Pub Date : 2022-08-05DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2106046
Federico Ferrero
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2101244
A. Podger
A collaboration between scholars and practitioners, Public Policy and Governance Frontiers in New Zealand is designed for both an international and a New Zealand audience, reviewing New Zealand’s impressive public policy and governance performance, identifying both successes and shortcomings, drawing out lessons, and highlighting new challenges. It is an excellent volume with fascinating assessments of New Zealand experience, many highly relevant to practitioners in other nations with different social and institutional contexts but grappling with similar challenges. The collaboration is demonstrated by the two editors. Evan Berman is an American public administration scholar with extensive international experience living and working in Asia (now in Brazil but at Victoria University, Wellington when the book was written). Girol Karacaoglu was formerly Chief Economist in the NZ Treasury and is now also based at Victoria University in Wellington. The book’s preface is by Andrew Kibblewhite, currently Secretary for Justice and formerly the Chief Executive of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Chapter authors include a wide range of eminent NZ scholars and former senior officials intimately involved in NZ’s reform journey. Following an extensive introduction by the editors, the book is in two parts: the first describes the evolution and impact of public policy while the second reviews public governance. A major strength of the book is the list of references at the end of each chapter, some chapters also listing further reading suggestions, and the cross-referencing between chapters. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the distinct characteristics of New Zealand culture and government practice:
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2119650
Na Yeon Kim, Hyun Joon Kim, Sun Hee Kim
ABSTRACT Citizen participation is an integral part of democratic governance, but because of the predominance of New Public Management and its consumer-oriented approach, citizens tend to be viewed as self-interested and passive actors whom the government needs to satisfy or purposely encourages to facilitate the policy process. Based on our notion of active citizenship, we demonstrate that citizens inherently have some degree of proactiveness and that proactive citizens can enhance their life satisfaction in the public service domain, which motivates their participation. Using 2017 survey data with 1,916 respondents, we examine whether highly satisfied citizens in the health care service domain are more likely to participate in that domain. The findings reveal that life satisfaction in the health care service domain is positively associated with respondents’ participation in it.
{"title":"Are satisfied citizens willing to participate more? An analysis of citizens’ life satisfaction in the public service domain and public participation","authors":"Na Yeon Kim, Hyun Joon Kim, Sun Hee Kim","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2022.2119650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2022.2119650","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Citizen participation is an integral part of democratic governance, but because of the predominance of New Public Management and its consumer-oriented approach, citizens tend to be viewed as self-interested and passive actors whom the government needs to satisfy or purposely encourages to facilitate the policy process. Based on our notion of active citizenship, we demonstrate that citizens inherently have some degree of proactiveness and that proactive citizens can enhance their life satisfaction in the public service domain, which motivates their participation. Using 2017 survey data with 1,916 respondents, we examine whether highly satisfied citizens in the health care service domain are more likely to participate in that domain. The findings reveal that life satisfaction in the health care service domain is positively associated with respondents’ participation in it.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43200626","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}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2091738
Youhyun Lee, Minhyuk Cho, Hyung-jun Park
ABSTRACT Energy transition is a crucial process in fighting climate change. Most policymakers agree with its importance, however, they follow different approaches toward achieving energy transition. This study examines policymakers’ perceptions of dominant energy resources and their philosophy toward energy transition. The study employed the Q analysis, which is suitable for exploring policymakers’ perceptions. A total of four major environmental philosophies were identified, namely ecocentrism, technocentrism, preventism, and marketism. The analysis of the results concluded that four types of perceptions could be derived from the factor analysis. The most popular type of perception is based on the comprehensive attitude that combines environmental values, safety, and economy. Through the analysis, two crucial implications are suggested: the necessity of energy mix and the long-term feasibility of energy transition. The results of our analysis can serve as useful evidence for establishing a robust energy transition policy.
{"title":"Typologies of policymakers’ perception toward energy transition in Korea: philosophy and resources","authors":"Youhyun Lee, Minhyuk Cho, Hyung-jun Park","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2022.2091738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2022.2091738","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Energy transition is a crucial process in fighting climate change. Most policymakers agree with its importance, however, they follow different approaches toward achieving energy transition. This study examines policymakers’ perceptions of dominant energy resources and their philosophy toward energy transition. The study employed the Q analysis, which is suitable for exploring policymakers’ perceptions. A total of four major environmental philosophies were identified, namely ecocentrism, technocentrism, preventism, and marketism. The analysis of the results concluded that four types of perceptions could be derived from the factor analysis. The most popular type of perception is based on the comprehensive attitude that combines environmental values, safety, and economy. Through the analysis, two crucial implications are suggested: the necessity of energy mix and the long-term feasibility of energy transition. The results of our analysis can serve as useful evidence for establishing a robust energy transition policy.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45734375","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}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2106045
Jim Brumby
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2102408
Sumin Kim
ABSTRACT Public service positions have long been one of the most sought-after jobs among the youth in the Republic of Korea. Individuals may possess mixed motives to take the national civil service exam, which cannot be explained by a single theory or framework. Public choice or public service motivation theory, for example, may not alone describe young Koreans’ desire to work for the government. Furthermore, it may be necessary to specifically consider the Korean culture to examine the complex nature of one’s motivation to become a public official. The study aims to categorize how the youth perceive bureaucrats and find reasons behind the craze for taking the national civil service exam, thus suggesting theoretical and practical implication. Using Q methodology, this study identified four distinct perceptions of Korean public officials: genuine public servers, rise-in-status pursuers, self-interest maximizers, and public policymakers. These conceptions contribute to understanding how young Koreans feature mixed motivations to choose the government as their employer and designing better policies to tackle the issue of youth removing themselves from the labor market to prepare for the national civil service exam.
{"title":"Identifying job seekers’ perceptions of public officials in Korea using Q methodology","authors":"Sumin Kim","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2022.2102408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2022.2102408","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Public service positions have long been one of the most sought-after jobs among the youth in the Republic of Korea. Individuals may possess mixed motives to take the national civil service exam, which cannot be explained by a single theory or framework. Public choice or public service motivation theory, for example, may not alone describe young Koreans’ desire to work for the government. Furthermore, it may be necessary to specifically consider the Korean culture to examine the complex nature of one’s motivation to become a public official. The study aims to categorize how the youth perceive bureaucrats and find reasons behind the craze for taking the national civil service exam, thus suggesting theoretical and practical implication. Using Q methodology, this study identified four distinct perceptions of Korean public officials: genuine public servers, rise-in-status pursuers, self-interest maximizers, and public policymakers. These conceptions contribute to understanding how young Koreans feature mixed motivations to choose the government as their employer and designing better policies to tackle the issue of youth removing themselves from the labor market to prepare for the national civil service exam.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47377890","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}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2123295
Roshni Das
ABSTRACT Public service motivation (PSM) has been found to predict job satisfaction (JS) of government and nonprofit organization employees in many varied industry, job grade, country, and culture contexts. However, the role that culture plays in this link, vis-à-vis the politico-economic context of countries, is not well understood. This meta-analysis looks at a combined sample size of 45,812 individuals, from 10 countries and 32 studies; and attempts to disambiguate the influence of these two moderators. Subgroup analysis and meta-regression techniques are employed to test hypotheses and contribute toward theory building. The study finds Asian countries to have a stronger correlation between PSM and JS, compared to Western countries; while two cultural traits, performance orientation and gender egalitarianism, demonstrate significantly higher strengthening impact in correlation effect sizes in Asia vis-a-vis the West. Future research directions and limitations are discussed.
{"title":"Meta-analysis of country-level contextual moderators that impact the link between public service motivation and job satisfaction: evidence from 10 countries","authors":"Roshni Das","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2022.2123295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2022.2123295","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Public service motivation (PSM) has been found to predict job satisfaction (JS) of government and nonprofit organization employees in many varied industry, job grade, country, and culture contexts. However, the role that culture plays in this link, vis-à-vis the politico-economic context of countries, is not well understood. This meta-analysis looks at a combined sample size of 45,812 individuals, from 10 countries and 32 studies; and attempts to disambiguate the influence of these two moderators. Subgroup analysis and meta-regression techniques are employed to test hypotheses and contribute toward theory building. The study finds Asian countries to have a stronger correlation between PSM and JS, compared to Western countries; while two cultural traits, performance orientation and gender egalitarianism, demonstrate significantly higher strengthening impact in correlation effect sizes in Asia vis-a-vis the West. Future research directions and limitations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42772669","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}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2123291
Kai Xiang Kwa, Soojin Kim
ABSTRACT In response to the rapidly-changing global market, Singapore has started to pay greater attention to educating students to become active and informed citizens with the high-level soft skills needed for the 21st century. This inspired us to examine how the government can effectively recruit a sustained and sufficiently large cohort of potential teachers with high levels of passion and self-efficacy to teach the humanities and social studies (HSS) to today’s young generation. Based on semi-structured interviews with teacher candidates who aim to become HSS secondary school teachers in Singapore, we found that their motivations are shaped not only by fundamental vocational and material forces, but also by various non-material, social and cultural forces, which might build up over time. Particularly, not to mention the values embedded in the HSS, individual trainees’ prior experiences with learning and teaching, their so-called socialization influences from former teachers and/or co-curricular activities, have played a critical role in their goal orientation.
{"title":"Understanding career choice motivations: a case study of public school teacher candidates in Singapore","authors":"Kai Xiang Kwa, Soojin Kim","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2022.2123291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2022.2123291","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In response to the rapidly-changing global market, Singapore has started to pay greater attention to educating students to become active and informed citizens with the high-level soft skills needed for the 21st century. This inspired us to examine how the government can effectively recruit a sustained and sufficiently large cohort of potential teachers with high levels of passion and self-efficacy to teach the humanities and social studies (HSS) to today’s young generation. Based on semi-structured interviews with teacher candidates who aim to become HSS secondary school teachers in Singapore, we found that their motivations are shaped not only by fundamental vocational and material forces, but also by various non-material, social and cultural forces, which might build up over time. Particularly, not to mention the values embedded in the HSS, individual trainees’ prior experiences with learning and teaching, their so-called socialization influences from former teachers and/or co-curricular activities, have played a critical role in their goal orientation.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42244952","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2091739
Y. Hong, Kyungeun Lee
ABSTRACT Empirical studies of the dual labor market, particularly those employing the endogenous switching regression model, are rare, and few studies appear to have considered youth unemployment, which may have negative long-term effects on economic growth and social equality. Using data from South Korea, we test the proposition that the dual structure of the labor market is one of the main causes that make the youth unemployment rate higher and worsens social inequality. The results strongly support the labor market hypothesis, suggesting that the dual market model is more relevant for the youth labor market; the findings also indicate that the social inequality structure may be strengthened by the dual market structure that excludes youth with socially disadvantaged conditions from the primary labor market.
{"title":"Segmented and unequal: evidence on the dual labor market and youth unemployment from the Korea youth survey","authors":"Y. Hong, Kyungeun Lee","doi":"10.1080/12294659.2022.2091739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12294659.2022.2091739","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Empirical studies of the dual labor market, particularly those employing the endogenous switching regression model, are rare, and few studies appear to have considered youth unemployment, which may have negative long-term effects on economic growth and social equality. Using data from South Korea, we test the proposition that the dual structure of the labor market is one of the main causes that make the youth unemployment rate higher and worsens social inequality. The results strongly support the labor market hypothesis, suggesting that the dual market model is more relevant for the youth labor market; the findings also indicate that the social inequality structure may be strengthened by the dual market structure that excludes youth with socially disadvantaged conditions from the primary labor market.","PeriodicalId":39993,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Public Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41608268","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}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2022.2071541
Jisung Yoo, Moonyoung Eom
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to empirically analyze the influence of merit payment on student achievement in South Korea, specifically the proportion of students with above-average test scores and the proportion of students with below-average test scores over six years (2011–2016). EduData Service System (EDSS) school-level panel data was utilized for analysis, which included pooled OLS, a fixed-effects model, and a two-way fixed-effects model. The results of the fixed-effects model showed that merit payment in Korea likely increases the proportion of students with high proficiency in Korean and English, but tends not to reduce the proportion of students with low proficiency in Korean, English, and math. However, the results of the two-way fixed effects model indicated that merit payment has no statistically significant effect on the proportion of students with above-average or below-average test scores in Korean, English, and math. Recommendations for policymakers, researchers, and educators are provided.
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