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Corporate Governance in a Crypto-World Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Sinclair Davidson
This paper explores the nature of governance both within and by blockchains and the economies they support. There is a widespread assumption that the proper governance model for these economies is political. In this paper, I make an alternative claim, namely that a more accurate model for blockchain governance is as a species of corporate governance. Political and corporate governance are similar,
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Outsourced, Inspected, and Effective? The Effect of Inspections on the Safety Performance of Prisons in England and Wales 2004–2012 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Ayako Nakamura
While outsourcing of public services is today widespread, maintaining their quality remains a challenge. External inspections are seen as essential for overseeing private providers, yet their effectiveness has not been thoroughly investigated. This study evaluates the impact of pre-scheduled inspections on the performance of private and publicly operated prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and
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The politics of experimental policymaking: the influence of blame avoidance and credit claiming Policy Sciences (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-09 Ringa Raudla, Külli Sarapuu, Johanna Vallistu, Kerli Onno, Nastassia Harbuzova
Policy experimentation has been proposed as a key strategy for coping with increasingly complex policy challenges. Despite considerable academic discussion on public policy experiments, there is a lack of systematic analyses of the political dimensions of policy experimentation. In this paper, we advance the understanding of politics of experimentation by analysing how policy actors’ perceptions of
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Assessing evidence based on scale can be a useful predictor of policy outcomes Policy Sciences (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-09 Kai Ruggeri
With growing interest in more formalized applications of scientific evidence to policy, there are concerns about what evidence is selected and applied, and for what purpose. We present an initial argument that scale of evidence could be used in policy decisions in ways that can usefully predict effectiveness of policy interventions. This is valuable given that, as we show using a survey of of 251 policymakers
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Bridging NbS and legal literature: Institutional, procedural and substantive barriers to nature-based solutions implementation Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-08 Francesco Venuti
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are considered key measures for tackling various environmental challenges and attaining multiple urban sustainability goals. In recent years, the barriers to urban NbS implementation have been increasingly discussed by the literature in an effort to highlight what factors impede widespread NbS in cities. However, the urban NbS literature generally neglects the legal perspective
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Ecological resilience in crisis: Analyzing the role of urban land use and institutional policies Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-08 Muhammad Asghar, Muhammad Ayaz, Sharafat Ali
Ecological sustainability is a severe concern in countries with poor environmental performance, fragile institutions, uneven urban sprawl, densification, and high dependence on non-renewable resources. Environmentally failed states face severe threats and chaos in moving towards a sustainable environment. This study analyses the role of urban land use, institutional capacity, environmental policies
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Comparative Public Administration Is Regaining Its Importance in the Contemporary WorldPublic Administration in the Middle East and North Africa by ShahjahanBhuiyan, New York: Routledge, 2023. 210 pp. $39.99 (paperback). $144.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978100338994The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Public Administration: Concepts and Cases by Murat?nder, Israel NyaburiNyadera, Md NazmulIslam, Gateway East Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Md Shahidulla Kaiser
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Decentralised Governance. Crafting Effective Democracies Around the WorldBy Jean‐PaulFaguet and SarmisthaPal (eds.), London: LSE Press, 2023. To Appear in Public Administration Review. ISBN: 978‐1‐909890‐84‐8 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Joan Ricart‐Huguet
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Taxing Language: Do Interpreting Fees Affect Immigrant Healthcare Usage? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Aske Halling
Research has shown that administrative burdens significantly influence benefit uptake across various welfare programs in the U.S. and beyond. However, much of the existing research has focused primarily on program take‐up, leaving a gap in our understanding of how burdens affect the ongoing use of welfare benefits. To address this gap, we utilize a regression discontinuity design to analyze how the
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Exploring the resource nexus between forest-based land restoration and food security: The case of the African great green wall initiative countries Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Ramoudane Orou Sannou, Edeltraud Guenther
Land restoration is often considered crucial for improving food security, although the complex causal relationship between the two remains unclear. Forests established through land restoration efforts can contribute positively by providing direct food sources or enhancing ecosystem services, yet afforestation efforts may have unintended negative impacts, such as reducing soil moisture and lowering
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The Blockchain Treasury Governance Dilemma Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg, Aaron M. Lane
Blockchain treasuries are pools of cryptocurrency earmarked for funding goods and services within a blockchain ecosystem, such as protocol upgrades. Blockchain participants, such as users and developers, face a trust problem in ensuring that the treasury is robust to opportunism, such as theft or misappropriation of the assets. Treasury governance structures, such as committees or stakeholder voting
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Governance of Generative AI Policy and Society (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Araz Taeihagh
The rapid and widespread diffusion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has unlocked new capabilities and changed how content and services are created, shared, and consumed. This special issue builds on the 2021 Policy and Society special issue on the governance of AI by focusing on the legal, organizational, political, regulatory, and social challenges of governing generative AI. This introductory
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Strengthening work requirements? Forecasting impacts of reforming cash assistance rules J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-02 Josep M. Nadal‐Fernandez, Gabrielle Pepin, Kane Schrader
Work requirements are perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, America's sole federal cash assistance program for low‐income families with children. In 2025, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) will implement policy changes intended to strengthen states’ work requirements. However, researchers’
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Perceived Organizational Reputation and Employee Outcomes: Looking in the Organizational Mirror, What do Employees See? Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Mette ?stergaard Pedersen, Lotte B?gh Andersen, Daniel Skov Gregersen, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
Bureaucratic Reputation Theory focuses on external stakeholders, but it is plausible that reputation also plays an important role for internal stakeholders. This article therefore asks whether employees’ perception of their organization’s reputation matters for their organizational identification and job satisfaction. Based on a balanced panel with 193 employees from three Danish agencies surveyed
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An Eco‐Social Policy Mix for 1.5°C Lifestyles: A Multi‐Country Policy Delphi Analysis Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Karlis Laksevics, Janis Brizga, Pia Mamut, Halliki Kreinin, Doris Fuchs, Inga Belousa
Bridging the gap between welfare and climate policies is essential for simultaneously pursuing increased well‐being and reduced carbon emissions. This study uses a policy Delphi approach, involving experts and stakeholders from five European countries: Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, and Sweden, to assess the perceived desirability and feasibility of six eco‐social policies for enabling 1.5°C lifestyles
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Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public ServiceBy James L.Perry, Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 325 pp. ?30.99 (paperback); ?99.99 (hardback); $41.99 (ebook). hISBN: 9781108843256; pISBN: 9781108824132; eISBN: 9781108915236 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Adrian Ritz, Lorenza Micacchi
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How land property rights affect the effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services: A review Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Haojie Chen, Matthew R. Sloggy, Samuel Evans
We conducted a qualitative literature review and provided a theoretical discussion of how private, common, and public land property rights (LPRs) uniquely influence the effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES). We considered three aspects of PES’s effectiveness: additionality (PES programs typically employ tests to assess whether the payment will result in additional ecosystem services)
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Hang in there: Capacity constraints and processes of sustaining collaboration over time J. Public Adm. Res. Theory (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Danbi Seo
Sustaining collaboration over time is vital for its effectiveness and long-term success but presents challenges, especially for actors with capacity constraints. This study introduces “capacity tensions” as a central challenge in collaborative efforts, referring to the strain that arises when the capacity needed for effective engagement exceeds the capacity actors have available. This gap creates competing
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Does not‐for‐profit corporatization of local public services improve performance? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews
The corporatization of local public services is an increasingly common public management reform worldwide. This study investigates whether a shift from in‐house to not‐for‐profit corporatized service provision can result in improvements across multiple dimensions of performance. To do so, we examine the staggered adoption of Arms‐Length Management Organizations (ALMOs) to provide social housing by
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Embracing Change Through Team Diversity: The Impact of Age Diversity on Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Organizational Change Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Jan Wynen, Stéphanie Verlinden, Danika Pieters, Bjorn Kleizen, Koen Verhoest
This study explores the influence of age diversity within teams on civil servants’ perceptions of organizational change. Age diversity is examined through two dimensions: age variety, which refers to the range of different ages within a team, and age polarization, which denotes the extent to which age groups are segregated or clustered within a team. Individual perceptions of change are based on how
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Beyond stormwater management: Exploring the social aspects of retrofitting raingardens for deprivation alleviation in Gloucestershire, UK Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Sasha Liddle, Alessio Russo
In the face of climate change, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) emerge as key components of urban resilience. These systems offer a multifunctional and holistic approach, aiming to address both environmental and socioeconomic priorities concurrently. While the environmental benefits are clear, the impact of SuDS on socioeconomic disparities is a nascent area of inquiry. This paper aims to
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Policy integration of forest ecosystem services-Cases of Catalonia, Estonia, Grisons, and Hesse & Thuringia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Ester Herteg?rd, Camilla Widmark
To ensure the long-term utilization of various services provided by forest ecosystems (FES), it is crucial that policy governing different FES are sustainable. To achieve this, policy coherence and choice of policy implementation is fundamental. This case study provides an insight in policy contexts for FES across Europe, illustrates how policies are targeting the same objectives, and identifies the
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Do Vulnerable Citizens (Really) Perceive Higher Bureaucracy Costs? Testing a Key Claim of the Administrative Burden Framework Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Rick Vogel, Anne Dahlweg, Fabian Hattke
A key claim of the administrative burden framework is that vulnerable citizens are more affected by administrative burden than others. We test this assumption using the life events survey in Germany, an official data record covering more than 10,000 administrative encounters involving more than 5000 citizens. We find support only for the psychological costs of perceived discrimination, whereas neither
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Body‐worn cameras, police arrests, and bureaucratic discretion: A large‐scale causal analysis across the United States Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Andrea M. Headley, Daniel B. Baker, Inkyu Kang
Drawing on the literature on bureaucratic discretion, this study conducts a large‐scale, nationwide causal analysis of the effects of body‐worn cameras (BWC) in the United States (US). It employs a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach using 12 years of panel data (2008–2019) covering 697 local police agencies. The findings indicate that BWC adoption had no significant effect on White
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Great Gatsby and the Global SouthBy DidingSakri, AndySumner, Arief AnshoryYusuf, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 75 pp. $22.00 (paperback). ISBN 9781009382724 Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Muhammad Husein Heikal, Sandi Asep Ramdani
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Province of Origin, Decision‐Making Bias, and Responses to Bureaucratic Versus Algorithmic Decision‐Making Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Ge Wang, Zhejun Zhang, Shenghua Xie, Yue Guo
As algorithmic decision‐making (ADM) becomes prevalent in certain public sectors, its interaction with traditional bureaucratic decision‐making (BDM) evolves, especially in contexts shaped by regional identities and decision‐making biases. To explore these dynamics, we conducted two survey experiments within traffic enforcement scenarios, involving 4816 participants across multiple provinces. Results
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The Impact of Emergencies on Corruption Risks: Italian Natural Disasters and Public Procurement Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-25 Mihaly Fazekas, Shrey Nishchal, Tina Soreide
Theory and case studies suggest that emergencies and disasters increase corruption, especially in public procurement, hampering relief and reconstruction efforts. Despite a growing interest in the topic, including in research, there is still little systematic evidence about these effects, their structure and trajectories. We set out to investigate the medium‐term impact of disasters on corruption risks
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Medium and Message by Mail: A Field Experiment to Promote Low‐Income Assistance Programs Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Manuel P. Teodoro, Jean Smith
Limited awareness impedes take‐up in low‐income utility assistance programs, which often suffer from low uptake. This study uses a field experiment to evaluate direct mail as a means of reducing learning burdens and thereby increasing participation in financial assistance programs offered by a large American sewer utility. Employing a conjoint design, we sent customers mailings that varied by medium
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For or against sustainable development? A geospatial analysis of the state of green space ecosystems in West Gonja, Ghana Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur, Abdul Rashid Adam, Jacob Nchagmado Tagnan, Sadisu Sadique, Michael Osei Asibey, Stephen Appiah Takyi, Owusu Amponsah
The impacts of urban growth on green space ecosystems have consistently remained in the dailies of sustainability on numerous platforms. Despite the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aiming to ensure urban sustainability, many regions struggle to achieve these targets. In light of this, this study investigated the state of green space ecosystems in Ghana's Guinea Savannah (West Gonja) and clinched
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Unpacking property owners’ perceptions of flood damage Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 B. Ay?a Ata?-Studt, Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková
Floods cause damage to lands and thereby often prevent property owners from using their property in the way they intend. Because of flood damage, property owners face challenges such as destruction and decreased value of their property, not finding tenants, etc. While land policy predominantly treats damage as solely economic, it also has emotional and social implications. Memories linked to a home
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Drivers to adopt agroforestry and sustainable land-use innovations: A review and framework for policy Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Aiora Zabala, Unai Pascual, Luis Enrique García-Barrios, Nibedita Mukherjee
What influences individuals' decisions to adopt sustainable land-use practices? The drivers of such complex decisions are manyfold. We develop a conceptual framework of the predictors that are external (contextual), related to the innovation, and internal or intrinsic to individuals. This framework can guide the design and evaluation of policies to encourage such decisions and subsequent behaviour
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Employee Perceptions of Organizational Justice Amidst Threats to Civil Service Protections Through the Lens of Turnover Intention Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Patrick C. Exmeyer, So Hee Jeon
Previous studies focusing on civil service reform efforts at the sub-national level have illustrated how such initiatives may adversely affect employee perceptions of organizational conditions. Despite the insights provided by existing literature, little is known as to how federal employees perceive organizational justice amidst uncertain contextual and political conditions, and how the organizational
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Issue Information Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-22
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Responsible governance of generative AI: conceptualizing GenAI as complex adaptive systems Policy and Society (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Marijn Janssen
Organizations increasingly use Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create strategic documents, legislation, and recommendations to support decision-making. Many current AI initiatives are technology-deterministic, whereas technology co-evolves with the social environment, resulting in new applications and situations. This paper presents a novel view of AI governance by organizations from the
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From benign to malign: unintended consequences and the growth of Zombie policies Policy and Society (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 B. Guy Peters, Maximilian L Nagel
Few policymakers initiate policies that they know are malign, and are contrary to the public interest. Well-intentioned policies may, however, have unintended consequences that over time do make them, at least in part, malign. These policies may continue to produce some positive results for society, but they may also have significant negative consequences. Further, given that the malign nature of the
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Policy knowledge production in de-democratizing contexts Policy and Society (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Andrea Krizsán, Katarzyna Jezierska, Adrienne S?rbom
In an era of post-truth, the legitimacy of policy knowledge is questioned, especially in de-democratizing contexts where governments purposefully engage in post-truth politics to support their regimes. In such contexts, technocratic evidence-based policymaking is undermined, and the role played by policy advice changes. Recognizing the significance of political contextual factors that might differ
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Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Ixchel Perez‐Duran, Yannis Papadopoulos, Bastiaan Redert, Juan Carlos Trivi?o‐Salazar
This paper examines expertise and professional diversity within new (agencies and central banks) and traditional (ministries) regulatory bodies (RBs) and assesses their effect on the perceived competence of RBs. In particular, we address the following research questions: To what extent do members of RBs have expertise and display diversity in terms of their professional trajectories? How do expertise
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Development of an agent-based First Nation land use voting model: Experiments in policy adoption at Curve Lake First Nation, Canada Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Robert A. Fligg, Derek T. Robinson
Land use plans and policies provide a pathway for communities to achieve a vision for future types and arrangements of land uses as well as to formalize the objectives needed to realize that vision. Members of a community often share a common vision, but differ on how it can be achieved, which is the case at Curve Lake First Nation. To investigate the factors affecting land-use plan and policy adoption
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Spiraling Out of Control? The Impact of Chronic Stress on Civil Servant Perceptions of the Frequency of Workplace Changes Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Stéphanie Verlinden, Jan Wynen, Dries Van Doninck, Laurence Roosens, Christophe De Block, Jan Boon
Global political and economic instability have highlighted the importance of resilient governments capable of managing rapid change. However, continuous changes can overwhelm civil servants, leading to change fatigue. While prior studies have explored the impact of perceived frequent change on civil servants’ stress levels, little attention has been given to reverse causality in public management research
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Subsidizing Unprofitable Industries: The Political Determinants of Agro‐Industrial Policy in French Overseas Departments Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Thibaut Joltreau
Why do states subsidize unprofitable industries? This paper applies the Programmatic Action Framework and adapts it to neocorporatist settings to uncover the political determinants of industrial policies. Empirically, it explores how a longstanding coalition of economic, administrative and political actors has maintained public funding for the sugarcane agro‐industry in French overseas departments
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Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Miranda Forsyth, Anthea Roberts
This article focuses on the roles of insiders or outsiders in order to theorize the role that human agents play in systems change. It asks: (1) what strengths and weaknesses do insiders and outsiders have respectively as agents of change; and (2) what strategies are available to use these insights to increase, or to limit, the prospects of significant and lasting change? Drawing on an interdisciplinary
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Rainfall shocks and land conflicts: Evidence from rural Uganda and Kenya Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Rayner Tabetando, Francisco M.P. Mugizi, Djomo Choumbou Raoul Fani
This study examines the impact of negative rainfall shocks on farmland conflicts among smallholder households in Kenya and Uganda. By matching farm-level data with rainfall shocks data constructed from high-resolution precipitation data, the study provides estimates on the incidence of land conflicts. Using fixed effect models, the results indicate that communities in both Kenya and Uganda that have
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Building resilience in communities through integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies in Nepal Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Nabin Dhungana, Suraj Upadhaya, Man Bahadur Bishwakarma, Chiranjeewee Khadka, Hari Krishna Bhattarai, Chun-Hung Lee
Effective integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) can contribute to building community resilience. Despite shared objectives of reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience, DRR and CCA efforts remain fragmented, limiting their effectiveness. This study examines the integration of CCA and DRR policies and practices in Nepal, focusing on the Local Adaptation
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How to organize in turbulence: Arrangements and pathways for robust governance J. Public Adm. Res. Theory (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Marta Micacchi, Maria Cucciniello, Benedetta Trivellato, Daniela Cristofoli, Alex Turrini, Giovanni Valotti, Greta Nasi
Robustness has recently taken center stage as an emerging paradigm to cope with turbulence and “build back better” toward new normalcy. Existing literature has shown how robust governance, with its mix of flexible adaptation and proactive innovation, is well-suited to addressing turbulence. However, there remains a gap in understanding the empirical variations within robust governance arrangements
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Property valuation principles – How policy changes can be detrimental to urban development Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Aneta Chmielewska, Marek Walacik, Richard Grover
Local government units rely primarily on their own revenues for financing, with sources varying in fiscal efficiency and functions. Key among these are local fees and property taxes, crucial for municipal income in most developed economies. In regions without ad valorem taxes, alternatives like betterment levies on changes in real estate structures are used. Property valuation principles, which define
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Nature-based solutions and urban planning in the Global South: Challenge orientations, typologies, and viability for cities Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Anna Giulia Castaldo, Margherita Gori Nocentini, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Israa H. Mahmoud
Urban Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly employed in research and practice to address the pressing environmental, social and economic challenges affecting cities. Nonetheless, there is a noticeable lack of an overview of the scholarship on the use of NBS in the Global South (GS) focusing especially on urban contexts, even though GS cities face unique socio-ecological challenges that could
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Unbureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis: Rule-Breaking by Public Administrators Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Alexa Lenz, Steffen Eckhard
During crisis management, public administrators typically adjust bureaucratic rules to become more flexible. In this paper, we go one step further, asking about the factors that explain rule-breaking behavior among public servants during crisis management. We report novel qualitative evidence and findings from a preregistered randomized quasi-experiment surveyed among 448 public servants in Germany
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Does public sector performance information impact stakeholders? Evidence from a meta‐analysis Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Xue Meng, Chaoping Li
Performance information (PI) has received significant attention in public administration research. However, evaluating the impact of public sector PI on stakeholders is challenging due to varying empirical results. Drawing on information propagation theory, as well as social and cognitive psychology, we conduct a meta‐analysis to examine the effect of public sector PI. Using 461 effect sizes from 75
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Where power and scholarship collide: Gender and coauthorship in public administration research Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Amy E. Smith, Norma M. Riccucci, Kimberley R. Isett, Leisha DeHart‐Davis, Rebekah St. Clair Sims
Publishing is a source of capital and power in academia, and coauthoring is a common way to publish. However, studies in public administration have not yet examined the structure of coauthorship patterns, how these patterns have evolved over time, or the extent to which these patterns are gendered. We use bibliometric data to examine coauthorship in public administration scholarship over four decades
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Drivers of reforestation across land-use sectors in the state of S?o Paulo, Brazil Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 A.S. Duden, P.A. Verweij, A.C. Martensen, R.W. Verburg
Upscaling reforestation efforts is essential to meet ambitious global reforestation targets, requiring a clear understanding of the drivers and facilitating factors of forest gain, which may vary across land-use sectors. We analyse drivers of forest area change across various land-use sectors in the Atlantic Forest of S?o Paulo state, Brazil, to identify the Forest Transition pathway that best explains
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Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process Policy Sciences (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold, Evangelia Petridou, Christopher M. Weible
Theories of the policy process understand the dynamics of policymaking as the result of the interaction of structural and agency variables. While these theories tend to conceptualize structural variables in a careful manner, agency (i.e. the actions of individual agents, like policy entrepreneurs, policy leaders, policy brokers, and policy experts) is left as a residual piece in the puzzle of the causality
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Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports Policy and Society (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Diana Hicks, Gordon Kingsley, Kimberley R Isett
The anticipated arrival of autonomous vehicles has created considerable uncertainty for US states because they govern roads. In response, states activated their policy advisory systems. While policy advising at the national level has been studied, less is known about the sub-national level. Similarly, more is known about the use of scientific knowledge by policymakers than about the full range of knowledge
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Inside the Digital State: Frontline Work in the Context of Digital Layering J. Public Adm. Res. Theory (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Anne Mette M?ller
Following decades of incremental digital development, public agencies today are permeated by a plethora of digital systems and tools. Transcending the dominant focus on individual technologies in extant literature, this study introduces the concept of “digital layering” to capture the characteristics of this setting and develop a unique contextualized understanding of frontline work in the digital
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Choosing the right crowdsourcing strategy: Implications for governments' crowdsourcing initiatives Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Ana Colovic, Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Jean‐Louis Liévin
Building on recent advances in crowdsourcing research, we argue that, when using crowdsourcing, governments should accurately select the crowd they wish to engage with, depending on the problem to be solved. While targeting a large crowd may be common, it is not always the most appropriate: it can waste significant resources without necessarily producing satisfactory results. We contend that the nature
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Promoting performance in multilevel governance and delivery of homelessness services Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Jordy Coutin, Juliet Musso, J. Woody Stanley
The current study contributes to practice in interagency performance management through a study of the system of federal grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to local Continuum of Care (CoC). The mixed methods design synthesizes a multivariate analysis of the relationship between grantee performance and funding levels, a national survey of CoCs and follow‐up interviews
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The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Franziska Leopold, Bianca Blum, Dominik Schr?der
Against the background of the European decarbonization strategy, this study examines the extent to which the expansion of renewable energies can lead to tensions with the social and ecological dimensions of the sustainability concept. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 66 experts conducted in the trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
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Women’s Representation and Federal Employees’ Sexual Harassment Experience Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Ying Liu, Norma M. Riccucci
There has been a good deal of research on sexual harassment in public sector workforces. One facet of this body of research that has not been fully explored is the potential impact of gender representativeness on sexual harassment in the workplace. In the context of representative bureaucracy, we examine if increased representation of women in the upper levels of the federal workforce is associated
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Spatially explicit multi-objective optimization tool for green infrastructure planning based on InVEST and NSGA-II towards multifunctionality Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-08 Yuxiang Dong, Song Liu, Xinsheng Pei, Ying Wang
The imperatives of sustainable urban development have propelled the prominence of green infrastructure (GI) as a viable solution. However, prevailing methodologies for GI planning often prioritize individual ecosystem services (ES) and lack spatially explicit guidance. This study presents a spatially explicit approach integrating the InVEST model and the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II)
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More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-08 Anastasia Ershova
Recent studies focus on the issue of authority transfer to supranational institutions. While examining the opportunities and obstacles for expanding the Union's competencies, this literature often overlooks the effects of adopting ambitious policies on their implementation modes. This paper argues that the costs associated with the expansion of EU authority and opportunities for blame‐shifting drive
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Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities Policy and Society (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-07 Raffaele Bazurli, Francesca Campomori
Collaborative governance has gained momentum for its promise to deliver social inclusion, with municipalities viewed as ideal spaces for its success. However, little research critically examines the political conditions under which this is the case. This article theorizes why and how collaborative local governance succeeds or fails in today’s divided democracies. It argues that politicization manifests