Sukumar Ganapati
Biographic Data
| ID | 1405704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukumar Ganapati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganapati |
| SIGNATURE | GANAPATI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7119-9510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests
Syringe littering in public places is a public health problem in many big cities nationwide amid the ongoing opioid crisis. Besides needle exchanges and/or safe disposal efforts, cash incentives have come into play as a policy tool to address the issue. In December 2020, the City of Boston launched the Community Syringe Redemption Program (CSRP), which offers a nominal cash “buy back” incentive for used syringes at designated centers. This study …
Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption
Prior research has examined the effect of e‐government on corruption but has only considered perceived political corruption that differs from the actual corruption that citizens experience in their routine encounters with street‐level bureaucrats. This study focuses on petty corruption and delineates the underlying mechanism through which e‐government aids in curbing it. We argue that online service delivery reduces corruptibility on both sides—b…
Reconceptualizing disaster phases through a Metis- based approach
Purpose This paper aims to call for change in disaster research through a metis -based approach that values practical skills and knowledge (vs technical knowledge) derived from responding to ongoing changes in the natural and human environment. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on metis from Miami-Dade County that is prone to an array of climate-related disasters. Metis is supplemented by a review of secondary sources (e.g. newspape…
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis
This article presents a meta-analysis of empirical studies to examine the role of transparency mechanisms for curbing corruption. The analysis reveals that transparency has an overall significant, though small, effect size in reducing corruption. Transparency is more effective for reducing subjective than objective corruption measures. While legal transparency mechanisms with freedom of information laws are important, fiscal transparency and e-tr…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Public Policy and Governance in the Sharing Era
It’s all about data: Time for a data access regime for the sharing economy?1
In the sharing economy, competitively important user data is often controlled by a single platform. This is due to concentration tendencies in the market as well as a platform’s gatekeeper function regarding user groups and user data. Presently, a platform only has to grant access to its user data if the refusal to deal is considered an abuse of market power under competition law. The legal requirements in the EU for such a claim are, however, ve…
Regulation and governance of the sharing economy by U.S. local governments
The sharing economy has disrupted industries and raises inquiries into the logic of existing regulations. Despite the varying levels of legislative status of the sharing economy, systematic research on governance that frames regulatory issues on such innovations has been lacking in the academic literature, particularly in the public administration field. In this research, we (1) examine determinants that influence the legislative status of regula…
Agile: A New Way of Governing
The evolving concept of “agile” has fundamentally changed core aspects of software design, project management, and business operations. The agile approach could also reshape government, public management, and governance in general. In this Viewpoint essay, the authors introduce the modern agile movement, reflect on how it can benefit public administrators, and describe several challenges that managers will face when they are expected to make thei…
The politics of sharing: Sociotechnical imaginaries of digital platforms
This paper looks at the role of sociotechnical imaginaries surrounding the governance of the sharing economy in two different locations: Canada and United States. Policy makers are trying to tackle the sharing economy without potentially creating negative impact on innovation. While much of the recent discourse around the sharing economy portrays it negatively, early peer-to-peer digital platforms were envisioned as new pathways toward grassroots…
Sharing economy: A systematic thematic analysis of the literature
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
Roles of government in regulating the sharing economy: A case study of bike sharing in China
The sharing economy has experienced tremendous growth as a result of rapid advances in information technology and user demand. Through a case study analysis of bike-sharing service providers in one of the largest cities in China, this paper examines the phases of regulation of the sharing economy from problem discovery, enacting regulation, and the aftermath of regulation. The public interest theory is used as a way of understanding the evolution…
Determinants of blockchain adoption in the public sector: An empirical examination
What are the factors that influence blockchain adoption in the public sector? This paper uses the diffusion of innovation theory to examine leading adopters of blockchain at the national government level. Six factors for blockchain adoption were tested using logistic regression: cybersecurity, control of corruption, e-government development, government effectiveness, political stability, and democratic participation. The analysis shows that cyber…
Argumentation Tactics and Public Deliberations
This article examines how elected officials, public administrators, and the public use argumentation tactics to influence policies in public meetings. We use Habermas’s communicative rationality and Aristotle’s classical approach to rhetoric as the conceptual lenses to identify ten tactics. The tactics are grouped under four Aristotelian categories: kairos or situational context (first mover advantage, using time as ally, and mountains are too hi…
Prospects and challenges of sharing economy for the public sector
Measuring disaster recovery: Bouncing Back or Reaching the Counterfactual State
How should one measure the recovery of a locale from a disaster? The measurement is crucial from a public policy and administration standpoint to determine which places should receive disaster assistance, and it affects the performance evaluation of disaster recovery programmes. This paper compares two approaches to measuring recovery: (i) bouncing back to pre‐disaster conditions; and (ii) attaining the counterfactual state. The former centres on…
Open e-government in U.S. state governments: Survey evidence from Chief Information Officers
Uses of Public Participation Geographic Information Systems Applications in E‐Government
Despite significant growth in public participation GIS (PPGIS) literature since the 1990s, little engagement by e‐government scholars is evident in the extensive scholarly PPGIS debates. To fill this void, recent trends in PPGIS adoption by local governments are analyzed. Three waves of GIS are identified: desktop GIS, web GIS, and the Geospatial Web 2.0 platform. Such technological advancements have progressively eased GIS accessibility from exp…
Enabling Housing Cooperatives: Policy Lessons from Sweden, India and the United States
Housing cooperatives became active in urban areas in Sweden, India and the United States during the interwar period. Yet, after the second world war, while housing cooperatives grew phenomenally nationwide in Sweden and India, they did not do so in the United States. This article makes a comparative institutional analysis of the evolution of housing cooperatives in these three countries. The analysis reveals that housing cooperatives' relationshi…
Critical Appraisal of Three Ideas for Community Development in the United States
What is the connection among the moral, social, and physical aspects of the community? To explore this question, this article reviews three approaches: communitarianism, social capital, and new urbanism and smart growth. They are linked by a conceptual mapping along two dimensions: geographical scale (local to global) and strength of community (strong to weak). The approaches meld at local and regional geographical scales. Since the strong commun…
A Century of Differential Evolution of Housing Co-operatives in Mumbai and Chennai
Since their inception at the beginning of the 20th century, the evolutionary paths of housing co-operatives have diverged in Mumbai and Chennai. Housing co-operatives in Mumbai have been principally Tenure co-operatives (i.e. for collective ownership and management). In Chennai they have been mainly Finance co-operatives (i.e. for providing loans to members). This paper makes a comparative institutional analysis of the two cities to examine the d…
Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences: Impact of Adker Consent Decree on Miami-Dade County's Subsidized Housing
In this article, we assess the impact of the Adker consent decree, a federal desegregation agreement implemented since 1999. It requires that Miami-Dade County public-housing offers be initially made on the basis of race and that half of the eligible turnover of Section 8 vouchers be given to former or current Black public-housing residents. Although well intentioned, the decree has had unintended consequences. The decree had mixed impact on dese…
Prospects and challenges of sharing economy for the public sector
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis
This article presents a meta-analysis of empirical studies to examine the role of transparency mechanisms for curbing corruption. The analysis reveals that transparency has an overall significant, though small, effect size in reducing corruption. Transparency is more effective for reducing subjective than objective corruption measures. While legal transparency mechanisms with freedom of information laws are important, fiscal transparency and e-tr…
Open e-government in U.S. state governments: Survey evidence from Chief Information Officers
Enabling Housing Cooperatives: Policy Lessons from Sweden, India and the United States
Housing cooperatives became active in urban areas in Sweden, India and the United States during the interwar period. Yet, after the second world war, while housing cooperatives grew phenomenally nationwide in Sweden and India, they did not do so in the United States. This article makes a comparative institutional analysis of the evolution of housing cooperatives in these three countries. The analysis reveals that housing cooperatives' relationshi…
Measuring disaster recovery: Bouncing Back or Reaching the Counterfactual State
How should one measure the recovery of a locale from a disaster? The measurement is crucial from a public policy and administration standpoint to determine which places should receive disaster assistance, and it affects the performance evaluation of disaster recovery programmes. This paper compares two approaches to measuring recovery: (i) bouncing back to pre‐disaster conditions; and (ii) attaining the counterfactual state. The former centres on…
Critical Appraisal of Three Ideas for Community Development in the United States
What is the connection among the moral, social, and physical aspects of the community? To explore this question, this article reviews three approaches: communitarianism, social capital, and new urbanism and smart growth. They are linked by a conceptual mapping along two dimensions: geographical scale (local to global) and strength of community (strong to weak). The approaches meld at local and regional geographical scales. Since the strong commun…
The politics of sharing: Sociotechnical imaginaries of digital platforms
This paper looks at the role of sociotechnical imaginaries surrounding the governance of the sharing economy in two different locations: Canada and United States. Policy makers are trying to tackle the sharing economy without potentially creating negative impact on innovation. While much of the recent discourse around the sharing economy portrays it negatively, early peer-to-peer digital platforms were envisioned as new pathways toward grassroots…
Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences: Impact of Adker Consent Decree on Miami-Dade County's Subsidized Housing
In this article, we assess the impact of the Adker consent decree, a federal desegregation agreement implemented since 1999. It requires that Miami-Dade County public-housing offers be initially made on the basis of race and that half of the eligible turnover of Section 8 vouchers be given to former or current Black public-housing residents. Although well intentioned, the decree has had unintended consequences. The decree had mixed impact on dese…
Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption
Prior research has examined the effect of e‐government on corruption but has only considered perceived political corruption that differs from the actual corruption that citizens experience in their routine encounters with street‐level bureaucrats. This study focuses on petty corruption and delineates the underlying mechanism through which e‐government aids in curbing it. We argue that online service delivery reduces corruptibility on both sides—b…
Sharing economy: A systematic thematic analysis of the literature
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
A Century of Differential Evolution of Housing Co-operatives in Mumbai and Chennai
Since their inception at the beginning of the 20th century, the evolutionary paths of housing co-operatives have diverged in Mumbai and Chennai. Housing co-operatives in Mumbai have been principally Tenure co-operatives (i.e. for collective ownership and management). In Chennai they have been mainly Finance co-operatives (i.e. for providing loans to members). This paper makes a comparative institutional analysis of the two cities to examine the d…
Roles of government in regulating the sharing economy: A case study of bike sharing in China
The sharing economy has experienced tremendous growth as a result of rapid advances in information technology and user demand. Through a case study analysis of bike-sharing service providers in one of the largest cities in China, this paper examines the phases of regulation of the sharing economy from problem discovery, enacting regulation, and the aftermath of regulation. The public interest theory is used as a way of understanding the evolution…
Argumentation Tactics and Public Deliberations
This article examines how elected officials, public administrators, and the public use argumentation tactics to influence policies in public meetings. We use Habermas’s communicative rationality and Aristotle’s classical approach to rhetoric as the conceptual lenses to identify ten tactics. The tactics are grouped under four Aristotelian categories: kairos or situational context (first mover advantage, using time as ally, and mountains are too hi…
Critical Appraisal of Three Ideas for Community Development in the United States
What is the connection among the moral, social, and physical aspects of the community? To explore this question, this article reviews three approaches: communitarianism, social capital, and new urbanism and smart growth. They are linked by a conceptual mapping along two dimensions: geographical scale (local to global) and strength of community (strong to weak). The approaches meld at local and regional geographical scales. Since the strong commun…
A Century of Differential Evolution of Housing Co-operatives in Mumbai and Chennai
Since their inception at the beginning of the 20th century, the evolutionary paths of housing co-operatives have diverged in Mumbai and Chennai. Housing co-operatives in Mumbai have been principally Tenure co-operatives (i.e. for collective ownership and management). In Chennai they have been mainly Finance co-operatives (i.e. for providing loans to members). This paper makes a comparative institutional analysis of the two cities to examine the d…
Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences: Impact of Adker Consent Decree on Miami-Dade County's Subsidized Housing
In this article, we assess the impact of the Adker consent decree, a federal desegregation agreement implemented since 1999. It requires that Miami-Dade County public-housing offers be initially made on the basis of race and that half of the eligible turnover of Section 8 vouchers be given to former or current Black public-housing residents. Although well intentioned, the decree has had unintended consequences. The decree had mixed impact on dese…
Enabling Housing Cooperatives: Policy Lessons from Sweden, India and the United States
Housing cooperatives became active in urban areas in Sweden, India and the United States during the interwar period. Yet, after the second world war, while housing cooperatives grew phenomenally nationwide in Sweden and India, they did not do so in the United States. This article makes a comparative institutional analysis of the evolution of housing cooperatives in these three countries. The analysis reveals that housing cooperatives' relationshi…
Uses of Public Participation Geographic Information Systems Applications in E‐Government
Despite significant growth in public participation GIS (PPGIS) literature since the 1990s, little engagement by e‐government scholars is evident in the extensive scholarly PPGIS debates. To fill this void, recent trends in PPGIS adoption by local governments are analyzed. Three waves of GIS are identified: desktop GIS, web GIS, and the Geospatial Web 2.0 platform. Such technological advancements have progressively eased GIS accessibility from exp…
Open e-government in U.S. state governments: Survey evidence from Chief Information Officers
Measuring disaster recovery: Bouncing Back or Reaching the Counterfactual State
How should one measure the recovery of a locale from a disaster? The measurement is crucial from a public policy and administration standpoint to determine which places should receive disaster assistance, and it affects the performance evaluation of disaster recovery programmes. This paper compares two approaches to measuring recovery: (i) bouncing back to pre‐disaster conditions; and (ii) attaining the counterfactual state. The former centres on…
Prospects and challenges of sharing economy for the public sector
Determinants of blockchain adoption in the public sector: An empirical examination
What are the factors that influence blockchain adoption in the public sector? This paper uses the diffusion of innovation theory to examine leading adopters of blockchain at the national government level. Six factors for blockchain adoption were tested using logistic regression: cybersecurity, control of corruption, e-government development, government effectiveness, political stability, and democratic participation. The analysis shows that cyber…
Argumentation Tactics and Public Deliberations
This article examines how elected officials, public administrators, and the public use argumentation tactics to influence policies in public meetings. We use Habermas’s communicative rationality and Aristotle’s classical approach to rhetoric as the conceptual lenses to identify ten tactics. The tactics are grouped under four Aristotelian categories: kairos or situational context (first mover advantage, using time as ally, and mountains are too hi…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Public Policy and Governance in the Sharing Era
It’s all about data: Time for a data access regime for the sharing economy?1
In the sharing economy, competitively important user data is often controlled by a single platform. This is due to concentration tendencies in the market as well as a platform’s gatekeeper function regarding user groups and user data. Presently, a platform only has to grant access to its user data if the refusal to deal is considered an abuse of market power under competition law. The legal requirements in the EU for such a claim are, however, ve…
Regulation and governance of the sharing economy by U.S. local governments
The sharing economy has disrupted industries and raises inquiries into the logic of existing regulations. Despite the varying levels of legislative status of the sharing economy, systematic research on governance that frames regulatory issues on such innovations has been lacking in the academic literature, particularly in the public administration field. In this research, we (1) examine determinants that influence the legislative status of regula…
Agile: A New Way of Governing
The evolving concept of “agile” has fundamentally changed core aspects of software design, project management, and business operations. The agile approach could also reshape government, public management, and governance in general. In this Viewpoint essay, the authors introduce the modern agile movement, reflect on how it can benefit public administrators, and describe several challenges that managers will face when they are expected to make thei…
The politics of sharing: Sociotechnical imaginaries of digital platforms
This paper looks at the role of sociotechnical imaginaries surrounding the governance of the sharing economy in two different locations: Canada and United States. Policy makers are trying to tackle the sharing economy without potentially creating negative impact on innovation. While much of the recent discourse around the sharing economy portrays it negatively, early peer-to-peer digital platforms were envisioned as new pathways toward grassroots…
Sharing economy: A systematic thematic analysis of the literature
In this paper we present the results of our analyses of the existing literature on the sharing economy. It is important to understand the nature of the sharing economy, because its impacts on the larger economy, society, and governance are extensive and potentially deep and long lasting. Analyses of the 610 articles published between 2006 and 2018 show that there was a rapid increase in publications starting in 2014. Researchers in business, econ…
Roles of government in regulating the sharing economy: A case study of bike sharing in China
The sharing economy has experienced tremendous growth as a result of rapid advances in information technology and user demand. Through a case study analysis of bike-sharing service providers in one of the largest cities in China, this paper examines the phases of regulation of the sharing economy from problem discovery, enacting regulation, and the aftermath of regulation. The public interest theory is used as a way of understanding the evolution…
Reconceptualizing disaster phases through a Metis- based approach
Purpose This paper aims to call for change in disaster research through a metis -based approach that values practical skills and knowledge (vs technical knowledge) derived from responding to ongoing changes in the natural and human environment. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on metis from Miami-Dade County that is prone to an array of climate-related disasters. Metis is supplemented by a review of secondary sources (e.g. newspape…
Do transparency mechanisms reduce government corruption? A meta-analysis
This article presents a meta-analysis of empirical studies to examine the role of transparency mechanisms for curbing corruption. The analysis reveals that transparency has an overall significant, though small, effect size in reducing corruption. Transparency is more effective for reducing subjective than objective corruption measures. While legal transparency mechanisms with freedom of information laws are important, fiscal transparency and e-tr…
Parsing the impact of E‐government on bureaucratic corruption
Prior research has examined the effect of e‐government on corruption but has only considered perceived political corruption that differs from the actual corruption that citizens experience in their routine encounters with street‐level bureaucrats. This study focuses on petty corruption and delineates the underlying mechanism through which e‐government aids in curbing it. We argue that online service delivery reduces corruptibility on both sides—b…
Can Cash Incentives Reduce Syringe Litter? Evidence From Boston's 311 Service Requests
Syringe littering in public places is a public health problem in many big cities nationwide amid the ongoing opioid crisis. Besides needle exchanges and/or safe disposal efforts, cash incentives have come into play as a policy tool to address the issue. In December 2020, the City of Boston launched the Community Syringe Redemption Program (CSRP), which offers a nominal cash “buy back” incentive for used syringes at designated centers. This study …
Political science (17 works) · Business (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Government (linguistics (8 works) · Sharing Economy and Platforms (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Corporate governance (6 works)