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Law
Yves Steinebach
Summary: While there has been progress in understanding the effectiveness of environmental policies, there is still a lack of consensus on the determinants of environmental policy effectiveness. This article tackles this issue by examining the interaction between different instrument types and implementation structures using data on air pollutant emissions from 14 OECD countries over a 25-year period. The findings suggest that well-designed and well-equipped implementation structures are crucial for the effectiveness of command-and-control regulations in reducing air pollutant emissions, while softer new environmental policy instruments have no significant impact on the outcome variable regardless of their execution and enforcement.
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
(2022)
Article
Public Administration
Misbah Sadiq
Summary: This study examines how police employees' perceptions of workload affect their family roles and subsequently increase their job stress and dissatisfaction. The findings suggest that police constables' perception of workload leads to work-family conflict, job stress, and job dissatisfaction, with work-family conflict mediating the associations between workload and job stress and job dissatisfaction. The study expands on the conservation of resource theory and provides implications for management and policymakers.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Samuli Reijula, Ralph Hertwig
Summary: This article argues that nudges can be transformed into self-nudges, empowering individuals to design and structure their own decision environments. Self-nudging applies insights from behavioral science practically and economically while avoiding concerns about paternalism or manipulation. It has the potential to expand the application of behavioral insights from the public to the personal sphere, reducing self-control failures and enhancing personal autonomy.
BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
Article
Management
Jakob Trischler, Jessica Westman Trischler
Summary: This article presents a novel approach called 'design for experience' for public service design in the digital age, aiming to facilitate value propositions that enable public service users to co-create value in their lifeworlds. The approach requires a multi-level strategy due to the complexity of user value creation process embedded in a multi-actor configuration and governed by institutions. A conceptual framework and guidance for applying the 'design for experience' approach are provided.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Political Science
Jonas K. Madsen, Kim S. Mikkelsen, Donald P. Moynihan
Summary: Recent years have witnessed a substantial growth in the study of frictions experienced by individuals in their interactions with the public sector, leading to new research opportunities as well as conceptual confusion. This article aims to address this confusion by providing definitions, development descriptions, and comparisons of four dominant conceptions of frictions. The comparisons not only help researchers understand the distinctions and overlaps between these concepts, but also present opportunities for mutual learning among different approaches.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2022)
Article
Public Administration
Joseph A. Omojolaibi, Solomon P. Nathaniel
Summary: This study examines the impact of environmental regulations, trade, economic growth, and energy consumption on the ecological footprint in the Middle East and North Africa countries. The empirical results show that environmental regulations have limited influence on environmental sustainability in these countries. Meanwhile, trade, economic growth, and energy consumption all contribute to an increase in ecological footprint.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
Review
Management
Rui Mu, Huanming Wang
Summary: Based on the PRISMA approach, this article presents a systematic review of the differences in barriers and governance strategies between digital and non-digital open innovation (OI). The findings show that relational barriers are more influential in non-digital OI, while capacity- and technical-related barriers pose the main challenges in digital OI. Additionally, the study reveals that political commitment and the use of intermediaries are universal strategies for OI, while coercive and mandate strategies are effective only for inter-governmental OI.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Public Administration
Paul Cairney
Summary: Governments often choose not to centralise policymaking, resulting in a decentred state that is both choice and necessity. The debate around government centralisation raises a dilemma for governments whether to accept or challenge decentring, while also highlighting the challenge of seeking 'evidence-based policymaking' in a decentred state. Different ideal-type ways of addressing these dilemmas consistently have been identified, as well as their ad hoc use by UK and Scottish governments. Despite their differing reputations for centralist approaches, both face similar dilemmas and address them in similar ways, reflecting the need to appear in control while dealing with the reality of limited control.
PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
(2022)
Article
Political Science
Adrian Zancajo, Antoni Verger, Pedro Bolea
Summary: Education has been greatly affected by the coronavirus crisis, leading to temporary school closures in almost all countries in 2020. International organizations and governments have emphasized the importance of adopting structural policy reforms in response to the challenges posed by the crisis. This paper analyzes long-term responses in the education sector based on policy documents from international and European countries, identifying three main areas of response: digitalization of the educational system, educational inequalities, and teachers' development. The agendas and policy instruments promoted by international organizations do not significantly differ from those before the pandemic, but country responses vary in type and intensity based on the characteristics of their educational systems and the problems revealed by the crisis.
POLICY AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Review
Public Administration
Don MacLean, Ryad Titah
Summary: This systematic literature review examines 60 empirical studies on the impacts of e-Government, revealing that the most commonly studied impacts are productivity, client satisfaction, service quality, trust, and communication. Some areas have seen limited research, emphasizing the complexity of potential investments that public managers need to consider.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Management
Xiaoyang Xu, Kenneth J. Meier
Summary: This study identifies gender representation in the Chinese education system, with effects primarily driven by symbolic representation through role-model effects rather than active representation.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Gina Ziervogel, Johan Enqvist, Luke Metelerkamp, John van Breda
Summary: Calls for transformative adaptation to climate change necessitate attention to building capacity at the community level. A transdisciplinary approach that involves knowledge co-creation is central to inform transformative adaptation. More focus on bottom-up approaches and greater inclusivity in governance are needed to support transformative adaptation.
Article
Political Science
Bruce D. McDonald, Jeremy L. Hall, Janine O'Flynn, Sandra Thiel
Summary: Research in the field of public administration has undergone significant changes in recent years, with a shift towards emphasizing equity and interdisciplinary perspectives. Future research will focus on areas such as social equity, comparative administration, artificial intelligence, and climate change. The need for a more proactive approach in disseminating research to decision-makers in public organizations is also highlighted.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2022)
Article
Law
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
Summary: This article analyzes the policy-making process at the European Union level to reduce accountability gaps and highlights the challenges in enhancing corporate accountability.
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Studies
Joanna Depledge, Miguel Saldivia, Cristina Penasco
Article
Public Administration
Yvonne Brunetto, Nasim Saheli, Thomas Dick, Silvia Nelson
Summary: Employee's innovative behavior is crucial for successful organizational change. This study found that employees' perception of Psychosocial Safety Climate, personal psychological resources, and well-being can explain over half of their innovative behavior, while Psychosocial Safety Climate and personal psychological resources can explain over two-thirds of their well-being.
PUBLIC PERFORMANCE & MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Management
Noortje de Boer, Nadine Raaphorst
Summary: This study tests the effect of automation on enforcement style and examines whether this effect can be explained by discretion-as-perceived, using survey and factual data from Dutch inspectors. The results show that automation increases bureaucrats' legal and accommodation style, but discretion-as-perceived does not mediate this effect.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Management
Huanming Wang, Bing Ran
Summary: This paper explores the entangled relationship between network governance and collaborative governance through thematic analysis. It identifies common and distinct themes, highlighting the importance of case studies at different levels in diverse institutional contexts.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Abbas Ali Chandio, Yuansheng Jiang, Qaiser Abbas, Asad Amin, Muhammad Mohsin
Summary: This study examines the impact of financial development on agricultural production in China. The findings suggest that financial development has a significantly positive impact on agricultural production in both the long-run and short-run. Therefore, the Chinese government should focus on long-term policies to enhance agricultural growth by improving the banking sector, efficient rural credit markets, and increasing the infrastructure of township banks.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Stuart Mills
Summary: One criticism of behavioural nudges is the lack of precision, which can be addressed through personalized nudging. This paper proposes a two-component framework that suggests personalization can be applied to both the choices being nudged and the method of nudging. To achieve personalization, choice architects will need access to diverse data. The paper also considers the challenges of personalization to the universality of laws and data access.
BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
