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How Do Algorithmic Decision‐Making Systems Used in Public Benefits Determinations Fail? Insights From Legal Challenges 在公共利益决定中使用的算法决策系统是如何失败的?法律挑战的启示
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70043
Esra Gules‐Guctas
When algorithmic decision‐making systems fail to function as intended, they become conduits for administrative error and risk producing arbitrary determinations through the very technologies meant to prevent them. Analysis of 71 federal and state court dockets contesting algorithm‐based determinations in disability, unemployment, and nutrition assistance programs shows how this risk manifests in practice. Findings show that deviations from legally prescribed outcomes occur when the translation of statutory requirements into computational logic is compromised by flawed data, problematic design choices, or inherent system limitations. These algorithmic administrative errors are neither isolated glitches nor purely technical problems; they constitute a systemic governance problem that cuts across legal, organizational, and technical domains. Addressing them requires coordinated oversight across all three areas, rather than reliance on post hoc troubleshooting.
当算法决策系统不能按预期运行时,它们就会成为行政错误的管道,并有可能通过旨在防止这些错误的技术产生武断的决定。对71个联邦和州法院的诉讼摘要的分析显示,在残疾、失业和营养援助项目中,基于算法的决定是如何在实践中体现的。研究结果表明,当将法定要求转换为计算逻辑受到有缺陷的数据、有问题的设计选择或固有的系统限制的影响时,就会出现偏离法律规定结果的情况。这些算法管理错误既不是孤立的小故障,也不是纯粹的技术问题;它们构成了跨越法律、组织和技术领域的系统治理问题。解决这些问题需要对所有三个领域进行协调监督,而不是依赖于事后的故障排除。
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Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion 巴西公共行政与新民主国家的挑战:促进社会包容
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70045
Evan M. Berman, Eduardo Grin, Gabriela Lotta, Fernando L. Abrucio, Lauro Gonzalez, Maira Gabriela Santos de Souza, Yasmim Marques de Melo, Jaedson Gomes dos Santos
Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion. This article examines Brazil's PA and highlights its key PA innovations, specifically: (a) inclusive public policy councils with substantial oversight of implementation; (b) legislative public accountability bodies with authority to impose penalties; (c) devolution granting far-reaching administrative, political, and financial constitutional autonomy to cities to enhance responsiveness and innovation; and (d) wide-ranging guaranteed income programs to reduce poverty. This article also draws attention to co-existing PA “islands of excellence” and efforts to address such challenges as rule-bound bureaucracies, clientelism, and weak institutional capacities in the Global South. It concludes with implications for strengthening public managers' leadership in democratic governance.
巴西公共行政部门(PA)试图通过强调社会包容来加强民主治理。自1988年民主化以来,改革旨在解决根深蒂固的不平等问题,同时下放权力和职业化,从而刺激社会包容方面的创新。本文考察了巴西的公共政策,并强调了其关键的公共政策创新,具体而言:(a)对实施进行实质性监督的包容性公共政策委员会;(b)有权施加处罚的立法公共问责机构;(c)权力下放,赋予城市深远的行政、政治和财政宪政自主权,以增强应对能力和创新能力;(d)广泛的保障收入计划以减少贫困。本文还提请注意共存的PA“卓越岛”,以及为解决全球南方受规则约束的官僚主义、裙带主义和薄弱的机构能力等挑战所做的努力。最后提出了加强公共管理人员在民主治理方面的领导作用。
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Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‐Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions 高等教育中的行政负担:种族、犯罪记录和大学招生中的街头官僚
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70042
Victor J. St. John, Gregory D. Wilson, Long Tran, Lydia Applin, Douglas Evans
This study investigates how administrative burden in college admissions affects individuals with criminal records, with attention to racial disparities. Grounded in administrative burden theory and the role of street‐level bureaucrats, it examines how admissions representatives respond to applicants with disclosed criminal histories. Through a correspondence audit experiment, fictitious applicants—Tyrone (presumed Black) and Christopher (presumed White)—sent inquiries to institutions of higher education (IHE) about how a criminal record might affect admissions. While most responses did not differ significantly in tone, warmth, or encouragement, Tyrone faced greater administrative burden in two key areas: Tyrone was more likely to receive a list of formal procedural requirements and to experience longer response times. These differences reflect psychological and compliance costs that disproportionately affect minoritized applicants. Findings underscore the need for targeted policy reforms that reduce discretionary barriers and promote more equitable pathways into IHEs for individuals with criminal justice involvement.
本研究调查了大学招生中的行政负担如何影响有犯罪记录的个人,并关注种族差异。以行政负担理论和基层官僚的角色为基础,研究了招生代表如何回应有公开犯罪历史的申请人。通过一项通信审计实验,虚构的申请人——泰龙(假定是黑人)和克里斯托弗(假定是白人)——向高等教育机构(IHE)发送了关于犯罪记录如何影响录取的询问。虽然大多数回复在语气、热情或鼓励方面没有明显差异,但泰龙在两个关键领域面临更大的管理负担:泰龙更有可能收到一系列正式的程序要求,并经历更长的回应时间。这些差异反映了心理和合规成本对少数族裔申请人的影响不成比例。调查结果强调,需要进行有针对性的政策改革,减少自由裁量的障碍,并为涉及刑事司法的个人提供更公平的进入高等教育机构的途径。
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The Origins and Intellectual Structure of the Deep State Literature 深层政府文学的起源和知识结构
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70040
Fatih Demiroz
Despite the recent interest in the deep state topic, the concept remains elusive. This research utilizes bibliometric metadata from 64 articles published between 2009 and 2024 to identify the intellectual structure and origins of the concept. The findings indicate that discussions on the deep state are fragmented across disciplines such as political science, public administration, law, international relations, and history, intersecting with themes like democratization, civilian‐military relations, and informal networks, yet the concept has not formed into a standalone idea. Interpretations of the concept differ regionally and temporally: in the Middle East, it is associated with civilian‐military dynamics; in Thailand, with interactions among the monarchy, judiciary, and officials; in the United States, historically, the focus has been the military‐industrial complex, which shifted to the administrative state post‐Trump. These variations highlight the need for a comprehensive theoretical framework, for which public administration could provide essential theoretical and methodological support.
尽管最近人们对暗势力的话题很感兴趣,但这个概念仍然难以捉摸。本研究利用2009年至2024年间发表的64篇论文的文献计量元数据来确定该概念的知识结构和起源。研究结果表明,关于“深层国家”的讨论在政治学、公共行政、法律、国际关系和历史等学科中是分散的,与民主化、军民关系和非正式网络等主题交叉,但这一概念尚未形成一个独立的概念。对这一概念的解释因区域和时间而异:在中东,它与军民动态有关;在泰国,通过君主、司法和官员之间的互动;在美国,历史上的焦点一直是军事工业综合体,在特朗普之后转向了行政国家。这些差异突出表明需要一个全面的理论框架,公共行政可以为此提供必要的理论和方法支持。
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Motivation, Meaning, and Burnout: Understanding Frontline Public Service Workers' Work Experiences During Turbulent Times 动机、意义与倦怠:了解动荡时期一线公共服务工作者的工作经历
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70037
Bradley E. Wright, Shahidul Hassan, Darwin A. Baluran
Understanding how public organizations can lower employee burnout is important because burnout negatively affects both employee well‐being and service effectiveness. This study explores whether public service motivation (PSM) can help alleviate burnout among frontline public sector workers, who frequently encounter high job demands and conflicting roles that heighten burnout risks. Analyzing two‐wave matched survey data from police officers collected in 2019 and 2021, this study examines whether PSM reduces burnout by strengthening perceptions of work prosocial impact. Results show that PSM's impact on burnout varies by burnout type, with a stronger effect on work depersonalization than on emotional exhaustion. By focusing on work prosocial impact as a mediating factor, this study helps to explain past conflicting findings. It enhances understanding of the PSM‐burnout link and suggests that fostering a sense of positive impact could be an effective strategy for public organizations to reduce frontline worker burnout, especially during crisis periods.
了解公共组织如何降低员工的职业倦怠是很重要的,因为职业倦怠对员工的幸福感和服务效率都有负面影响。摘要本研究探讨公共服务动机(PSM)是否有助于缓解公共部门一线工作人员的职业倦怠,因为他们经常遇到高工作要求和角色冲突,从而增加了职业倦怠风险。本研究分析了2019年和2021年收集的警察两波匹配调查数据,探讨了PSM是否通过加强对工作亲社会影响的感知来减少职业倦怠。结果表明,PSM对职业倦怠的影响因职业倦怠类型而异,对工作去人格化的影响强于对情绪耗竭的影响。通过关注工作亲社会影响作为中介因素,本研究有助于解释过去相互矛盾的发现。它增强了对PSM -倦怠联系的理解,并表明培养积极影响感可能是公共组织减少一线员工倦怠的有效策略,特别是在危机时期。
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Authoritarian Drift, Variegated Paths: Mapping Administrative Transformation Strategies Under Illiberal Rule 威权漂移、路径斑驳:非自由主义统治下的行政转型策略映射
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70028
Michael W. Bauer
This article develops a typology of illiberal rule by identifying four distinct models of administrative transformation: neoauthoritarian, neopatrimonial, neoreactionary, and neoclientelist. Drawing on cases including Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump, Javier Milei, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it argues that illiberal leaders reshape bureaucracies through diverse strategies of control, each rooted in specific conceptions of the state and particular modes of bureaucratic design. In light of the varying illiberal trajectories, the article concludes by proposing differentiated reform strategies tailored to the specific threats posed by each variant of illiberal rule, aiming to bolster bureaucratic resilience accordingly. The analysis calls for a reorientation of public administration theory—from a focus on compliance to a normative conception of civil servants as stewards of democratic order.
本文通过确定四种不同的行政转型模式:新威权主义、新世系主义、新反动主义和新客户主义,发展了一种非自由主义统治的类型学。本书借鉴了维克多Orbán、唐纳德·特朗普、哈维尔·米莱和安德烈·曼努埃尔López·奥夫拉多尔等人的案例,认为不自由的领导人通过不同的控制策略重塑了官僚机构,每种策略都植根于特定的国家概念和官僚设计的特定模式。鉴于不同的非自由主义轨迹,本文最后提出了针对每种非自由主义统治构成的具体威胁的差异化改革策略,旨在相应地增强官僚制度的弹性。该分析要求重新定位公共行政理论——从关注服从转向将公务员视为民主秩序的管家的规范性概念。
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A “Watershed” Moment for Collaboration: The Impacts of Legislation and Network Governance on Environmental Outcomes 合作的“分水岭”时刻:立法和网络治理对环境结果的影响
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70031
Yixin Liu, Jiho Kim, Tina Nabatchi
Cross‐boundary collaboration is a common strategy used to address environmental issues, but scholars do not yet fully understand what makes a difference in the outcomes of externally directed collaborations. To fill this gap, we examine whether a piece of state legislation that authorizes collaborative watershed restoration projects improves water quality. Using Oregon data from 1980 to 2021 and a regression discontinuity in time design, we find a 5% improvement in water quality after the legislation was enacted. Furthermore, our longitudinal analyses show that network properties and management within collaborative projects are key factors underlying this improvement. In general, networks led by collaborative governance regimes and local governments are more effective than those led by citizen groups or state agencies. However, state agencies show the strongest capacity to manage projects with multiple goals. These findings underscore the importance of institution design and network governance in achieving successful environmental collaboration.
跨界合作是解决环境问题的一种常用策略,但学者们尚未完全了解是什么导致了外部导向合作的结果不同。为了填补这一空白,我们研究了一项授权合作流域恢复项目的州立法是否能改善水质。使用俄勒冈州1980年至2021年的数据和时间设计的回归不连续,我们发现立法颁布后水质改善了5%。此外,我们的纵向分析表明,协作项目中的网络属性和管理是这种改进的关键因素。一般来说,由协作治理机制和地方政府领导的网络比由公民团体或国家机构领导的网络更有效。然而,州政府机构在管理多目标项目方面表现出最强的能力。这些发现强调了制度设计和网络治理在实现成功的环境合作中的重要性。
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Anchoring Institutional Values in Democracy: A Systematic Review, a Constructive Critique, and a Research Agenda 在民主中锚定制度价值:系统回顾、建设性批评和研究议程
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70036
Anthony M. Bertelli, Silvia Cannas, Katerina Sharova, Iker Uriarte
Values are ideals of what is desirable for the individual, profession, organization, or institution. Institutional values attach to organizations because of their place in a political order, capturing broad governance concerns that extend beyond the details of management and technical administration. What institutional values do public administration scholars study, how do they study them, and how do those values relate to democracy? Our comprehensive and systematic review of the contents of public administration journals reveals ambiguity about the nature of values and the level of social structure at which they operate. As a constructive step forward, we offer an analytic framework of what we call democratic anchors, conceptions of values that convey essential democratic content, that can improve the empirical study of how democracy is operationalized into norms of practice in public administration.
价值观是个人、职业、组织或机构所期望的理想。制度价值依附于组织,因为它们在政治秩序中的位置,捕获了超出管理和技术管理细节的广泛治理关注。公共管理学者研究什么制度价值,他们如何研究这些价值,这些价值与民主有什么关系?我们对公共行政期刊内容的全面和系统的审查揭示了价值的本质及其运作的社会结构水平的模糊性。作为建设性的一步,我们提供了一个我们称之为民主锚的分析框架,即传达基本民主内容的价值观,这可以改善对民主如何在公共行政实践规范中运作的实证研究。
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The Missing Link: Identifying Digital Intermediaries in E‐Government 缺失的一环:识别电子政府中的数字中介
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70033
Sergio Toro‐Maureira, Alejandro Olivares, Rocío Sáez‐Vergara, Sebastián Valenzuela, Macarena Valenzuela, Teresa Correa
Digital platforms are transforming how governments deliver public services; however, many citizens still depend on third parties to access them. This article identifies and classifies these “digital intermediaries” drawing from a national survey in Chile—a country with high digitalization but deep digital inequality. We find two major types of intermediaries: “close” actors (family and peers) and “hierarchical” actors (politicians, bureaucrats, and community leaders). These intermediaries support citizens who lack digital skills or access, playing an essential role in facilitating e‐government. The findings challenge the notion that digitalization guarantees direct, unmediated access to public services and underscore the importance of considering human support systems in digital governance.
数字平台正在改变政府提供公共服务的方式;然而,许多公民仍然依赖第三方来访问它们。本文根据智利的一项全国性调查对这些“数字中介”进行了识别和分类。智利是一个数字化程度很高但数字不平等现象严重的国家。我们发现了两种主要类型的中介:“亲密”参与者(家庭和同伴)和“等级”参与者(政治家、官僚和社区领袖)。这些中介机构为缺乏数字技能或无法访问的公民提供支持,在促进电子政务方面发挥着至关重要的作用。研究结果挑战了数字化保证直接、无中介地获得公共服务的观念,并强调了在数字治理中考虑人力支持系统的重要性。
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Overshooting and Adjustment: Organizational Responses to Incentives in the Public Sector 超调与调整:组织对公共部门激励的反应
IF 8.3 1区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1111/puar.70035
Ulrik Hvidman, Kurt Houlberg, Søren Kjær Foged
Incentives have become central to public sector management. We propose that public organizations' responses to incentives can exceed policymakers' intentions due to complex governance structures and high operational uncertainty. Through an empirical study, we examine short‐ and long‐term impacts of a policy that gave local governments high‐powered, sanction‐based incentives to restrain costs. The incentives reduced government spending, but also triggered substantial overshooting—where local governments, immediately after the reform, cut spending more than intended due to uncertainty about their ability to meet budget targets. Over time, spending converged with incentivized budget targets, indicating a process of adjustment and organizational learning. Our findings highlight that incentives can provoke stronger responses than intended by policymakers—but also show that longer‐term learning can moderate these effects. While particularly relevant to the public sector, the phenomenon of overshooting may extend to other settings where uncertainty is prevalent.
激励措施已成为公共部门管理的核心。我们认为,由于复杂的治理结构和较高的运营不确定性,公共组织对激励的反应可能超出决策者的意图。通过一项实证研究,我们考察了一项政策的短期和长期影响,该政策给予地方政府强有力的、基于制裁的激励措施来抑制成本。这些激励措施减少了政府支出,但也引发了严重的过度支出——地方政府在改革后立即削减了超出预期的支出,因为它们不确定自己是否有能力实现预算目标。随着时间的推移,支出与激励预算目标趋同,这表明了一个调整和组织学习的过程。我们的研究结果强调,激励可能会引发比决策者预期更强烈的反应,但也表明长期学习可以缓和这些影响。虽然与公共部门特别相关,但超调现象可能会扩展到不确定性普遍存在的其他环境。
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