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Public Administration
Yeqing Huang, Shurong Han
Summary: This study highlights the importance of social construction and stakeholder analysis in understanding why migrants in the construction sector of China fail to participate in urban pension schemes. It points out that the policy's selectivity and inflexibility, as well as the attitudes and choices of enterprises and individuals, contribute to this issue. The study suggests that local governments need to change their stereotypes and negative attitudes towards construction workers to achieve equity in policy design and implementation.
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Public Administration
Qasim Raza Syed, Elie Bouri
Summary: This study examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on CO2 emissions in the US, finding that high EPU intensifies CO2 emissions in the short run but reduces them in the long run. This suggests the need for policymakers to reduce EPU in the short term to improve environmental quality.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
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Political Science
Thomas Pluemper, Eric Neumayer
Summary: This paper examines the performance of European countries in the first wave of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic. The study finds that countries that were affected by the virus later enjoyed a latecomer advantage, and that early lockdown measures were more effective than strict lockdowns.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
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Public Administration
Muhammed Ashiq Villanthenkodath, Mantu Kumar Mahalik
Summary: This article examines the relationships between technological innovation and environmental quality in India, and finds that technological innovation and economic growth degrade environmental quality in the long-run, while there is a U-shaped relationship between inward remittances and carbon dioxide emissions. Furthermore, both carbon dioxide emissions and economic growth promote new technological innovation in the long-run. Therefore, it is recommended that India promotes eco-friendly technological innovation and reduces inward remittances for pollution-driving appliances on the policy front for mitigating climate change and global warming in the long-run.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
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Public Administration
Atif Jahanger, Muhammad Usman, Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente
Summary: This study examines the impact of autocracy, democracy, and globalization on carbon emissions in developing countries. The results suggest that autocracy, political globalization, economic growth, energy consumption, and capital formation contribute to environmental degradation, while democracy and globalization have a reducing effect on it. The findings are consistent across various robustness checks, providing valuable policy implications for promoting environmental sustainability.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
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Political Science
Dimiter Toshkov, Brendan Carroll, Kutsal Yesilkagit
Summary: Research shows that there is variation in policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in European countries, which may be attributed to factors such as institutional differences, governance capacity, health sector capabilities, societal trust, government types, and party preferences. Countries with more centralized government structure, separate health ministries with medical backgrounds, and right-wing authoritarian governments tend to respond more swiftly to the epidemic.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
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Political Science
Victor Ray, Pamela Herd, Donald Moynihan
Summary: This article introduces the concept of racialized burdens to examine the role of race in administrative practice. Through examples, it shows that racialized burdens disadvantage racially marginalized groups, often through the use of facially neutral rules.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
(2023)
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Public Administration
Muhammad Usman, Sofia Anwar, Muhammad Rizwan Yaseen, Muhammad Sohail Amjad Makhdum, Rakhshanda Kousar, Atif Jahanger
Summary: The study found that agricultural value-added, economic growth, non-renewable energy, and tourism sector development significantly increase environmental degradation in South Asian countries, while renewable energy consumption has the ability to improve environmental quality. The results also confirmed feedback hypothesis between economic growth and carbon emissions, conservation hypothesis between carbon emissions and agriculture, and growth hypothesis between tourism and carbon emissions.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
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Public Administration
Malayaranjan Sahoo, Jayantee Sahoo
Summary: This paper examines the impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on CO2 emissions in India using disaggregated data from 1965 to 2018. The long-run results suggest that hydro energy consumption has a positive but insignificant impact on CO2 emissions, while nuclear energy consumption has a negative impact. All non-renewable energy sources have a positive and significant effect on CO2 emissions.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
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Political Science
Serena Y. Kim, William L. Swann, Christopher M. Weible, Thomas Bolognesi, Rachel M. Krause, Angela Y. S. Park, Tian Tang, Kiernan Maletsky, Richard C. Feiock
Summary: The Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework has provided mechanisms and methods for addressing collective action problems in fragmented governance, but requires further critical evaluation and future research planning.
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
William F. Lamb, Michael Grubb, Francesca Diluiso, Jan C. Minx
Summary: While global greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing, some countries have successfully achieved sustained reductions in their emissions, primarily in the energy sector. Though the total reductions of these countries are insignificant compared to global emissions growth, their experiences demonstrate the possibility of significant emissions reductions even with moderate climate action, while maintaining sustainable economic growth.
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Development Studies
Tom Shakespeare, Nicholas Watson, Richard Brunner, Jane Cullingworth, Shaffa Hameed, Nathaniel Scherer, Charlotte Pearson, Veronika Reichenberger
Summary: This study presents in-depth qualitative interviews with 69 disabled individuals in England and Scotland, as well as 28 key informants from infrastructure organizations. Participants were recruited through voluntary organizations. The impact of the Pandemic on society is discussed, with suggestions for short-term and medium-term responses provided at the conclusion of the paper.
SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
(2022)
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Psychology, Applied
Cass R. Sunstein
Summary: Sludge refers to excessive or unjustified frictions that individuals face, which can lead to difficulties in navigating life and deprive people of important goods and services. Due to behavioral biases and cognitive scarcity, sludge can have more harmful effects than anticipated. To protect consumers and employees, organizations should conduct regular Sludge Audits to identify and reduce the costs of sludge.
BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
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Management
Maayan Davidovitz, Nissim Cohen
Summary: Street-level bureaucrats tend to prioritize clients whom they do not trust and give less attention to those they trust when operating in an unsupportive environment.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
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Public Administration
Besma Talbi, Mehdi Ben Jebli, Muhammad Farhan Bashir, Umer Shahzad
Summary: This article explores the relationship between residential electricity demand and household disposable real GDP, electricity price, and urbanization in Tunisia. The study finds that in the long-run, electricity price and urbanization have a significant and positive impact on residential electricity demand, while real GDP does not have a significant effect. In the short-run, there is bidirectional causality between residential electricity demand and electricity price, as well as between residential electricity demand and urbanization.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2022)
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Public Administration
Ching Leong, Michael Howlett
Summary: Traditionally, there has been a paradoxical relationship between policy sciences and public behavior. However, a recent behavioral turn in policy scholars has shifted the focus to informal institutions and recognized the importance of irrationalities in policy research. A bibliometric review shows an increasing number of behavior-oriented articles, indicating a behavioral turn in policy studies and the emergence of a behavioral state.
PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
(2022)
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Public Administration
Ahsan Anwar, Amatul R. Chaudhary, Summaira Malik
Summary: This study reassesses the technological policies of emerging seven (E-7) countries and addresses the issues of affordable and clean energy, institutional quality, and sustained economic growth to combat environmental degradation. The findings show that renewable energy consumption, technological innovations, and institutional quality can reduce CO2 emissions, while economic growth and population increase contribute to environmental deterioration. Based on these findings, a comprehensive SDG-oriented policy framework is recommended to achieve the objectives of sustainable development.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
(2023)
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Public Administration
Christian Adam, Stephan Grohs, Christoph Knill
Summary: Public officials discriminate against citizens based on their political beliefs in addition to race and gender. Evidence from a study on freedom of assembly rights in the context of gay marriage shows that government bureaucracies respond differently to requests based on the underlying political belief and the local cultural and political environment.
PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
(2022)
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Political Science
Saba Siddiki, Tanya Heikkila, Christopher M. Weible, Raul Pacheco-Vega, David Carter, Cali Curley, Aaron Deslatte, Abby Bennett
Summary: This article introduces an approach called the Institutional Grammar, which is used for assessing the structure and content of institutions. In recent years, there have been numerous journal articles highlighting the potential of the Institutional Grammar for analyzing institutional design and associated outcomes within different theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches.
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
(2022)
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Political Science
Lina Vyas
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on labor markets, particularly focusing on manual and nonmanual work and the future of work-life balance. It argues that hybrid and remote working will become more popular in the post-pandemic era, but it will not be a one-size-fits-all solution. Traditional work practices will still exist, and employers will continue to prioritize employees' work-life balance.
POLICY AND SOCIETY
(2022)
