How has research regarding public service motivation evolved since James L. Perry and
Lois Recascino Wise published their essay “The Motivational Bases of Public Service” 20 …

Employee turnover is a key area for public administration research, but one about which
there is much still to be learned. Insights from an extensive body of research on employee …

Pourquoi les projets de développement, les interventions des ONG ou les politiques
publiques nationales sont-ils tous soumis à d'importants écarts entre ce qui était prévu et ce …

Street level discretion--Three pathologies: the indifferent, the enforcer, and the caregiver--A
gymnastics of the self: coping with the everyday pressures of street-level work--When the …

Researchers often lack the necessary data to credibly estimate racial discrimination in
policing. In particular, police administrative records lack information on civilians police …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

What happens to public administration when populists are elected into government? This
article argues that populists seek to realize an anti-pluralist reform agenda, thereby fuelling …

Street-level bureaucrats implementing public policies have a certain degree of autonomy–or
discretion–in their work. Following Lipsky, discretion has received wide attention in the …

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …

The literature on public accountability is extensive but overwhelmingly focuses on
accountability of organizations. Yet, accountability mechanisms can function properly only …