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Political Science
Shawn Donnelly, Elena Rios Camacho, Sebastian Heidebrecht
Summary: Crypto-finance is gaining popularity but lacks regulation. The EU implements three regulations to govern digital finance, protect investors and financial stability, and maintain digital sovereignty. EU employs different narratives to justify policy choices and address security challenges in digital finance.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
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Development Studies
Jakub Sowula, Franziska Gehrig, Lyle A. Scruggs, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Gabriela Ramalho Tafoya
Summary: This article highlights the limitations of unidimensional analyses in the comparative welfare state literature and emphasizes the need for a more holistic, multidimensional approach to understand the complexities of welfare state change and continuity.
SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
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Business, Finance
Claudio Columbano, Lucia Biondi, Enrico Bracci
Summary: The study examines the desirability of introducing an accrual-based accounting system in the public sector and finds that accrual-based accounting information is superior to cash-based information in terms of smoothness and predictability of future cash flows. However, the disaggregation of accrual accounts reveals a trade-off between smoothness and relevance in the context of public sector entities.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC BUDGETING ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Jihad Farah
Summary: Drawing upon Actor-Network Theory literature and a specific strand of urban assemblage literature, the cosmopolitical ontology offers a fresh and innovative perspective on urban politics. By analyzing two controversies in Lebanon, this article illustrates how polluted spaces become contested areas and weaken institutional and political governance. The development of localized knowledge plays a crucial role in empowering local actors, but when controversies become prolonged, entrenched political actors can manipulate them for their own advantage.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE
(2023)
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Public Administration
Adam M. Wellstead, Nora Ottenhof, Bryan Evans, Anat Gofen
Summary: This article examines the contribution of government-based policy labs to public value management in Canada, analyzing their characteristics and providing a preliminary typology for analysis.
CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Thiago Costa, Jay Wiggan
Summary: This paper examines the Brazilian government's pension reform in 2019 and its impact on social policies. The study finds that the government utilized narratives of class and generational inequality to question constitutional guarantees of social and economic rights, leading to fiscal austerity and reduced social protections. This reform complements the labor market reforms of the previous government and aims to advance a conservative liberal market hegemony.
CRITICAL POLICY STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Roshaun Colvin, Joshua M. Jansa
Summary: The rapid spread of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) policies, which treat college athletes as professionals, cannot be solely explained by economic competition or other diffusion mechanisms. Instead, it is closely tied to states protecting or enhancing their reputations. A study finds that both internal and interstate indicators of athletic competition drive states to adopt and implement NIL.
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Vivien A. Schmidt
Summary: This article theorizes the interactive effects of populism on agenda setting, examining how populists shape policy narrative, frame debate, captivate the public using media, and leverage popular support to upend mainstream or capture power.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Nathan Favero, Mogens Jin Pedersen, Joohyung Park
Summary: Research shows that job attributes influence perceptions of job attractiveness, and public service motivation and self-efficacy are valuable individual-level traits for public service performance. This article examines how individuals higher in public service motivation and self-efficacy exhibit distinct reactions to job attributes such as performance-based pay, service recipients' resources and racial demographics, and key job tasks.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Michael Howell-Moroney
Summary: Logistic regression is widely used in public administration research, but the interpretation of its results is difficult and the results are non-collapsible. This paper proposes the use of average marginal effects to address these issues.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Eliska Drapalova
Summary: The success of populist parties in national elections creates pressure on both central and sub-national governments. This paper analyzes three case studies from Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest to examine the political tensions between central and city administrations, as well as the strategies used by populists to challenge local political leaders and their city governments.
GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Cecilia Bruzelius
Summary: Despite the negative impacts of emigration on some EU Member States, particularly in Central Eastern Europe, issues such as brain drain and depopulation have received less attention at the EU level compared to concerns related to free movement and immigration. This article uses agenda-setting theory to explain why this is the case, and empirically examines the argument through elite interviews and document analysis.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Mercy DeSouza, Erasmus Keli Swanzy, Maxwell Asumeng
Summary: Despite intensified global anti-corruption efforts, corruption remains common in Ghana's public service. This study focuses on how context-specific socio-organizational factors influence employees' engagement in corrupt activities. Key factors such as opportunistic staffing, reciprocal appreciation, praise singing, and orders from above were identified. Formal rules and sanctions alone are inadequate in addressing corruption due to the complex contextual nature of the socio-organizational factors.
Review
Public Administration
Jakub Sowula
Summary: Welfare deservingness opinions are crucial for understanding the social legitimacy of the welfare state. This article argues that focusing on welfare-state related knowledge and young people in research can enrich debates in deservingness and welfare attitude research. Studying young people provides unique opportunities to understand the causal mechanisms between knowledge, deservingness, and welfare attitudes, as well as challenge misinformation and build resilience against disinformation.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Don S. Lee
Summary: This article examines how bureaucratic professionalization affects the president's strategy in managing cabinet posts and finds that the level of bureaucratic professionalization has an impact on the likelihood of bureaucrats receiving and retaining cabinet posts. It suggests that presidential cabinet management follows different rules according to the level of bureaucratic professionalization.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Jay Emery
Summary: This paper investigates how dominant representations and classifications of settlement types are produced through overlapping political, media, and academic discourses, using the example of the "post-industrial town." It explores the emergence of the "post-industrial town" as a territorial production, arguing that discursive and socio-technical practices shape its symbolic imaginaries. The paper highlights the dominant symbolic production of an older, white, working-class, non-cosmopolitan, and socially conservative type of settlement, as well as the misrepresentation and misrecognition of actual places in political strategizing and discourse.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE
(2023)
Article
Economics
Richard W. Disalvo, Elaine L. Hill
Summary: This study found that even without triggering regulatory violations, changes in drinking water contamination levels can have negative effects on birth outcomes. Among births not exposed to regulatory violations, increasing water contamination from the 10th to the 90th percentile resulted in a 12% increase in low birth weight and a 17% increase in preterm birth.
JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
J. Woody Stanley
Summary: This study examines the hierarchy of goals and objectives implemented by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to address homelessness after the passage of the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. Through document review and interviews with current and former federal officials, the analysis demonstrates that HUD's strategic plans for homelessness have been influenced by politically appointed leaders' preferences and ideologies, particularly in response to the adoption of the Housing First national policy.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Sandrino Smeets
Summary: This article examines how the European Council and its support structures address the energy crisis. It discusses the theoretical approach of the EUCO system in managing multiple crises, emphasizing the need for high-level political engagement, technical expertise, and innovative thinking. The study employs embedded process tracing to analyze how the EUCO system shapes energy price policies, overcoming divisions among member states and utilizing positive politicization. The analysis demonstrates the effectiveness of process management in navigating complex political challenges and finding practical solutions.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Management
David Feltenius, Jessika Wide
Summary: This article analyzes the arguments put forward by municipal politicians to abolish LOV in Sweden and discusses whether the abandonment of LOV represents a case of re-municipalization.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT
(2023)
