Pub Date : 2024-03-16DOI: 10.1177/00953997241235887
Clara Siboni Lund
Professional development leadership (PDL) aims to facilitate a shared understanding of professional quality and to influence employees to realize this understanding in practice. PDL can be important in overcoming clashes between managerial and professional logics and influencing professional work to support organizational goal attainment. This article develops and validates two PDL measurement scales on different subsamples of surveys of public managers ( n = 385) and their employees ( n = 3,865): a 9-item dimensional scale and a 4-item global scale. The paper thus serves as a stepping stone for future research on PDL.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-14DOI: 10.1177/00953997241236940
Iuliia Shybalkina, Tina Nabatchi
Participatory budgeting (PB) fosters community engagement in the allocation of public funds. Although its popularity has diminished in general-purpose governments, it is gaining traction in school districts. Yet research on PB’s managerial implications remains scarce. This study analyzes a PB process in a New York school district, examining key stages, participants, and engagement dynamics using quantitative and qualitative data. Our findings underscore important implementation challenges that necessitate careful consideration before advocating the widespread adoption of school PB.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1177/00953997241235102
Kaila Witkowski, Travis A. Whetsell, N. Emel Ganapati
With the growing number of opioid-related deaths, many local governments are assembling collaborations with the goal of providing timely and tangible responses to the overdose epidemic. Although the purpose of such collaborations is to bring multi-sector stakeholders together to provide policy recommendations, the inclusion of organizations with divergent interests and differing levels of power can open the collaboration to capture by special interests. In this article, we use a mixed-method design to: a) investigate the network structure of a collaboration and b) identify the managerial strategies used to facilitate participation by diverse actors within a cross-sector task force convened to regulate sober living facilities.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1177/00953997241235097
Berry Tholen
An increasing number of strategies for dealing with value conflicts in public management have been presented. These include Cycling, Firewalling, Casuistry, Incrementalism, and so on. A closer look reveals an apparent contradiction. The strategies are presented as forms of practical rationality to go beyond instrumentalist approaches and find answers in the common interest, but at the same time they are presented as instrumental rational strategies to deal with blockades for particular interests. This paper uses Paul Ricoeur’s analyses of compromise and of political paradox to overcome this puzzling contradiction and to distinguish more justifiable strategies of value conflict management from less justifiable strategies
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1177/00953997241228872
Vivian Visser, Willem de Koster, Arwin van Buuren
Citizens with a lower social status are underrepresented in participatory democratic innovations like citizens’ initiatives. Much research focuses on the barriers to participation that these citizens experience. The current study concentrates on civil servants tasked with advising on what initiatives to support and how. Informed by research on the social construction of target groups and the use of social stereotypes by civil servants, our work scrutinizes how the social status of initiators plays a role in the assessments of citizens’ initiatives. Grounded on vignette-based, in-depth interviews with civil servants, we conclude that social status does indeed play a role. Contrary to the conventional understanding, we find that: (1) high-status initiators are met with suspicion and low-status initiators with benevolence; and (2) high-status initiators are offered hands-off support, while those with a low status are provided with hands-on help to carry out their plans.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/00953997231204968
Roy L. Heidelberg
The following essay offers a political theory of the expert. I draw connections between the authority derived from expertise to the emerging role of artificial intelligence in a political condition marked by an impersonal sovereign. I begin with a detailed description of the role of the expert and expertise with specific attention to the function of knowledge as a source of authority. Through the work of Max Weber and Carl Schmitt, I connect the political role of the expert to the rise and prominence of the administrative or total state. The essay focuseson the connection between the expert as an authority in the modern state and the emergence of a political logic that invites artificial intelligence into the realm of authority.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/00953997231204980
Addrain Conyers, Tony Carrizales
Scholars commonly study bias and discrimination from the perspective of those discriminated against and, to some extent, the institutional practices that foster discrimination. Within the research of institutional oppression, there is a concurrent area of discriminatory omissions that is often excluded from such studies. Research on privileged omissions as a discretionary bias provides a more holistic view of discretionary decision-making. The concept of discriminatory omissions has limited research, but this paper adds to scholarship in this critical area by providing analysis and calls upon public service practices to disrupt the unintended consequences of privileged omissions.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1177/00953997231202237
Arnaldo Ryngelblum, José Estevam Freitas, Mayla Cristina Costa Maroni Saraiva
Studies of institutional change have focused on several themes. Yet, examinations of small innovations still require attention. This question is important because a new logic is usually only recognized after several modifications have taken place; thus, noticing it early becomes relevant. The emergence of a new logic presupposes new prescriptions about what is appropriate for both businesses and society. This article examines Brazilian health regulations that have undergone several alterations and suggests that this occurrence can be identified only when actors begin to react to the impact of such an event by changing their daily practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1177/00953997231198846
Samuel R. Baty, Sharon Mastracci
Scholars developing the concept of post-normal science have focused on high stakes and uncertainty to illustrate scientific inquiry and decision-making under post-normal conditions. While uncertainty and decision stakes are often challenges in any decision-making process, we argue that they are not the key factors that warrant the use of a post-normal approach, in which facts are ambiguous, values are in dispute, and stakes are high. In this paper, we center the role of time in the definition of post-normal science and offer a model of decision-making that incorporates uncertainty and high stakes within an overarching context of urgency. We then present three cases of decision-making with varying time horizons to illustrate the significance of time: The period leading up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project, and U.S. space exploration in the 1960s, culminating in the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Elaborating on the role of time in post-normal science is crucial to public administration because our field routinely involves decision making amidst ambiguous facts, disputed values, high stakes, and urgency. As the three illustrative cases further show, administrators on the ground during the lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Manhattan Project, and space exploration also included extended peer communities.
{"title":"The Role of Time in Post-Normal Knowledge Creation and Decision-Making in Public Administration","authors":"Samuel R. Baty, Sharon Mastracci","doi":"10.1177/00953997231198846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997231198846","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars developing the concept of post-normal science have focused on high stakes and uncertainty to illustrate scientific inquiry and decision-making under post-normal conditions. While uncertainty and decision stakes are often challenges in any decision-making process, we argue that they are not the key factors that warrant the use of a post-normal approach, in which facts are ambiguous, values are in dispute, and stakes are high. In this paper, we center the role of time in the definition of post-normal science and offer a model of decision-making that incorporates uncertainty and high stakes within an overarching context of urgency. We then present three cases of decision-making with varying time horizons to illustrate the significance of time: The period leading up to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project, and U.S. space exploration in the 1960s, culminating in the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Elaborating on the role of time in post-normal science is crucial to public administration because our field routinely involves decision making amidst ambiguous facts, disputed values, high stakes, and urgency. As the three illustrative cases further show, administrators on the ground during the lead-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Manhattan Project, and space exploration also included extended peer communities.","PeriodicalId":47966,"journal":{"name":"Administration & Society","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095890","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 : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1177/00953997231199230
Matthew J. Uttermark
Does a public administrator’s political orientation color how they perceive the actions and activities of the federal government? Using a long-running national survey, I measure the impact of state administrators’ party identification and ideology on several measures of federal encroachment. I find that self-identified Democratic and liberal administrators are less likely to believe that the federal government is encroaching on state actions and hold more positive evaluations of encroachment when it occurs. Additionally, I find that these beliefs are conditioned on the composition of the federal government, with the largest differences occurring under a Democratic-controlled White House and Congress.
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