140212595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nuolatinės privalomosios pradinės karo tarnybos karių požiūris į grėsmes nacionaliniam saugumui ir tarnybos motyvaciją","authors":"Gerda Kazlauskienė","doi":"10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.33680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.33680","url":null,"abstract":"Straipsnyje analizuojamas nuolatinės privalomosios pradinės karo tarnybos (NPPKT) karių požiūris į grėsmes Lietuvos nacionaliniam saugumui ir NPPKT motyvaciją. Buvo aptariami motyvai, kurie skatina prisijungti prie karinės tarnybos, išskirtina, kad tarnauti jauni žmonės privalomoje karo tarnyboje dažniausiai renkasi dėl individualių motyvų. Atliktos 2018 m. ir 2023 m. reprezentatyvios NPPKT karių apklausos, siekiant palyginti rezultatus. Empiriniai duomenys leidžia teigti, kad 2018 m. ir 2023 m. nepakito NPPKT karių išskirta pagrindinė grėsmė nacionaliniam saugumui – ekonominė grėsmė. Be to, 2023 m. iš dalies padidėjo karinės agresijos grėsmės nacionaliniam saugumui akcentavimas. Išaugus karo grėsmei tikėtinas savanorių ir privalomai pašauktų karių pasiryžimas ginti valstybę, reikšmingai skyręsis 2018 m., 2023 m. nesupanašėjo ir reikšmingai nepadidėjo. 2023 m. reikšmingai padidėjo šauktinių tarnybos motyvacija ir pagerėjo Lietuvos krašto apsaugos pajėgų vertinimas. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140224926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pirmosios 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų kaip viešosios politikos problemos pateiktis","authors":"Ilona Tamutienė, Vaida Auglytė","doi":"10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.34281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.34281","url":null,"abstract":"Šio straipsnio tikslas – atskleisti mokslu grįstų pirmųjų 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų problemų pateiktis ir jų pozicionavimą Lietuvoje. Straipsnis remiasi naratyvine literatūros apžvalga. Duomenys analizuojami taikant viešosios politikos rėminimo prieigą, apsiribojant skirtingų problemos pateikčių (rėminimų) identifikavimu. Atliktas tyrimas leido išskirti šias pagrindinės pirmųjų 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų problemų pateiktis: 1) biomedicininę (pabrėžia aplinkos poveikį vaiko raidai bei jo sveikatos rezultatams ateityje); 2) socioekonominę (pabrėžia skurdo įtaką vaiko raidai, investicijų į ankstyvąją vaikystę atsiperkamumą, būsimo žmogiškojo kapitalo stiprinimą); 3) puoselėjančios globos (pabrėžia sveikatos priežiūros, socialinės apsaugos, mitybos, atliepiančio santykio elementų svarbą). 4) tvaraus vystymosi (pabrėžia rūpestį ankstyvąja vaikyste, būtinybę spręsti sveikatos, skurdo, aplinkos apsaugos problemas bei taikos ir solidarumo stiprinimo poreikį. Visos pateiktys sutelkia dėmesį į vaiko gyvenimo kelio perspektyvą bei tarpgeneracinę problemų prigimtį. Skirtingų disciplinų problemų pateiktys nekonkuruoja tarpusavyje, o sudaro pagrindą ankstyvosios vaikystės vystymo politikos darbotvarkei.\u0000Tyrimas atskleidė, kad Lietuvoje vyrauja išskirtinai biomedicininė problemos pateiktis. Nors Lietuvos švietimo sistemoje ankstyvasis ugdymas apibrėžiamas kaip ikimokyklinis (traktuojamas nuo vaiko gimimo), tačiau pirmųjų 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų ugdymo sprendiniai paliekami išskirtinai tėvų atsakomybei. Socialiniame sektoriuje pirmosios 1000 dienų labiau siejamos su apsauga nuo smurto gimus vaikui. Nėščiųjų ir vaikų prevencinė sveikatos priežiūra Lietuvoje vykdoma nusistovėjusia bendra tvarka, neišskiriant pažeidžiamų grupių ir neteikiant prioriteto pirmosioms 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų. Šiame lauke stokojama sisteminių tyrimų, advokataujančių koalicijų bei problemos įtraukimo į politinę darbotvarkę. Rekomenduojama finansuoti pirmųjų 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų tarpdisciplininius tyrimus, kurti advokataujančias koalicijas ir valstybinę pirmųjų 1000 vaiko gyvenimo dienų programą Lietuvoje.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140227057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategies of Regional Levies of the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Office of Central Java Province of Indonesia","authors":"D. S. Gunawan, I. R. Bawono","doi":"10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.33615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.33615","url":null,"abstract":"There is still a need to properly increase the role of regional levies in generating revenue for Central Java Province. This is because each region has been granted the authority to manage its affairs, including regional finance, with the expectation that regional governments will become financially independent from the central government. In reality, many regions in Indonesia and other countries still significantly rely on the central government for financial support. Therefore, regional governments must focus on increasing revenue by improving the management of regional levies at the Regional Apparatus Organizations. This is achieved through the development of strategies for the regional levies sector based on the SWOT analysis results and the projected regional levies revenue of the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Office of Central Java Province. This research aimed to identify strategies, create strategies for regional levies, and analyze the projected revenue from these levies. This is expected to support efforts to increase regional levies revenue. This research used primary and secondary data. The primary data were obtained through interview results with key informants to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Office in collecting regional levies. Meanwhile, secondary data comprised information on regional levies and relevant references on the Regional Apparatus Organization. The data collected were analyzed using the SWOT and multiple linear regression analyses as analytical techniques. The results showed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats used to collect regional levies and also the strategies. Based on the projected revenue, the levies generated by this Regional Apparatus Organization are projected to increase from 2022 to 2027 steadily. The implications include recommendations for activities carried out by the Marine Affairs and Fisheries Office, which aligned with the potential and capabilities of the regional and central government regulations governing regional levies.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140225394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political Budget Cycles and Mayoral Influence in Latvian Municipalities: An Examination of Revenue, Expenditure, and Electoral Dynamics","authors":"Malvīne Stučka","doi":"10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.34523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.53.1.34523","url":null,"abstract":"Budget allocation and budget planning can be used in different ways. In addition, it can be part of a political budget cycle. Previous research has highlighted the political budget cycle's existence in European countries, demonstrating its impact on public revenue and expenditure near elections. However, citizens often lack awareness of this phenomenon, underscoring the need for vigilant scrutiny. In addition, elected politicians increasingly rely on voters for support, targeting them during budget allocation and election campaigns. In Latvia, the mayors have a role in budget planning because they work full-time and are the head of the financial commission. In Latvia, despite a lack of trust in local politicians, there is a tendency for most of the mayors to be re-elected. The article aims to examine what kind of role the council’s chairperson has in the local government's budget allocation process and what factors affect the budget allocation process in Latvia. The article’s scope encompasses the years 2009 to 2017, spanning two election terms (2009-2013; 2013-2017), and focuses on eight state cities in Latvia, excluding the capital city, Riga. Notably, local governments with a higher percentage of council members from the mayor's party tend to exhibit higher expenditure levels. The findings of this study suggest that various socio-economic and political factors impact the financial performance of local governments in Latvia. These results underscore the significance of population and unemployment in shaping local government expenditures. Simultaneously, this research has highlighted the importance of political factors such as the majority in the local government and time spent in the mayor’s position. Moreover, it reveals that long-serving mayors and a majority in the council also influence budget allocation decisions. This article's implications can guide policymakers in making informed decisions regarding municipal budget expenditures and revenues.","PeriodicalId":47076,"journal":{"name":"Public Policy and Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140225541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}