Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2288052
Teresa Elvira-Lorilla, Inigo Garcia-Rodriguez, M. Elena Romero-Merino, Marcos Santamaria-Mariscal
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) may be reluctant to debt financing because it is associated with an increase in their financial vulnerability. However, based on arguments from signaling and agency t...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2288054
Seulki Lee, Chongmin Na
Co-production has been embraced as a robust strategy to improve service quality and create public value. Despite growing interest in citizens’ motivations to engage in co-production, there remain s...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2283583
Ingrid Christensen
There is broad scholarly agreement that successful collaborative governance relies on supportive institutional design and facilitative leadership. However, there is a need to increase our understan...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-16DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2282002
Manlin Xiao, Ning Liu, Carlos Wing-Hung Lo, Xueyong Zhan
The coping behaviors of street-level bureaucrats have received increasing attention in the past decade. Although recent literature has explored the classification of coping behaviors and their ante...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2279068
Jinfeng Zhang, Zengqiang Qin, Jun Cen, Bingsheng Liu
AbstractAlthough expectations have emerged as a prominent research theme in public administration, little is known about whether and how expectations affect citizen satisfaction. We investigated the anchoring effects of expectations in shaping citizen satisfaction, utilizing a survey experiment involving 735 Chinese citizens. Specifically, we examined (1) the influence of citizens’ normative expectations of what services should be on their satisfaction levels; (2) the anchoring effects that result from numerical anchors on expectations and satisfaction; and (3) the effectiveness of debiasing education in mitigating anchoring effects. The findings reveal a negative correlation between citizens’ normative expectations and their satisfaction levels, highlighting the influence of anchoring effects on citizens’ expectations and satisfaction. Debiasing education is effective in mitigating anchoring effects on expectations but not on satisfaction. These findings integrated cognitive bias into the expectancy disconfirmation model to a better understanding of citizen satisfaction.BRIEF ABSTRACTIn this article, the authors focus on investigating the anchoring effects of expectations in shaping levels of citizen satisfaction. To achieve this, the study (1) examined the influence of citizens’ normative expectations of what services should be on their satisfaction levels, utilizing a survey experiment involving 735 Chinese citizens; (2) tested the anchoring effects that result from numerical anchors on satisfaction; and (3) employed debiasing education to mitigate anchoring effects on satisfaction. The findings reveal a negative correlation between citizens’ normative expectations and their satisfaction levels, highlighting the influence of anchoring effects on citizen satisfaction. Debias education is effective in mitigating bias on expectations but does not equally address issues related to satisfaction levels. These findings contribute to the cross-national generalizability of the expectancy disconfirmation model and citizen satisfaction literature.Keywords: Anchoring effectscitizen satisfactionexpectancy disconfirmation modelnormative expectationsurvey experiment Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [No. 72134002]; Key Projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education under Grant [No. 21JZD029]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant [No. 2019CDJSK01PY04, 2022CDJSKJC23]; National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [No. T221101034]; and Chongqing Social Science Planning Talents Plan Project [No. 2021YC019].Notes on contributorsJinfeng ZhangJinfeng Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Chongqing University, China. Her research focuses on nudging citizens’ behavior, citizen satisfactio
{"title":"Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction","authors":"Jinfeng Zhang, Zengqiang Qin, Jun Cen, Bingsheng Liu","doi":"10.1080/15309576.2023.2279068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2023.2279068","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractAlthough expectations have emerged as a prominent research theme in public administration, little is known about whether and how expectations affect citizen satisfaction. We investigated the anchoring effects of expectations in shaping citizen satisfaction, utilizing a survey experiment involving 735 Chinese citizens. Specifically, we examined (1) the influence of citizens’ normative expectations of what services should be on their satisfaction levels; (2) the anchoring effects that result from numerical anchors on expectations and satisfaction; and (3) the effectiveness of debiasing education in mitigating anchoring effects. The findings reveal a negative correlation between citizens’ normative expectations and their satisfaction levels, highlighting the influence of anchoring effects on citizens’ expectations and satisfaction. Debiasing education is effective in mitigating anchoring effects on expectations but not on satisfaction. These findings integrated cognitive bias into the expectancy disconfirmation model to a better understanding of citizen satisfaction.BRIEF ABSTRACTIn this article, the authors focus on investigating the anchoring effects of expectations in shaping levels of citizen satisfaction. To achieve this, the study (1) examined the influence of citizens’ normative expectations of what services should be on their satisfaction levels, utilizing a survey experiment involving 735 Chinese citizens; (2) tested the anchoring effects that result from numerical anchors on satisfaction; and (3) employed debiasing education to mitigate anchoring effects on satisfaction. The findings reveal a negative correlation between citizens’ normative expectations and their satisfaction levels, highlighting the influence of anchoring effects on citizen satisfaction. Debias education is effective in mitigating bias on expectations but does not equally address issues related to satisfaction levels. These findings contribute to the cross-national generalizability of the expectancy disconfirmation model and citizen satisfaction literature.Keywords: Anchoring effectscitizen satisfactionexpectancy disconfirmation modelnormative expectationsurvey experiment Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [No. 72134002]; Key Projects of Philosophy and Social Sciences Research, Ministry of Education under Grant [No. 21JZD029]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant [No. 2019CDJSK01PY04, 2022CDJSKJC23]; National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant [No. T221101034]; and Chongqing Social Science Planning Talents Plan Project [No. 2021YC019].Notes on contributorsJinfeng ZhangJinfeng Zhang is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Chongqing University, China. Her research focuses on nudging citizens’ behavior, citizen satisfactio","PeriodicalId":47571,"journal":{"name":"Public Performance & Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2279718
Chunyou Li, Shuzhen Lou
AbstractRecent studies suggest that influence of contextual and cooperative arrangements on interlocal cooperation should be best understood as part of configurations. This study enriches this nascent perspective by developing a configurational theoretical framework and explores how contextual conditions (institutional proximity, geographic proximity, organizational proximity) and cooperative arrangements (goal interdependence, resource complementarity, collaborative structure) combine to influence interlocal cooperation in economic development. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is used to analyze 34 interlocal industrial parks (IIPs) in the Yangtze River Delta of China. The results show two first-order equifinal configurations and six second-order configurations that lead to the success of IIP. The findings underscore that success conditions of interlocal cooperation in economic development work in configurations, not in isolation, and contribute meaningfully to debates pertaining to specific conditions.Keywords: Interlocal cooperationeconomic developmentfsQCAChinaSubject classification codes: H70H77R57L52 Authors contributionsConceptualization, C.L.; Formal Analysis, C.L., S.L.; Funding Acquisition, C.L., S.L.; Methodology, C.L., S.L.; Validation, S.L.; Writing—Original Draft, C.L.; Writing—Review and Editing, C.L., S.L.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data underlying this article are available in the article and its supplementary material.Notes1 Due to the word limit, we put much of the research materials in the supplementary material. The following materials are included in the supplementary material: introduction to qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), overview of interlocal industrial parks, questionnaire development and questionnaire distribution, within-group agreement statistics, truth table for IIP performance, configurations sufficient for low IIP performance, and robustness tests. Supplementary material is available on the website of Public Performance & Management Review or can be requested from the authors by email.Additional informationFundingThis work has been founded by National Social Science Foundation Youth Project [Grant Number: 21CGL002].Notes on contributorsChunyou LiChunyou Li is an associate professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University Hangzhou College of Commerce, Hangzhou, China. His research interests include regional development, collaborative governance, industrial upgrading and others.Shuzhen LouShunzhen Lou is a lecturer in the School of Economics and Management at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China. Her research interests include platform strategy, venture capital and others.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2270974
Shihyun Noh, Ji Hyung Park
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Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2269386
Kee Hoon Chung, Inbok Rhee, Cheol Liu
AbstractExperimental research has been increasingly recognized as the gold standard for causal inference. However, despite the call for the adoption of experimental approaches to the study of public service motivation (PSM) – one of the most researched topics in the field of public administration – we find that the number of such studies is small in this first-ever review of systematic assessment of experimental research on PSM. Reviewing the universe of such experimental studies − 41 in total – by their topic and type, first, we find that they are concentrated on the analysis of the efforts of PSM and in survey experiments by type. Second, while many studies confirm that PSM positively influences various outcomes, they also show that other intrinsic and extrinsic motivations often outperformed PSM. Third, while acknowledging that methodologically, the randomization of treatment has been well adopted in recent years, we highlight some key recommendations for further improvements regarding the type of experiment, sample characteristics, measurement, and treatment sequences based on our review.Keywords: Experimentsfield experimentpublic service motivation (PSM)social desirability biassurveysystematic review Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For the parsimony and replicability of our case selection, we followed the outlined process while limiting subjective researcher decisions as much as possible. That said, we acknowledge that we may have missed some closely related studies on PSM that did not directly use the term or did not involve experimental manipulation and random assignment of PSM or other key variables of interest that might causally affect PSM.2 The coding process included all three coauthors to thoroughly review the coding results. At the initial stage, all three coauthors jointly searched, screened, and reviewed the relevant articles. After obtaining 41 articles, two of the coauthors regularly held meetings – both face-to-face and via online – to discuss the coding results and decide which categories to code. In this process, the two coauthors independently read the articles and cross-checked the results. After the cross-validation by the two coauthors, the third coauthor conducted the final review.3 We categorized each study based on the information it provided as much as possible. For the most part, this was relatively easy since most studies explicitly described the type of experiment they conducted. One study (Sun et al., Citation2019) did not explicitly identify the type of experiment employed, and we used our discretion to categorize the study as a lab experiment.4 One article was categorized as both a lab and survey experiment. See Tepe et al. (Citation2022).5 Ranking fifth highest with 20 out of 400 studies (5% of the total), according to Ritz et al. (Citation2016).6 Table A1 in the Appendix provides more detailed analyses of each study.7 Detailed information available in
摘要实验研究越来越被认为是因果推理的金标准。然而,尽管人们呼吁采用实验方法来研究公共服务动机(PSM),这是公共行政领域研究最多的主题之一,但我们发现,在对PSM实验研究的系统评估的首次回顾中,此类研究的数量很少。回顾这类实验研究的范围-总共41个-按主题和类型,首先,我们发现它们集中在PSM的努力分析和按类型的调查实验。其次,虽然许多研究证实PSM对各种结果有积极影响,但它们也表明其他内在和外在动机往往优于PSM。第三,虽然在方法学上,近年来治疗的随机化得到了很好的采用,但我们强调了一些关键的建议,以进一步改进实验类型,样本特征,测量和治疗顺序。关键词:实验;现场实验;公共服务动机;社会可取性;注1为了简化和可复制我们的案例选择,我们遵循了概述的过程,同时尽可能地限制了研究人员的主观决定。也就是说,我们承认我们可能错过了一些与PSM密切相关的研究,这些研究没有直接使用这个术语,或者没有涉及实验操作和随机分配PSM或其他可能对PSM产生因果影响的关键变量。2编码过程包括所有三位共同作者,以彻底审查编码结果。在初始阶段,三位共同作者共同检索、筛选和评审相关文章。在获得41篇文章后,两位合著者定期召开会议——面对面或通过网络——讨论编码结果并决定对哪些类别进行编码。在这个过程中,两位共同作者独立阅读文章并交叉核对结果。2 .经两位共同作者交叉验证后,由第三位共同作者进行最终审稿我们根据每项研究提供的尽可能多的信息对其进行分类。在大多数情况下,这相对容易,因为大多数研究都明确描述了他们进行的实验类型。一项研究(Sun et al., Citation2019)没有明确确定所采用的实验类型,我们根据自己的判断将该研究归类为实验室实验一篇文章被归类为实验室实验和调查实验。参见Tepe等人(Citation2022)根据Ritz et al. (Citation2016)的数据,400项研究中有20项排名第五(占总数的5%)附录中的表A1提供了对每项研究的更详细的分析附录中表A2提供的详细信息8附录中表A2提供的详细信息9我们在检查PSM决定因素的四项研究中没有发现这是一个问题。本研究由KDI公共政策与管理学院发展研究与国际合作办公室资助。郑勋(音译),蔚山大学公共行政学系助理教授。Inbok Rhee是KDI公共政策与管理学院的副教授。本文作者是KDI公共政策与管理学院教授。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2023.2270499
Tianshu (Tina) Zhao
AbstractPublic health services can be provided by local health departments (LHDs) or external contractors. This study aims to determine which characteristics of public health services, if any, influence the contracting out decision in local health departments. The transaction cost approach, market failure theory, and government failure theory provide theoretical frameworks for how two characteristics of public health services—asset specificity and service measurability—could impact the decision to make or buy in local health departments. This study employs a multinomial logistic regression model for analysis and uses multiple data sources. The findings suggest that public health agencies are less likely to deliver services internally at low and high levels of transaction costs, while more likely to produce services in-house at moderate levels of transaction costs. Furthermore, for services that are difficult to measure vendor performance, LHDs are less likely to choose complete contracting.Keywords: Contractinghealth carelocal health departmentoutsourcingmake-or-buypublic health Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available in https://www.naccho.org/resources/lhd-research/national-profile-of-local-health-departments.Notes1 To mitigate dropout bias, we took several measures. Initially, the survey underwent a pretesting phase involving two colleagues, which enabled us to enhance the questionnaire’s clarity. Additionally, we sent out reminder emails after the first invitation email, emphasizing the significance of participants’ input and the compensation offered for their time. We received some auto responses indicating that individuals were out of the office and unavailable for contact, due to reasons such as summer vacation, job transitions, or retirement, during the four-week survey window (late June to late July 2023). Ultimately, 24 public health experts participated in the survey, with 20 completing the questionnaire. Despite including only 39 out of 85 services, the questionnaire spans eight pages and has sixteen questions. As a results, dropouts occurred during the survey. Two individuals discontinued at Question 2 (screening for disease/conditions). One participant dropped out during Question 4 (maternal and child health). And one respondent exited the survey at Question 5 (other health services). In general, we’ve taken efforts to make more people respond and lessen the dropout bias.Additional informationNotes on contributorsTianshu (Tina) ZhaoTianshu (Tina) Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration at California State University Long Beach. Her research focuses on public and nonprofit management, local health department management, health policy, government contracting, multi-sector collaboration, and survey methodology.
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AbstractIn recent decades, there has been a proliferation of research analyzing the role of women in public management. This study contributes to this line of research by examining the influence women have on municipal public debt. To this aim, we use a sample of 141 Spanish municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants for the period 2008–2020. The empirical results suggest that municipalities that are leaded by a female mayor tend to show lower levels of public debt. In addition, empirical results reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between the proportion of female councilors and the level of public debt. This means that the higher the proportion of female councilors, the lower the level of indebtedness, but this positive effect appears only if the number of female councilors is relatively high.Keywords: Female councilorsfemale mayorgenderindebtednesslocal governmentspublic debt Notes1 To know the number of councillors, see Article 179 of the Organic Law of the General Electoral Regime.2 Article 26 of the Local Government Regulatory Law (Ley Reguladora de Bases de Régimen Local) establishes a list of minimum services to be provided by local authorities: all municipalities, regardless of the number of inhabitants, must provide public lighting, cemeteries, waste collection, street cleaning, drinking water, sewer systems and drains, paving and access to the municipality. Municipalities with more than 5,000 inhabitants must additionally provide parks and green areas, libraries and waste treatment. Municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants must additionally provide police and protection services, social services, firefighting services and sports facilities. Finally, municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants must additionally provide public transport and environmental protection services.3 Heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation have been checked using the Breusch–Pagan and Wooldridge tests, whose p-values lead us to reject the null hypotheses of homoscedastic and no-serially correlated errors at a 95% confidence level. Endogeneity problems also arise in Model 1 because it is autoregressive of order 1. The results could be additionally controlled by other factors (e.g., population density, income, tourism and migration, etc.). These have been omitted because they are correlated with other control variables, and they would introduce multicollinearity (Wooldridge, 2010).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [Grant/Award No. PID2021-122419OB-I00-GELESMAT]Notes on contributorsBeatriz Cuadrado-BallesterosBeatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros is an Associate Professor in Accounting and Finance at the University of Salamanca, where she earned her PhD in Business. Her research interests are public management and public sector reforms, as well as topics related with political economy.Ana-María RíosAna M. Ríos is an Associate Professor in Public Finance at the University of Murcia, where she
近几十年来,分析女性在公共管理中的作用的研究激增。这项研究通过审查妇女对市政公共债务的影响,对这一研究方向作出了贡献。为此,我们在2008年至2020年期间使用了141个西班牙城市的样本,这些城市的居民超过50,000人。实证结果表明,由女性市长领导的城市往往显示出较低的公共债务水平。此外,实证结果显示女性议员比例与公共债务水平呈倒u型关系。这意味着女议员的比例越高,负债水平越低,但这种积极影响只有在女议员人数相对较高的情况下才会出现。注1要了解议员人数,请参阅《一般选举制度组织法》第179条。2《地方政府管理法》第26条规定了地方当局应提供的最低服务清单:所有市政当局,无论居民人数多少,都必须提供公共照明、墓地、废物收集、街道清洁、饮用水、下水道系统和排水沟、铺路和通往市政当局的通道。居民超过5000人的城市必须额外提供公园和绿地、图书馆和废物处理设施。居民超过20 000人的城市必须额外提供警察和保护服务、社会服务、消防服务和体育设施。最后,人口超过5万的城市必须额外提供公共交通和环境保护服务使用Breusch-Pagan和Wooldridge检验检查了异方差和自相关,其p值使我们在95%的置信水平上拒绝了同方差和非序列相关误差的原假设。由于模型1是1阶自回归的,因此也出现了内生性问题。结果还可能受到其他因素(如人口密度、收入、旅游和移民等)的控制。这些被省略了,因为它们与其他控制变量相关,它们会引入多重共线性(Wooldridge, 2010)。本研究得到了科学部长Innovación的支持[资助/奖励号]。本文作者beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros是西班牙萨拉曼卡大学会计学和金融学副教授,并在该校获得了商学博士学位。她的研究兴趣是公共管理和公共部门改革,以及与政治经济学相关的主题。Ana-María RíosAna M. Ríos是穆尔西亚大学公共财政副教授,在那里她获得了商业科学博士学位。她的主要研究方向是预算透明度、公民参与、议会对预算的控制、腐败以及市政和中央政府层面的财务管理。María-Dolores GuillamónMaría D. Guillamón是穆尔西亚大学会计和金融副教授,在那里她获得了商业科学博士学位。她的研究兴趣集中在公共部门管理、公共部门会计、预算透明度、债务、选举周期、腐败和预算预测偏差等方面。
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