Pub Date : 2024-08-31DOI: 10.1177/02750740241273976
John McCaskill, Teodoro Benavides, James Harrington
Public employee pension management is the nexus of public and private financial management systems that are significant long-term components of public finance. The idea that these pension systems can look quite similar yet perform in quite different and conflicting ways is significant when designing policy; system design templates are not successful in complex systems. Even pension systems within the same city can have radically different states of actuarial health based upon small differences in the rules (or adherence to the rules) establishing them. To better understand such systems, viewing them from a common pool resource perspective is useful. Elinor Ostrom (1990) , in her seminal book Governing the Commons, provides eight principles that facilitate governing common pool resources. The general theme running through Ostrom's principles is the need to facilitate the building and channeling of social capital. By facilitating constructive collective choice, the goal of effective, sustainable collective action is achievable. In this study, we examine the political, cultural, and institutional structures that are in place in the pension systems of Dallas and Houston, Texas. We examine the pensions’ governance practices to determine which appear to violate Ostrom's ideal institutional arrangements and their impact on the pensions’ long-term sustainability. Pertinent survey information from pension beneficiaries conducted as part of this research are provided
公职人员养老金管理是公共和私人财务管理系统的纽带，是公共财政的重要长期组成部分。这些养老金制度可能看起来非常相似，但执行起来却大相径庭，相互冲突，这一点在设计政策时意义重大；在复杂的制度中，制度设计模板并不成功。即使是同一个城市的养老金体系，也可能因为建立规则（或遵守规则）的细微差别而导致精算健康状况截然不同。为了更好地理解这些制度，从共同资源的角度来看待它们是非常有用的。埃莉诺-奥斯特罗姆（Elinor Ostrom，1990 年）在其开创性著作《治理公共资源》（Governing the Commons）中提出了八项有利于治理公共资源的原则。贯穿奥斯特罗姆原则的总主题是需要促进社会资本的建设和引导。通过促进建设性的集体选择，可以实现有效、可持续的集体行动目标。在本研究中，我们考察了得克萨斯州达拉斯市和休斯敦市养老金体系中的政治、文化和制度结构。我们研究了养老金的管理实践，以确定哪些似乎违反了奥斯特罗姆的理想制度安排，以及它们对养老金长期可持续性的影响。作为本研究的一部分，我们向养老金受益人提供了相关的调查信息。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1177/02750740241275715
Ryan J. Lofaro, Alka Sapat
The representative bureaucracy theory literature has often focused on the viewpoints, attitudes, and actions of minoritized groups rather than the racial majority, with studies predominately analyzing representative capacities tied to race, ethnicity, and gender. The current research employs both racial and lived experience representation lenses to analyze the viewpoints of non-Hispanic white public servants regarding the deservingness of white, Black, and unidentified clients. Using the opioid crisis as the context, results from an exploratory analysis of a nationwide survey experiment of first responders show that white law enforcement workers view white clients with opioid use disorder as more deserving than Black and unidentified clients. Both indirect and direct lived experiences with substance use disorder predict positive attitudes toward clients. Direct lived experience nullifies the negative beliefs white law enforcement workers express about Black clients, highlighting the significance of the intersection of racial and lived experience representation. Practical implications include promoting organizational practices that leverage the strength of shared lived experience to mitigate racial biases and encourage compassion for clients.
{"title":"Race, Lived Experience, Representation, and Discrimination: Analyzing the Representative Capacities of the Racial Majority","authors":"Ryan J. Lofaro, Alka Sapat","doi":"10.1177/02750740241275715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241275715","url":null,"abstract":"The representative bureaucracy theory literature has often focused on the viewpoints, attitudes, and actions of minoritized groups rather than the racial majority, with studies predominately analyzing representative capacities tied to race, ethnicity, and gender. The current research employs both racial and lived experience representation lenses to analyze the viewpoints of non-Hispanic white public servants regarding the deservingness of white, Black, and unidentified clients. Using the opioid crisis as the context, results from an exploratory analysis of a nationwide survey experiment of first responders show that white law enforcement workers view white clients with opioid use disorder as more deserving than Black and unidentified clients. Both indirect and direct lived experiences with substance use disorder predict positive attitudes toward clients. Direct lived experience nullifies the negative beliefs white law enforcement workers express about Black clients, highlighting the significance of the intersection of racial and lived experience representation. Practical implications include promoting organizational practices that leverage the strength of shared lived experience to mitigate racial biases and encourage compassion for clients.","PeriodicalId":22370,"journal":{"name":"The American Review of Public Administration","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142190490","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}
This study used the model of emotional labor as emotion regulation to examine the indirect effect of transformational leadership behaviors on leaders’ emotional exhaustion through leaders’ deep acting. Further, it is hypothesized that this indirect effect varies depending on the level of leaders’ emotional intelligence. The sample included 230 leader-follower dyads working in public sector organizations in Pakistan. The results of the regression analysis showed that deep acting behaviors mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and emotional exhaustion, but only for leaders with low levels of emotional intelligence. These findings highlight the importance and relevance of emotional intelligence in managing emotions and maintaining emotional well-being among transformational leaders in the public sector. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our study in the manuscript.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1177/02750740241267918
Maayan Davidovitz, R. G. Cinamon
Studies of representative bureaucracy emphasize that minorities’ representation in public organizations helps promote their interests. Some areas, however, suffer from a distinct lack of minority representation. Although studies in the field focus on the actions of minority public servants in representing citizens like them, we examine the behavior of majority group street-level bureaucrats toward minorities. Using interviews with female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students from five Israeli academic institutions, we investigate whether male faculty members’ interactions with female students reflect their perceptions of the latter's lack of representation. We find that one direct outcome is that male faculty members’ unequal and discriminatory behavior offends female students. Through this behavior, these faculty members also signal to the majority group students that this behavior toward women is legitimate, which is an indirect outcome. Finally, female students behave insecurely in this environment. Public managers should be aware that not only is passive representation required in public organizations, but also that in areas with distinct male representation, majority group street-level bureaucrats play an important role in creating an environment that is fair and equitable for minorities.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1177/02750740241269852
Austin M. McCrea
Administrative burden has emerged as a key theoretical framework for understanding onerous, burdensome, and slow citizen-state interactions. While most work to-date focuses on how the political process generates burdens, how citizens experience burdens, and how burdens affect street-level bureaucrats, this manuscript focuses on the understudied link between management and administrative burden. This link is essential to understanding administrative burden because burdens are often reflected in bureaucratic logics, standard operating procedures, and other administrative tools—all facets of an organization which management possesses some power over. This manuscript develops an argument which links the literature on gendered management, representative bureaucracy, and sex-based selection with reduction in wait times (a dimension ripe with psychological costs) since women in management positions tend to be more relational, transformational, and process-oriented than men, all behavioral characteristics which may link onto administrative burdens in predictable ways. An empirical test linking women managers to a reduction of wait times in Florida emergency departments reveals that hospitals managed by women observe lower wait times, on average, across four out of six interrelated processes. Supplemental analyses examine the link between professionalism and gender and find that women with a health background are effective in reducing some of the most complex dimensions of waiting.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1177/02750740241267941
Caroline Fischer, Kristina S. Weißmüller
To err is human and learning from mistakes is essential for finding viable solutions to grand societal challenges through development and innovation. Yet, public organizations often exhibit a punitive zero-error culture, and public employees are stereotyped as error and risk-averse. Little is known about the underlying behavioral mechanisms that determine civil servants’ likelihood of handling errors positively, namely reporting and correcting them instead of ignoring and hiding them to avoid blame. Based on the transactional theory of stress coping, we argue that individuals’ error-handling strategies relate to both rational and emotional evaluations of error-specific and consequential contextual factors. Using a conjoint survey experiment conducted with N = 276 civil servants in Germany ( Obs. = 1,104), this study disentangles the effects of error-related, individual, and organization-cultural factors as decisive drivers of individuals’ error response. We find that error characteristics (type and harmfulness) determine error-handling behavior, which is revealed to be independent from organizational error culture and individual error orientation, providing important and novel insights for theory and practice.
犯错是人之常情，从错误中学习对于通过发展和创新找到应对重大社会挑战的可行解决方案至关重要。然而，公共组织往往表现出一种惩罚性的零错误文化，公职人员被刻板地认为是错误和风险规避者。人们对决定公务员积极处理错误的潜在行为机制知之甚少，即报告和纠正错误，而不是忽视和隐瞒错误以逃避责任。基于压力应对的交易理论，我们认为个人的错误处理策略与对具体错误和后果性环境因素的理性和感性评价有关。本研究通过对 N = 276 名德国公务员（观察人数 = 1,104 人）进行联合调查实验，将错误相关因素、个人因素和组织文化因素的影响区分开来，将其视为个人错误应对的决定性驱动因素。我们发现，错误特征（类型和危害性）决定了错误处理行为，而错误处理行为与组织错误文化和个人错误取向无关，这为理论和实践提供了重要而新颖的见解。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1177/02750740241268263
Donavon Johnson, Milena Neshkova
Citizens experience onerous encounters with the bureaucracy for various reasons, often political. Administrative burden reduction (ABR) has been pursued to improve citizen-state interactions, especially for vulnerable populations who are disproportionately impacted by burdens. This study seeks to explain the degree of ABR by bureaucrats when the burdens are deployed by their political superiors. We conceptualize it as a function of client vulnerability and bureaucrats’ sense of job security and organizational commitment. We examine these linkages in the context of a COVID-19 rental assistance program for two vulnerable groups—elderly and Blacks. The findings from the two single factorial experiments show that clients’ vulnerability increases the degree of ABR, but only for the elderly. Moreover, bureaucrats who make decisions based on their organizational commitment approach ABR more slowly and only in the context of age vulnerability.
由于各种原因（通常是政治原因），公民会与官僚机构发生繁重的接触。减少行政负担（ABR）一直是为了改善公民与国家之间的互动，尤其是对于那些受到负担影响过大的弱势群体。本研究试图解释当官僚们的负担是由其政治上级部署时，他们的行政减负程度。我们将其概念化为服务对象的脆弱性与官僚的工作安全感和组织承诺的函数。我们在 COVID-19 租房援助计划的背景下研究了这些联系，该计划面向两个弱势群体--老年人和黑人。两个单因子实验的结果表明，服务对象的弱势会增加 ABR 的程度，但仅限于老年人。此外，基于组织承诺做出决策的官僚在处理 ABR 时速度较慢，且仅在年龄弱势的情况下如此。
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Pub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1177/02750740241265893
Dana Natan-Krup, Shlomo Mizrahi
Our goal is to identify the factors that encourage internal auditors in the public sector to use their discretion when conducting audits. By investigating multiple relationships between principals and agents, we show how complex structural conditions and accountability pressures influence public auditors’ discretion in the choice of audits they decide to conduct. To test our theoretical model and hypotheses, we created a closed-ended questionnaire distributed to a sample group of Israeli auditors. Our findings reveal a conditional effect between the factors related to the internal and external work environments of internal auditors. Our analysis indicates that internal support for internal auditors’ professional authority is significantly related to their inclination to stretch the boundaries of their role when they strongly believe that their direct principals are concerned about the expectations of the public and the audit committee regarding accountability. Nonetheless, individual auditing experience in the public sector was not significantly related to their professional approach. Our bottom-up approach emphasizes the role of citizens’ democratic awareness and their demand to support the broad scope of gatekeepers, rather than just explanations about the role of elites. Moreover, our conclusions emphasize the role of internal support for the auditors’ professional authority and question the role of their perceived independence in the approach they adopt to auditing.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1177/02750740241259497
Sun Gue (Susan) Yang, Sarah L. Young
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Pub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1177/02750740241242057
Ellen V. Rubin, Keith P. Baker, Youjung Song, J. Edward Kellough
In July 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on two cases: Students for Fair Admissions vs. the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, effectively prohibiting the use of race as one of many factors in college or university admissions decisions. To explore these two cases, we conducted a content analysis of the legal briefs, the final court ruling, concurrences, and dissents. In its ruling, the Court did not overturn precedents upholding affirmative action, but the majority interpreted those prior cases in such a way that makes it impossible to justify the use of race in college admissions. Although these cases are from the context of higher education, the ruling highlights the fragility of affirmative action generally and may challenge the legal and regulatory structure that underpins many other important civil rights issues.
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