Matthew M. Young, Johannes Himmelreich, Justin B. Bullock, Kyoung-Cheol Kim
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers challenges and benefits to the public sector. We present an ethical framework to analyze the effects of AI in public organizations, guide empirical and theoretical research in public administration, and inform practitioner deliberation and decision making on AI adoption. We put forward six propositions on how the use of AI by public organizations may facilitate or prevent unnecessary harm. The framework builds on the theory of administrative evil and contributes to it in two ways. First, we interpret the theory of administrative evil through the lens of agency theory. We examine how the mechanisms stipulated by the former relate to the underlying mechanisms of the latter. Specifically, we highlight how mechanisms of administrative evil can be analyzed as information problems in the form of adverse selection and moral hazard. Second, we describe possible causal pathways of the theory of administrative evil and associate each with a level of analysis: individual (micro), organizational (meso), and cultural (macro). We then develop both descriptive and normative propositions on AI’s potential to increase or decrease the risk of administrative evil. The article hence contributes an institutional and public administration lens to the growing literature on AI safety and value alignment.
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How may local government, nested in state government as a creature of state law, effectively engage in collaborative governance? What if it finds itself thwarted by state legislation related to policy solutions that community stakeholders identify through collaborative governance as steps to mitigate climate change? This article examines how state legislation may limit or empower local government to use collaborative governance to address climate change. It uses Institutional Analysis and Development with a particular focus on state law as rules that shape municipal action arenas. Legal scholars term state legislation that limits local government action as state preemption or intrastate preemption. Using a 50-state review of state statutes regarding single use plastic bags, fracking, electricity supply, and broadband, this article identifies patterns of intrastate preemption of municipal government authority to adopt policies or ordinances related to the environment. It identifies patterns in states adopting intrastate preemption related to majority political party in the state legislature and governorship. It concludes intrastate preemption may inhibit collaborative governance and community problem-solving by limiting municipal policy choices. This research illustrates the importance of controlling for state law in research on municipal collaborative governance in policy-making.
{"title":"Collaborative Governance in Local Government: How State Law Shapes Community Problem-Solving through Intrastate Preemption","authors":"Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Thibault Vieilledent","doi":"10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAB007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAB007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 How may local government, nested in state government as a creature of state law, effectively engage in collaborative governance? What if it finds itself thwarted by state legislation related to policy solutions that community stakeholders identify through collaborative governance as steps to mitigate climate change? This article examines how state legislation may limit or empower local government to use collaborative governance to address climate change. It uses Institutional Analysis and Development with a particular focus on state law as rules that shape municipal action arenas. Legal scholars term state legislation that limits local government action as state preemption or intrastate preemption. Using a 50-state review of state statutes regarding single use plastic bags, fracking, electricity supply, and broadband, this article identifies patterns of intrastate preemption of municipal government authority to adopt policies or ordinances related to the environment. It identifies patterns in states adopting intrastate preemption related to majority political party in the state legislature and governorship. It concludes intrastate preemption may inhibit collaborative governance and community problem-solving by limiting municipal policy choices. This research illustrates the importance of controlling for state law in research on municipal collaborative governance in policy-making.","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81089248","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}
Charles R. Epp, Ben Merriman, R. O’Leary, Shannon Portillo
{"title":"Introduction to the Symposium Issue on Law & Governance","authors":"Charles R. Epp, Ben Merriman, R. O’Leary, Shannon Portillo","doi":"10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAB002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAB002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84778593","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}
Many of the world’s most pressing issues lay at the intersection of law and public administration. However, many have long lamented the relatively weak and atomized state of law and public administration scholarship. In this article, we use bibliometric and content analyses to systematically assess the last 20 years of literature, exploring the extent to which law and public administration have developed as a coherent paradigm. In short, we provide a contemporary assessment of the past assertion that “public administration has largely abandoned or forgotten its roots in public law—in the Constitution, statutes, and case law.” While we conclude that little changed in the last two decades, we offer some insights on the theoretical integration of law and public administration identifying strengths, weaknesses, and future avenues to advance paradigm building. Many of these recommendations necessitate better cross- and inner-field integration of voices and ideas.
{"title":"Systematically Reviewing American Law and Public Administration: A Call for Dialogue and Theory Building","authors":"Andrew Osorio, Sarah Nielsen, R. Christensen","doi":"10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Many of the world’s most pressing issues lay at the intersection of law and public administration. However, many have long lamented the relatively weak and atomized state of law and public administration scholarship. In this article, we use bibliometric and content analyses to systematically assess the last 20 years of literature, exploring the extent to which law and public administration have developed as a coherent paradigm. In short, we provide a contemporary assessment of the past assertion that “public administration has largely abandoned or forgotten its roots in public law—in the Constitution, statutes, and case law.” While we conclude that little changed in the last two decades, we offer some insights on the theoretical integration of law and public administration identifying strengths, weaknesses, and future avenues to advance paradigm building. Many of these recommendations necessitate better cross- and inner-field integration of voices and ideas.","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81085388","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}
C. Ansell, L. Comfort, Ann Keller, T. Laporte, P. Schulman
Important challenges to the administrative, policy-making, and implementation capacities of public organizations have arisen in recent years. These challenges may arise from many quarters, including budget cuts, organizational reforms, and most ominously, political subterfuge. Although limits on capacity may be familiar to the public organizations that must cope with them, they are less well understood by outside observers. This analytical gap undermines our ability to appraise the policy and constitutional implications of capacity loss. To begin the process of deepening our knowledge of public sector organizational capacities, this essay calls for greater investment in understanding the organizational dynamics associated with capacity loss.
{"title":"The Loss of Capacity in Public Organizations: A Public Administration Challenge","authors":"C. Ansell, L. Comfort, Ann Keller, T. Laporte, P. Schulman","doi":"10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA025","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Important challenges to the administrative, policy-making, and implementation capacities of public organizations have arisen in recent years. These challenges may arise from many quarters, including budget cuts, organizational reforms, and most ominously, political subterfuge. Although limits on capacity may be familiar to the public organizations that must cope with them, they are less well understood by outside observers. This analytical gap undermines our ability to appraise the policy and constitutional implications of capacity loss. To begin the process of deepening our knowledge of public sector organizational capacities, this essay calls for greater investment in understanding the organizational dynamics associated with capacity loss.","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76786025","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":"Bureaucrats Without Borders: Public Management and the End of Geography","authors":"H. Frederickson","doi":"10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73274761","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":"Reflections on George Frederickson and Bureaucrats Without Borders","authors":"B. Radin","doi":"10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/PPMGOV/GVAA028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74042886","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}
Melvin J. Dubnick, M. Guy, D. Kettl, Pan Suk Kim, R. O’Leary
During his 50-year career, H. George Frederickson contributed on multiple fronts: to better government, to a more thoughtful and rigorous public administration field, to better scholarship, to a network of scholars, and to collaborative interaction among practitioners and scholars. He was the founding Editor of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory as well as the Journal of Public Administration Education. He was one of the founders of the Public Management Research Association (PMRA) and was instrumental in establishing the world headquarters of PMRA at the University of Kansas School of Public Affairs, where he was the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor. He was President of Eastern Washington University. A gifted writer and thinker who excelled in both breadth and depth, George published important articles and books, and won many awards for his scholarship. Most importantly, he was a catalyst for establishing social equity as the “third pillar” of public administration. In this article, five public administration scholars pay tribute to H. George Frederickson’s most influential scholarly works, with an emphasis on social equity and accountability. George’s impact outside of the United States, especially in South Korea, also is highlighted.
在他50年的职业生涯中，h·乔治·弗雷德里克森在多个方面做出了贡献:更好的政府，更周到和严谨的公共管理领域，更好的学术，学者网络，以及从业者和学者之间的协作互动。他是《公共行政研究与理论》杂志和《公共行政教育》杂志的创始编辑。他是公共管理研究协会(PMRA)的创始人之一，并在堪萨斯大学公共事务学院建立了PMRA的世界总部，在那里他是Edwin O. steene杰出教授。他是东华盛顿大学的校长。乔治是一位才华横溢的作家和思想家，他在广度和深度上都很出色，发表了重要的文章和书籍，并获得了许多奖学金。最重要的是，他是建立社会公平作为公共行政“第三支柱”的催化剂。在这篇文章中，五位公共管理学者向h·乔治·弗雷德里克森最有影响力的学术著作致敬，重点关注社会公平和问责制。乔治在美国以外的影响，尤其是在韩国，也得到了强调。
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{"title":"2020 in Review and 2021 Moving Forward","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ppmgov/gvab001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvab001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72808660","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":"OUP accepted manuscript","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ppmgov/gvab032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvab032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29947,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Public Management and Governance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73487492","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}
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