{"title":"The Socio‐Political Context of Citizen Activism: An International Comparative Perspective","authors":"Charles Wharton Kaye‐Essien","doi":"10.1111/puar.13943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13943","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the moderating effects of socio‐political factors on the influence of issue salience and prosocial values on citizen activism in different governance contexts. While the literature on citizen activism has examined the emergence, motivations, and channels of activism, we still lack a broader understanding of how different social (membership of social groups and sense of attachment to local communities) and political (ease of citizen involvement and trust in government) contexts affect people's ultimate decisions about activism in different governance systems. This paper fills this gap, drawing on a comparative research methodology and using data from the World Values Survey Wave 7.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143528395","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}
{"title":"The Moderating Role of Workplace Autonomy on Corruption Control Strategies: Evidence From 33 South Korean Ministries","authors":"Danee Kim, Gregory A. Porumbescu","doi":"10.1111/puar.13942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13942","url":null,"abstract":"Corruption research highlights the importance of organizational and individual correlates, such as corruption control strategies or public employee attitudes. In this study, we integrate these research streams by examining whether the effectiveness of two common organizational approaches to controlling corruption—value-oriented strategies, which emphasize ethical decision-making, and compliance-oriented strategies, which rely on monitoring, audits, and punishment—depends on perceptions of workplace autonomy. To explore this, we use novel administrative data on corruption, along with codes of ethics and survey data from 1235 career public servants across 33 South Korean ministries. Findings suggest greater perceived autonomy is associated with greater corruption tolerance in organizational contexts where compliance-oriented corruption control strategies are prevalent. Conversely, greater perceived autonomy is associated with lesser corruption tolerance when value-oriented corruption control strategies are prevalent. These findings contribute to administrative corruption research by illustrating how individual perceptions of their workplace shape the efficacy of organizational corruption control strategies.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477836","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}
{"title":"Beyond Simplification in Public Sector Accountability: Contradictions Between Principal‐Agent and Complexity Theories","authors":"Tomi Rajala, Harri Jalonen","doi":"10.1111/puar.13941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13941","url":null,"abstract":"This conceptual study explores the complexity of public sector accountability, traditionally framed by principal‐agent theory (PAT), which simplifies relationships through rigid contracts. The findings reveal how PAT's assumptions often misalign with the intricate realities of public sector accountability, which are better explained by complexity theories (CT). Contradictions between PAT and CT assumptions are highlighted, underlining the need for more flexible and dynamic accountability frameworks. The study calls for further research to refine the concept of complexity‐based accountability and investigate tensions between practical accountability applications of PAT and CT. Such research could transform public administration practice and scholarship by better accommodating the complex realities of managing public services.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435247","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}
{"title":"The role of institutional factors in shaping university mission statements: A topic‐modeling approach","authors":"Nicole Philippczyck, Harry Hoffmann, Simon Oertel","doi":"10.1111/puar.13921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13921","url":null,"abstract":"Mission statements are common instruments for the strategic positioning of universities. However, there are few large‐scale, cross‐national studies examining the factors that influence the content of universities' mission statements. We address this research gap, exploring the content of 413 mission statements from European universities by applying correlated topic modeling (CTM). Moreover, relying on institutional theories of organization, we study factors that explain differences in the content of mission statements. Our findings reveal six distinct topics addressed in mission statements. The prevalence of a specific topic is significantly shaped by the cultural rationalization of the universities' national context, the university's founding context, and institutional control. Our findings not only contribute to research on universities' strategic positioning but also shed light on the diffusion of global trends across organizations and the determinants of their adaptation. Moreover, our study offers an illustrative example of how big data analytics can enhance public administration research.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"112 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435250","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}
Lance Y. Hunter, Wesley L. Meares, Martha H. Ginn, William Hatcher
{"title":"Public Administration, Local and Regional Governance, and Domestic Terrorism","authors":"Lance Y. Hunter, Wesley L. Meares, Martha H. Ginn, William Hatcher","doi":"10.1111/puar.13938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13938","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how the nature of public administration and local and regional governance affects domestic terrorism in 73 mixed and democratic countries from multiple regions and levels of development. In conducting a cross‐national statistical analysis from 1991 to 2019 with standard political, economic, and social controls, and controlling for endogeneity, we find that domestic terrorism increases when public administration is more partial, biased, corrupt, and unreliable, and as local and regional governments are controlled to a greater extent by unelected bodies. In addition, we find that the nature of public administration and local and regional governance influences the types of institutions that are most likely to be targeted in domestic terror attacks. These findings have important implications in considering how public administration and local and regional governance affect political violence in mixed and democratic regimes.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143393064","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}
{"title":"The Intergenerational Transmission of Policy Feedback in the United States: Evidence From Racial Violence","authors":"David J. Schwegman, Eric Brunner, Bill Simonsen","doi":"10.1111/puar.13937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13937","url":null,"abstract":"Do government actions, or inactions, committed decades (or centuries) ago toward a specific community influence how members of that community trust and perceive government today? Past government actions that extracted resources (a negative resource effect) and communicated an individual's place within American Society (a negative interpretative effect) may diminish trust. This paper explores this question by examining the relationship between the county-level lynching rate of Black Americans from 1882 to 1936 and contemporary trust in local and state governments. We find that Black individuals living in U.S. counties exposed to higher rates of historical racial violence are less trusting of their local and state governments than Black individuals living in the same state but in counties exposed to lower levels of historical racial violence. We find no such relationship for White individuals. These relationships are robust to controlling for measures of contemporary use of force by governments and government performance.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143393330","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}
{"title":"Decentralised Governance. Crafting Effective Democracies Around the WorldBy Jean-Paul Faguet and Sarmistha Pal (eds.), London: LSE Press, 2023. To Appear in Public Administration Review. ISBN: 978-1-909890-84-8","authors":"Joan Ricart-Huguet","doi":"10.1111/puar.13935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13935","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> Conflicts of Interest</h2>\u0000<p>The author declares no conflicts of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143258481","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}
{"title":"Comparative Public Administration Is Regaining Its Importance in the Contemporary WorldPublic Administration in the Middle East and North Africa by Shahjahan Bhuiyan, New York: Routledge, 2023. 210 pp. $39.99 (paperback). $144.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978100338994The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Public Administration: Concepts and Cases by Murat Önder, Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Md Nazmul Islam, Gateway East, Singapore, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. 777 pp. $219.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-981-19-1207-8","authors":"Md Shahidulla Kaiser","doi":"10.1111/puar.13934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13934","url":null,"abstract":"Click on the article title to read more.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143258749","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}
{"title":"Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design","authors":"Aske Halling","doi":"10.1111/puar.13930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13930","url":null,"abstract":"Research has shown that administrative burdens significantly influence benefit uptake across various welfare programs in the U.S. and beyond. However, much of the existing research has focused primarily on program take-up, leaving a gap in our understanding of how burdens affect the ongoing use of welfare benefits. To address this gap, we utilize a regression discontinuity design to analyze how the introduction of substantial fees on interpreting services affects usage of healthcare services among Danish immigrants. Our data comes from highly reliable, detailed registries that track the weekly use of general practitioners by Danish immigrants. We find no effects of the fees on healthcare utilization and no evidence that the fees disproportionately affect disadvantaged groups. Additional survey-based analyses suggest that doctors may use their discretion to mitigate the fee's impact on immigrants, highlighting how frontline workers can potentially reduce the effects of burdensome policies.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143192492","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}
{"title":"Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public ServiceBy James L.Perry, Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 325 pp. £30.99 (paperback); £99.99 (hardback); $41.99 (ebook). hISBN: 9781108843256; pISBN: 9781108824132; eISBN: 9781108915236","authors":"Adrian Ritz, Lorenza Micacchi","doi":"10.1111/puar.13933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13933","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> Conflicts of Interest</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143071521","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}