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Public Administration
Ali Rahmani, Parisa Saadat Behbahaninia, Mona Parsaei, Mahnaz Mahmoudkhani
Summary: This study designed a maturity model for accounting and financial reporting in public sector units. The model consists of five levels and eight dimensions, and can be used to assess the performance of public sector units and implement good governance in organizations.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
(2023)
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Public Administration
Camilla Bakken Ovald
Summary: This article applies a modified Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to study the contentious issue of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy. It demonstrates the value of the MSF framework in examining agenda-setting and decision-making processes and proposes improvements to the conceptualization of decision-making within the MSF.
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Political Science
Thijs de Boer, Benjamin Leidorf-Tida
Summary: Recent research shows that EU agencies have implemented voluntary accountability practices, driven by reputational considerations. Media salience is associated with voluntary accountability, indicating that it helps agencies mitigate reputational threats. Moreover, voluntary accountability is useful for highlighting agency competence when principals are less attentive to performance.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Nikki Funke, Dave Huitema, Arthur Petersen
Summary: This article contributes to the existing boundary work literature by analyzing the case of acid mine drainage in South Africa. The study found that the success of policy implementation is influenced by factors such as the socio-political context.
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
Review
Business, Finance
Joyce Njoroge, Lori Solsma, Kent Hu
Summary: This paper reviews over 20 years of literature related to the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) 34 and evaluates the state of research in this area. The review finds that GASB 34 has improved accountability and reporting, but there is still room for improvement. The paper also suggests directions for future research.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC BUDGETING ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Public Administration
Koen Verhoest, Chesney Callens, Erik Hans Klijn, Lena Brogaard, Jaime Garcia-Rayado, Steven Nommik
Summary: This article examines the impact of partnership design on technological innovation in public-private innovation partnerships. It develops two competing hypotheses on how specific partnership characteristics lead to innovation in health care services. The findings show that small, centralized, and homogeneous partnerships are most successful at achieving technological innovation.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
(2023)
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Economics
Johnathan G. Conzelmann, Steven W. Hemelt, Brad J. Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Andrew Simon, Kevin M. Stange
Summary: This paper introduces a new measure of labor markets served by colleges and universities in the United States and provides two applications illustrating the relationship between the strength of labor markets, intergenerational economic mobility, and brain drain among college graduates.
JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Economics
Conor Lennon
Summary: This study examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance coverage among low-income Americans. The findings suggest that expanding Medicaid eligibility may crowd out private insurance coverage, particularly among working adults.
JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, Adam Rose, Dan Wei, David Keyser, Kevin Crofton
Summary: To mitigate greenhouse gas generation, the City of Los Angeles has developed a plan with nine potential renewable energy scenarios. The study finds that economic impacts vary across scenarios depending on investment and maintenance expenditures. Results show that higher capital and maintenance spending positively correlate with employment and economic output, while increased electricity rates can hinder economic activity. Overall, the transition to renewable energy in Los Angeles does not result in significant negative aggregate economic impacts and provides positive co-benefits.
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Political Science
Bishoy L. Zaki, Claire Dupont
Summary: Research often focuses on how policymakers utilize scientific expertise, but little is known about political learning by scientific experts. This study uses process tracing to explore how scientific experts adapt and employ political advocacy strategies to enhance science's role in policymaking, based on evolving political opportunity structures. The empirical case of EU climate policy development between 1990 and 2022 reveals three main sets of advocacy strategies used by scientific experts: narrative and semantic, socialisation, and governance-oriented. This study highlights the political agency of scientific experts and contributes to a better understanding of the role of science in public policy.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
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Law
Regine Paul
Summary: This article explores the European Commission's use of risk-based regulation in AI governance. The study finds that the Commission employs risk analysis as a tool for defining and enforcing risk in its pursuit of a future European AI market. Through qualitative analysis, it is revealed that the Commission treats certain AI applications as matters of deep value conflicts and tightly controls high-risk AI systems.
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
(2023)
Article
Law
Sake R. L. Kruk, Hilde M. Toonen, Simon R. Bush
Summary: The use of digital technologies in aquaculture is increasingly addressing sustainability risks, challenging existing governance models of global value chains. Digital sustainability assurance relies on new actors and informational processes, complicating sustainability claims and requiring new capabilities from value chain actors. Digital sustainability assurance represents a new form of value chain coordination, led by extra-transactional digital actors, who gain control over digital data flows and have the potential to steer towards sustainability.
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Graham Dutfield, Katerina Sideri
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
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Public Administration
Zauresh Saktaganova, Raushan Zhussupova, Marat Utegenov, Zhanar Nurkina, Dinara Mukhambetova
Summary: This study aims to explore the importance of local ethnic groups in Central Asia in the formation of the Soviet party elite and their role in the emergence of a new post-Soviet elite. The study reveals that tribalism and clan connections in Central Asia have a direct impact on the relationships between different elite groups.
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Public Administration
Andreas Hagedorn Krogh
Summary: This research examines how lab managers enhance policy innovation uptake through boundary-spanning strategies and practices connecting public policy labs to their bureaucratic parent organizations. The study findings suggest that lab managers must strike the right balance between under- and over-integration of policy labs in the public bureaucracy in order to enhance innovation uptake.
POLICY DESIGN AND PRACTICE
(2023)
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Public Administration
Joseph Afolabi Ibikunle, Benedict I. Uzoechina, Godwin Olasehinde-Williams, Festus Victor Bekun
Summary: This paper investigates the external financing sources that are most helpful for achieving inclusive growth in lower-middle-income West African countries. The empirical results show that both foreign direct investment and foreign aid have positive and significant effects on inclusive growth, with foreign direct investment having a greater impact. The study recommends that West African countries prioritize macroeconomic policy reforms to facilitate foreign direct investment.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
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Public Administration
Md Zobayer Hossain, Raaj Kishore Biswas
Summary: This study explores the factors associated with trust in government, sources of information, and government actions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Findings show that a majority of the sample had low trust in the government, with foreign mass media and academic journals being the most trusted sources of information. Trust in the health ministry of Bangladesh was the lowest. Occupation, income, financial loss during the pandemic, and self-assessed knowledge on COVID-19 were found to be associated with trust levels.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
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Public Administration
Maureen Snow Andrade, Jonathan H. Westover
Summary: Job satisfaction has various benefits, such as increased productivity, performance, creativity, innovation, motivation, and involvement. However, the effects of work-life balance, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, and work relations on job satisfaction differ for public and private sector employees across different countries.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
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Public Administration
Conceicao Castro, Isabel Cristina Lopes
Summary: The use of Information and Communications Technology by e-Government is crucial in reducing corruption and promoting sustainable development. The e-Government Development Index needs to surpass a threshold of 0.39 to effectively curb corruption.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Kyriakos Tsamantouridis, Victoria Bellou, Angeliki Tsameti
Summary: This paper examines the distinct role of different core job characteristics in public servants' innovative behavior, considering the type of job position. Evidence from Greek public servants indicates that autonomy, task significance, feedback from the job itself, and skill variety significantly impact employee innovative behavior. The relationships between these characteristics and innovative behavior differ between front-line and back-office public servants, with skill variety being more influential for the former and task significance for the latter. Feedback and skill variety only affect the innovative behavior of Greek front-line public servants. Practical implications focus on job redesign to enhance innovative behavior in public organizations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
