Pub Date : 2023-03-05DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2183873
S.A Bhuiyan, Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
ABSTRACT This article identifies and analyses sources of administrative burden in the context of developing countries. We explore the case of Bangladesh’s online birth registration system, which has been causing inconveniences for its citizens. By employing qualitative research techniques such as netnography, interviews, and newspaper text analysis, this study analyses and identifies sources causing administrative burden in Bangladesh, and categorises them into two broad groups: state-generated (e.g., strict screening policy, partial digitalisation, redundant documentation, mistakes and correction hassles, and corruption) and citizen-generated problems (e.g., delay in submitting a certificate and broker dependency). When these two sources are acute, they can impose “deprivation costs” on citizens.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-07DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2172438
Chung-an Chen, Soojin Kim, Liang Ma
Hofstede (2007) argues that the Asia context is special enough to merit more Asia management research. Indeed, public management lessons from the Asia Pacific region may open new windows that allow scholars to improve public management theory and practice. One example is the response of Asia Pacific countries to the COVID-19 pandemic. States in Asia Pacific region took measures that greatly differ from those in North America and West Europe, but their performance in combating the pandemic was no less effective than Western countries. Scholars argue that high performance in many Asian states can be attributed to people’s high trust in government, which is embedded in Confucian culture’s submission to authority (Chen & Hsieh, 2017). However, research that systematically examines Asia Pacific public management remains lacking. As Hofstede (2007) claims, Asian scholars should have more confidence in developing their own research agenda. In our view, the agenda for scholars in the Asia Pacific region should address the following themes. First, it should propose concepts or phenomena tailored for the Asia Pacific context. Many cultural or institutional concepts that cannot be found in the Western context, but meanwhile affect administrative behaviour and public management practices in Asia Pacific region, need to be treated seriously. For example, 2015) propose the concept of “guanxi”, a behavioural pattern grounded in the Confucian culture, and test whether promotion in the Chinese public sector is guanxi-based or merit-based. Second, it should compare public management across the borders, either between the East and the West or among Asian states. Comparative public administration has long been an important branch in public administration research. For example, Chen et al. (2019) find that people’s interest in and attraction to a public service career differs greatly among New Zealand, the United States, and Taiwan, with New Zealand being the lowest and Taiwan being the highest. Reasons for this variation in the attractiveness of public careers has been attributed to radical administrative reform in New Zealand and the high prestige of public servants in Taiwan. Additional research is needed to fully understand the differences across these countries. Finally, it should examine the applicability of propositions developed in the West. For example, in Western countries, most scholars agree that those who are high in public service motivation (PSM) tend to prefer a public-sector than a private-sector career. Some scholars in Asia Pacific countries, however, have failed to reach the same conclusion (Lee & Choi, 2016). In addition, facing competitive public service exams, high-PSM individuals in the East Asian countries are more likely to be “winnowed out” from public service (Chen et al., 2020). We
Hofstede(2007)认为，亚洲的背景足够特殊，值得更多的亚洲管理研究。事实上，来自亚太地区的公共管理经验可以为学者们改进公共管理理论和实践打开新的窗口。亚太国家应对新冠肺炎疫情就是一个例子。亚太区域各国采取的措施与北美和西欧的措施大不相同，但它们在防治这一流行病方面的表现并不逊于西方国家。学者们认为，许多亚洲国家的高绩效可归因于人们对政府的高度信任，这植根于儒家文化对权威的服从(Chen & Hsieh, 2017)。然而，系统考察亚太地区公共管理的研究仍然缺乏。正如Hofstede(2007)所言，亚洲学者应该更有信心制定自己的研究议程。我们认为，亚太地区学者的议程应涉及以下主题:第一，提出适合亚太地区的概念或现象。许多在西方环境中找不到，但同时又影响亚太地区行政行为和公共管理实践的文化或体制概念需要认真对待。例如，2015年)提出了“关系”的概念，这是一种基于儒家文化的行为模式，并测试了中国公共部门的晋升是基于关系还是基于绩效。其次，它应该比较跨国界的公共管理，无论是在东方和西方之间还是在亚洲国家之间。比较公共行政一直是公共行政研究的一个重要分支。例如，Chen et al.(2019)发现新西兰、美国和台湾对公共服务职业的兴趣和吸引力差异很大，其中新西兰最低，台湾最高。公共事业吸引力差异的原因被归因于新西兰激进的行政改革和台湾公务员的高声望。需要进一步的研究来充分了解这些国家之间的差异。最后，它应该考察西方发展的命题的适用性。例如，在西方国家，大多数学者都认为公共服务动机高的人倾向于在公共部门而不是私营部门工作。然而，亚太国家的一些学者未能得出同样的结论(Lee & Choi, 2016)。此外，面对竞争激烈的公共服务考试，东亚国家的高psm个体更有可能被公共服务“淘汰”(Chen et al.， 2020)。我们
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Pub Date : 2023-01-26DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2169835
Chengwei Xu, Assel Mussagulova, Chung-an Chen, Ming-Feng Kuo
ABSTRACT Scholarship examining public service motivation (PSM) in multi-incentive settings is still insufficient. Though previous studies have extensively tested the nomological networks of PSM, they paid less attention to differences between individual preferences. Drawing on latent class analysis (LCA), this study addresses this gap by focusing on these differences in a multi-incentive setting instead of merely investigating relationships between variables. The analysis established a four-class model that classified 1286 Chinese respondents into four groups based on their PSM level and responses to three types of rewards (i.e., intrinsic, intangible extrinsic, and tangible extrinsic rewards). Results demonstrated that: among the respondents, (1) 32.49% with low PSM preferred tangible extrinsic rewards; (2) 19.3% with moderate PSM showed a preference for intangible extrinsic rewards; (3) 35.94% with high PSM reported a desire for tangible extrinsic rewards; and (4) 12.26% with high PSM showed a preference for all three types of rewards. Findings support the argument that PSM may be compatible with tangible and intangible extrinsic rewards.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2022.2155858
E. Ongaro, Michele Tantardini
This editorial makes the case that religion is a significant influence on public administration (PA) and religious factors should usefully be considered in researching PA, for purposes of both advancing knowledge and drawing practical implications. The starting point for our argument is the assumption that context does matter for PA, and religion is a neglected part of the context. Religion – broadly defined as a set of coherent answers to the core existential questions that confront any human group and pertain to the relationship of the human to the divine and their codification in creedal forms, and involving a ritual dimension and piety – is interwoven with societal, cultural, political and administrative elements, which constitutes the context that affects PA in a given jurisdiction. Including religious factors in PA studies would therefore contribute to the advancement of the field. The influence of religion has so far been overlooked in PA research. It is worth examining why religion has been overlooked in PA, at least the English-language literature, for a better understanding of the contribution that can derive from encompassing religious factors into theory and empirical research about PA. One reason lies in narrow interpretations of secularisation, which has at times been seen – in the West – as an irreversible trend in history. This consideration may have driven away the attention of PA scholars to religious factors. We would counter that these narrow interpretations do not consider that, first, processes of secularisation have occurred in a differential way around the world. Societies in the Asia Pacific region, for instance, may have secularised less than the West. In addition, secularisation may flow and ebb over time rather than linearly growing. Second – and more crucial, is that secularity is compatible with religion and religiously informed consciences still playing a role as social forces. Another reason for overlooking religion is that religious factors may fit problematically into certain epistemological approaches, like forms of neo-positivism, which have been ascendant in recent decades. We counter that this need not be the case, and that there is room in the field of PA – which is interdisciplinary and characterised by epistemological and methodological pluralism – for researching the influence of religion on key aspects of PA through a multitude of approaches and methods. Thus, the influence of religion on PA could and should be investigated more systematically, thereby adding to our capacity of generating knowledge to address PA-problems. In a recent contribution to this purpose (Ongaro & Tantardini, 2023 to our knowledge, the only book-length scholarly work devoted to this topic, although a number of journal articles and book chapters have been published that address different specific theoretical and empirical aspects of the relationship between religion and PA), we work out a theoretical framing of the relationship be
这篇社论认为，宗教对公共行政(PA)有重要影响，在研究PA时应有效地考虑宗教因素，以促进知识和得出实际意义。我们的论点的出发点是假设环境对PA很重要，而宗教是环境中被忽视的一部分。宗教——广义上被定义为对任何人类群体所面临的核心存在问题的一套连贯的答案，这些问题与人与神的关系以及它们在信条形式中的编纂有关，涉及仪式维度和虔诚——与社会、文化、政治和行政因素交织在一起，这些因素构成了影响特定管辖范围内PA的背景。因此，在PA研究中纳入宗教因素将有助于该领域的发展。宗教的影响在PA研究中一直被忽视。为了更好地理解将宗教因素纳入到关于PA的理论和实证研究中所能产生的贡献，有必要研究一下为什么宗教在PA中被忽视了，至少在英语文学中是如此。原因之一在于对世俗化的狭隘解读，在西方，世俗化有时被视为历史上不可逆转的趋势。这种考虑可能已经把PA学者的注意力转移到宗教因素上。我们会反驳说，这些狭隘的解释没有考虑到，首先，世俗化进程在世界各地以不同的方式发生。例如，亚太地区的社会世俗化程度可能不如西方。此外，世俗化可能会随着时间的推移而起伏，而不是线性增长。第二，也是更关键的一点，世俗主义与宗教是相容的，而宗教信仰的良知仍在发挥着社会力量的作用。忽视宗教的另一个原因是，宗教因素可能与某些认识论方法(如近几十年来兴起的新实证主义形式)相矛盾。我们反驳说，情况并非如此，在个人关系领域——这是跨学科的，以认识论和方法论多元化为特征——有空间通过多种途径和方法研究宗教对个人关系关键方面的影响。因此，宗教对个人情感的影响可以而且应该进行更系统的调查，从而增加我们产生知识来解决个人情感问题的能力。在最近对这一目的的贡献中(据我们所知，Ongaro & Tantardini, 2023年，这是唯一一本书长度的学术著作，致力于这一主题，尽管已经发表了许多期刊文章和书籍章节，讨论了宗教与PA之间关系的不同具体理论和实证方面)，我们制定了宗教与PA之间关系的理论框架，并组织了可用的ASIA PACIFIC journal of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 2023, VOL. 45, NO。1,1 - 6 https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2155858
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23276665.2023.2169820
B. Peters
There has been an “institutional turn” in the study of authoritarian regimes (Pepinsky, 2014). That interest in institutions has not extended to public bureaucracies to the extent that seems necessary if we are to understand how these political systems govern. Bureaucracies tend to be the most standardised institutions within political systems. One can travel to all parts of the world and find pyramidal structures within departments, a formal personnel system based (at least in theory) on merit, probably some more or less autonomous agencies, and other standard features. That similarity is often only superficial, and there are fundamental differences among bureaucracies, even with the apparent similarities. Comparing public bureaucracies, therefore, involves getting beneath apparent similarities, and understanding how and why systems differ. One of the crucial factors producing differences among administrative systems is whether they function within a democratic or an authoritarian regime. The diffusion of ideas about public management, and pressures from donor organisations have in many cases produced what Fred Riggs (1964) called “doublespeak” in administration.The public image and pronouncements of the bureaucracy are one thing, and sound like those from a modernised, democratic regime. The reality within the system, and especially the reality of relationships between the state and its citizens may, however, be something else entirely. Simply saying that the bureaucracy is functioning within an authoritarian regime is in itself inadequate to explain differences among administrative systems. For example, there may be marked differences between authoritarian regimes controlled by political parties and those that are more personal (van Soest & Grauvogel, 2017), and both of those will differ from those controlled by the military. In addition, some authoritarian regimes are also developmental, and use the power of the state to direct resources towards economic development (Chibber, 2002), while others may be more oriented merely towards controlling their societies. Also, the ideologies motivating authoritarian regimes may differ, with some being socialist or communist, while others being extremely conservative (including theocracies), and some having little ideology at all except for the maintenance of power. Finally, some authoritarian regimes depend more on validation through elections than do others. These electoral authoritarian regimes (see Schedler, 2013), or competitive authoritarian regimes (Levitsky & Way, 2010), justify themselves through having a mandate from the people, rather than strictly by power or ideology. The hybrid nature
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22259/2642-8318.0401003
Dr. Lwando Mdleleni
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22259/2642-8318.0501002
Tochukwu S. Ezeudu
Abstract This study examined rural-urban dependency in Nigeria by analyzing socio-economic characteristics, and perceptions of dependency among rural and urban communities in six states. A mixed-methods approach was employed, with stratified random sampling used to select participants from rural and urban communities. The findings revealed that rural-urban migration in Nigeria is driven by economic factors and that there is a high level of interdependence between rural and urban communities. The study highlights the complex dynamics of rural-urban dependency and the need for a comprehensive approach to address these challenges. The implications of the findings include the need for targeted rural development programs, improved access to basic amenities in rural areas, incorporation of rural-urban linkages in urban planning, and policies promoting rural integration into the national economy. Recommendations include increased government investment in rural development, provision of incentives for private sector investment in rural areas, improvement of education quality in rural areas, and continued research and monitoring of rural-urban migration patterns. Implementation of these recommendations can promote sustainable development in both rural and urban areas. Keywords: Rural-urban dependency, Rural development, Socio-economic characteristics, Nigeria, Interdependence.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22259/2642-8318.0401002
Tochukwu S. Ezeudu
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22259/2642-8318.0501005
Jordan T. Long, Benjamin M. Brunjes
Abstract Project grants, which are designated to fund a particular program or initiative, are supposed to be awarded based on the technical merit of the grant application. However, public administrators are commonly influenced by political priorities. We ask whether administrators prioritize merit or political objectives when awarding project grants. We identify three decision-making processes used to award project grants: political, administrative, and exported. Then, using data from eight U.S. federal grant programs from 2008 – 2015, we analyze whether grants using each of these decision-making processes show signs of political influence. We find evidence that grants using either political or administrative forms of decision-making are susceptible to legislative priorities. Grants awarded by third-party experts show no evidence of political influence. We conclude that political factors are important for the allocation of project grants, offering insights into the interdependent relationship between legislators and administrators. Keywords: Decision-Making, Politics, Grants, Contracts, Pork Barrel Politics, Federalism, Political Control, Bureaucratic Politics, Public Administration.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.22259/2642-8318.0501003
Dr. Lwando Mdleleni
Abstract This research paper discusses the implementation of performance management in the South African local government, with a specific focus on the O.R. Tambo District Municipality (ORTDM). The aim of the study is to investigate the obstacles to effective performance management and determine the compliance of the local government with performance management as stated in the white paper in order to improve service delivery. The research methodology used in the study is qualitative research, which involves collecting descriptive data through interviews and document analysis. The paper specifically focuses on the challenges faced by Section 57 employees (Municipal Manager, Directors, and Assistant Directors) in implementing the Performance Management System within the O.R. Tambo District Municipality. The findings of the study highlight several challenges to effective performance management in ORTDM. One major obstacle identified is the lack of training and development opportunities for employees. The municipality lacks a proper training policy, resulting in employees not having the necessary skills and understanding of performance management. This issue is exacerbated by the changes in the local government system and the loss of valuable skills and institutional memory. Overall, the research paper highlights the need for addressing these challenges in order to improve performance management and service delivery in the South African local government, particularly in the O.R. Tambo District Municipality. It emphasizes the importance of training and development, overcoming resistance to change, establishing effective communication strategies, and promoting public participation and accountability. Keywords: Local Government, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Performance Management System, Municipal Systems, Municipality, Service Delivery.
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