| PAR Preview ▪ Issue 3 ▪ January 2012 |
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| Research Article Budget slack and fiscal transparency under political pressure Shanna Rose (New York University) and Daniel L. Smith (New York University) examine the ways in which budget slack can be created and secured from political pressure. Budget slack helps governments cope with economic uncertainty, but at the same time it tends to trigger political pressure from a variety of stakeholders. Rose and Smith propose that limiting the transparency of slack resources and limiting politicians' discretion to use slack resources are substitutable mechanisms for alleviating such pressure. Using panel data from 47 states over a 22-year period, the authors find that the adoption of a budget stabilization fund is associated with a substantial decrease in revenue underestimation. The results suggest that budget stabilization funds may serve as a more transparent device for protecting budget slack from political pressure. Link to PAR Early View |
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| Research Article Transformational leaders and mission valence: The role of public service motivation Bradley E. Wright (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Donald P. Moynihan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Sanjay K. Pandey (Rutgers University-Newark) explore the potential influences of organizational leadership in enhancing public service motivation and mission valence. They argue that transformational leaders can use public service motivation and goal clarity as levers to augment employees' attraction to organizational mission. An analysis of a national survey of senior managers in local governments reveals that transformational leadership is associated with higher public service motivation and higher goal clarity. Moreover, transformational leadership has a positive, indirect effect on mission valence through its impacts on public service motivation and goal clarity. Link to PAR Early View |
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| Research Article The differential effects of public service motivation on emotional labor Chih-Wei Hsieh (University of New Mexico), Kaifeng Yang (Florida State University), and Kai-Jo Fu (Florida State University) investigate how public service motivation and its three dimensions affect the two types of emotional labor activities, surface acting and deep acting. Their findings indicate that public service motivation is negatively associated with surface acting and is positively associated with deep acting. The three dimensions of public service motivation have differential relationships with emotional labor. Specifically, attraction to policy making is positively associated with surface acting while compassion is negatively associated with surface acting and is positively associated with deep acting. Commitment to public interest is not associated with surface acting or deep acting. Link to PAR Early View |
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| Research Article Cooperation and competition within regional collaboration networks In-Won Lee (Dankook University), Richard C. Feiock (Florida State University), and Youngmi Lee (University of Michigan) focus on how local government leaders' perceptions of cooperation and competition with other jurisdictions relate to creating informal collaborative ties with these governments. Drawing upon a network survey conducted in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area, the authors examine how dyadic ties of cooperation and competition influence the structure of informal policy networks for economic development. The results show that perceived cooperation is positively related to informal networks. Perceived competition is positively related to informal networks as well, but the marginal impact of perceived competition declines especially when the effects of perceived cooperation and competition are considered together. Link to PAR Early View Commentary on this article by Christiana McFarland, J. Katie McConnell, and Christopher Hoene (National League of Cities) is available in Early View. Link to PAR Early View |
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| Research Article Realized publicness and faculty outcomes at research universities Mary K. Feeney (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Eric W. Welch (University of Illinois at Chicago) explore the relationships between dimensions of publicness and faculty behavior and outcomes in research-oriented universities. Adopting the realized publicness framework, the authors hypothesize how three publicness dimensions (regulative, associative, and cultural cognitive) are associated with three types of outcomes (research, teaching, and service) at Research I universities. Using hierarchical linear modeling, Feeney and Welch find that tuition and fee levels (regulative) explain teaching outcomes while individual support from federal resources and affiliation with a federal lab (associative) are related to increased research outcomes. Perceived level of influence in the work environment (cultural cognitive) predicts teaching and service outcomes. Link to PAR Early View |
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| Book Reviews |
| | The two bodies of the bureaucrat Bernardo Zacka (Harvard University) reviews The Bureaucrat and the Poor: Encounters in French Welfare Offices by Vincent Dubois (2010). Based on participant observation and extensive interviews, Dubois illustrates how institutional roles and identities of frontline bureaucrats come to be shaped and transformed in everyday interactions with clients. Zacka emphasizes that this book is a great example of comprehensive and thorough ethnographic research on street-level bureaucracy. Link to PAR Early View |
| Red tape theory and research revisited Norma M. Riccucci (Rutgers University-Newark) reviews Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory and Research by Barry Bozeman and Mary K. Feeney (2011). In the book, the authors examine theory and research on red tape and identify a theoretical and methodological agenda for further research. This book, writes Riccucci, adds immense value to the body of knowledge on red tape by presenting the importance of the topic to the field of public administration and the progress made toward theory building and research. Link to PAR Early View | |
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