{"title":"Emergency management through enduring collaborative networks: Lessons on phases and levels","authors":"Asbjørn Røiseland, Håkon Solbu Trætteberg","doi":"10.1111/padm.12998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12998","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the conditions that underpin networks as enduring collaborative relationships. To identify key features that sustain long-term collaboration, we use the Norwegian system of emergency management as our empirical case. Norway is characterized by the important role played by volunteers and voluntary organizations as partners to the police in search and rescue operations. In particular, the article focuses on two possible explanations for the endurability of these networks: the broad involvement of volunteers in the different phases and the role of intermediaries. The article concludes that intermediaries can compensate for a lack of broad involvement, which may be particularly relevant for emergency management where many different resources have to be mobilized in a short time span and in a fashion that enables fluid interaction. This finding is a reminder that both phases and levels need to be explored in empirical studies of collaborations.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/padm.12996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12996","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000<span>Reis, C. J. O.</span>, & <span>Gomes, R. C.</span> (<span>2023</span>). <span>Public value creation and appropriation mechanisms in public–private partnerships: How does it play a role?</span> <i>Public Administration</i>, <span>101</span>(<span>2</span>), <span>693</span>–<span>715</span>. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12826\u0000</p>\u0000<p>On Page 693, the affiliations of co-author Ricardo Corrêa Gomes associated with “Postgraduate Programme in Management (PPGA), Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil” and “School of Business and Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), São Paulo, Brazil” are incorrect.</p>\u0000<p>This should have read: “Public Management Department, Escola de Administração de Empresas – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EAESP), São Paulo, Brazil”.</p>\u0000<p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does political ideology still matter? A meta‐analysis of government contracting decisions","authors":"Yiying Chen, Jiahuan Lu","doi":"10.1111/padm.12995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12995","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of government contracting research, whether and to what extent political ideology drives government contracting has been a subject of ongoing debate for decades. This study conducts a comprehensive meta‐analysis, incorporating 418 effect sizes drawn from 68 previous studies spanning over three decades. The findings indicate that right‐wing political ideology generally yields a significant, positive effect on driving contracting out. Moreover, meta‐regression analysis suggests that this ideological effect is stronger in government contracting for social services and in non‐Anglo‐American administrative traditions. The results emphasize the enduring relevance of political ideology in government contracting decisions, even though its impact may vary slightly in magnitude and circumstances.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disentangling the separate and combined effects of privatization and cooperation on local government service delivery","authors":"Germà Bel, Thomas Elston","doi":"10.1111/padm.12992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12992","url":null,"abstract":"Inter‐municipal cooperation is often regarded as an alternative to privatizing local public services. But cooperation and privatization can also be combined into a dual reform package in which several municipalities jointly issue contracts relating to multiple jurisdictions. Evaluation of these mixed cooperation‐privatization reforms rests on disentangling the separate and combined effects of each strategy. This we undertake for the case of solid waste collection in Catalonia, using environmental protection as our focal performance standard. Drawing on two waves of data (for 2000 and 2019) for 186 municipalities that together use all four combinations of public, private, single and cooperative service delivery, we show that superior environmental performance was initially confined to conventional cooperations involving only public production. But latterly, any form of cooperation, using public or private production, resulted in significant gains. This reinforces the need for evaluators to isolate the “active ingredient” in composite reforms.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oversharing: The downside of data sharing in local government","authors":"Mattia Caldarulo, Jared Olsen, Mary K. Feeney","doi":"10.1111/padm.12993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12993","url":null,"abstract":"Health crises, climate change, and technological hazards pose serious managerial and equity challenges for local governments. To effectively navigate the uncertainties and complexity, municipalities are increasingly collaborating with one another and sharing data and information to improve decision‐making. While data sharing fosters effectiveness in responding to threats, it also entails risks. One major concern is that local government managers often lack the knowledge and technical skills required for safe and effective data sharing, exposing municipalities to cyberthreats. Drawing on data sharing and cybersecurity scholarship, we investigate whether increased data sharing among local governments makes cities more or less vulnerable to cyberincidents. We test our hypotheses using data from two national surveys of U.S. local government managers conducted in 2016 and 2018. Our findings contribute to the literature on technology and risk in government by informing both public managers and researchers about the potential threats associated with data sharing.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140171074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Boswell, Jessica C. Smith, Daniel Devine, Jack Corbett
{"title":"Learning to govern: A typology of ministerial learning styles","authors":"John Boswell, Jessica C. Smith, Daniel Devine, Jack Corbett","doi":"10.1111/padm.12994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12994","url":null,"abstract":"A quirk of the Westminster system is that Ministers invariably have to “learn on the job”. Yet “learning” has been surprisingly understudied in work on executive government in Britain especially. In this paper, we offer a systematic account of Ministerial learning based on a comprehensive analysis of the Ministers Reflect archive—the largest dataset of research interviews with former Westminster ministers ever assembled. We identify six distinct learning styles—incremental, risk‐averse, managerial, creative, instrumental and instinctive—and assess the implications for how Ministers adjust to the challenges of high political office. We conclude by showing what an appreciation for this variety of Ministerial learning styles can offer the study and practice of executive government in Britain and beyond.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"155 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140154907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting what you expect: How civil servant stereotypes affect citizen satisfaction and perceived performance","authors":"Isa Bertram, Robin Bouwman, Lars Tummers","doi":"10.1111/padm.12986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12986","url":null,"abstract":"This study tests whether civil servant stereotypes affect how citizens experience public service delivery. Using a pre‐registered survey vignette experiment (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 1130), we activate civil servant stereotypes (negative, positive, or control) and assess whether this affects subsequent perceptions and evaluations of public services. Results indicate that stereotypes shape experiences, with the activation of negative stereotypes leading to lower levels of satisfaction and perceived performance, compared to positive stereotype activation and control. These findings emphasize that negative civil servant stereotypes can have problematic consequences, and contribute to our understanding of the commonly used Expectancy Disconfirmation Model in citizen satisfaction research.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do monetary or nonmonetary incentives promote citizens' use of a government crowdsourcing: A case of the City of Omaha's 311‐type of crowdsourcing platform","authors":"Danbee Lee, Yeonkyung Kim, Jooho Lee","doi":"10.1111/padm.12985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12985","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing numbers of local governments have adopted crowdsourcing platforms to engage citizens in public service provisions. As citizen engagement plays a critical role in the success of government crowdsourcing, we focus on incentive strategies to facilitate it. While studies have considered monetary incentives the primary motivator traditionally, recent research has examined the potency of nonmonetary strategies that stimulate citizens' territorial or civic motivation. Linking the coproduction framework of incentives to expectancy theories as a theoretical framework, we compare the effects of those incentives with vignette experiments that include Omahahotline—a 311‐type of government crowdsourcing platform run by the City of Omaha. The results show that not just a material incentive but also a solidary incentive increases residents' willingness to participate in the platform effectively. By conducting experiments with Omaha residents, we offer implications for local governments to use effective incentive strategies to engage citizens in the government crowdsourcing platform.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Amirkhanyan, Fei Roberts, Kenneth J. Meier, Miyeon Song
{"title":"Examining attitudes toward public participation across sectors: An experimental study of food assistance","authors":"Anna Amirkhanyan, Fei Roberts, Kenneth J. Meier, Miyeon Song","doi":"10.1111/padm.12991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12991","url":null,"abstract":"Public views of government are linked to trust, coproduction, regulatory compliance, and political participation. This study focuses on factors shaping public attitudes toward government programs by exploring whether direct participation in governance matters for how the public evaluates the performance of government programs. With an experiment involving governmentally funded food assistance, we randomize the presence of public participation, service providers' sector, and third‐party performance ratings and explore their influence on respondents' assessments of the program. We find that respondents have more confidence in the efficiency, equity, and other aspects of performance when ordinary people play a role in designing and implementing the program. We observe no sector bias among respondents. Individual assessments depend on objective performance information from a credible source. These findings have critical implications for the value people place on engagement in governance and point to the role of publicly available data in shaping public views of government.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"2014 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Member duality and policy tourism: Learning in interlocal policy networks","authors":"Ivy S. Liu, Hongtao Yi","doi":"10.1111/padm.12984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12984","url":null,"abstract":"Organizational learning has long been recognized as a key determinant of success, yet research often overlooks how individual mechanisms initiate and drive collective learning over time. Utilizing policy tourism as an indicator of intercity learning, we construct an interlocal learning network among US cities from 2009 to 2016. Employing a temporal exponential random graph model, our findings suggest that the member duality of local managers can initiate and facilitate self‐organizing learning interactions among US cities through preferential attachment. Consequently, a core group of influential cities with member duality of local managers can control entry into the learning network and strategically promote the transmission of innovative management practices in particular cities. This study (1) underscores the significance of member duality in local managers for facilitating interorganizational learning, (2) incorporates the aspect of temporality in understanding interorganizational learning, and (3) highlights broader practical implications for collaborative governance in diverse network settings.","PeriodicalId":48284,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139950417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}