Paolo Belardinelli
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4385398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paolo Belardinelli |
| NOMBRES | Paolo |
| APELLIDO | Belardinelli |
| FIRMA | BELARDINELLI P |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9645-9160 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 274 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Do Pan-Ethnic Categories Work? An Experimental Test of Symbolic Bureaucratic Representation and Latino Identity(-ies)
Studies on symbolic representation suggest that the presence of members from underrepresented groups in government organizations can improve citizens’ perceptions of government. While relevant studies in this area have typically treated pan-Latino ethnic background as a singular identity, scholars of representation in other venues argue that identity tied to national origin plays a more significant role in shaping citizens’ attitudes. We report r…
Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Decision Justification Strategies on Citizen Perceptions of Government
Abundant literature documents a range of factors that shape citizen perceptions of government. However, attention to how the justification of a policy decision shapes citizen perceptions remains limited. In this study, we consider how justifications influence citizen trust and legitimacy through a 2 × 2 × 2 pre-registered factorial survey experiment that manipulates justification strategy, policy position, and policy type. Results indicate that o…
Policymakers' Preferences Over Public–Private Modes of Service Delivery and Credit‐Claiming
A survey experiment on US elected local policymakers allows us to test how incumbents strategically use infrastructure projects in their electoral campaigns. Each local official is presented with a scenario in which they are asked to imagine that they are going to run for office again and that a new infrastructure project has just been approved in their district. We manipulate the type of project and whether it is delivered by the local governmen…
Resistance or Tolerance? How Cultural Theory Worldview Orientations Predict Perceptions of Administrative Burdens
Pre-Registering Public Administration Studies
Following other fields and disciplines, public administration scholars have recently embraced the practice of pre-registering experimental studies. Despite being cumbersome, such a ‘best-practice’ has the potential to contribute to the process of knowledge creation by: (i) forcing researchers to distinguish predictions, in which data are used to test the possibility that a hypothesis is wrong, from postdictions, in which propositions are used to …
Making Null Results Credible
One common criticism leveled against such findings is that null results could be driven by design factors like inadequate sample size or measurement error. In this essay, we provide an overview of several tools and practices that researchers can implement, both during the design stage and during post-hoc analysis, to make null results more credible. Specifically, as researchers design their studies, they can make use of power analysis and preregi…
Participatory budgeting and loss aversion
Participatory budgeting (PB) has been widely studied as a strategy to enhance civic engagement and strengthen local governance, yet citizens often remain reluctant to engage in PB activities. Drawing on Brenner et al. (2007), we manipulate two dimensions of loss aversion - valence and possession - to to examine their influence on citizens’ willingness to participate. Results show that both forms of loss aversion affect participation willingness, …
Telework in public organizations
After a relatively slow policy intervention and scholarly take‐up, recent developments created the urgency for massive efforts to implement and regulate telework in public organizations . We contribute to this debate through a systematic review of 120 studies across disciplines. Findings from our analysis reveal a few established antecedents of telework, including individual characteristics like family responsibilities and expected productivity, …
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services
We conducted three randomized experiments to investigate whether and to what extent citizens' expectations toward waiting times for public service delivery are influenced by reference points, either in the form of social or numerical references. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, our results provide convergent evidence of reference dependence. Specifically, informing citizens that waiting times are longer (shorter) relative to a social…
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks
This randomized study explores the causal mechanisms linking contingent pay to individual performance on a series of tasks mimicking real public management activities. Employing a parallel encouragement design in a laboratory setting, we disentangle the overall, direct, and indirect performance effects of perceived fairness as well as a pay scheme that reproduces the merit system provisions adopted by the Italian government. The overall performan…
Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility
How does the mode of public service delivery affect the attribution of responsibility for public goods? Through a survey experiment on a sample of more than 1,000 Americans, we provide evidence of how the allocation of public goods shapes voters’ support for incumbent politicians. We find that voters prefer a mixture of public–private financing and management when it comes to the delivery of infrastructure. However, once performance information i…
The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behaviour among public and private workers
We use a mixed‐methods sequential explanatory design to explore whether and how bounded subadditivity, and the resulting certainty effect, may lead public and private employees to prioritize their activities in ways that are suboptimal for their organizations. In a randomized controlled trial, private sector workers were more likely to join a project to which they were able to provide a small contribution that would turn the probability of succes…
Mixed Methods in Public Administration Research
Over the last decades, the use of mixed methods (MMs) has been burgeoning across social sciences. MMs have also been recommended as a viable research strategy for conducting studies in Public Administration. Through a systematic review conducted on seven journals, the article explores the extent to which the field has seized this opportunity and how it has done so. The review is organized around a framework that offers guidance on the analysis an…
Prospect Theory Goes Public
This article tests a broad range of cognitive biases branching out from prospect theory in the context of public policy and management. Results illuminate systematic deviations from rationality. In experiments 1 through 5, the framing of outcomes influenced decisions across policy and management domains. In experiment 6, public employees were prone to an anchoring bias when setting standards for responsiveness. Experiment 7 shows that public work…
Behavioral Public Administration ad fontes
This article provides a comprehensive overview of how policy makers, practitioners, and scholars can fruitfully use behavioral science to tackle public administration, management, and policy issues. The article systematically reviews 109 articles in the public administration discipline that are inspired by the behavioral sciences to identify emerging research trajectories, significant gaps, and promising applied research directions. In an attempt…
Framing Effects under Different Uses of Performance Information
Combining insights from public administration, accounting, and psychology, this article explores the microprocesses by which public managers use performance information, investigating whether the type of performance information use and the request to justify decisions affect the way in which information is processed. The study draws on data from a series of artifactual survey experiments with Italian municipal executives. Findings show that manag…
A Meta-Analysis of Job Satisfaction Correlates in the Public Administration Literature
What can we learn by applying a meta-analysis to the public administration literature on job satisfaction? More generally, how can public management scholars use this method to capitalize on the decades of research on other topics within our field? This study reports the findings of the first quantitative review of the public administration literature on job satisfaction. We retrieved quantitative data from primary studies published in 42 public …
Behavioral Public Administration ad fontes
This article provides a comprehensive overview of how policy makers, practitioners, and scholars can fruitfully use behavioral science to tackle public administration, management, and policy issues. The article systematically reviews 109 articles in the public administration discipline that are inspired by the behavioral sciences to identify emerging research trajectories, significant gaps, and promising applied research directions. In an attempt…
Mixed Methods in Public Administration Research
Over the last decades, the use of mixed methods (MMs) has been burgeoning across social sciences. MMs have also been recommended as a viable research strategy for conducting studies in Public Administration. Through a systematic review conducted on seven journals, the article explores the extent to which the field has seized this opportunity and how it has done so. The review is organized around a framework that offers guidance on the analysis an…
Prospect Theory Goes Public
This article tests a broad range of cognitive biases branching out from prospect theory in the context of public policy and management. Results illuminate systematic deviations from rationality. In experiments 1 through 5, the framing of outcomes influenced decisions across policy and management domains. In experiment 6, public employees were prone to an anchoring bias when setting standards for responsiveness. Experiment 7 shows that public work…
Framing Effects under Different Uses of Performance Information
Combining insights from public administration, accounting, and psychology, this article explores the microprocesses by which public managers use performance information, investigating whether the type of performance information use and the request to justify decisions affect the way in which information is processed. The study draws on data from a series of artifactual survey experiments with Italian municipal executives. Findings show that manag…
Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility
How does the mode of public service delivery affect the attribution of responsibility for public goods? Through a survey experiment on a sample of more than 1,000 Americans, we provide evidence of how the allocation of public goods shapes voters’ support for incumbent politicians. We find that voters prefer a mixture of public–private financing and management when it comes to the delivery of infrastructure. However, once performance information i…
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services
We conducted three randomized experiments to investigate whether and to what extent citizens' expectations toward waiting times for public service delivery are influenced by reference points, either in the form of social or numerical references. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, our results provide convergent evidence of reference dependence. Specifically, informing citizens that waiting times are longer (shorter) relative to a social…
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks
This randomized study explores the causal mechanisms linking contingent pay to individual performance on a series of tasks mimicking real public management activities. Employing a parallel encouragement design in a laboratory setting, we disentangle the overall, direct, and indirect performance effects of perceived fairness as well as a pay scheme that reproduces the merit system provisions adopted by the Italian government. The overall performan…
The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behaviour among public and private workers
We use a mixed‐methods sequential explanatory design to explore whether and how bounded subadditivity, and the resulting certainty effect, may lead public and private employees to prioritize their activities in ways that are suboptimal for their organizations. In a randomized controlled trial, private sector workers were more likely to join a project to which they were able to provide a small contribution that would turn the probability of succes…
A Meta-Analysis of Job Satisfaction Correlates in the Public Administration Literature
What can we learn by applying a meta-analysis to the public administration literature on job satisfaction? More generally, how can public management scholars use this method to capitalize on the decades of research on other topics within our field? This study reports the findings of the first quantitative review of the public administration literature on job satisfaction. We retrieved quantitative data from primary studies published in 42 public …
Prospect Theory Goes Public
This article tests a broad range of cognitive biases branching out from prospect theory in the context of public policy and management. Results illuminate systematic deviations from rationality. In experiments 1 through 5, the framing of outcomes influenced decisions across policy and management domains. In experiment 6, public employees were prone to an anchoring bias when setting standards for responsiveness. Experiment 7 shows that public work…
Behavioral Public Administration ad fontes
This article provides a comprehensive overview of how policy makers, practitioners, and scholars can fruitfully use behavioral science to tackle public administration, management, and policy issues. The article systematically reviews 109 articles in the public administration discipline that are inspired by the behavioral sciences to identify emerging research trajectories, significant gaps, and promising applied research directions. In an attempt…
Framing Effects under Different Uses of Performance Information
Combining insights from public administration, accounting, and psychology, this article explores the microprocesses by which public managers use performance information, investigating whether the type of performance information use and the request to justify decisions affect the way in which information is processed. The study draws on data from a series of artifactual survey experiments with Italian municipal executives. Findings show that manag…
Mixed Methods in Public Administration Research
Over the last decades, the use of mixed methods (MMs) has been burgeoning across social sciences. MMs have also been recommended as a viable research strategy for conducting studies in Public Administration. Through a systematic review conducted on seven journals, the article explores the extent to which the field has seized this opportunity and how it has done so. The review is organized around a framework that offers guidance on the analysis an…
The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behaviour among public and private workers
We use a mixed‐methods sequential explanatory design to explore whether and how bounded subadditivity, and the resulting certainty effect, may lead public and private employees to prioritize their activities in ways that are suboptimal for their organizations. In a randomized controlled trial, private sector workers were more likely to join a project to which they were able to provide a small contribution that would turn the probability of succes…
Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility
How does the mode of public service delivery affect the attribution of responsibility for public goods? Through a survey experiment on a sample of more than 1,000 Americans, we provide evidence of how the allocation of public goods shapes voters’ support for incumbent politicians. We find that voters prefer a mixture of public–private financing and management when it comes to the delivery of infrastructure. However, once performance information i…
Telework in public organizations
After a relatively slow policy intervention and scholarly take‐up, recent developments created the urgency for massive efforts to implement and regulate telework in public organizations . We contribute to this debate through a systematic review of 120 studies across disciplines. Findings from our analysis reveal a few established antecedents of telework, including individual characteristics like family responsibilities and expected productivity, …
Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens' expectations toward public services
We conducted three randomized experiments to investigate whether and to what extent citizens' expectations toward waiting times for public service delivery are influenced by reference points, either in the form of social or numerical references. Consistent with our theoretical expectations, our results provide convergent evidence of reference dependence. Specifically, informing citizens that waiting times are longer (shorter) relative to a social…
Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks
This randomized study explores the causal mechanisms linking contingent pay to individual performance on a series of tasks mimicking real public management activities. Employing a parallel encouragement design in a laboratory setting, we disentangle the overall, direct, and indirect performance effects of perceived fairness as well as a pay scheme that reproduces the merit system provisions adopted by the Italian government. The overall performan…
Pre-Registering Public Administration Studies
Following other fields and disciplines, public administration scholars have recently embraced the practice of pre-registering experimental studies. Despite being cumbersome, such a ‘best-practice’ has the potential to contribute to the process of knowledge creation by: (i) forcing researchers to distinguish predictions, in which data are used to test the possibility that a hypothesis is wrong, from postdictions, in which propositions are used to …
Making Null Results Credible
One common criticism leveled against such findings is that null results could be driven by design factors like inadequate sample size or measurement error. In this essay, we provide an overview of several tools and practices that researchers can implement, both during the design stage and during post-hoc analysis, to make null results more credible. Specifically, as researchers design their studies, they can make use of power analysis and preregi…
Participatory budgeting and loss aversion
Participatory budgeting (PB) has been widely studied as a strategy to enhance civic engagement and strengthen local governance, yet citizens often remain reluctant to engage in PB activities. Drawing on Brenner et al. (2007), we manipulate two dimensions of loss aversion - valence and possession - to to examine their influence on citizens’ willingness to participate. Results show that both forms of loss aversion affect participation willingness, …
Do Pan-Ethnic Categories Work? An Experimental Test of Symbolic Bureaucratic Representation and Latino Identity(-ies)
Studies on symbolic representation suggest that the presence of members from underrepresented groups in government organizations can improve citizens’ perceptions of government. While relevant studies in this area have typically treated pan-Latino ethnic background as a singular identity, scholars of representation in other venues argue that identity tied to national origin plays a more significant role in shaping citizens’ attitudes. We report r…
Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Decision Justification Strategies on Citizen Perceptions of Government
Abundant literature documents a range of factors that shape citizen perceptions of government. However, attention to how the justification of a policy decision shapes citizen perceptions remains limited. In this study, we consider how justifications influence citizen trust and legitimacy through a 2 × 2 × 2 pre-registered factorial survey experiment that manipulates justification strategy, policy position, and policy type. Results indicate that o…
Policymakers' Preferences Over Public–Private Modes of Service Delivery and Credit‐Claiming
A survey experiment on US elected local policymakers allows us to test how incumbents strategically use infrastructure projects in their electoral campaigns. Each local official is presented with a scenario in which they are asked to imagine that they are going to run for office again and that a new infrastructure project has just been approved in their district. We manipulate the type of project and whether it is delivered by the local governmen…
Resistance or Tolerance? How Cultural Theory Worldview Orientations Predict Perceptions of Administrative Burdens
Economics (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (4 obras) · Microeconomics (4 obras) · Perception (4 obras)