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Strategic planning and organizational performance in Turkish public hospitals: the mediating roles of strategy implementation, stakeholder participation, and accountability

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Polihot 公共行政 Strategic Planning Organizational Performance Public Hospitals Turkey Mediation
PMR — pp. 1-28 2026-05-12 Original Strategic planning and organizational performance in Turkish public hospitals: the mediating roles of strategy implementation, stakeholder participation, and accountability

Fairness Perception, Administrative Burden, and Social Welfare Participation

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Polihot 公共行政 公共政策 中国研究 Administrative Burden Fairness Perception Welfare Participation Compliance Burden China
PA — 2026-05-12 Original Fairness Perception, Administrative Burden, and Social Welfare Participation Yongdong Shen, Wenchi Wei, Chao An, Zhouyi Chen Abstract ABSTRACT This study examines whether and how fairness perception and administration burden relate to citizen participation in social welfare programs. We theoretically argue that both participation costs and citizens' perceptions of distributive fairness play critical roles in determining individuals' willingness to engage with welfare programs. We further propose that compliance burden (costs) may constrain frontline officials' discretion in benefit allocation, thereby reinforcing perceptions of fairness and encouraging program participation. Using a nationally representative sample from the China Urban and Rural Low‐Income Household Survey, we find that perceived unfairness is negatively associated with welfare participation, and administrative burdens constitute substantial barriers to access. Moreover, compliance burden weakens the negative correlation between perceived unfairness and welfare participation, suggesting that rigid procedures are linked with stronger perceptions of distributive fairness and institutional trust. These findings underscore the complex interplay between procedural design and citizen perceptions in shaping welfare participation in China.

Social impact bond- ing ? Evidence on interorganizational relationships in social impact bonds across the United Kingdom

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Polihot 公共行政 Social Impact Bonds Outcomes-Based Contracting Interorganizational Relationships United Kingdom Cross-Sector Collaboration
PMR — pp. 1-33 2026-05-09 Original Social impact bond- ing ? Evidence on interorganizational relationships in social impact bonds across the United Kingdom Elaine De Gruyter, Michael Gibson, Eleanor Carter, Fernando Deodato Domingos, Franziska Rosenbach

Who is this for? How felt accountability shapes the enactment of accountability in public service delivery

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Polihot 公共行政 Accountability Street-Level Bureaucracy Public Service Delivery Ethnography Felt Accountability
JPART 36/3 pp. 361-377 2026-05-07 Original Who is this for? How felt accountability shapes the enactment of accountability in public service delivery Margit Ernst Abstract Abstract What makes accountability work? To answer this question, public administration research has long focused on formal mechanisms—–rules, audits, and performance indicators—intended to ensure that public employees answer for their actions. Yet these mechanisms alone rarely determine how accountability plays out in practice. Rather, it depends on how they are recognized, internalized, and enacted by those expected to comply. This realization has spurred growing interest in how employees perceive and enact accountability in the context of public service delivery. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this study unpacks how street-level bureaucrats navigate tensions between formal accountability demands and their internalized perceptions of accountability. The findings reveal how employees weigh, reinterpret, or reframe accountability based on what they perceive to be at stake. To conceptualize this, the article introduces a concentric model of accountability.