JOP 88/2 pp. 787-804 2026-04-01 Original Bureaucrats in Congress: The Politics of Interbranch Information Sharing
Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You
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中文 国会中的官僚：跨部门信息共享的政治
Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You
PMR — pp. 1-28 2026-03-31 Original Developing a power perspective on public service contracting: evidence from Scotland’s homelessness sector
PMR — pp. 1-33 2026-03-30 Original Experiments in public administration research: contributions, challenges, and the road ahead
Ricardo C. Gomes, Gustavo M. Tavares, Gustavo Mirapalheta
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Experiments are essential for testing theory and evaluating policy interventions as they uniquely enable causal inference. This study provides a primer on experimental and quasi-experimental methods and reviews their use in public administration research by analysing 1,143 articles through bibliometric and regression techniques. It focuses on laboratory, field, survey-based, and quasi/natural experiments. The findings reveal rapid growth in experimental research, particularly survey-based experiments, which now dominate the field. Key theoretical clusters, themes, and references are identified, and statistical analyses investigate the link between experiment type and citation counts. The study concludes with recommendations for advancing experimental research in public administration.
PMR — pp. 1-36 2026-03-30 Original Citizens’ engagement in coproduction through digital platforms: a survey experiment study in China
Ninghui Li, Yanwei Li
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This study examines how administrative burden and transparency affect citizens’ willingness to engage in coproduction via digital platforms. In a preregistered vignette experiment, we find that lower administrative burden significantly increases participation, while digital transparency independently promotes engagement. Their interaction is insignificant, suggesting that the two factors operate through separate rather than synergistic mechanisms. These findings advance research on administrative burden, transparency, and digital governance by clarifying how platform design can encourage citizens’ coproduction.
GOV 39/2 2026-03-28
Original Tracing the Trends of Governance in Governance From 1988 to 2023: Achievements and Future Prospects
Kyungdong Kim, Min Han Kim, Brainard Guy Peters
PSJ — 2026-03-28
Original Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
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ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined. This study introduces a resource substitution framework, in which issue attention serves as a type of organizational resource that not only promotes policy reinvention directly but also compensates for deficiencies in systematic resources. Focusing on the organizational structuring policy regarding public data governance in Chinese cities from 2015 to 2023, we employ a directed dyadic‐based Heckman sample selection model with exclusion restrictions to test the hypotheses. The results demonstrate that issue attention significantly promotes policy reinvention, particularly in resource‐constrained settings, where it acts as a functional substitute for systemic resources. These findings contribute to a broader understanding of issue attention and clarify the conditions under which it drives policy reinvention.
GOV 39/2 2026-03-26
Original Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text‐as‐Data Approach
CQ 265 pp. 201-217 2026-03-26 Original Multilevel Diaspora Governance: A Case Study of a New Qiaoxiang County in China
Na Ren, Sitong Long
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Abstract Since China’s open-door policy and “going-out” strategy gained momentum in the 21st century, several new qiaoxiang 侨乡 (“hometowns” of overseas Chinese) have emerged. The launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 has further increased Chinese transnational mobility and the interactions between overseas Chinese communities and their places of origin. This study takes Shaodong city in Hunan province as a case study to explain the driving forces behind the formation of a newly emerging qiaoxiang from political and socio-economic perspectives. It proposes that multilayered transnational network governance is a significant model for qiaoxiang in diaspora engagement. Using a rescaling approach, this study argues that diaspora governance relies not only on the primordial ties of locality, kinship and ethnicity that new emigrants maintain with their hometowns but is also dynamically shaped by pluralized qiaoxiang governmental networks at various levels, including provincial, municipal and county. These networks are constructed by the diaspora through both vertical and horizontal structures. Theoretically, this study transcends the traditional paradigm of centralized and singular diaspora governance at national or subnational levels, contributing to the understanding of the multilevel structures of diaspora governance from decentralized and pluralized perspectives.
PMR — pp. 1-33 2026-03-26 Original From vicious to virtuous paradox cycles in public organizations: the role of trust
Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, Sofie Loklindt Christensen, Silas Blomqvist Johansen
CQ 266 pp. 470-480 2026-03-26 Original China’s Internal Security Spending: An Assessment of New Data
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
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Abstract Internal security has been a governance priority under Xi Jinping. How does China’s budget reflect this prioritization? This research report presents updated data on China’s internal security spending, 1992–2022, revealing a mix of continuity and change. Domestic security expenditure continues to rise, more than doubling from 2012 to 2022, but has risen mostly in proportion to the People’s Republic of China’s overall expenditure. The balance between central and local expenditure has shifted further towards local spending, which, in the context of rising local fiscal constraint, may increase pressure on local public security bureaus. The Ministry of Public Security continues to receive the largest share of domestic security spending, while the proportion of internal security spending allocated to the People’s Armed Police (PAP) has decreased, probably reflecting the reorganization of the PAP in 2017–2018. Spending per capita and relative to GDP continues to be higher in locations that are politically sensitive, including Beijing, Tibet and Xinjiang.