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Expansive Public Service Delivery: Advancing Public Value Governance

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Polihot 公共行政 Public Service Delivery Public Value Governance Public Libraries Professionalism Qualitative Interviews
PAR — 2026-08-20 Original Expansive Public Service Delivery: Advancing Public Value Governance Mary K. Feeney, Julie Langer, Justin M. Stritch Abstract ABSTRACT Public administration has traditionally emphasized the normative ideal that public agencies have a responsibility to improve the lives of communities through public service delivery. We turn to public libraries to explore possibilities for what we call Expansive Public Service Delivery. Expansive Public Service Delivery is defined by a mission to serve all, professional and ethical responsibilities, and proactive responsiveness through outreach and (re)assessment. Public libraries have long aimed to improve communities and advance democracy by providing open, free information access to all. Today, they also proactively seek to expand their services to underserved groups ensuring their relevance and mission achievement. This research draws from 25 in‐depth qualitative interviews to explore librarian narratives to identify four core responsibilities that constitute Expansive Public Service Delivery. We conclude with a discussion of how service for all, professionalism, ethical responsibility, and reflexive decision‐making around community needs can result in more vibrant, sustainable public organizations.

Governing Before the State: Indigenous Javanese Administrative Theory

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Polihot 公共行政 政治理论 Public Administration Theory Decolonial Governance Javanese Administration Nagarakretagama Weberian Bureaucracy
PAR — 2026-08-18 Original Governing Before the State: Indigenous Javanese Administrative Theory Dede Setiono Abstract ABSTRACT Public administration scholarship often treats the Weberian ideal type as a universal model of bureaucracy, making governance arrangements that differ from it appear deficient rather than different. A decolonizing approach instead asks whether non‐Western historical records can offer alternative ways of theorizing governance. This study explores that possibility through the Nagarakretagama, a 14th‐century Javanese court eulogy composed by Mpu Prapanca in 1365, which predates Machiavelli's The Prince by 148 years. Qualitative content analysis of all 98 cantos identifies five governance domains: bureaucratic hierarchy, mandala‐based territorial administration, conditional fiscal exemptions, a legal order combining written law and custom, and ceremonial practices integrated with administration. These dimensions show how the Javanese empire organized authority, territory, revenue, law, and legitimacy through institutional arrangements that differ from the Weberian model. Reading this governance system as theory reveals an alternative conceptualization of administration and advances a decolonizing, pluriversal approach to public administration.