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{"title":"The Dynamic Collaborative Governance Continuum Model: A Theory-Building Systematic Review of Success and Failure Factors","authors":"Mutia Rahmah,&nbsp;Amy Yayuk Sri Rahayu,&nbsp;Irfan Ridwan Maksum,&nbsp;Muchlis Hamdi","doi":"10.1002/pa.70158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70158","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The current study aims to analyze the development of collaborative governance (CG), the factors that influence its success and failure, as well as to provide a conceptual framework for dynamic CG. This study employed a systematic evaluation of the literature, based on 45 papers out of 712 from 2014 to 2023, addressing CG as a key aspect in solving wicked problems. The study found three important things. First, temporal analysis suggests that the literature on CG has experienced three different phases: institutionalization, complexity and dynamics, besides the adaptive and digital age, therefore exhibiting a paradigmatic shift from a static paradigm to a more dynamic and adaptive one. Second, the thematic synthesis has identified themes of success, such as institutional design, learning and adaptation, and resources and capability, and themes of failure, with conflicts of interest and complexities being identified as the most common problems. Third, the study contributed a novel theory, the dynamic CG continuum model (DCGCM), which conceptualizes CG as a continuum with three stages (fragmented, transitional, and adaptive collaboration) evolving through three dimensions of maturity (structural-institutional, relational processes, adaptive learning) and two visible transition mechanisms. The DCGCM overcomes the limitations of the remaining CG models by unifying and coherently integrating temporal dimensions, transition processes, positional typologies, and the inherent non-linearity of collaborative development. The implications of these findings are tremendous, conceptually and practically, for program designers, policy makers, and researchers attempting to understand, diagnose, and drive the growth of CG across a number of sectoral and geographic contexts.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994480","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":"Impact of Indian Accounting Standards on Expense-Revenue Matching Quality: An Industry-Level Analysis","authors":"Karan Gandhi","doi":"10.1002/pa.70155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70155","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study examines the industry-level impact of Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS), largely converged with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), on the matching quality of expenses with revenues. Using matching-quality attributes, the study employs both a two-stage regression framework and a single-stage model, covering 31 industries (807 firms) and 45 industries (869 firms), respectively. The study evaluates changes in matching attributes over the initial post–Ind-AS period (2017–2019) and the later post–Ind-AS period (2019–2022), controlling for the COVID year (2020–2021). The results reveal heterogeneous industry-level effects of Ind-AS on matching quality under both approaches, reflecting sector-specific challenges and/or managerial discretion. During the initial post–Ind-AS period, significant improvements are observed in five industries under the two-stage approach and 10 industries under the single-stage approach, while one and seven industries, respectively, exhibit declines. In the subsequent post–Ind-AS period, evidence of learning effects emerges in four industries (two-stage) and five industries (single-stage) after controlling for COVID, whereas six industries (two-stage) and nine industries (single-stage) exhibit deterioration in matching quality. Few industries demonstrate consistent results across both regression approaches. Robustness tests incorporating exceptional items into total expenses reveal matching quality patterns consistent with possible classification shifting. The findings highlight the need for closer monitoring by regulators and for intervention by standard setters to enhance Ind-AS implementation, particularly in industries where matching quality has declined.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994468","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":"Governing Digital-Green Transitions: A Configurational Synthesis of Employment Outcomes","authors":"Bora Ly","doi":"10.1002/pa.70157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70157","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Digital transformation and environmental sustainability are often framed as mutually reinforcing, yet their employment effects remain uneven across institutional and economic contexts. This study examines why digital transformation produces divergent employment outcomes in green transitions. Positioned within public affairs scholarship, this analysis examines how government policy, public-sector digitalization, firm-level green innovation, and citizen-worker outcomes intersect in the digital-green employment nexus. Drawing on a systematic review and configurational synthesis of 50 studies published between 2015 and 2025, the analysis distinguishes digital transformation across firm-level capabilities, public digital governance, and regional digital infrastructure. The findings show that employment outcomes depend on the alignment of institutional quality, digital capability, workforce skills, industrial structure, and innovation mechanisms. Green innovation operates as a conditional pathway rather than a universal mediator. Four ideal-type configurations are identified. The study contributes a public affairs framework linking governance capacity, policy credibility, business adaptation, and citizen trust in contemporary transition policy debates.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993989","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":"Navigating the Public–Private Nexus: Strategic Marketing and Competitive Sustainability in an Emerging Hybrid University Model","authors":"Walid Abdelhalim","doi":"10.1002/pa.70156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70156","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As public universities worldwide adopt fee-paying models, they increasingly operate as hybrid institutions that must reconcile public missions with market demands. This study investigates the role of strategic marketing (SM) in relation to perceived competitive sustainability (CS) within this contested space, using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods survey of 70 faculty administrators in Egypt's emerging national civil universities (ENCUs). Quantitative analysis indicated a strong, positive correlation between perceived SM and CS (<i>r</i> = 0.733, <i>p</i> &lt; 0.01). Regression analysis further offered exploratory and indicative evidence that faculty perceptions of marketing are associated less with promotional activity than with tangible institutional achievements—specifically research productivity and resource stewardship—with the model accounting for 73.6% of the variance in perceived SM. Qualitative findings help interpret this pattern through an authentication loop: SM may support CS by aligning programs, reputation, and stakeholder relationships, while CS authenticates SM through visible academic and societal achievements. The study contributes the public–private nexus strategic marketing-sustainability cycle and identifies an academic-marketing schism that hybrid university leaders must address. The findings should be read as context-bound and perception-based rather than causal or broadly generalizable.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148943040","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":"Which Sustainability? EU Multilevel Governance","authors":"P. Blížkovský,&nbsp;L. Lacina,&nbsp;J. Přichystal,&nbsp;I. Horák","doi":"10.1002/pa.70154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how <i>sustainability</i> is framed, coordinated, and operationalised across the three levels of European Union (EU) multilevel governance (MLG) by analysing 3466 non-legislative documents produced between 2011 and 2021 by the European Parliament (EP), the Council of the European Union (Council), and the Committee of the Regions (CoR). Employing the BERTopic method, complemented by a curated sustainability lexicon and systematic validation of topic coherence and intercoder reliability, the analysis identifies distinct institutional portfolios. Specifically, the CoR predominantly emphasises environmental issues and locally implementable themes, the Council primarily addresses societal concerns, and the EP advances a cross-cutting agenda that links environmental and socio-economic instruments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the European Green Deal. The paper further traces inter-institutional references and shared narratives, revealing coordination gaps within EU MLG. From a methodological perspective, BERTopic is a topic-modelling approach that combines transformer-based language models with class-based term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) to generate dense document clusters. This approach yields highly interpretable topics while preserving salient terms in topic descriptions, thereby significantly enhancing interpretability beyond simple word-frequency techniques. Conceptually, the article situates EU sustainability framings within the broader literatures on governance and performance. Overall, the study contributes a reproducible mapping of sustainability across EU multilevel governance and derives implications for policy coherence, division of labour, and the early involvement of sub-national actors. The article's added value lies in its integration of machine-learning-based analysis—specifically BERT-based topic modelling—with a traditional expert-driven analytical approach to EU multilevel governance, including policy analysis and examination of the <i>acquis communautaire</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pa.70154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leveraging Web Experience: How Self-Perceived Knowledge Calibrates the Impact of Website-Driven Participation and Voter Satisfaction on Indian Voting Intentions","authors":"Deepika,&nbsp;Sumanjeet Singh,&nbsp;Saumya Jain,&nbsp;Minakshi Paliwal","doi":"10.1002/pa.70151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70151","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>As digital platforms reshape political communication, political parties increasingly rely on websites to campaign and influence voter behaviour. These websites have become crucial channels through which voters access information, evaluate parties, and form electoral preferences, yet how website quality translates into voting intention remains underexplored. Drawing upon the O-S-O-R theory, the study examined how the political parties' website dimensions related to quality influence voting intention among digitally active Indian voters, through political engagement, participation, and voter satisfaction, with self-perceived political knowledge as a moderator. Data was collected from 1076 respondents who had previously visited the website of any political party at least once. The study used structural equation modelling in IBM AMOS while testing the moderation effect in IBM SPSS. The results reveal that website quality dimensions significantly influence voter satisfaction and political participation, but have no direct effect on political engagement. Both voter satisfaction and political participation positively influenced voting intention, confirming their mediating roles in the website quality–voting intention relationship. Political engagement, however, is significantly but negatively associated with both voter satisfaction and political participation, suggesting that more engaged voters critically evaluate party communications rather than responding affirmatively. Perceived political knowledge strengthened only the relationship between voter satisfaction and voting intention—meaning that among more knowledgeable voters, satisfaction with a party's website more strongly translated into an intention to vote. No such moderating effect was found for political participation. These findings deepen our understanding of how website quality indirectly shapes voting intention and provide actionable insights for political parties aiming to design digital platforms that better serve and engage citizens.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467072","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":"Applying Net Promoter Score (NPS) in Political Marketing to Predict Recommending a Town Mayor for Reelection: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Musa Pinar,&nbsp;Tulay Girard,&nbsp;Cigdem Basfirinci,&nbsp;Faruk Guder","doi":"10.1002/pa.70149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70149","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This exploratory study examines how voters perceive different aspects of the mayor's performance and how these evaluations shape their likelihood to recommend the mayor for reelection, using the Net Promoter Score (NPS) as the primary metric. It further identifies the key factors that influence voters' likelihood to recommend the mayor for reelection. Drawing on 315 survey responses, the findings reveal widespread voter dissatisfaction with city services, which appears to negatively affect perceptions of the mayor, as reflected in low recommendation rates and a negative NPS. In addition, the study identifies the most influential drivers of reelection recommendations among the overall sample as well as across demographic subgroups. These findings offer strategic insights with significant implications for the mayoral administration and for the broader field of political marketing.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148467071","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 Politics of Health: Political Competition and Its Role in Reducing India's Healthcare Burden","authors":"Sandip Datta","doi":"10.1002/pa.70150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70150","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>High healthcare costs impose a serious economic burden on households in low and middle-income countries. In India, user charges, declining public healthcare expenditure, the growing dominance of private healthcare providers, and rapid healthcare inflation have led to rising catastrophic health expenditures and increased poverty. Policymakers have come to recognize the strong link between out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare spending and poverty. While some state governments have initiated reforms to address healthcare mispricing, these efforts remain limited in scope. A critical question arises: can political mechanisms drive more substantive policy responses to reduce OOP healthcare spending and regulate the largely unregulated private healthcare sector? Greater political competition can enhance government accountability by shifting policy focus toward essential public goods like healthcare and education. Such a shift aligns policymaking with the preferences of the average citizen rather than special interest groups. This paper examines this proposition both theoretically and empirically. The findings suggest that political competition in Indian states significantly reduces OOP healthcare expenditure, weakens the influence of rent-seeking groups, and ultimately expands access to public healthcare while strengthening regulation of the private sector. The study contributes new evidence to the political economy of health in India by demonstrating that electoral competitiveness can enhance financial protection in healthcare.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466602","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":"Descriptive Social Norms and Intentions to Vote in Ghana: A Randomized Experiment in the 2024 Presidential Election","authors":"Abdul Samad Musah,&nbsp;Kyohei Yamada","doi":"10.1002/pa.70153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70153","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We examine the impact of descriptive social norms—individuals' perceptions of others' behaviors—on people's intentions to vote in Ghana. Previous research has demonstrated that people often conform to commonly observed behaviors in their surroundings in various contexts. However, there has been limited experimental investigation of the effects of descriptive social norms in encouraging voting, particularly outside the United States. Given this research gap, we conducted two randomized experiments incorporated into online surveys of voters in Ghana, one conducted shortly before and the other following the 2024 general election. Our results reveal that a message emphasizing high voter turnout (a descriptive social norm of high participation) did not influence people's intentions to vote. Our results imply that the effectiveness of interventions to raise voter turnout may be substantially moderated by the salience of the election.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466603","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":"Unveiling the Impact of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Money Laundering: A Cross-Countries Analysis","authors":"Dorra Talbi,&nbsp;Mouna Baccouri","doi":"10.1002/pa.70152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.70152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper aims to test the relationship between SDGs and money laundering levels. The empirical study is based on a panel dataset composed of 117 countries, covering many continents and income levels, over the period 2012–2019. Results reveal that SDGs impact significantly and negatively on money laundering levels. Additionally, Goal 16, related to “peace, justice and strong institutions” impact negatively on money laundering levels. To reinforce robustness, additional analyses were applied to address endogeneity and heterogeneity concerns. The global practice of money laundering poses a threat to economic stability. Subsequently, international organizations and regulatory authorities have moved to enhance the appropriate mechanisms to constrain the spread of money laundering. Consequently, our findings may help in the development of anti-money laundering initiatives for countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47153,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Affairs","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/pa.70152","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148462817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}