Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2188332
Temirlan T. Moldogaziev, Mikhail Ivonchyk, Kenneth A. Kriz
Abstract Patrons in authoritarian governance systems are expected to spread the state’s largess selectively, channeling the most rewards within their client networks. This empirical study evaluates whether the congruence between regional leadership and the leadership at the federal level in the Russian Federation influences the distribution of regional borrowing. The findings show that one of the distribution channels of largess to the regions is through budget credits, a form of heavily subsidized long-term loans that the Kremlin controls. Due to a symbiotic nature of the linkage between the central state and regional clients in this patronage system, largess accrues to the regions that offer greater support to the party of power in their regional legislatures. However, this linkage is present only in relatively more contested regions of the federation and not in the regions where the party of power holds a majority of legislative seats. Empirical results remain significant even when regional wealth and fiscal need variables are considered.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2187498
J. Caillier
Abstract Drawing upon social exchange theory, as well as culpable control and attribution theory, this article investigates the impact of service failure responsibility and prior public service failure on the emotional responses of individuals experiencing a public service failure. Although there are many types of emotional responses, two relevant to government are studied: blame and negative word-of-mouth. In order to examine service failure responsibility, public service failure, and emotional responses, an online survey experiment was conducted. The results are largely consistent with theoretical expectations. Respondents experiencing a public service failure were more likely to blame the agency and state that they would speak negatively about the agency under high service failure responsibility conditions and/or high prior public service failure conditions. Relationships between high/low service failure responsibility and high/low prior public service failures were also found in the study. These findings are thoroughly discussed in the paper.
{"title":"Citizens blame agencies and spread negative word-of-mouth after experiencing a public service failure? Results from an online experiment","authors":"J. Caillier","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2187498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2187498","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing upon social exchange theory, as well as culpable control and attribution theory, this article investigates the impact of service failure responsibility and prior public service failure on the emotional responses of individuals experiencing a public service failure. Although there are many types of emotional responses, two relevant to government are studied: blame and negative word-of-mouth. In order to examine service failure responsibility, public service failure, and emotional responses, an online survey experiment was conducted. The results are largely consistent with theoretical expectations. Respondents experiencing a public service failure were more likely to blame the agency and state that they would speak negatively about the agency under high service failure responsibility conditions and/or high prior public service failure conditions. Relationships between high/low service failure responsibility and high/low prior public service failures were also found in the study. These findings are thoroughly discussed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42245715","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 : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2174224
Yidan Liu, Juann H. Hung
Abstract China’s fiscal reforms over 1980–1988 steadily increased the degree of its fiscal decentralization (FD) by allowing local governments more fiscal power to tax and spend. The country’s fiscal reform in 1994 continued the rise in FD on the expenditure side (FDE) but reversed its upward trend on the revenue side (FDR). This article aims to ascertain whether this change in the mix of FDE and FDR since 1994 had significantly reduced local governments’ efforts to combat industrial pollution in the context of China’s political and official-promotion systems. We do so by applying the sys-GMM to estimate the effects of FDE and FDR on local governments’ spending to combat industrial pollution, using data covering 29 Chinese provinces over the 1992–2015 period. Our findings strongly indicate that China’s 1994 fiscal reform has exerted a negative impact on local governments’ efforts to fight industrial pollution.
{"title":"China’s 1994 fiscal reform and local governments’ efforts on fighting industrial pollution","authors":"Yidan Liu, Juann H. Hung","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2174224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2174224","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract China’s fiscal reforms over 1980–1988 steadily increased the degree of its fiscal decentralization (FD) by allowing local governments more fiscal power to tax and spend. The country’s fiscal reform in 1994 continued the rise in FD on the expenditure side (FDE) but reversed its upward trend on the revenue side (FDR). This article aims to ascertain whether this change in the mix of FDE and FDR since 1994 had significantly reduced local governments’ efforts to combat industrial pollution in the context of China’s political and official-promotion systems. We do so by applying the sys-GMM to estimate the effects of FDE and FDR on local governments’ spending to combat industrial pollution, using data covering 29 Chinese provinces over the 1992–2015 period. Our findings strongly indicate that China’s 1994 fiscal reform has exerted a negative impact on local governments’ efforts to fight industrial pollution.","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41701245","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 : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2175090
N. Bellé, P. Cantarelli, C. Barchielli, Paul Battaglio
Abstract Building on recent developments in behavioral public administration theory and methods, we conduct an online randomized controlled trial to study how defaults and reminders affect the performance of 5,303 public healthcare professionals on a test about the appropriate use of gloves. When incorrect answers are pre-populated, thus setting incorrect defaults, participants are more likely to err notwithstanding the fact that they are asked to double check the pre-populated answers. Conversely, when correct answers are pre-populated, thus setting correct defaults, subjects are less likely to err and they tend to perform better than their peers taking the non-pre-populated version of the same questions. Participants receiving either a visual or a textual reminder about the appropriate use of gloves right before the test outperform their counterparts in a control group. We also find that visual aids are more effective than textual reminders.
{"title":"Easier said than done. Do defaults and reminders affect public workers’ knowledge of guidelines?","authors":"N. Bellé, P. Cantarelli, C. Barchielli, Paul Battaglio","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2175090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2175090","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Building on recent developments in behavioral public administration theory and methods, we conduct an online randomized controlled trial to study how defaults and reminders affect the performance of 5,303 public healthcare professionals on a test about the appropriate use of gloves. When incorrect answers are pre-populated, thus setting incorrect defaults, participants are more likely to err notwithstanding the fact that they are asked to double check the pre-populated answers. Conversely, when correct answers are pre-populated, thus setting correct defaults, subjects are less likely to err and they tend to perform better than their peers taking the non-pre-populated version of the same questions. Participants receiving either a visual or a textual reminder about the appropriate use of gloves right before the test outperform their counterparts in a control group. We also find that visual aids are more effective than textual reminders.","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42622954","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 : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2180558
Tu Thanh Hoai, N. P. Nguyen
Abstract This study examines the association between accounting capacity and organizational readiness for change to adopt accrual accounting (ORCA) in public sector organizations. Furthermore, it explores the role of leadership quality and digital transformation as moderators of this association. Survey data from 179 public sector organizations in Vietnam, a transition economy, were used to test the research model. The findings indicate that accounting capacity has a positive relationship with ORCA, and this relationship is further strengthened by greater leadership quality and digital transformations. Moreover, the moderating effect of leadership quality on the effects of accounting capacity and ORCA is amplified in organizations with a high level of digital transformation. Additionally, theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
{"title":"Accounting capacity on accrual accounting adoption in Vietnamese public sector organizations—a moderated moderation model of leadership quality and digital transformation","authors":"Tu Thanh Hoai, N. P. Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2180558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2180558","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the association between accounting capacity and organizational readiness for change to adopt accrual accounting (ORCA) in public sector organizations. Furthermore, it explores the role of leadership quality and digital transformation as moderators of this association. Survey data from 179 public sector organizations in Vietnam, a transition economy, were used to test the research model. The findings indicate that accounting capacity has a positive relationship with ORCA, and this relationship is further strengthened by greater leadership quality and digital transformations. Moreover, the moderating effect of leadership quality on the effects of accounting capacity and ORCA is amplified in organizations with a high level of digital transformation. Additionally, theoretical and practical implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46972871","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 : 2023-03-04DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2172118
Xiao Lin Wu, Y. Xie, Xiaoqin Tan, Yi Peng
Abstract Promoting coproduction is critical in emergency responses. This study introduces the concept of psychological capital (PsyCap) to the field of coproduction within emergency context and further empirically investigates the association of PsyCap and engagement in coproducing emergency responses. Data collected from 5721 respondents in Chinese communities of 10 provincial regions were analyzed using logistics regression. The results demonstrate that PsyCap is positively associated with engagement in coproducing emergency responses. Familiarity with community epidemic prevention positively moderates the relationship between PsyCap and engagement in coproducing emergency responses. Satisfaction with community emergency response plays a full mediation role while trust in community emergency response plays a partial mediation role in the relationship between PsyCap and engagement in coproducing emergency responses. The higher the PsyCap citizens have, the more satisfaction and trust toward the community epidemic prevention they have, which further increases residents’ engagement in coproducing emergency response to the epidemic. The findings provide empirical evidences that PsyCap is essential for involving citizens in coproducing emergency responses. It also suggests that enhancing citizens’ specific PsyCap dimensions should be incorporated into routine community governance.
{"title":"Association of psychological capital and engagement in coproducing emergency response: evidence from Chinese communities","authors":"Xiao Lin Wu, Y. Xie, Xiaoqin Tan, Yi Peng","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2172118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2172118","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Promoting coproduction is critical in emergency responses. This study introduces the concept of psychological capital (PsyCap) to the field of coproduction within emergency context and further empirically investigates the association of PsyCap and engagement in coproducing emergency responses. Data collected from 5721 respondents in Chinese communities of 10 provincial regions were analyzed using logistics regression. The results demonstrate that PsyCap is positively associated with engagement in coproducing emergency responses. Familiarity with community epidemic prevention positively moderates the relationship between PsyCap and engagement in coproducing emergency responses. Satisfaction with community emergency response plays a full mediation role while trust in community emergency response plays a partial mediation role in the relationship between PsyCap and engagement in coproducing emergency responses. The higher the PsyCap citizens have, the more satisfaction and trust toward the community epidemic prevention they have, which further increases residents’ engagement in coproducing emergency response to the epidemic. The findings provide empirical evidences that PsyCap is essential for involving citizens in coproducing emergency responses. It also suggests that enhancing citizens’ specific PsyCap dimensions should be incorporated into routine community governance.","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41855995","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2175091
Bagus Nuari Harmawan
{"title":"The Co-Production of Public Services: Management and Evaluation, by denita cepiku et.al, 2020, Switzerland, palgrave macmillan, 145 pp., $ 68.50, ISBN 978-3-030-60709-8","authors":"Bagus Nuari Harmawan","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2175091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2175091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41391768","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2173684
Sara Brorström, A. Styhre
{"title":"Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg","authors":"Sara Brorström, A. Styhre","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2173684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2173684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49176776","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 : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2023.2166635
Morten Hjortskov, C. Jacobsen, A. M. Kjeldsen
Abstract Collecting data through surveys are a vital method in public administration research, but an overseen challenge for the validity of survey research is response bias, which is when response behavior correlates with study outcomes. Response bias can be particularly threatening in motivation research because motivation is an important determinant for behavior and most likely also for survey participation. Specifically, public service motivation (PSM) can increase the willingness to devote time and effort to respond to surveys for the benefit of others, whereas extrinsically motivated individuals may be less inclined to participate in surveys without prospects of economic compensation. This article examines motivation and response bias by use of a preregistered field experiment and two panel datasets. The experimental study shows that a monetary incentive increases the response rate, whereas a PSM-oriented appeal does not. Furthermore, the increased response rate of the incentive is achieved without any detectable response bias on PSM. Likewise, the panel studies offer little and mixed support for response bias related with PSM. This evidence suggests that (1) PSM is not a (strong) driver of response bias, and that (2) extrinsic motivational tools applied to PSM surveys are not necessarily associated with response bias.
{"title":"Choir of believers? Experimental and longitudinal evidence on survey participation, response bias, and public service motivation","authors":"Morten Hjortskov, C. Jacobsen, A. M. Kjeldsen","doi":"10.1080/10967494.2023.2166635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2023.2166635","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Collecting data through surveys are a vital method in public administration research, but an overseen challenge for the validity of survey research is response bias, which is when response behavior correlates with study outcomes. Response bias can be particularly threatening in motivation research because motivation is an important determinant for behavior and most likely also for survey participation. Specifically, public service motivation (PSM) can increase the willingness to devote time and effort to respond to surveys for the benefit of others, whereas extrinsically motivated individuals may be less inclined to participate in surveys without prospects of economic compensation. This article examines motivation and response bias by use of a preregistered field experiment and two panel datasets. The experimental study shows that a monetary incentive increases the response rate, whereas a PSM-oriented appeal does not. Furthermore, the increased response rate of the incentive is achieved without any detectable response bias on PSM. Likewise, the panel studies offer little and mixed support for response bias related with PSM. This evidence suggests that (1) PSM is not a (strong) driver of response bias, and that (2) extrinsic motivational tools applied to PSM surveys are not necessarily associated with response bias.","PeriodicalId":47671,"journal":{"name":"International Public Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42218832","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 : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2022.2155739
Changkun Cai, Zifan Yu
Abstract As society faces more crises, it is critical for leaders, especially at the local level, to make decisions and intervene before reaching the tipping point. This often requires collective sensemaking across boundaries, but most studies focus on the challenges. This article asks how decision makers make timely decisions. It presents an institutions-process framework and analyzes the process and mechanism in the case of the response of E-Zhong City—just over an hour’s drive from Wuhan City in Hubei Province—to COVID-19 in the “Golden Seven Days” of 2020. Decision makers achieved timely decisions by exploiting all possible political opportunities and institutional tools, maximizing the diversity of the information available, and using multiple discourses and frameworks to enhance personal crisis awareness and achieve collective sensemaking across boundaries. This article defines the mechanism as bricolage and defines these decision makers as institution-knowledge bricoleurs. The concept of institution-knowledge bricoleurs extends the study of crisis decision making and the relationship between institutions and sensemaking.
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