A rule is divisive when its legitimacy is contested and divisive rules are an enduring theme of
public administration research. For over three decades, this research has been shaped by …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the study of frictions that individuals
experience, especially in their interactions with the public sector, creating both the potential …

Employee turnover intention is a serious concern for public organizations. In this study, we
investigate if the presence of effective organizational rules, or green tape, can help keep …

Governments use nudges to stimulate citizens to exercise, save money and eat healthily.
However, nudging is controversial. How the media frames nudge impacts decisions on …

As a design science, public administration is focused on addressing real‐world problems.
However, within public administration argument and evidence on the relevance of academic …

This chapter provides a review of public management scholarship on bureaucratic red tape
and discusses its implications for public sector human resource management. The chapter …

In this essay, I take stock of the red tape research program (and research programs on
administrative burden and sludge) to assess whether subjective individual experience has …

This research explores the historic use of the concept of sustainability in civil engineering
academic literature and identifies its conceptual evolution and connotative treatment over …

A growing stream of research in public administration is concerned with how red tape and
administrative burden affects citizens. Drawing on the procedural fairness literature, we …

Red tape is a salient societal problem but there is a dearth of research on how perceived red
tape can be reduced. Building on the transparency literature, we hypothesize that higher …