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A Process Study of Managing Tensions for Sustaining Public Purpose-Oriented Networks: Toward A “Networks as Practice” Perspective 为维持公共目的导向的网络而管理紧张关系的过程研究：走向“网络作为实践”的视角

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf030

Lena E Bygballe, Ragnhild Kvålshaugen, Anne Helena Kokkonen

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Internal Representation? How Black and White firefighters view racial diversity within the Fire service 内部表示?黑人和白人消防员如何看待消防部门的种族多样性

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf029

James E Wright, Andrea M Headley, Youghyun Cho

{"title":"Internal Representation? How Black and White firefighters view racial diversity within the Fire service","authors":"James E Wright, Andrea M Headley, Youghyun Cho","doi":"10.1093/jopart/muaf029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaf029","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates leadership representation and the perceptions of public employees, specifically focusing on a fire department led by a Black fire chief. Drawing from literature on representative bureaucracy and relational demography, we explore how leadership representation influences street-level bureaucrats’ views on diversity and representation within the organization. Through in-depth interviews with both Black and White firefighters, we find distinctions in their perceptions regarding racial diversity and representation. Firstly, Black firefighters viewed the presence of a Black leader as empowering, leading to opportunities for professional advancement and a commitment to community representation. In contrast, White firefighters perceived race-based diversity efforts as undermining meritocracy. Secondly, White firefighters preferred to avoid having discussions about race and diversity within the workplace, often referring to their familial bond and collective firefighter identity that minimized racial differences among their colleagues. Moreover, White firefighters are colorblind until race poses a material threat to them. Black firefighters reported selectively engaging in discussions depending on the context or cultural environment, or avoiding conversations, especially when they perceived potential consequences. Our findings suggest that leadership representation serves as a context to further interrogate these divergences. This research expands our understanding of leadership representation within public agencies and practically highlights the importance of managing diversity issues to foster inclusivity and mitigate tensions.","PeriodicalId":48366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145141506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Algorithmic Discrimination in Public Service Provision: Understanding Citizens’ Attribution of Responsibility for Human vs Algorithmic Discriminatory Outcomes 公共服务提供中的算法歧视：理解公民对人的责任归属与算法歧视结果

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf024

Saar Alon-Barkat, Madalina Busuioc, Kayla Schwoerer, Kristina S Weißmüller

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A Learning Approach to the Governance of Professionals. Field Experimental Evidence 专业人员治理的学习方法。现场实验证据

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf028

Simon Calmar Andersen, Thorbjørn Sejr Guul

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Tax Salience and Citizen Evaluation of Government 税收突出与公民对政府的评价

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf025

David J Schwegman, Yusun Kim

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Revisiting Coping Mechanisms on the Street-Level: A Systematic Literature Review 重新审视街道层面的应对机制：一个系统的文献综述

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf022

Ofek Edri-Peer, Nissim Cohen

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Ready, willing, and able? Bureaucratic capacity, slack resources and political control 准备好了，愿意了，有能力了吗？官僚能力、资源松弛和政治控制

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf021

Thomas Elston, Yuxi Zhang

{"title":"Ready, willing, and able? Bureaucratic capacity, slack resources and political control","authors":"Thomas Elston, Yuxi Zhang","doi":"10.1093/jopart/muaf021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaf021","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research suggests that bureaucratic responsiveness to political preferences may depend as much on organizational capacity as it does on incentive alignment, information recovery, and the strategic interaction of principal and agent. Better-resourced bureaucracies should be more able to comply with new political directions, irrespective of their willingness to do so. But because so much bureaucratic capacity is sunk into implementing the prior policy commitments of current and former principals, responding to new political signals will depend – much more specifically – on agents possessing adequate slack resources. This spare capacity should aid signal detection and program development; decrease hesitance at over-committing to new assignments in volatile environments; and provide resources for implementing changes whilst maintaining prior commitments. Using two-way fixed-effects regression and a novel dataset of 1,430 legislative requests of the UK executive, we confirm that possession of slack resources specifically (rather than organizational capacity generally) significantly increases the likelihood of bureaucracies consenting to make program changes requested by parliament. Agents with slack also commit to more precise timelines for implementation. And survival analysis further reveals that, once committed, bureaucracies with more budgetary slack complete their assignments more expeditiously.","PeriodicalId":48366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Administrative Overload and Policy Triage: Causal evidence from the Introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States 行政超载与政策分类：美国引入酸雨计划的因果证据

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf020

Constantin Kaplaner, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach

{"title":"Administrative Overload and Policy Triage: Causal evidence from the Introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States","authors":"Constantin Kaplaner, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach","doi":"10.1093/jopart/muaf020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaf020","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research suggests that additional public policies can sometimes decrease overall policy effectiveness rather than improve the problem-solving capacity of the state. This occurs when new policies are not supported by additional administrative capacities, leading to an overburdened administration. Public authorities handle the increased workload by employing “policy triage,” which involves reallocating resources among different policies. Despite this straightforward argument, a systematic understanding of these dynamics is lacking in the existing literature. This paper addresses this by examining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) introduction of the Acid Rain Program. Utilizing a difference-in-differences analysis, it reveals a significant reduction in inspections for industrial sites not covered by the Acid Rain Program as administrators redirected enforcement efforts. These findings, robust against various alternative explanations, highlight the inherent trade-offs in the public sector when policy and administrative expansions are not considered together. To assess broader relevance, we complement our analysis with 28 interviews in Germany, Italy, and Portugal, showing that policy triage is a common response to administrative overload across diverse institutional contexts.","PeriodicalId":48366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Agency Leaders and Organizational Adaptation to Administrative Reform: Evidence from IT Reforms and the Timely Disbursement of Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the American States 机构领导和组织对行政改革的适应：来自信息技术改革和美国失业保险福利及时支付的证据

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf018

George A Krause, Ji Hyeun Hong

{"title":"Agency Leaders and Organizational Adaptation to Administrative Reform: Evidence from IT Reforms and the Timely Disbursement of Unemployment Insurance Benefits in the American States","authors":"George A Krause, Ji Hyeun Hong","doi":"10.1093/jopart/muaf018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaf018","url":null,"abstract":"The timely disbursement of government program benefits is a core attribute of effective administration. In recent decades, American states charged with administering unemployment insurance programs have instituted IT modernization reforms to improve the timely delivery of unemployment benefits. Variation among those 28 states instituting IT modernization reforms between 2002 and 2022 reveals that these reforms improved the timely delivery of initial unemployment benefits by increasing the rate of meeting target performance benchmarks by 5.26%, while reducing the tardy disbursement of unemployment benefits by 2.90%, thus constituting a net performance swing of 8.16%. These performance benefits, however, are most pronounced for agency leaders holding prior appointed administrative leadership experience. More broadly, these findings indicate that appropriate matching of the type of prior government experience held by agency leaders in accordance with the nature of administrative reforms is critical for realizing these performance benefits.","PeriodicalId":48366,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When Does Employee Turnover Matter? Analyzing the Role of Organizational Memory in the Federal IT Workforce 什么时候员工离职很重要？分析组织记忆在联邦IT劳动力中的作用

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muaf019

Ji Hyeun Hong

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