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How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness Centric Framework in Program Evaluation
Performance information is overwhelmingly used in program evaluation by both public managers and external stakeholders. In the market-based New Public Management movement, effectiveness is public …
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How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness Centric Framework in Program Evaluation
Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach
This research investigates the effects of trust in government on citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance. To overcome endogeneity of measuring trust in traditional surveys, I proposed an …
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Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach
De-stereotyping Public Performance Evaluation
Experimental evidence suggests that citizens’ judgments of service quality often rely on prior beliefs about providers’ characteristics, such as racial stereotypes. Such a biased judgment process …
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De-stereotyping Public Performance Evaluation
The Effectiveness of Network Administrative Organizations in Governing Inter-jurisdictional Natural Resources
Can network administrative organizations (NAOs) improve networks’ ability to solve complex social and environmental problems? This is a classical question in collaborative governance. The public …
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The Effectiveness of Network Administrative Organizations in Governing Inter-jurisdictional Natural Resources
Does Mislabeling COVID-19 Elicit the Perception of Threat and Reduce Blame?
Associating a life-threatening crisis with a geographic locality can stigmatize people from that area. However, such a strategy may reduce the public blame attributed to the government because the …
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Does Mislabeling COVID-19 Elicit the Perception of Threat and Reduce Blame?