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Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Susanne Hadorn, Fritz Sager
Cooperative forms of policy implementation bear the promise of being an answer to the policy delivery challenge resulting from policy growth, with the quality of network management often rated as a key success factor. The positive relationship between network management and performance in networks, however, is primarily supported by theoretical reasoning rather than empirical evidence. The present
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When code isn’t law: rethinking regulation for artificial intelligence Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Brian Judge, Mark Nitzberg, Stuart Russell
This article examines the challenges of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) systems and proposes an adapted model of regulation suitable for AI’s novel features. Unlike past technologies, AI systems built using techniques like deep learning cannot be directly analyzed, specified, or audited against regulations. Their behavior emerges unpredictably from training rather than intentional design. However
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Public Service Users’ Responses to Performance Information: Bayesian Learning or Motivated Reasoning? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Peter Rasmussen Damgaard, Oliver James
Although performance information is widely promoted to improve the accountability of public service provision, behavioral research has revealed that motivated reasoning leads recipients to update their beliefs inaccurately. However, the reasoning processes of service users has been largely neglected. We develop a theory of public service users’ motivated reasoning about performance information stemming
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Nudging increases take‐up of employment services: Evidence from a large field experiment J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Vince Hopkins, Jeff Dorion
When people lose their job, labor market programs help them get back to work. But administrative burdens can hinder enrollment in such programs. We report results from a mixed‐method project to increase enrollment in employment services during the first 3 months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. First, we interviewed jobseekers and frontline staff to uncover administrative burdens. Second we worked with staff
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Some Good News, More Bad News: Two Decades of the Gender Pay Gap for Nonprofit Directors and Chief Financial Officers Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.072) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Nathan J. Grasse, Brianne Heidbreder, Sharon A. Kukla-Acevedo, Jesse D. Lecy
This research examines differences in the compensation of male and female executive directors and chief financial officers in nonprofit organizations. We utilize executive transition periods within organizations as an empirical strategy for isolating how gender impacts the salaries of two people who occupy the same role in the same organization. Two waves of IRS 990 compensation data are used to assess
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Exploring the limits of collaboration and the fragility of its outcomes: The case of community policing Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Andrea M. Headley, Vaiva Kalesnikaite
Understanding collaboration between the government and community leaders or organizations is essential for effectively delivering services and creating public value. Interorganizational collaboration is particularly salient in communities of color when considering how historic exclusions of marginalized voices have inhibited equity. This study draws upon 88 in‐depth, semistructured interviews on collaboration
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Governance transference and shifting capacities and expectations in multi‐stakeholder initiatives Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Johanna Järvelä
The governing attributes of authority, legitimacy, and accountability are essential to any type of governance to be able to function effectively. For public forms of governing, the attributes are part of the structures and institutions of democratic states, for example, through the tripartition of power, voting, and legal structures. For private forms of governance, such as multi‐stakeholder initiatives
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EU’s sustainable finance disclosure regulation: does the hybrid reporting regime undermine the goal to reorient capital to climate action? Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ian Cochran, Craig Mackenzie, Matthew Brander
Disclosure and reporting are cornerstones of the European Union’s sustainable finance agenda with the goals of reorienting capital flows towards climate and other sustainable investments and minimi...
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Drivers of collaborative governance for the green transition Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Rasmus Øjvind Nielsen, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
Theoretical and empirical studies praise the role of collaborative governance in spurring green transition, but we still know little about how competing constellations of governance factors can sup...
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A connotation to public sector creativity: creative public servants’ tendencies to opt for rule-bending Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Glenn Houtgraaf, Peter M. Kruyen, Sandra van Thiel
Public servants’ creativity is often viewed as desirable. However, it also has a different side. This preregistered survey vignette study (n = 950) indicates that creative public servants are more ...
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Reimagining the bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy debate: a systematic literature review on paradoxes in public administration Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Marta Ingaggiati, Giovanni Barbato, Marco Guerci, Renato Ruffini
The relation between bureaucracy and postbureaucracy sparks debate within public administration (PA), typically conceptualized as a ‘simplistic’ replacement of alternative paradigms. However, schol...
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Impacts of New Town developments on carbon sinks: Implications from the Case of Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Albert Tonghoon Han, Heesoo Kim, Jonah Remigio, Chansol Oh
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ambitious goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 has been embraced by a variety of countries including South Korea. In South Korea, an increasingly vital neutrality strategy is enhancing carbon absorption through land use planning. A key consideration in these strategies is the comprehensive evaluation of carbon sinks present in various land
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Decentralization Of Vietnam'S forestlands: The policy process and impact Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Hoang Huu Dinh, Justus Wesseler
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Burden tolerance: Developing a validated measurement instrument across seven countries Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Martin Baekgaard, Aske Halling, Donald Moynihan
The emergence of the administrative burden literature has generated new theoretical, conceptual, and empirical knowledge. However, the accumulation of comparable knowledge is limited by the lack of validated measurement of core concepts. This article validates a four‐item scale of burden tolerance, that is, people's acceptance of state actions that impose administrative burdens on citizens and residents
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The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’ Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Christina Steinbacher
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Identifying resource-conscious and low-carbon agricultural development pathways through land use modelling Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Aniket Deo, Paresh B. Shirsath, Pramod K. Aggarwal
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Forest conversion and timber certification in the public plantation estate of NSW: Implications at the landscape and policy levels Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Tim Cadman, Kate Macdonald, Edward Morgan, Sean Cadman, Sikha Karki, Matthew Dell, Gregory Barber, Upama Koju
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Ideational robustness in turbulent times Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Martin B Carstensen, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
The concept of robustness has received increasing scholarly attention regarding public policy and governance, where it has enhanced our understanding of how policies and governance are adapted and innovated in response to disruptive events, challenges, and demands associated with heightened societal turbulence. Yet, we know little about the robustness of the ideas undergirding the efforts to foster
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Cost-effectiveness and income effects of alternative forest conservation policy mixes for the Peruvian Amazon Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Renzo Giudice, Jan Börner
To reduce deforestation and mitigate climate change, the Peruvian government proposed and partially implemented incentive- and disincentive-based forest conservation policies, especially in the Amazon, where most of the country’s deforestation occurs. However, to date, little is known about the magnitude of the trade-offs between cost-effectiveness and welfare effects of such a policy mix. To explore
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Comparing evidence use in parliaments: the interplay of beliefs, traditions, and practices in the UK and Germany Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Marc Geddes
This article draws on rich qualitative data from two national parliaments—the UK House of Commons and the German Bundestag—to examine knowledge practices in political institutions. This is an important topic, not only because parliaments play a significant role in democratic decision-making, but because it sheds light on debates about how such decision-making is based on and interacts with knowledge
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Advancing collaborative social outcomes through place-based solutions—aligning policy and funding systems Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Lutfun Nahar Lata, Tim Reddel, Brian W Head, Luke Craven
More collaborative and human-centered approaches to tackle social problems of entrenched disadvantage have been introduced in many countries, including Australia, but with mixed results. Traditional programs that reinforce existing political and bureaucratic processes have been seen as blockers to collaborative modes of policymaking, governance, and delivery. Drawing on collaborative governance perspectives
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Trust, collaboration, and participation in governance: A Nordic perspective on public administrators' perceptions of citizen involvement Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Isak Vento
This study analyzes public administrators' trust in citizens' capacities to participate in governance, their collaborative tendency, and the association between these factors and public administrators' willingness to implement citizen involvement efforts. The purpose of the study is to examine whether public administrators' trust in citizens' participatory capacities predicts a willingness to implement
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Granular satellite data to assess the potential for nature based solutions at a national scale: a proof of concept with data from Rwanda and Lesotho Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Bas Heerma van Voss, William Ouellette
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) form a substantial part of cost-efficient climate change mitigation options. However, public financial flows towards NbS have been limited. Among the factors impeding i...
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What determines local attitudes towards Jordan’s renewable energy transition? Evidence from household surveys Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Silvia Weko, Esther Schuch
The potential for renewable energy to encourage sustainable development raises high hopes for the future among countries in the Global South. However, there has been less research on how energy tra...
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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Managing Contracting Performance for Equal Employment Opportunity Discrimination Complaints Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.072) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Iseul Choi
Public agencies often use contractors to facilitate Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) discrimination complaint cases, but we know relatively little about which factors influence contracting performance of the complaint process. Drawing on contracting theories, this study examines two factors—incentive structure and contractor ownership (i.e., women-owned and small disadvantaged-owned)—that moderate
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Indian Preference and the status of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the federal service: Employment, earnings, authority, and perceptions of fairness Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Gregory B. Lewis, Jack F. Williams
Public administration scholars have largely ignored American Indians and Alaska Natives in their studies of racial disparities in the federal service, despite strong reasons to believe they face discrimination. Using three large federal data sets (the American Community Survey, federal personnel records, and the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey), we compare the status of American Indians and Alaska
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Adopting agile in government: a comparative case study Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Oliver Neumann, Pascale-Catherine Kirklies, Carina Schott
This study examines the adoption of agile in public administrations through the lens of Scandinavian institutionalism and translation theory. By conducting interviews in 19 German public administra...
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Give and take: understanding innovative behaviour from a psychological contract perspective Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Seunghyun Kim
Despite numerous studies, little is known about public employees’ motivation to innovate. Based on psychological contract theory, this article examines why they have different levels of motivation ...
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Book Review: Public service motivation? Rethinking what motivates public actors Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.072) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Jinju Suk
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The Effect of Occupational Stigma on Job Withdrawal Behavior: A Chain Mediation Model Based on an Emotional Labor Perspective Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.072) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Qing Miao, Yuchen Guo
Occupational stigma is pervasive, encompassing street-level bureaucrats as well; however, limited knowledge exists regarding the extent and impact on this particular group. This study employs the conservation of resources theory with a chain mediation model to expose how occupational stigma affects street-level bureaucrats’ job withdrawal behavior from an emotional perspective. Based on four-wave data
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Bridge over troubled waters? Experimental evidence into the influence of leadership on employees' collaborative engagement Public Administration Review (IF 8.144) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Anders Barslund Grøn
It is not easy to secure and sustain efficient interorganizational collaboration in hierarchically demarcated and functionally specialized public sectors. This article investigates whether and how public leaders can motivate and catalyze their own employees to engage in behaviors that foster and support collaboration across organizational jurisdictions. Using survey data from 555 occupational therapists
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Understanding land take by low-density residential areas: An institutionalist perspective on local planning authorities, developers and households Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Sebastian Eichhorn, Denise Ehrhardt, Angelika Münter, Martin Behnisch, Mathias Jehling
Using a case study design, the study focuses on identifying the institutional configuration that determines land take by low-density residential areas. Methodologically, it combines geospatial approaches and new institutionalism to capture and understand residential development, taking into account the interests, constraints and agency of local planning authorities, developers and households. The geospatial
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Peatland rewetting as drainage exnovation – A transition governance perspective Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Pia Sommer, Leonard Frank
In the European Union, peatlands are largely drained for agriculture resulting in significant environmental damage and CO emissions. Rewetting is seen as an effective tool to reduce CO emissions, but drainage-based agricultural practices are locked-in. Instead of describing the scaling up of agriculture on wet peatlands, this paper examines the termination of drained peatlands use as an exnovation
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Simulating policy mixes to reduce soil erosion and land abandonment in marginal areas: A case study from the Liguria Region (Italy) Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Daniele Vergamini, Matteo Olivieri, Maria Andreoli, Fabio Bartolini
Despite ambitious EU initiatives like the European Green Deal and the new EU soil strategy aiming to enhance soil health and protection, the effectiveness of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in addressing soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate impacts remains limited, especially in mountainous and vulnerable regions like Liguria, Italy. This study evaluates CAP's measures—Enhanced Conditionality
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Phase-in and phase-out policies in the global steel transition Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jonas Algers, Max Åhman
To reach the goals of the Paris Agreement, global emissions should be reduced to net zero by mid-century. The steel sector is an emission-intensive industrial subsector where low-carbon production ...
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Setting the agenda for climate assemblies. Trade-offs and guiding principles Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Janosch Pfeffer
Citizens’ assemblies on climate change are increasingly popular to support democratic decision-making. Such Climate Assemblies (CAs) convene representative groups of citizens formulating policy pro...
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Resharing spaces, services and mobility: Developing a reshareability index for sustainable planning in Oslo Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Mina Di Marino, Seyed Hossein Chavoshi, Tanu Priya Uteng
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The changing distribution of land in rural Vietnam, 2004–2014 Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Bob Baulch, Minh Song Ngoc Huynh, Trinh Duc Tran
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Ebb and Flow of Network Participation: Flexibility, stability and forms of flux in a purpose-oriented network Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (IF 6.16) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Robin H Lemaire, Lauren K McKeague, Donna Sedgwick
The flexibility/stability tension is a key challenge for purpose-oriented networks, especially salient with network participation. Because of the voluntary nature of networks, it is common for network participation to fluctuate, with participants entering, leaving, and returning over time for a variety of reasons. This fluctuation may challenge the stability that is key to network effectiveness. Yet
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Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act Policy Sciences (IF 5.121) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Melissa K. Merry, Rodger A. Payne
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Green central banking: reorienting finance through a recalibration of monetary policy Climate Policy (IF 6.056) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jakob Vestergaard
This paper examines how monetary policy can be calibrated to promote a greening of finance. The paper reviews existing literature and notes a tendency to either focus narrowly on one policy instrum...
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Understanding and supporting change in health systems using the strategic action fields framework: the availability and origin of sources of authority Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Rasa Mikelyte, Anna Coleman, Jenny Billings, Julie MacInnes, Sarah Croke, Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland
Policy-driven change in public service systems is difficult to implement. We focus upon ‘sources of authority’, which figure within the Strategic Action Fields Framework (SAFF) as resources mobiliz...
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Citizen engagement in public sector innovation: exploring the transition between paradigms Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Huong Nguyen, Ina Drejer, Pilar Marques
This paper explores how the public sector engages citizens for innovation purposes. It connects the related but currently separate debates concerning the transition from the ‘new public management’...
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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Anders Anell, Margareta Dackehag, Jens Dietrichson, Lina Maria Ellegård, Gustav Kjellsson
Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. A challenge in this regard is that healthcare providers may have incentives to avoid or undertreat patients who are relatively costly to treat. Due to the socioeconomic gradient in health, individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES) are especially likely to be negatively affected by such attempts. To counter these
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How framing strategies foster robust policy ideas Policy and Society (IF 10.104) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Daniel Béland, Robert Henry Cox
In this contribution, we identify how the framing strategies employed by policy and political actors make policy ideas robust. We examine the policy ideas of solidarity and sustainability to show how framing strategies that took advantages of the valence and polysemy of both ideas shaped them into robust policy ideas. Both ideas began as wide-ranging concepts designed to build coalitions in debates
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Registration of apartments and office spaces in 3D land administration – A case study in Croatia Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Nikola Vučić, Saša Vranić, Michael Sutherland, Peter van Oosterom
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The long‐run effects of temporary protection from deportation J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Jorgen M. Harris, Rhiannon Jerch
This paper estimates the effect of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a temporary legalization policy, on the incomes and property ownership of Salvadoran recipients over 20 years. We compare likely undocumented Salvadoran immigrants eligible for TPS to a control group of likely undocumented immigrants ineligible for TPS in an event study design that allows us to observe the policy's effects over 2
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Agricultural land use policies and landscape dynamics: Evidence from rainforest agroecological zone Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Wonder Kofi Adzigbli, Eric Duku, Gerald Atampugre, Christine Fürst, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko
Agricultural-land use policies play a crucial role in shaping agroecological landscapes globally. The evidence suggests that some of these policies tend to have undesired feedback/trade-offs, particularly about coastal resource use and conservation planning. The present study explores how agricultural policies influence land use/land cover (LULC) transition patterns in Ghana's Rain Forest Agroecological
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Context matters: Rethinking resource governance theories for Mongolian pastoral systems Land Use Policy (IF 6.189) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Ginger R.H. Allington, María E. Fernández-Giménez, Robin Reid, Tungalag Ulambayar, Jay Angerer, Chantsallkham Jamsranjav, Batkhishig Baival, Batbuyan Batjav
Globally, rangelands face interacting pressures from climate, land-use, socio-economic and political changes, all of which threaten herder livelihoods and grassland health. Given these dynamics, it is often unclear which policies would best support sustainable land use and livelihoods in the future. There are multiple theories for how tenure, rules, social relations and environmental variability intersect
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Drivers of adaptive resilience of public sector organizations: an investigation into the individual characteristics of hybrid professional managers Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Luca Piubello Orsini, Chiara Leardini, Stefano Landi, Gianluca Veronesi
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of resilience of public sector organizations. Drawing from Upper Echelons Theory, this study investigates the relationship between configurations of ...
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More doctors in town now? Evidence from Medicaid expansions J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Jason Huh, Jianjing Lin
We examine how physicians’ practice locations are affected by Medicaid expansions. We focus on the dramatic Medicaid eligibility expansions for pregnant women that took place between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Following a recently‐developed estimation strategy, we identify the change in OB/GYN supply due to the expansions in an event‐study framework. We find that OB/GYN counts per capita
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The uninformed budge yet the misinformed buck: performance information and citizen satisfaction Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Zhengyan Li
This article examines the impact of performance information on citizen satisfaction in the context of an environmental information disclosure programme in the U.S. Through a survey experiment on a ...
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In memoriam - Gyorgy Jenei and Irvine Lapsley Public Manag. Rev. (IF 6.004) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Stephen Osborne
Published in Public Management Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The effects of a newcomer program on the academic achievement of English Learners J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Camila Morales, Monica Mogollon
School districts serving newcomer English Learners (ELs) generally offer short‐term intensive English programs designed to teach foundational language skills and guide students’ integration into the U.S. school system. Despite the growing popularity of newcomer programs, however, there is limited rigorous evidence of their efficacy. In this paper, we present evidence on the causal effect of an intensive
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Which direction should we head to get to our North Star? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jason Furman
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Building blocks for U.S. health insurance policy J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01
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Starting health reform from here J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jason Furman
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A blueprint for U.S. health insurance policy J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
There is no shortage of proposals for U.S. health insurance reform. In our recent book, We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care (Einav & Finkelstein, 2023), we offered one more. It grew out of our internal debates over healthcare reform, between two academic economists who work (often together) on U.S. health policy but have not yet been involved in making that policy. We started by trying
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Response to Jason Furman J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 3.917) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
We are pleased that Jason Furman responded to our proposal by recommending that the book (on which we base the proposal) should be “required reading by specialists and non-specialists alike” and noting that he “would be perfectly happy if [our] proposal were adopted.” Both comments are extremely gratifying to receive from a skilled and insightful economist, and particularly from someone who was involved—at