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    Public administration

    10 research topics · 27 questions

    Heterogeneous effects of participatory budgeting on resource allocation and political trust3 questions

    1. Persistence, generalization, and mechanisms of the effect of participatory budgeting participation on citizens' populist attitudes

    2. How does participatory budgeting reduce infant mortality? Causal design attribution, mechanism decomposition, and heterogeneous effects in Brazilian municipalities

    3. Thresholds, scope, and context: when does inclusive participatory-budgeting design redirect public resources toward poor neighborhoods?

    Public sector performance paradox and indicator substitution4 questions

    1. Identifying the composition of performance-measure distortions and the dynamic design of measurement systems

    2. The open agenda on meso-level input gaming of public spending numbers: distributional incidence, cost–benefit evaluation, acceptability and governance, and cross-country comparison

    3. Does Internet publication of public-service performance results improve actual effectiveness, or only the published indicators?

    4. Can Iterative Redesign of Performance Indicators Restore Measurement Validity in Multidimensional Public Services, or Is Gaming Structural?

    Tension between street-level bureaucratic discretion and policy consistency3 questions

    1. Institutionalizing a Public Ethics of Care in Street-Level Administration: Operational Design, Justificatory Standards, Value Trade-offs, and Cross-Context Feasibility (derived from Engster 2020)

    2. Does perceived discretion causally produce more or better implementation behavior? The causal-behavioral gap left by Thomann, van Engen and Tummers's behavioral evaluation of bottom-up implementation theory

    3. Scope conditions of discretion-driven alternative supply of public services: does the dissatisfaction–monopoly–blocked-voice mechanism travel beyond Israeli marriage registration?

    Responsibility dilution and information-sharing paradox in inter-departmental collaboration2 questions

    1. Determinants and context-dependence of clarity of roles and responsibilities in government cross-boundary information sharing: identifying additional determinants and generalizing across contexts

    2. Inducing paradox coping in multi-agency collaborations: which interventions and conditions foster a 'both/and' mindset, with causal identification and generalization beyond Dutch crime-fighting

    Campbell's law and data manipulation in goal management4 questions

    1. The measurement-taboo asymmetry: why market economies function without a taboo against explicit measurement while honor-based institutions such as schooling depend on one

    2. Open questions from Hood and Piotrowska (2020) on the assessment and governance of meso-level gaming of public spending input numbers

    3. Empirically testing and refining the motivation–opportunity framework for public officials' gaming of performance measures and targets

    4. Gaming and real performance in the UK public-service target regime ('Targetworld'): measuring gaming prevalence, attributing performance gains to targets, and designing verification that limits gaming

    Whether digital governance increases administrative burdens for disadvantaged groups2 questions

    1. Older migrants' channel choice and the self-serving digital citizen ideal: equity in access to digitalised public services and design features that mitigate exclusion

    2. Generality of the Administrative-Literacy Pyramid for Migrants, and Whether Any Service-Delivery or Assistance Model Can Substitute for Migrant-Specific Language-Accessible Digital Support

    Whether one-stop government services truly reduce administrative burdens2 questions

    1. Scale generalization and methodological robustness of China's provincial administrative-reform pathways to a better business environment

    2. Completing, sustaining, and generalizing one-stop-shop public service delivery: open questions after the Poupatempo Citizen Service Center evaluation

    Trade-offs between centralized command and local adaptation in disaster emergency response1 questions

    1. Future-research agenda of the polycentric control framework for emergency-response analysis: CAS integration, taxonomy refinement, IT-supported team convergence, and multi-incident validation (Kontogiannis & Malakis, 2020)

    Mechanisms for the failure of cross-regional replication of successful policy pilot experiences3 questions

    1. Adjudicating the learning-mode account of 'Silicon Somewhere' policy transfers: generalizing the imitation–trial-and-error–adaptive learning typology

    2. Whether local-government learning from low-carbon initiatives generalizes beyond the frontrunner city, and how learned lessons translate into measurable scaling-up

    3. When do governments experiment, refine, upscale, or institutionalize? The open selection conditions for policy-pilot management strategies

    Inhibitory and adaptive effects of government information disclosure on corruption3 questions

    1. From cheap talk to credible commitment: when do transparency and anti-corruption policies become durably implemented rather than window dressing or rollback?

    2. Conditions under which transparency reduces corruption in resource-rich countries (the Kolstad–Wiig open question)

    3. Disclosure-induced chilling of public-sector internal audit candour: behavioural evidence, causal structure, and mitigation design

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