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Wrestling with Intellectual Diversity in Public Administration : Avoiding Dis…
Public Administration (PA) is a field characterized by great diversity in theoretical approaches and methodological tactics. This wide scope lends itself to potential epistemological and methodological fragmentation, which prevents scholars from adequately appreciating and building on each other's work. Although many scholars value PA's theoretical and methodological diversity, this intellectua…
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- Vol. 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i13-i28
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Public Administration in Dark Times : Some Questions for the Future of the Field
This essay identifies two problems that impede the ability of public administration to govern effectively in dark times. First, public administration has failed to adequately acknowledge itself as an arbiter of political conflict and as a discipline responsible for shaping societal affairs. Second, the field is entrenched in a bureaucratic pathology that limits its capacity to address complex p…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011,Pp. i29-i43
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The Case for Public Administration with a Global Perspective
Globalization has been challenging the theory and practice of Public Administration at an unprecedented level. Major policy issues cross national boundaries cannot be solved without international collaboration—even domestic issues will be better understood and addressed with a global perspective. To advance Public Administration theory building, we need to examine issues across national and eth…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i45-i5
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Globalized Public Management : An Interdisciplinary Design Science?
This essay complements that of Hou et al. (Hou, Yilin, Anna Ya Ni, Ora-orn Poocharoen, Kaifeng Yang, and Zhirong Zhao, 2011, “The case for public administration with a global perspective,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21[Supp 1]:i45-i51) on globalized public management. It focuses on public management as an interdisciplinary design science that reconnects with the themes…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i53-i5
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Advancing Social Equity in the Minnowbrook Tradition
The goals of valuing social equity and using it as a guide in managing public programs are firmly rooted in the Minnowbrook tradition. Although civil rights activists have long fought for equality, attendees at the Minnowbrook I conference in 1968 were among the first in the field of public administration to directly confront societal inequities by asserting that public administrators should, i…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i61-i7
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A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action : Using Empirical Research t…
This article advocates for a renewed emphasis on the use of empirical research on social equity. It argues that public administration research focuses too much on the differences between empirical and normative research and not nearly enough on how to integrate the two. This has been particularly problematic in research on social equity, where scholars tend to reiterate normative arguments inst…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i77-i8
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Focusing the Public Leadership Lens : Research Propositions and Questions in …
Although there is no shortage of general studies and theories of leadership, the same cannot be said for public leadership. This concern surfaced as a critical issue among scholars at the 2008 Minnowbrook III conference. Drawing from that discussion, this article calls for invigorating the study of public leadership within public administration (PA). We present the case for public leadership, t…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i83-i9
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Crossing the Divide : Building Bridges between Public Administration Practiti…
This article discusses the challenges of better connecting public administration (PA) scholarship to practice and recommends solutions to address those challenges in three areas—engaged scholarship, engaged teaching, and engaged faculty. To strengthen the connection between research and practice, strategies are proposed such as publishing summaries of research, creating open access online journ…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i99-i1
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Why Public Financial Management Matters
Public administration and management (PAM) scholars have long recognized that financial resources are the lifeblood of public organizations. Less appreciated is how the study of public financial management (PFM) can inform the theory, research, and practice of PAM broadly. In this article, we argue that PFM research brings a variety of conceptual, analytical, and empirical insights to bear on s…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i113-i
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Management, Law, and the Pursuit of the Public Good in Public Administration
The tension between managerialism and legalism in public administration has been a recurring theme at Minnowbrook conferences. This tension, increasingly evident in the literature, is couched in the often-conflicting values of efficiency and performance, on one hand, and legal and democratic values such as accountability, equality, and transparency, on the other hand. Building on conversations …
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i125-i
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Performance Regimes Amidst Governance Complexity
Much of the appeal of performance measurement is explained by its image as a simple and value-neutral way to monitor and improve government. But contemporary governance is characterized by complexity. Few public officials have the luxury of directly providing relatively simple services, the context in which performance regimes work best. Instead, they must work in the context of a disarticulate…
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- Vol. 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i141-i15
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Networks in Public Administration Scholarship : Understanding Where We Are an…
This article examines the road that network scholarship has followed in Public Administration. We look at the historical drivers of the use of networks in practice and scholarship in the field and discuss how that has shaped the current literature. The body of the article focuses on the current challenges that network scholars face in the discipline, specifically basic theoretical issues, knowl…
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- Volume 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i157-i
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Toward Open Public Administration Scholarship
This essay focuses on the potential of information communication technologies to move the Public Administration (PA) scholarly community into a new information paradigm. We begin with a review of conventional approaches PA scholars use to communicate with each other, students, and practitioners. After illustrating advances in Web applications, we call for an “Open PA Scholarship” in which resea…
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- Vol. 21, Issue suppl 1, January 2011, Pp. i175-i19
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Time to Re-Group : A Typology and Nested Phase Model for Action Teams
Action teams are unique among group types in that their work is focused on time-constrained performance events that cannot be redone later. This aspect of their team temporality gives rise to an emphasis on simulation—a technique used by teams to replicate the taskwork, coordination, and communication of real-life events—and adaptation—in which teams use “time-outs” to give members a chance to …
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, February 2012,pp. 3-29
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The Moderating Effect of Extraversion–Introversion Differences on Group Ide…
Previous research provides evidence that individual differences in the personality characteristic of extraversion/introversion can play a significant role in group idea generation. Cognitive stimulation has also been shown to have a significant, though inconsistent, influence on idea generation in computer-mediated groups. We conducted two controlled experiments using a web-based group simulato…
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, February 2012,pp. 30-49
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The Influence of Emergent Expertise on Group Decision Processes
This study examines how group decision processes are affected by the perceived emergent expertise of a group member in situations where a correct solution is not readily verifiable. Using a moderately judgmental task, as opposed to an intellective task, the results of our experiment suggest that when group members are aware of performance feedback: (a) they gradually form a perception about the…
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, February 2012,pp. 50-74
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Team Emotional Intelligence and Performance : Interactive Dynamics between Le…
Despite increasing attention to emotional intelligence (EI) in the workplace, few studies have investigated EI at the group level. In this study, we propose that average member EI indirectly affects team performance by shaping emergent team dynamics. The results based on 91 teams show that both average member EI and leader EI are positively associated with intrateam trust, which in turn positiv…
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, February 2012,pp. 75-104
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Self-Interest Masquerading as Ingroup Beneficence : Altruistic Rationalizatio…
An altruistic rationalization explanation of the interindividual–intergroup discontinuity effect proposes that intergroup interactions are more competitive than interactions between individuals because group membership creates an opportunity to rationalize selfishly motivated competitiveness as being enacted for the ingroup’s sake. To test this explanation, we compared participants whose decisi…
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- Vol. 43 no. 1, February 2012,pp. 105-123
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The Evolution, Contributions, and Prospects of the Youth Development Study : …
Grounded in social structure and personality, life course, and status attainment perspectives of social psychology, the Youth Development Study (YDS) has followed a cohort of teenagers from the beginning of high school through their mid-thirties. Evidence for the effective exercise of agency derives from diverse adolescent work patterns leading to outcomes that are consistent with youth’s earli…
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- Vol. 75 no. 1, March 2012,pp. 5-27
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- Social Psychology Quarterly
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Secondary Transfer Effects of Intergroup Contact : A Cross-National Compariso…
This article examines so-called secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact, a phenomenon whereby positive intergroup contact experiences can influence attitudes not only toward encountered (primary) outgroups but also toward other (secondary) outgroups that were not initially involved in the intergroup encounter. The current study relies on a unique cross-sectional sample of the general p…
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- Vol. 75 no. 1, March 2012,pp. 28-51
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