PMR — pp. 1-28 2026-09-17 Original Unpacking local government responsiveness to social media: evidence from Mexico
Guillermo M. Cejudo, Fernando Nieto-Morales
Abstract
Local governments worldwide increasingly adopt social media to engage citizens. What factors make governments more likely to respond to citizens on social media? We explore how Mexican municipal governments use Facebook to interact with citizens, with a mixed-methods approach analysing data from 635 municipalities. Using a crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis, we distinguish between general responsiveness (channel setup) and interactive responsiveness (substantive engagement). Small municipalities are more likely to engage citizens when adaptive potential and formal participation policies are present. In contrast, larger cities show responsiveness when they have available resources, established participation rules and policies, and a propitious environment.
PA — 2026-09-17
Original The Right Key for the Right Lock: How Government Response Methods and Demand Types Affect Citizen Satisfaction
Na Tang, Wenjia Huang, Nana Huang, Mengyao Zhang
PMR — pp. 1-30 2026-09-16 Original Welfare State Convergence or Robustness? Comparing Nonprofit Marketization Patterns Across Belgium, Sweden and the United States
Ben Suykens, Johan Hvenmark, ChiaKo Hung, Aaron Van Steenlandt, Bram Verschuere
PMR — pp. 1-32 2026-09-16 Original From co-production to value co-creation: NGOs as catalysts of cyclical public value in rural China
Jingjing Cai, Kaisar Kaher
Abstract
This study explores how NGOs facilitate the transition from co-production to value co-creation in rural ecological governance through a case study of the Guanba River Basin, China. Drawing on qualitative evidence and social network analysis, it reveals that NGOs’ front-loaded participation in problem framing, planning, and rule formation creates institutional and relational foundations for collaborative governance. Beyond boundary-spanning roles, NGOs function as institutional intermediaries that reshape governance arrangements and enhance local capacity. Value co-creation emerges through institutional embeddedness, actor absorption, and adaptive governance within a recursive ecosystem. This study provides an institutionally grounded explanation of how externally facilitated co-production evolves into locally sustained value co-creation.
PMR — pp. 1-25 2026-09-15 Original Revisiting the political-social dimension of public value
Ana Luiza Terra Costa Mathias, Rosa Maria Fischer
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Public value research increasingly recognizes that societal value is generated by public, private, philanthropic, and hybrid actors. However, empirical tools for identifying public value beyond the state remain underdeveloped, particularly regarding its political-social dimension. This study operationalizes this dimension by identifying and analytically defining eight constituent elements. It draws on a multiple case study of three Brazilian social enterprises, combining document analysis, field visits, and semi-structured interviews. Findings clarify the dimension’s components and demonstrate how they can be identified in organizational practices and relationships. The study advances empirical approaches to public value and extends research to non-state actors in a non-European context.
PMR — pp. 1-32 2026-09-15 Original Insider or outsider: negative performance feedback and top manager succession in the public sector
Siqi Chen, Jiaheng Ling
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Facing performance pressure, public organizations frequently experience top manager turnover, yet how they select successors is understudied. This study argues negative performance feedback (NPF) critically influences successor origin. Based on 2,045 TM turnovers , we find that NPF reduces the odds of internal succession by 41.7%. Internal promotion history strengthens external successor selection by signalling a break from discredited routines, while exploratory learning emphasis reinforces external selection as strategic identity. This research advances public management by offering a dynamic, antecedent-based explanation for TM selection, challenging monolithic views of organizational history, and highlighting successor origin as a strategic governance tool.
PA — 2026-09-15
Original From Civic Tech to DOGE : The Role of Tech Movements in the American Administrative State
Donald Moynihan
Abstract
ABSTRACT The second Trump administration saw the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a group of outsider technologists given extraordinary power to pursue a massive downsizing of the federal government. They also displaced an alternative approach: the civic tech movement. Civic tech for government applies technology, data, and human‐centered design to improve policy implementation, fueled by prosocial motivation, promising to increase state capacity in a way that centers attention on public service clients. This article explains the origins of civic tech for government in the US setting, its core values, and evolution. The movement grew in prominence and influence from 2014 to 2024, making steady inroads into government but never gaining sufficient power to implement profound change. The conflicting origins, philosophy, and power between civic tech and DOGE offer contrasting visions for how tech can reshape the American administrative state.
PMR — pp. 1-32 2026-09-15 Original Brake or bridge? The dual impact of clientelism on hospital corporatization in Iran
Maryam Zahmatkesh, Ian Kirkpatrick
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中文 刹车还是桥梁？庇护主义对伊朗医院公司化的双重影响
Maryam Zahmatkesh, Ian Kirkpatrick
JPART — 2026-09-14
Original Cross-Source Corroboration and the Dynamics of Local Government Attention: Evidence from an Emerging Policy Field
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
PAR — 2026-09-11
Original The “Professional Mortality” Problem in Early City Management: A Study of Organized Denial