There has been an “institutional turn” in the study of authoritarian regimes (Pepinsky, 2014).
That interest in institutions has not extended to public bureaucracies to the extent that seems …

Employees' complaints about the routinisation of jobs and a decrease in their autonomy
have been cited as major reasons for employee turnover in government organisations. This …

While public service motivation (PSM) is universally acknowledged as a value-laden and
context-contingent construct, few studies have relied on qualitative methodologies to …

Although the term public service motivation (PSM) was coined 30 years ago, its theoretical
development is still ongoing. One of these debates examines how to differentiate it from …

Research in public administration generally has found that religiosity promotes public
service motivation. Although all major religions include components that encompass work …

Authoritarian regimes share an architecture of power that shores up unilateral control from
the top while weakening bottom-up initiatives organised independently of central support …

Social equity is about asking who ought to get what and for whom is this programme good.
With a focus on East Asia, this article examines how social equity is both conceptualised and …

Autocrats do not rule alone. Leaders depend particularly on state bureaucracies to carry out
their preferred policies, provide public goods, maintain social order, and organize …

How work is designed is essential for public sector employees as they join to have a
meaningful and purposeful job, which will help them achieve their public service ambitions …

This study examines the quality service of business license process at the Ministry of
Agriculture and explores aspects that hinder their service for agricultural business license …