GOV 39/3 2026-04-24
Original Varieties of Authoritarian Policymaking: Housing Policy Across Dictatorships
Emilia Simison
Abstract
ABSTRACT Public policies are expected to vary across regime types, but this association remains inconclusive even when further differentiating within types of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the theoretical mechanisms behind the expected associations between regime type and policy, I propose a novel framework to analyze policymaking and outputs across regimes. I claim that policymaking and how close its results are from the dictator's goal in any authoritarian regime depends on the extent and ways in which the space for contestation over policy is constrained. I apply this framework to an in‐depth historical comparative analysis of policymaking and outputs in three Latin American military‐led regimes. I show that differences in how the space for contestation was constrained in each explains differences in their policymaking processes and resulting policies despite the shared regime type, policy challenges and goals.
PMR — pp. 1-27 2026-04-22 Original New Public Governance, neo-corporatism, and health policy: status quo, constraints, and future directions
Benjamin Ewert
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This paper examines the prospects of New Public Governance (NPG) within Germany’s neo-corporatist health system, focusing on institutional fit, practical barriers, and reform trajectories. While NPG promotes participation, collaboration, and co-creation, its application is constrained by power imbalances and limited cross-sector permeability. Using Integrated Care and Health in All Policies as examples, the paper highlights both partial alignment with NPG principles and structural resistance. Four future scenarios illustrate possible governance pathways. This paper contributes to public management research by showing how NPG reforms interact with entrenched governance modes and emphasizing the role of meta-governance and civic engagement.
PSJ — 2026-04-17
Original Public Nuclear Preferences in the United States in the Context of Climate Change: Exploring Inter‐ and Intra‐Group Variations
PSJ — 2026-04-17
Original How Can Researchers Have Greater Policy Impact?
Kizzy Gandy
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ABSTRACT Researchers seeking public policy impact lack consistent, coherent, and practical definitions, strategies, and measurement approaches. This article addresses these gaps through four questions using literature, practitioner expertise, and real‐world examples. What does it mean to have policy impact? Three levels of impact are defined: contributing to new policy conversations; shaping policy narrative direction; and influencing decisions that create, reform, or stop policies. How does research influence policy? Research and policy interact bi‐directionally and iteratively. Strategies to maximize the supply, demand, and co‐production of research in policymaking are operationalized for both individual researchers and research organizations. How can the impact of research on policy be evaluated? Contribution analysis is the most appropriate approach because it goes beyond simple correlations—revealing how and why evidence was used in policymaking, guiding future influencing strategies. How can researchers achieve greater policy impact? While each researcher and research organization should develop their own theory of change to inform an effective and testable impact strategy for their operating context, four generalizable principles are presented with a case study demonstration.
PAR — 2026-04-17
Original Green Budgeting in South Korea: Issue Ownership and Ministerial Leadership
Minjung Kim, Rosa Minhyo Cho
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ABSTRACT As climate governance gains urgency, green budgeting has emerged as a vital policy tool to align fiscal systems with environmental goals. Yet, institutional and leadership factors shaping its success remain underexplored. This study examines how issue ownership and ministerial leadership jointly influence green budgeting outcomes in South Korea. Using fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis of 13 central government bodies implementing green budgeting in 2023, we identify four pathways to high performance. Institutionalized long‐term environmental planning emerges as a necessary condition. Two key mechanisms are identified: alignment between ministerial leadership and issue ownership, and politically experienced ministers who leverage institutional and external resources despite weak personal environmental commitment. These findings suggest that effective green budgeting depends not only on leadership but also on embedded institutional arrangements. Our study contributes to the public management literature by offering a dynamic understanding of issue ownership and expanding the scope of ministerial leadership in environmental governance.
PAR — 2026-04-16
Original Do Performance Budgeting Reforms Reduce Corruption? Evidence From a Quasi‐Experimental Study
PMR — pp. 1-25 2026-04-15 Original Shaping watershed collaboration: how government attention transforms informal interaction into formal cooperation
Jing Cui, Yichen Tang
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This study adopts a public value perspective to examine how government attention allocation influences watershed collaboration. Based on the panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2020 to 2024, we employed negative binomial regression. Results show that attention allocation significantly enhances both formal and informal collaboration, with informal collaboration mediating this relationship. The expected positive moderating effect of digital governance is not consistently supported. Furthermore, by distinguishing between formal and informal collaboration, this study deepens the understanding of the dynamic processes within the collaboration continuum. It provides evidence from Chinese river basins for understanding cross-jurisdictional collaboration.
PA — 2026-04-13
Original What Works for Whom? Exploring the Determinants and Hierarchical Tensions of Public Network Effectiveness: A Configurational Analysis
Yulong Jie, Shuigen Hu
PMR — pp. 1-31 2026-04-13 Original How NGOs facilitate value co-creation through multilevel and processual mechanisms: evidence from China
Shuang Tan, Yu Du, Xiaonan Wang
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This study traces the evolution of nongovernmental organization (NGO) actions in China’s waste incineration risk governance through a longitudinal analysis of the Incineration Issue Strategic Group. Findings show that NGOs facilitate value co-creation (VCC) through continuous value awakening, co-design, co-production, co-experience, and co-construction. We propose multilevel and processual mechanisms: spatially, NGOs optimize actor networks and resource integration within public service ecosystems; temporally, they enable sustained co-creation through dynamic iterations. This study expands VCC phase models, clarifying the unique role of NGOs in facilitating VCC within public service ecosystems. It also provides a replicable model for NGO engagement under state-dominated regimes.
PA — 2026-04-12
Original Does Digital Transformation Rely on Collaborative Dynamics? A Case Study on the Italian Public Digital Strategy
Lorenzo Costumato, Andrea Bonomi Savignon, Fabiana Scalabrini, Luigina Paglieri