首页 > 最新文献

Public Administration Review最新文献

英文 中文
Beyond Traditional Civil Service Hiring: Alternative Pathways for Recruiting Technical Expertise 超越传统的公务员招聘:招聘技术专长的替代途径
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70087
Christos A. Makridis
The federal government continues to face persistent challenges in recruiting and retaining skilled talent, particularly in high‐demand technical fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. While compensation gaps are often cited, growing evidence suggests that institutional rigidities and non‐pecuniary disincentives—ranging from opaque hiring procedures to limited flexibility—constrain the public sector's ability to attract and retain expertise. This paper provides a comprehensive review of federal hiring pathways and opportunities to expedite the attraction of talent under existing authorities. Using the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in February 2025 as a case study, I contextualize how it was used to facilitate personnel reforms via alternative hiring mechanisms. The paper concludes with a set of practical policy recommendations for personnel reform for both the short and long run.
联邦政府在招聘和留住技术人才方面继续面临持续的挑战,特别是在人工智能(AI)和网络安全等高需求技术领域。虽然薪酬差距经常被提及,但越来越多的证据表明,制度僵化和非金钱因素——从不透明的招聘程序到有限的灵活性——限制了公共部门吸引和留住专业知识的能力。本文提供了一个全面的审查联邦雇用途径和机会,以加快现有当局的人才吸引。以2025年2月成立的政府效率部(DOGE)为例,我分析了它是如何通过替代招聘机制来促进人事改革的。文章最后提出了一套短期和长期人事改革的实用政策建议。
{"title":"Beyond Traditional Civil Service Hiring: Alternative Pathways for Recruiting Technical Expertise","authors":"Christos A. Makridis","doi":"10.1111/puar.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70087","url":null,"abstract":"The federal government continues to face persistent challenges in recruiting and retaining skilled talent, particularly in high‐demand technical fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. While compensation gaps are often cited, growing evidence suggests that institutional rigidities and non‐pecuniary disincentives—ranging from opaque hiring procedures to limited flexibility—constrain the public sector's ability to attract and retain expertise. This paper provides a comprehensive review of federal hiring pathways and opportunities to expedite the attraction of talent under existing authorities. Using the establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in February 2025 as a case study, I contextualize how it was used to facilitate personnel reforms via alternative hiring mechanisms. The paper concludes with a set of practical policy recommendations for personnel reform for both the short and long run.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146146003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
State Budgetary Outcomes: Do CEO Governors Make a Difference? 州预算结果:首席执行官州长有影响吗?
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70090
Can Chen, Boyuan Zhao, Qiushi Wang
The personal background and traits of top organizational leaders matter for organizational strategies, policymaking, and outcomes. Drawing on upper echelons theory, imprinting theory, and scholarship on managerial decision-making and the transferability of private-sector management approaches to the public sector, this study examines the relationship between US governors' top business experience and budgetary outcomes. Competing hypotheses are proposed and tested to assess whether governors with significant business experience enhance or hinder budgetary outcomes. Using a panel dataset of 48 states spanning 1960–2010 and a regression discontinuity design, the analysis finds that electing governors with high-level business experience leads to improved budget equilibrium during their terms. These findings suggest that governors with business backgrounds are likely to be better able to align revenues with expenditures, thus reducing deviations from the budget. The results are robust across alternative model specifications and offer critical theoretical and practical insights into leadership dynamics and fiscal governance.
组织高层领导人的个人背景和特征对组织战略、政策制定和结果都很重要。利用高层管理理论、印迹理论和管理决策方面的学术研究,以及私营部门管理方法向公共部门的可转移性,本研究考察了美国州长的最高商业经验与预算结果之间的关系。他们提出并测试了相互竞争的假设,以评估具有丰富商业经验的州长是促进还是阻碍了预算结果。利用1960年至2010年间48个州的面板数据集和回归不连续设计,分析发现,选举具有高水平商业经验的州长可以改善其任期内的预算平衡。这些发现表明,具有商业背景的州长可能更有能力使收入与支出保持一致,从而减少与预算的偏差。结果在不同的模型规范中都是稳健的,并为领导动态和财政治理提供了重要的理论和实践见解。
{"title":"State Budgetary Outcomes: Do CEO Governors Make a Difference?","authors":"Can Chen, Boyuan Zhao, Qiushi Wang","doi":"10.1111/puar.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70090","url":null,"abstract":"The personal background and traits of top organizational leaders matter for organizational strategies, policymaking, and outcomes. Drawing on upper echelons theory, imprinting theory, and scholarship on managerial decision-making and the transferability of private-sector management approaches to the public sector, this study examines the relationship between US governors' top business experience and budgetary outcomes. Competing hypotheses are proposed and tested to assess whether governors with significant business experience enhance or hinder budgetary outcomes. Using a panel dataset of 48 states spanning 1960–2010 and a regression discontinuity design, the analysis finds that electing governors with high-level business experience leads to improved budget equilibrium during their terms. These findings suggest that governors with business backgrounds are likely to be better able to align revenues with expenditures, thus reducing deviations from the budget. The results are robust across alternative model specifications and offer critical theoretical and practical insights into leadership dynamics and fiscal governance.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Collaboration as a Tool for Equity? Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Access 合作是实现公平的工具?减少在获得医疗保健方面的种族和民族差异
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70091
Jiho Kim, Tina Nabatchi
Despite its importance in theory and practice, little is known about whether, how, when, and for whom a collaborative governance strategy achieves socially equitable outcomes. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design and data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we analyze how well Oregon counties that adopted collaborative governance bridge racial disparities in healthcare access compared to non-adopting counties. We find that collaborative governance is associated with reducing racial and ethnic disparities in financial barriers to visiting a doctor after 3 years of implementation and that such effects grow stronger over time. In addition, the estimated effect of collaborative governance on having a personal doctor is greatest for Hispanics. This article points to potential benefits of a collaborative governance strategy that designs and scales collaboration through a collaborative platform and collaborative governance regimes, sustains long-term efforts to meet health equity goals, and identifies and serves the most vulnerable populations.
尽管它在理论和实践中都很重要,但人们对协作治理策略是否、如何、何时以及为谁实现社会公平的结果知之甚少。使用交错差异设计和来自行为风险因素监测系统的数据,我们分析了采用协作治理的俄勒冈县与未采用协作治理的县相比,在医疗保健获取方面弥合种族差异的效果。我们发现,在实施3年后,协作治理与减少种族和民族在就诊经济障碍方面的差异有关,并且这种影响随着时间的推移而增强。此外,对西班牙裔来说,拥有私人医生的协同治理的估计效果最大。本文指出了协作治理战略的潜在好处,该战略通过协作平台和协作治理制度设计和扩展协作,维持实现卫生公平目标的长期努力,并确定和服务最弱势群体。
{"title":"Collaboration as a Tool for Equity? Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare Access","authors":"Jiho Kim, Tina Nabatchi","doi":"10.1111/puar.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70091","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its importance in theory and practice, little is known about whether, how, when, and for whom a collaborative governance strategy achieves socially equitable outcomes. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design and data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we analyze how well Oregon counties that adopted collaborative governance bridge racial disparities in healthcare access compared to non-adopting counties. We find that collaborative governance is associated with reducing racial and ethnic disparities in financial barriers to visiting a doctor after 3 years of implementation and that such effects grow stronger over time. In addition, the estimated effect of collaborative governance on having a personal doctor is greatest for Hispanics. This article points to potential benefits of a collaborative governance strategy that designs and scales collaboration through a collaborative platform and collaborative governance regimes, sustains long-term efforts to meet health equity goals, and identifies and serves the most vulnerable populations.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146135471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Anticipated Stigma and Burnout: The Impact of Concerns About Being Perceived as Racist Among Law Enforcement Officers 预期的耻辱和倦怠:担心被认为是执法人员中的种族主义者的影响
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70085
Shahidul Hassan, Bradley E. Wright, Justine E. Tinkler
The “racist cop” stereotype is one of the most prominent social representations of law enforcement in the United States. Drawing on theories of stereotype threat and stigma, this article suggests that this negative stereotype creates an identity threat that heightens anxiety and stress among law enforcement officers, increasing the risks of their burnout. Using survey data collected from officers in a state-level law enforcement agency in 2021, we find that White officers, as well as those who reported greater stress during the 2020 protests, express stronger concerns about being perceived as racist. These concerns are associated with elevated levels of burnout, and efforts to maintain a positive self-image partially mediate this relationship. These findings hold even after controlling for burnout levels reported by the same officers in 2019. Overall, our results extend stereotype-threat research to a high-power public service context and underscore the need for organizational interventions that reduce stereotype-related stress and support officer well-being.
“种族主义警察”的刻板印象是美国执法部门最突出的社会表现之一。根据刻板印象威胁和污名化的理论,本文认为这种负面刻板印象造成了一种身份威胁,加剧了执法人员的焦虑和压力,增加了他们精疲力竭的风险。利用2021年对州一级执法机构官员收集的调查数据,我们发现白人官员以及在2020年抗议活动中报告压力更大的人对被视为种族主义者表达了更强烈的担忧。这些担忧与高水平的倦怠有关,努力保持积极的自我形象在一定程度上调解了这种关系。即使在控制了2019年同一名警官报告的倦怠水平之后,这些发现仍然成立。总体而言,我们的研究结果将刻板印象威胁研究扩展到高权力的公共服务环境,并强调了减少刻板印象相关压力和支持官员福祉的组织干预的必要性。
{"title":"Anticipated Stigma and Burnout: The Impact of Concerns About Being Perceived as Racist Among Law Enforcement Officers","authors":"Shahidul Hassan, Bradley E. Wright, Justine E. Tinkler","doi":"10.1111/puar.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70085","url":null,"abstract":"The “racist cop” stereotype is one of the most prominent social representations of law enforcement in the United States. Drawing on theories of stereotype threat and stigma, this article suggests that this negative stereotype creates an identity threat that heightens anxiety and stress among law enforcement officers, increasing the risks of their burnout. Using survey data collected from officers in a state-level law enforcement agency in 2021, we find that White officers, as well as those who reported greater stress during the 2020 protests, express stronger concerns about being perceived as racist. These concerns are associated with elevated levels of burnout, and efforts to maintain a positive self-image partially mediate this relationship. These findings hold even after controlling for burnout levels reported by the same officers in 2019. Overall, our results extend stereotype-threat research to a high-power public service context and underscore the need for organizational interventions that reduce stereotype-related stress and support officer well-being.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"287 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146115752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Let Us Be Guided by the Light of Progress by John R. Bartle 《让我们被进步之光指引》约翰·r·巴特尔著
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70089
John R. Bartle
The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) is in a position to respond to current threats to public administration. ASPA is a curator of knowledge and can help achieve the key ideas of the United States of America. We should advance the science of administration by improving our theories. While we have not achieved the ideals the founding of the United States, we should continue to strive to improve governance.
美国公共行政学会(ASPA)有能力应对当前对公共行政的威胁。ASPA是知识的管理者,可以帮助实现美利坚合众国的关键理念。我们应该通过完善理论来推进行政科学。虽然我们还没有实现美国建国时的理想,但我们应该继续努力改善治理。
{"title":"Let Us Be Guided by the Light of Progress by John R. Bartle","authors":"John R. Bartle","doi":"10.1111/puar.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70089","url":null,"abstract":"The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) is in a position to respond to current threats to public administration. ASPA is a curator of knowledge and can help achieve the key ideas of the United States of America. We should advance the science of administration by improving our theories. While we have not achieved the ideals the founding of the United States, we should continue to strive to improve governance.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146109867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Navigating Institutional Distance: How Private Partners Accumulate Network Positional Advantages in Cross‐Country Public–Private Partnership Projects 导航制度距离:私营合作伙伴如何在跨国公私合作项目中积累网络位置优势
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70086
Ge Wang, Wenbo Song, Tao Wang, Shurui Jiang, Yang Li
Institutional distance shapes how private partners participate in cross‐country public–private partnership (PPP) projects, yet its effects remain underexplored. Drawing on organizational institutionalism, we argue that institutional distance generates adaptation pressures that prompt private partners to engage in sustained collaborations. Such collaborations lead private partners to build relationships and connect into networks, within which positional advantages are accumulated. Using data on 3223 PPP projects across 91 countries from 1998 to 2022, we establish longitudinal networks and measure three types of positional advantages: linkage, brokerage, and independence. Our results show that greater institutional distance is associated with the accumulation of these advantages over time. Moreover, host countries' involvement in economic‐political alliances moderates these relationships in contrasting ways, weakening the effect on linkage and brokerage advantages while strengthening the effect on independence advantages. We highlight implications for how governments can better support private partners' participation in cross‐country PPP projects.
制度距离决定了私营合作伙伴如何参与跨国公私伙伴关系(PPP)项目,但其影响仍未得到充分探讨。利用组织制度主义,我们认为制度距离产生适应压力,促使私人伙伴参与持续合作。这种合作导致私人伙伴建立关系并连接到网络中,在网络中积累了位置优势。利用1998年至2022年91个国家3223个PPP项目的数据,我们建立了纵向网络,并衡量了三种类型的区位优势:关联度、中间性和独立性。我们的研究结果表明,更大的制度距离与这些优势随时间的积累有关。此外,东道国参与经济-政治联盟以不同的方式调节了这些关系,削弱了对联系和经纪优势的影响,同时加强了对独立性优势的影响。我们强调了政府如何更好地支持私营合作伙伴参与跨国PPP项目的意义。
{"title":"Navigating Institutional Distance: How Private Partners Accumulate Network Positional Advantages in Cross‐Country Public–Private Partnership Projects","authors":"Ge Wang, Wenbo Song, Tao Wang, Shurui Jiang, Yang Li","doi":"10.1111/puar.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70086","url":null,"abstract":"Institutional distance shapes how private partners participate in cross‐country public–private partnership (PPP) projects, yet its effects remain underexplored. Drawing on organizational institutionalism, we argue that institutional distance generates adaptation pressures that prompt private partners to engage in sustained collaborations. Such collaborations lead private partners to build relationships and connect into networks, within which positional advantages are accumulated. Using data on 3223 PPP projects across 91 countries from 1998 to 2022, we establish longitudinal networks and measure three types of positional advantages: linkage, brokerage, and independence. Our results show that greater institutional distance is associated with the accumulation of these advantages over time. Moreover, host countries' involvement in economic‐political alliances moderates these relationships in contrasting ways, weakening the effect on linkage and brokerage advantages while strengthening the effect on independence advantages. We highlight implications for how governments can better support private partners' participation in cross‐country PPP projects.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146101403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Explaining Burden Reduction in Municipal Service Delivery: The Case of Streamlined Electric Vehicle Charger Permitting in California 解释市政服务提供的负担减轻:加州简化电动汽车充电器许可的案例
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-01-31 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70088
Shan Zhou, Emma Mast
Administrative burdens are deliberate policy choices, as governments can proactively design rules and procedures to shape burdens experienced by citizens. While existing research has examined the effects of burden reduction strategies, less is known about the factors driving burden reduction actions at the local level. This paper investigates why city governments adopt streamlining ordinances to reduce burdens in permit service delivery, focusing on the electric vehicle charging station permitting process. Using data from 482 California cities between 2015 and 2023, we find that cities with stronger fiscal capacity, more climate‐concerned, and whiter populations are more likely to institutionalize burden reduction practices in streamlining ordinances. Contrary to expectations, neither mass political ideology nor political leader (mayoral) partisanship has a significant impact on municipal permitting reforms. Our findings demonstrate how capacity constraints, distributive politics, and policy‐specific constituency preferences jointly shape local governments' willingness to reduce burdens in public service delivery.
行政负担是经过深思熟虑的政策选择,因为政府可以主动设计规则和程序来塑造公民所承受的负担。虽然现有的研究审查了减轻负担战略的效果,但对推动地方一级减轻负担行动的因素知之甚少。本文以电动汽车充电站的许可流程为研究对象,探讨了城市政府为何采取精简条例的方式来减轻许可服务的负担。利用2015年至2023年间加州482个城市的数据,我们发现,财政能力更强、更关注气候变化、白人人口更多的城市更有可能将减轻负担的做法制度化,以简化法规。与预期相反,无论是大众政治意识形态还是政治领导人(市长)的党派关系都不会对市政许可改革产生重大影响。我们的研究结果表明,能力限制、分配政治和政策特定选区偏好如何共同影响地方政府减轻公共服务提供负担的意愿。
{"title":"Explaining Burden Reduction in Municipal Service Delivery: The Case of Streamlined Electric Vehicle Charger Permitting in California","authors":"Shan Zhou, Emma Mast","doi":"10.1111/puar.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70088","url":null,"abstract":"Administrative burdens are deliberate policy choices, as governments can proactively design rules and procedures to shape burdens experienced by citizens. While existing research has examined the effects of burden reduction strategies, less is known about the factors driving burden reduction actions at the local level. This paper investigates why city governments adopt streamlining ordinances to reduce burdens in permit service delivery, focusing on the electric vehicle charging station permitting process. Using data from 482 California cities between 2015 and 2023, we find that cities with stronger fiscal capacity, more climate‐concerned, and whiter populations are more likely to institutionalize burden reduction practices in streamlining ordinances. Contrary to expectations, neither mass political ideology nor political leader (mayoral) partisanship has a significant impact on municipal permitting reforms. Our findings demonstrate how capacity constraints, distributive politics, and policy‐specific constituency preferences jointly shape local governments' willingness to reduce burdens in public service delivery.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146098405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Strategic Use of Ad Hoc Commissions for Blame Avoidance: Evidence From Chile 战略性地利用特设委员会来避免指责:来自智利的证据
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-01-26 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70082
Carla Cisternas
Ad hoc commissions are well known in policymaking, yet their strategic deployment during crises remains less understood. This study examines how governments rely on expert commissions to manage blame and political risk in response to critical events. I argue that while commissions facilitate blame avoidance, their use is constrained when delegating authority to experts poses greater risks than benefits. Using logit models on longitudinal data from Chile (1990–2022), I assess how critical events affect commission appointments. The study draws on a novel dataset constructed through archival research and develops an original indicator of critical events using billions of media records from Google Jigsaw's Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT). The findings reveal a conditional logic: high presidential disapproval and frequent critical events are associated with greater use of commissions, whereas sustained or severe events are linked to lower use. These results suggest that the deployment of expert commissions as a blame avoidance strategy is conditional on governments' political risk calculus.
特设委员会在政策制定方面众所周知,但它们在危机期间的战略部署仍鲜为人知。本研究考察了政府在应对重大事件时如何依靠专家委员会来管理责任和政治风险。我认为,虽然委员会有助于避免指责,但当将权力下放给专家带来的风险大于收益时,委员会的使用受到限制。利用智利(1990-2022)纵向数据的logit模型,我评估了关键事件如何影响委员会任命。这项研究利用了一个通过档案研究构建的新数据集,并利用b谷歌Jigsaw的全球事件、语言和语气数据库(GDELT)中的数十亿条媒体记录,开发了一个关键事件的原始指标。研究结果揭示了一个条件逻辑:总统的高度不赞成和频繁的关键事件与更多的委员会使用有关,而持续或严重的事件与较少的委员会使用有关。这些结果表明,部署专家委员会作为一种责任规避策略是有条件的,政府的政治风险计算。
{"title":"Strategic Use of Ad Hoc Commissions for Blame Avoidance: Evidence From Chile","authors":"Carla Cisternas","doi":"10.1111/puar.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70082","url":null,"abstract":"Ad hoc commissions are well known in policymaking, yet their strategic deployment during crises remains less understood. This study examines how governments rely on expert commissions to manage blame and political risk in response to critical events. I argue that while commissions facilitate blame avoidance, their use is constrained when delegating authority to experts poses greater risks than benefits. Using logit models on longitudinal data from Chile (1990–2022), I assess how critical events affect commission appointments. The study draws on a novel dataset constructed through archival research and develops an original indicator of critical events using billions of media records from Google Jigsaw's Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT). The findings reveal a conditional logic: high presidential disapproval and frequent critical events are associated with greater use of commissions, whereas sustained or severe events are linked to lower use. These results suggest that the deployment of expert commissions as a blame avoidance strategy is conditional on governments' political risk calculus.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
e ‐Government Adoption in Ghana: Structural Conditions and Employee Affective Orientation 加纳电子政府的采用:结构条件和员工情感取向
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70068
Sandy Zook, Peter Adjei‐Bamfo, Thema Monroe‐White, Justice N. Bawole
Globally, technological innovations are driving governments towards e‐government adoption. Digitization efforts have met with more resistance and challenges in the Global South context due to high levels of financial, logistical, and technical constraints. The information and communication technology for development literature provides two lenses for examining e‐government adoption: structural conditions (e.g., infrastructure, financial resources) and the affective orientations (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, values) of actors towards technology. Connecting these two lenses frames the analysis of a case study on a nascent digital nonprofit registration process in Ghana built by drawing on historical information, country context, observations, and interviews with public bureaucrats representing the central government and 17 local government authorities. The findings identify key structural conditions and affective orientations, including informal bring‐your‐own‐device norms, that have become necessary for leveraging technological capabilities. Insights may be extended to other world regions and contexts that face similar constraints in their pursuit of digital transformations.
在全球范围内,技术创新正在推动各国政府采用电子政务。由于财政、后勤和技术方面的高度限制,数字化工作在南半球遇到了更多的阻力和挑战。信息和通信技术促进发展的文献为检查电子政务的采用提供了两个视角:结构条件(如基础设施、财政资源)和行为者对技术的情感取向(如态度、信仰、价值观)。将这两个镜头联系起来,构建了对加纳新兴的数字非营利组织注册过程的案例研究分析,该过程借鉴了历史信息、国家背景、观察结果以及对代表中央政府和17个地方政府机构的公共官员的采访。研究结果确定了关键的结构条件和情感取向,包括非正式的“自带设备”规范,这些都是利用技术能力所必需的。这些见解可以扩展到世界其他地区和背景,这些地区和背景在追求数字化转型时面临类似的限制。
{"title":"e ‐Government Adoption in Ghana: Structural Conditions and Employee Affective Orientation","authors":"Sandy Zook, Peter Adjei‐Bamfo, Thema Monroe‐White, Justice N. Bawole","doi":"10.1111/puar.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70068","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, technological innovations are driving governments towards e‐government adoption. Digitization efforts have met with more resistance and challenges in the Global South context due to high levels of financial, logistical, and technical constraints. The information and communication technology for development literature provides two lenses for examining e‐government adoption: structural conditions (e.g., infrastructure, financial resources) and the affective orientations (e.g., attitudes, beliefs, values) of actors towards technology. Connecting these two lenses frames the analysis of a case study on a nascent digital nonprofit registration process in Ghana built by drawing on historical information, country context, observations, and interviews with public bureaucrats representing the central government and 17 local government authorities. The findings identify key structural conditions and affective orientations, including informal bring‐your‐own‐device norms, that have become necessary for leveraging technological capabilities. Insights may be extended to other world regions and contexts that face similar constraints in their pursuit of digital transformations.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146042684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Disciplinary Tensions and Institutional Diversity in the Study of Public Administration in Chile 智利公共行政研究中的学科紧张和制度多样性
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70081
Nicolas Didier, Juan Pablo Araya-Orellana
The nature and epistemological foundations of Public Administration (PA) have long been debated, primarily by scholars from the Global North who draw on their own historical and institutional contexts. Recently, leading international journals in Public Administration have increasingly and proactively incorporated the experiences of Global South countries, recognizing the diversity and heterogeneity in how PA is understood and taught. However, these contributions often stop short of engaging with the deeper epistemological and ontological tensions within the PA discipline's intellectual development. This article aims to represent how the Chilean PA community engages the field-discipline tension through the qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with directors of undergraduate PA programs. The findings highlight a dual challenge: first, a limited understanding of the intellectual traditions shaping PA, which hinders its consolidation as a discipline; and second, a fragmented discourse on interdisciplinarity that lacks coherence and strategic integration. The study contributes to broader discussions on the identity of PA in the Global South.
公共行政(PA)的性质和认识论基础长期以来一直存在争议,主要是来自全球北方的学者利用他们自己的历史和制度背景。最近,公共行政领域的主要国际期刊越来越积极地纳入南半球国家的经验,认识到公共行政的理解和教学方式的多样性和异质性。然而,这些贡献往往停止与更深层次的认识论和本体论的紧张关系在PA学科的智力发展。本文旨在通过对18位本科生私人助理项目主任的访谈进行定性分析,代表智利私人助理社区如何参与领域-学科紧张关系。研究结果凸显了一个双重挑战:首先,对塑造公共关系管理的知识传统的理解有限,这阻碍了它作为一门学科的巩固;第二,关于跨学科的支离破碎的论述缺乏连贯性和战略整合。这项研究有助于更广泛地讨论全球南方国家PA的身份。
{"title":"Disciplinary Tensions and Institutional Diversity in the Study of Public Administration in Chile","authors":"Nicolas Didier, Juan Pablo Araya-Orellana","doi":"10.1111/puar.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70081","url":null,"abstract":"The nature and epistemological foundations of Public Administration (PA) have long been debated, primarily by scholars from the Global North who draw on their own historical and institutional contexts. Recently, leading international journals in Public Administration have increasingly and proactively incorporated the experiences of Global South countries, recognizing the diversity and heterogeneity in how PA is understood and taught. However, these contributions often stop short of engaging with the deeper epistemological and ontological tensions within the PA discipline's intellectual development. This article aims to represent how the Chilean PA community engages the field-discipline tension through the qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with directors of undergraduate PA programs. The findings highlight a dual challenge: first, a limited understanding of the intellectual traditions shaping PA, which hinders its consolidation as a discipline; and second, a fragmented discourse on interdisciplinarity that lacks coherence and strategic integration. The study contributes to broader discussions on the identity of PA in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":48431,"journal":{"name":"Public Administration Review","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146000528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
期刊
Public Administration Review
全部 Acc. Chem. Res. ACS Applied Bio Materials ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces ACS Appl. Nano Mater. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. ACS BIOMATER-SCI ENG ACS Catal. ACS Cent. Sci. ACS Chem. Biol. ACS Chemical Health & Safety ACS Chem. Neurosci. ACS Comb. Sci. ACS Earth Space Chem. ACS Energy Lett. ACS Infect. Dis. ACS Macro Lett. ACS Mater. Lett. ACS Med. Chem. Lett. ACS Nano ACS Omega ACS Photonics ACS Sens. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. ACS Synth. Biol. Anal. Chem. BIOCHEMISTRY-US Bioconjugate Chem. BIOMACROMOLECULES Chem. Res. Toxicol. Chem. Rev. Chem. Mater. CRYST GROWTH DES ENERG FUEL Environ. Sci. Technol. Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. IND ENG CHEM RES Inorg. Chem. J. Agric. Food. Chem. J. Chem. Eng. Data J. Chem. Educ. J. Chem. Inf. Model. J. Chem. Theory Comput. J. Med. Chem. J. Nat. Prod. J PROTEOME RES J. Am. Chem. Soc. LANGMUIR MACROMOLECULES Mol. Pharmaceutics Nano Lett. Org. Lett. ORG PROCESS RES DEV ORGANOMETALLICS J. Org. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. J. Phys. Chem. A J. Phys. Chem. B J. Phys. Chem. C J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Analyst Anal. Methods Biomater. Sci. Catal. Sci. Technol. Chem. Commun. Chem. Soc. Rev. CHEM EDUC RES PRACT CRYSTENGCOMM Dalton Trans. Energy Environ. Sci. ENVIRON SCI-NANO ENVIRON SCI-PROC IMP ENVIRON SCI-WAT RES Faraday Discuss. Food Funct. Green Chem. Inorg. Chem. Front. Integr. Biol. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. J. Mater. Chem. A J. Mater. Chem. B J. Mater. Chem. C Lab Chip Mater. Chem. Front. Mater. Horiz. MEDCHEMCOMM Metallomics Mol. Biosyst. Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. Nanoscale Nanoscale Horiz. Nat. Prod. Rep. New J. Chem. Org. Biomol. Chem. Org. Chem. Front. PHOTOCH PHOTOBIO SCI PCCP Polym. Chem.
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:604180095
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1