Article
Public Administration
Jacqueline Gillis
Summary: This study examines the development of collaborative governance regimes between municipalities and Indigenous Peoples in present day Ontario, Canada to solve pressing issues like climate change. By applying an anticolonial informed integrative framework of collaborative governance to analyze barriers and facilitators, lessons learned are identified to provide recommended practices for municipal staff.
CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA
(2023)
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Liam Clegg
Summary: This article explores whether the national-level influence of political parties on climate change translates into local government in England. It specifically focuses on the Climate Emergency ratings of local authority policies as a comparative analysis. The findings suggest that Green parties have a positive impact on local climate governance through legislative presence, but the effectiveness of coalition partnerships in realizing preferences is questionable. Further research is needed to understand the factors associated with strengthened local commitment, given the importance of sub-national politics in successful climate change transformation.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Law
Chase Foster, Kathleen Thelen
Summary: Neo-Brandeisian legal scholars have found that Europe, rather than the United States, is more receptive to the ideas of Louis Brandeis. Through analyzing the development of EU competition law, it is evident that the EU's administrative system, with significant bureaucratic discretion, has led to a regulated competition system that aligns with the principles advocated by Brandeis.
REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
(2023)
Article
Management
Jolien Muylaert, Adelien Decramer, Mieke Audenaert
Summary: This article investigates the relationship between red tape originating from digital tools and teachers' affective commitment. The study finds that role ambiguity and work engagement mediate the negative relationship between red tape and affective commitment.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
J. Edward Kellough
Summary: A professional civil service based on merit is seen as essential in modern government, but the merit system in the U.S. federal government is fragile and relies on a President who understands and supports it.
REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Dinoroy Marganda Aritonang, Susi Dwi Harijanti, Zainal Muttaqin, Ali Abdurahman
Summary: This study concludes that when interpreting the provisions of the GAA, the basic principles and concepts in the SAC should not be neglected to address legal coherence issues. Solving these problems requires the integration and reformulation of substantive and procedural laws and judicial institutional relations.
Article
Business, Finance
Augusta Ferreira
Summary: This paper investigates whether Mayors in Portugal engage in earnings management close to zero with the motivation of re-election. The findings suggest that municipalities use discretionary accruals to report net earnings close to zero, and re-election seems to be a motivation for earnings management behavior. Furthermore, municipalities where the Mayor is re-elected are less likely to report positive net earnings close to zero.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC BUDGETING ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Maria Antonieta Collazos-Ortiz, Arjan H. Schakel
Summary: This study examines the relationship between municipal fiscal effort and administrative efficiency in producer municipalities based on a dataset of 1,078 municipalities in Colombia. The findings suggest that municipal fiscal effort is higher when producer municipalities have more-efficient administrations. This has important implications for policy design in allocating royalty revenue across subnational jurisdictions.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Silke Buechau, Marie-Fleur Philipp, Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spiess
Summary: This study investigates the impact of providing information on daycare policy and economic risks of maternal employment interruptions on normative judgments about parental work-care arrangements. The results show that this information increases acceptance of intensive daycare use and support for longer maternal work hours for certain groups of respondents.
JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Keyhan Shams, Mehrnegar Barahouei, Kerry L. Priest
Summary: This paper introduces a conceptual lens for leading social change and describes the public problem-solving approach of a social change organization through a case study in an informal settlement. By applying complex adaptive systems theory, adaptive leadership, and social change leadership as the conceptual lens, the paper analyzes the tensions between the community and the government in solving problems in the informal settlement. The findings highlight how social change organizations can tackle public issues within informal settlements.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC LEADERSHIP
(2023)
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon, Frank Baafi
Summary: This study empirically examines the influence of alternative combinations of economic and institutional conditions on access to sanitation, drinking water, and electricity services in Ghana using fuzzy clustering and regression analysis. The findings suggest that big, wealthy, urban districts are associated with good infrastructure access, while rural, poor districts and badly managed districts have weak infrastructure. To distribute infrastructure services more widely, addressing the economic disadvantages of rural, poor communities and improving local public administration quality are necessary.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Economics
Christopher D. Blake, Danna Kang Thomas, Joshua Hess
Summary: This study investigates the effects of local recreational marijuana policy changes on college applications using a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The results show that the three largest state public schools experienced an average increase of almost 54% in applications. It is interesting to note that this increase does not only come from low-ability students, as the admitted student composite SAT scores at these schools did not decrease. Instead, they increased by almost 3.8%, although these estimates are not statistically significant. Robust difference-in-difference and event study models further confirm these findings and show that the gains diminish over time.
CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Regional & Urban Planning
Tomas Kostelecky, Josef Bernard, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Renata Mikesova
Summary: This article investigates the rise of independent candidates in Czech local politics and examines the relevance of supply-side and demand-side factors using statistical analysis of electoral data. The study finds that the political strength of independent candidates in Czech local elections has increased over the past decade, with the effects of these factors being influenced by the population size of municipalities.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Simon Montfort, Lukas Fesenfeld, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Karin Ingold
Summary: This study provides novel theoretical and empirical insights on how strategic policy sequencing affects public support for climate policies. The results show that perceived benefits from prior policies and the availability of low-emission alternatives are related to increased support for higher carbon prices.
POLICY AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Management
Rong Wang, Michelle Shumate
Summary: This paper examines the impact of information about nonprofit-corporate partnerships on individuals' intention to donate and volunteer. The study finds that the evaluation of partnerships is related to the intention to support nonprofits and mediates the effect of partnership explanations on the intention to volunteer. Additionally, partnership type significantly influences the two outcomes, while duration and source of communication do not.
NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Elise Aerts, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist
Summary: Proponents of basic income argue that it can reduce financial poverty, but its impact strongly depends on implementation choices, system characteristics, and socio-economic context. Some versions of basic income may help reduce poverty, but at a significant cost and with potential political challenges. A partial basic income complementing existing provisions appears to be more sensible than a complete replacement, and the simplicity of basic income tends to be exaggerated.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Richard Callahan, Tim A. Mau
Summary: The discussion of the politics-administration dichotomy remains relevant as it relates to public leadership roles and the values and institutions of representative government. The article presents a model that outlines the relationships of public managers' engagement in the governance process.
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Political Science
Kristin Taylor, Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth Albright, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Thomas A. Birkland, Deserai A. Crow, Manli Zhang, Elizabeth A. Shanahan
Summary: This study examines the significant influence of policy entrepreneurs during the implementation of opt-in policies, using the example of COVID-19 vaccination. Through analysis of survey data, it is found that trust in policy entrepreneur Dr. Anthony Fauci is an important predictor in shaping individuals' intention to vaccinate and their actual vaccination behavior.
EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Sarah Walker
Summary: Described as a city that has 'lost its lungs', Dakar is significantly impacted by the climate crisis, particularly coastal erosion and waste issues caused by rising sea levels and rapid urbanization. By focusing on waste, power dynamics and spatial inequalities within racial capitalism can be analyzed. The climate crisis and socio-economic factors are changing the historical rural-to-urban migration patterns, leading to agricultural livelihood destruction. The fishing ecosystem in Dakar is also affected by the climate crisis, ocean grabbing, urbanization, and waste, forcing some to risk their lives crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. Through a counter narrative focusing on waste, the unequal power structures at the heart of the climate crisis are highlighted.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE
(2023)
Article
Public Administration
Lars Skov Henriksen, Morten Frederiksen, Ane Grubb
Summary: Cross-sector co-production involving voluntary organizations has been widely adopted in welfare states, but there is still a lack of research on how different field properties affect co-production practices. This article addresses this gap by examining the practices of co-production in elderly services and refugee services. The study finds that differential distribution of resources leads to different forms of co-production, with ambiguous outcomes and antagonistic positions for voluntary and public sector actors.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY
(2023)
