Lene Holm Pedersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lene Holm Pedersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lene Holm |
| FAMILY NAME | Pedersen |
| SIGNATURE | PEDERSEN L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0933-7585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 500 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Womens causal impact through the policy process: Different preferences – same outcomes
Understanding the mobility of public leaders: Switching between sectors and governmental levels
Despite growing attention to public leader recruitment, mobility patterns remain understudied. To address this gap, we analyse motives for three distinct forms of public leader mobility: within-level (same government tier), between-level (across central and local tiers), and between-sector (from private to public sector). Utilizing unique survey and register data, we find that proximity between past and current roles is a valuable lens for unders…
The Gendered Cost of Politics
We investigate how sexism and harassment affect political candidates’ preferences for political positions by deploying a conjoint experiment among political candidates in the 2021 Danish local elections. We find that, compared to men candidates, women candidates experience far more sexism and harassment, and assess their risk of victimization as being far higher. Correspondingly, the conjoint experiment reveals that women candidates state stronge…
Elite sense-making in the core executive: The case of Denmark’s 2020 Minkgate Scandal
This article analyzes the Danish Mink Scandal of 2020 using Karl Weick’s sense-making theory. It zooms in on the 72-hour decision-making process that led to the culling of Denmark’s entire 17 million farmed-for-fur mink population in response to the perceived threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) forming a new mutation. Since there was insufficient legal justification for the culling, the prime minister was forced to call a snap general e…
What Happens When Women Win Elections? The Electoral Returns to Increased Representation of Women
How does the election of a woman shape the electoral performance of their party? Research suggests that electing women to political office shapes party behavior and improves voters’ perception of the party. However, the downstream electoral consequences of electing women to office remain understudied. Drawing on administrative data and closely contested municipal elections in Denmark from 1997 to 2017, we find that marginally electing a woman ove…
Growing Up Transborder
Reassurances form a common theme in the messages recorded for the youth to bring to San Martin, reassurances that the migrants very much remember their loved ones and wish they could see them.It is only because they cannot that they have not returned to visit.Added to this are reassurances for them not to worry, that the migrants are okay, not sick, and that their children are fine.Several tear up when recording their messages.For some it also br…
Film and Video: Eating, Redistributing, and Fixing Food Waste
Citizens’ Aversion to Pay Raises for Politicians: The Risk of Self-Interest Matter More Than the Promise of Competence
Citizens value competence in politicians. However, while offering high pay is a key strategy when recruiting competent candidates in the job market, most citizens are highly averse to paying politicians higher salaries. We argue that this aversion arises from one fundamental concern among citizens: self-interested politicians. Using data from a large-scale preregistered survey experiment, we show that citizens are affected by the argument that hi…
The Closed Door: A Democratic Problem in the Post‐Political Careers of Cabinet Ministers
At the end of their political career, some politicians pass through ‘a revolving door’, while others face ‘a closed door’, in the sense that they have difficulty finding a job after their incumbency. Based on in‐depth interviews with 15 Danish ex‐ministers, this study shows how a minister's specialized skills, knowledge and networks related to the decision‐making processes of government are considered by the ministers themselves to be important c…
Film and Video: JAF: Journal of Anthropological Films
Citizenship Diversified: Bali-Hindu Customary Institutions and Democratization
Customary citizenship practices and their implications for contemporary citizenship and democratization remain under-recognized. Recent contributions to Citizenship Studies expand the study of citizenship to include everyday practices in Indonesia, yet they limit their focus to state-related practices or recognize customary practices as citizenship, only to conclude that they ended with colonization. To include customary institutions in our consi…
Attraction and attrition under extreme conditions– integrating insights on PSM, SOC-R, SOC and excitement motivation
This paper expands the frontier of PSM in relation to attraction/attrition, by integrating insights from PSM, SOC, SOC-R and EM. It identifies an extreme case, which offers a basis for qualitative, conceptual generalization. The paper generates three findings. Firstly, that PSM, SOC, SOC-R and EM co-exist and overlap. Second, that while personal needs as well as responsibility are important to attraction, if needs are not met attrition is difficu…
Motivated to act and take responsibility – integrating insights from community psychology in PSM research
The concept sense of community responsibility (SOC-R) provides useful insights into public service motivation (PSM) research because SOC-R is act-relevant and connected to an identifiable community. A survey sent to 2,463 Danish councilors in multipurpose local governments illustrates how PSM and SOC-R as constructs are highly correlated, but not totally overlapping. SOC-R relates negatively to voluntary retirement but positively to visionary lea…
Film and Video
Film reviewed in this issue. Tajen multimodal . 2019
Citizen Attitudes on Politicians’ Pay: Trust Issues Are Not Solved by Delegation
Citizens are generally opposed to politicians receiving a high pay. We investigate the degree to which this aversion is moderated by citizens’ individual-level trust in politicians and whether institutional delegation can moderate the reactions to proposed changes in politicians’ pay. Using a survey experiment, we confirm that trust in politicians is a key predictor of attitudes regarding their pay. Distrust toward politicians seems to matter muc…
Film and Video
Film reviewed in this issue. Heartbound . 2018, 90 mins
Rewarding the Top: Citizens' Opposition to Higher Pay for Politicians
The rewards of politicians are a key part of the implicit contract between politicians and citizens, and the effect of these rewards on democratic legitimacy and political recruitment is a central concern in public debate and democratic theory. Using a survey experiment, we show how citizens respond to hypothetical changes in politicians’ pay. The results indicate that citizens express lower levels of trust in the politicians when these politicia…
Motivational Foundations of Public Service Provision: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis
Integrating theoretical perspectives is very useful when we investigate an empirical phenomenon, and this article demonstrates how employee motivation can be understood based on principal-agent, self-determination, and prosocial theories. Employee motivation can be conceptualized as either extrinsic, autonomous or prosocial or a combination thereof, and a theoretical synthesis allows us to understand this complexity without losing too much cohere…
How is Political Influence Redistributed in Times of Fiscal Austerity
The distribution of political influence changes in times of fiscal austerity. Decision makers generally find themselves with more influence when the economy gets tighter, probably because more tough decisions must be made. In line with expectations based on the asymmetrical distribution of interests between budget guardians and advocates, however, some evidence can be found that the relative political influence shifts in the direction of the guar…
When less is more: On politicians’ attitudes to remuneration
While politicians’ remuneration is a key issue in the relationship between citizens and politicians, there is still limited knowledge about the politicians’ own views on this issue. This article investigates how politicians’ attitudes regarding pay are affected by their motivation, political ideology and party position as well as institutional position. Using data from a survey among municipal politicians in Denmark ( n = 838), our analyses sugge…
What does the minister do? On the working conditions of political leaders
This article contributes insight into the working conditions of political leaders based on rarely accessible high‐quality data that include unique surveys of Danish ministers, mayors, and permanent secretaries supplemented by in‐depth interviews. The results show that the classical metaphor of the leader as a puppet master being pulled by an endless number of strings also fits the ministers. Their work life is fragmented in time and space, and th…
Turning Innovation into Evidence‐based Policies: Lessons Learned from Free Commune Experiments
There is a great need for innovation in the public sector and for improved understanding of how innovation can be turned into evidence‐based public policy. This article discusses potential contributions from 30 years of experience in the Nordic countries with a reform programme called ‘Free Commune Experiments’ (FCEs). Here, local authorities are granted waivers from legislation to experiment with normally ‘illegal’ practices. The article asks if…
Performance in Public Organizations: Clarifying the Conceptual Space
Performance in public organizations is a key concept that requires clarification. Based on a conceptual review of research published in 10 public administration journals, this article proposes six distinctions to describe the systematic differences in performance criteria: From which stakeholder's perspective is performance being assessed? Are the criteria formal or informal? Are the criteria subjective? Which process focus and product focus do t…
Spending and cutting are two different worlds: Experimental evidence from Danish local councils
This article investigates politicians’ preferences for cutting and spending. The research questions are where do politicians prefer to cut, where do they prefer to spend and how is this influenced by political ideology? These questions are investigated in a large-scale survey experiment fielded to Danish local councillors, who are randomly assigned to a decision-making situation, where the block grant provided to their municipality is either incr…
Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Indonesia is one of the world’s great plural societies. Its population of 238 millionspans thousands of islands and hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, the locallives of which have been shaped by regional and global dynamics. The archipelagowas integrated first by trade routes, mercantilism and colonialism, then through concerted efforts at post-Independence nation-building that employed the region’s lingua franca as a national language, and…
Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance
The growth in international research on public service motivation (PSM) raises a number of important questions about the degree to which the theory and research developed in one country can contribute to our understanding of PSM in other counties. To help address this issue, this study revisits the conceptual and operational definitions of PSM to address weaknesses previously noted in the literature. Although some important steps have been taken …
How Does Public Service Motivation Among Teachers Affect Student Performance in Schools
The literature expects public service motivation (PSM) to affect performance, but most of the existing studies of this relationship use subjective performance data and focus on output rather than outcome.This article investigates the association between PSM and the performance of Danish teachers using an objective outcome measure (the students' academic performance in their final examinations).Combining survey data and administrative register dat…
The Effects of Administrative Professionals on Contracting Out
An often‐debated subject in the public administration literature concerns why some units contract out more than others. The present article decomposes the influence of public employees on municipal contracting as different types of employees have different skills and incentives and must be treated accordingly. First, the analysis shows that the apparent negative relationship between public employees in general and municipal contracting is partly …
One‐stop Shops for Social Welfare: The Adaptation of an Organizational Form in Three Countries
In recent years welfare services in Western Europe have been criticized for poor coordination. In response, ‘seamlessness’ has emerged as a vision for public administration with ‘one‐stop shops' viewed as means to reach this. This article conceptualizes the one‐stop shop and presents a three country case study to examine its drivers and its adaptation. In all countries the reforms meant mergers driven by hopes for a single entrance to services as…
Public Values and Public Service Motivation: Conceptual and Empirical Relationships
The literatures on public values (PV) and public service motivation (PSM) both address whether public service delivery is driven by something more than self-interest. They have developed separately, although they can benefit from insights developed by the other, and this article discusses conceptual and empirical relationships between them. Based on a survey of 501 public managers, we find that PSM and PV are associated empirically, but not in a …
Do Municipal Mergers Improve Fiscal Outcomes
Improved fiscal management is a frequent justification for promoting boundary consolidations. However, whether or not this is actually the case is rarely placed under rigorous empirical scrutiny. Hence, this article investigates if fiscal outcomes are improved when municipalities are merged. The basic argument is that the conceptualisation of fiscal management in political science is often too narrow as it focuses on the budget and pays hardly an…
Administrative Professionals and the Diffusion of Innovations: The Case of Citizen Service Centres
This article examines how administrative professionals affect the diffusion of one‐stop shops in the form of integrated citizen service centres (CSC) in a Danish local government setting. CSCs are an example of a new organizational form: functionally integrated small units (FISUs). The diffusion of the CSCs among municipalities is used to analyse how administrative professionals act as drivers in the process of organizational level innovation. Fu…
Committed to the Public Interest? Motivation and Behavioural Outcomes Among Local Councillors
While politicians are often seen as being motivated by narrow self‐interest, this article offers an alternative view. The relationship between two pro‐social dimensions – Commitment to the Public Interest ( CPI ) and User Orientation ( UO ) – and behavioural outcomes among local councillors is analyzed. The raison d'être for the local councils is to define the public interest. In line with this, CPI , which is directed towards doing good for the …
Individual Performance: From Common Source Bias to Institutionalized Assessment
Performance is perhaps the most central concept in public administration research, and this article discusses theoretically and investigates empirically how we can obtain more consistent performance measures. Theoretically, we combine existing arguments in public administration with institutional theory and the sociology of professions. Empirically, we ask whether different measures of individual performance produce different results. The investi…
Citizen Attitudes on Politicians’ Pay: Trust Issues Are Not Solved by Delegation
Citizens are generally opposed to politicians receiving a high pay. We investigate the degree to which this aversion is moderated by citizens’ individual-level trust in politicians and whether institutional delegation can moderate the reactions to proposed changes in politicians’ pay. Using a survey experiment, we confirm that trust in politicians is a key predictor of attitudes regarding their pay. Distrust toward politicians seems to matter muc…
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Voluntary Retirement from Danish Local Government: Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Voluntary Retirement from Danish Local Government
Why do politicians choose to retire voluntarily from a position they have been working hard to get? It is argued in this article that the institutional setting of the elected assemblies influences the direct, as well as the alternative costs and benefits of having a political career and hence the patterns of voluntary retirement. Drawing on previous research from the United States Congress, this is explored in a new empirical setting: local gover…
Is Realist Evaluation a Realistic Approach for Complex Reforms
The realist evaluation (RE) approach is a promising contribution to the literature on theory-driven evaluation.Thus far, RE has mainly been applied to the evaluation of human service programmes, but the aim of this article is to investigate if it can be extended to large-scale public sector reforms, in casu: the reform of the electricity market in Denmark. Five areas of regulation under the reform were selected and hypotheses on the context, mech…
On Irrigation and the Balinese State
Ideas are transformed as they transfer: A comparative study of eco-taxation in Scandinavia
In this article, insights from diverging institutional perspectives on the concept of ideas are integrated into a sequential analysis of mechanisms of transfer and transformation. The analysis of the introduction of eco-taxation into two policy sectors in the Scandinavian countries shows that, as the idea of eco-taxation transfers, a well-known instrument can be framed as rational and legitimate, and policy-makers 'hook' on to the idea in order t…
Citizens’ Aversion to Pay Raises for Politicians: The Risk of Self-Interest Matter More Than the Promise of Competence
Citizens value competence in politicians. However, while offering high pay is a key strategy when recruiting competent candidates in the job market, most citizens are highly averse to paying politicians higher salaries. We argue that this aversion arises from one fundamental concern among citizens: self-interested politicians. Using data from a large-scale preregistered survey experiment, we show that citizens are affected by the argument that hi…
Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Indonesia is one of the world’s great plural societies. Its population of 238 millionspans thousands of islands and hundreds of ethnic and religious groups, the locallives of which have been shaped by regional and global dynamics. The archipelagowas integrated first by trade routes, mercantilism and colonialism, then through concerted efforts at post-Independence nation-building that employed the region’s lingua franca as a national language, and…
Political Consensus and Fiscal Outcomes
It is becoming difficult to maintain consensus in a period of economic austerity, and this possibly challenges the ability of democratic institutions to take decisions on tough economic questions. In order to find out how political consensus influences fiscal outcomes, this article sets out to analyse the association between political consensus and public expenditure growth. The results show that political consensus is positively associated with …
Transfer and transformation in processes of Europeanization
There is a missing link between studies that investigate how regulation is becoming more similar, on the one hand, and studies that focus on how national policy styles and administrative traditions create patterns of stable diversity on the other. This article attempts to bridge these views in an analysis of how ideas transform as they transfer. The article shows that the idea of creating independent regulatory authorities (IRAs) has become insti…
The Closed Door: A Democratic Problem in the Post‐Political Careers of Cabinet Ministers
At the end of their political career, some politicians pass through ‘a revolving door’, while others face ‘a closed door’, in the sense that they have difficulty finding a job after their incumbency. Based on in‐depth interviews with 15 Danish ex‐ministers, this study shows how a minister's specialized skills, knowledge and networks related to the decision‐making processes of government are considered by the ministers themselves to be important c…
Spending and cutting are two different worlds: Experimental evidence from Danish local councils
This article investigates politicians’ preferences for cutting and spending. The research questions are where do politicians prefer to cut, where do they prefer to spend and how is this influenced by political ideology? These questions are investigated in a large-scale survey experiment fielded to Danish local councillors, who are randomly assigned to a decision-making situation, where the block grant provided to their municipality is either incr…
Responding to Decentralisation in the Aftermath of the Bali Bombing
This article focuses on a local Balinese initiative, the ‘Traditional Village Committee Project’, in which local elites joined with village assemblies to take advantage of the new opportunities offered by Indonesia's decentralisation programme. Through the initiative, traditional village units under leadership of the local prince responded to threats of radicalised politics and loss of tourism revenue. But beyond these responses to immediate poli…
Rewarding the Top: Citizens' Opposition to Higher Pay for Politicians
The rewards of politicians are a key part of the implicit contract between politicians and citizens, and the effect of these rewards on democratic legitimacy and political recruitment is a central concern in public debate and democratic theory. Using a survey experiment, we show how citizens respond to hypothetical changes in politicians’ pay. The results indicate that citizens express lower levels of trust in the politicians when these politicia…
What does the minister do? On the working conditions of political leaders
This article contributes insight into the working conditions of political leaders based on rarely accessible high‐quality data that include unique surveys of Danish ministers, mayors, and permanent secretaries supplemented by in‐depth interviews. The results show that the classical metaphor of the leader as a puppet master being pulled by an endless number of strings also fits the ministers. Their work life is fragmented in time and space, and th…
Turning Innovation into Evidence‐based Policies: Lessons Learned from Free Commune Experiments
There is a great need for innovation in the public sector and for improved understanding of how innovation can be turned into evidence‐based public policy. This article discusses potential contributions from 30 years of experience in the Nordic countries with a reform programme called ‘Free Commune Experiments’ (FCEs). Here, local authorities are granted waivers from legislation to experiment with normally ‘illegal’ practices. The article asks if…
The Enchantment of Agriculture: State Decentering and Irrigated Rice Production in Bali
This article explores state involvement in the ‘enchanted’ aspects of irrigated rice production in Bali, Indonesia. Modernising states invariably forward what Max Weber called the rationalisation and disenchantment of the world. In irrigation management, the Indonesian colonial and postcolonial states operated staunchly on this model. ‘Enchanted’ elements of Balinese rice production involving temples and rituals were assumed irrelevant and sideli…
Ambiguous Bleeding: Purity and Sacrifice in Bali
Menstrual beliefs and practices in Bali defy simple classification. Menstruation may be relegated to the dump, as when a woman had to undergo a rite on a street midden when her monthly period coincided with the ritual time for a purification ceremony. But menstruation is also viewed as conferring raja status, and women do exhibit agency in this supposedly passive process. Experiences of menstruation, furthermore, may vary according to caste statu…
The Europeanisation of CO2 Regulation in the Scandinavian Countries
The impact of European integration differs over time and between states. This article demonstrates how the increasing europeanisation of CO2 regulation in the Scandinavian countries has lead to increasing convergence in the regulatory systems for very important target groups. The same system is being implemented in EU-member states (Denmark and Sweden) and an EEA member state (Norway), but at this stage the implementation is dissimilar in the sen…
Les dynamiques de changement: Comparaison des autorités de régulation indépendantes des pays baltes avec celles des anciens états membres
Dynamics of Administrative Change ? Comparing Independent Regulation Authorities in the New Member States with those of the “Old”Member States The emergence of Independent Regulation Authorities (IRAs) is a relatively recent phenomenon, well known in political science. In an original presentation based on electricity supply, the authors show that the IRAs of the various EU Member States have more independence and competencies in countries where s…
The Political Impact of Environmental Economic Ideas
CO2 taxes on industry increased in the Scandinavian countries over the course of the 1990s, whereas taxation on agricultural emissions of nitrogen stagnated or decreased. Variations between the two policy fields can in part be explained by contrasting ideational viabilities. Two diverging expert communities exist in the agricultural sector: the first is dominated by agricultural scientists, whose analytical vantage point is field production; the …
On Irrigation and the Balinese State
Transfer and transformation in processes of Europeanization
There is a missing link between studies that investigate how regulation is becoming more similar, on the one hand, and studies that focus on how national policy styles and administrative traditions create patterns of stable diversity on the other. This article attempts to bridge these views in an analysis of how ideas transform as they transfer. The article shows that the idea of creating independent regulatory authorities (IRAs) has become insti…
Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film: Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film
Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film
Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film. E. D. Lewis, ed. London: Routledge Harwood Anthropology, 2004. 297 pp
Ideas are transformed as they transfer: A comparative study of eco-taxation in Scandinavia
In this article, insights from diverging institutional perspectives on the concept of ideas are integrated into a sequential analysis of mechanisms of transfer and transformation. The analysis of the introduction of eco-taxation into two policy sectors in the Scandinavian countries shows that, as the idea of eco-taxation transfers, a well-known instrument can be framed as rational and legitimate, and policy-makers 'hook' on to the idea in order t…
Responding to Decentralisation in the Aftermath of the Bali Bombing
This article focuses on a local Balinese initiative, the ‘Traditional Village Committee Project’, in which local elites joined with village assemblies to take advantage of the new opportunities offered by Indonesia's decentralisation programme. Through the initiative, traditional village units under leadership of the local prince responded to threats of radicalised politics and loss of tourism revenue. But beyond these responses to immediate poli…
Film and Video
Is Realist Evaluation a Realistic Approach for Complex Reforms
The realist evaluation (RE) approach is a promising contribution to the literature on theory-driven evaluation.Thus far, RE has mainly been applied to the evaluation of human service programmes, but the aim of this article is to investigate if it can be extended to large-scale public sector reforms, in casu: the reform of the electricity market in Denmark. Five areas of regulation under the reform were selected and hypotheses on the context, mech…
Film and Video
The Effects of Administrative Professionals on Contracting Out
An often‐debated subject in the public administration literature concerns why some units contract out more than others. The present article decomposes the influence of public employees on municipal contracting as different types of employees have different skills and incentives and must be treated accordingly. First, the analysis shows that the apparent negative relationship between public employees in general and municipal contracting is partly …
Community, Environment, and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the Commonweal. Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series, No. 22 . Carol Warren , John F. McCarthy
Administrative Professionals and the Diffusion of Innovations: The Case of Citizen Service Centres
This article examines how administrative professionals affect the diffusion of one‐stop shops in the form of integrated citizen service centres (CSC) in a Danish local government setting. CSCs are an example of a new organizational form: functionally integrated small units (FISUs). The diffusion of the CSCs among municipalities is used to analyse how administrative professionals act as drivers in the process of organizational level innovation. Fu…
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Voluntary Retirement from Danish Local Government: Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Voluntary Retirement from Danish Local Government
Why do politicians choose to retire voluntarily from a position they have been working hard to get? It is argued in this article that the institutional setting of the elected assemblies influences the direct, as well as the alternative costs and benefits of having a political career and hence the patterns of voluntary retirement. Drawing on previous research from the United States Congress, this is explored in a new empirical setting: local gover…
One‐stop Shops for Social Welfare: The Adaptation of an Organizational Form in Three Countries
In recent years welfare services in Western Europe have been criticized for poor coordination. In response, ‘seamlessness’ has emerged as a vision for public administration with ‘one‐stop shops' viewed as means to reach this. This article conceptualizes the one‐stop shop and presents a three country case study to examine its drivers and its adaptation. In all countries the reforms meant mergers driven by hopes for a single entrance to services as…
Public Values and Public Service Motivation: Conceptual and Empirical Relationships
The literatures on public values (PV) and public service motivation (PSM) both address whether public service delivery is driven by something more than self-interest. They have developed separately, although they can benefit from insights developed by the other, and this article discusses conceptual and empirical relationships between them. Based on a survey of 501 public managers, we find that PSM and PV are associated empirically, but not in a …
Attracting public service motivated employees: How to design compensation packages
Public sector managers want to attract employees with high public service motivation as they are expected to perform better. The public service motivation literature rarely gives practical advice on how this can be done. Recognizing that compensation packages act as a sorting device that can be used to attract specific types of workers, we combine empirical measures of public service motivation with a newly developed approach to employees’ moneta…
Committed to the Public Interest? Motivation and Behavioural Outcomes Among Local Councillors
While politicians are often seen as being motivated by narrow self‐interest, this article offers an alternative view. The relationship between two pro‐social dimensions – Commitment to the Public Interest ( CPI ) and User Orientation ( UO ) – and behavioural outcomes among local councillors is analyzed. The raison d'être for the local councils is to define the public interest. In line with this, CPI , which is directed towards doing good for the …
Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance
The growth in international research on public service motivation (PSM) raises a number of important questions about the degree to which the theory and research developed in one country can contribute to our understanding of PSM in other counties. To help address this issue, this study revisits the conceptual and operational definitions of PSM to address weaknesses previously noted in the literature. Although some important steps have been taken …
Do Municipal Mergers Improve Fiscal Outcomes
Improved fiscal management is a frequent justification for promoting boundary consolidations. However, whether or not this is actually the case is rarely placed under rigorous empirical scrutiny. Hence, this article investigates if fiscal outcomes are improved when municipalities are merged. The basic argument is that the conceptualisation of fiscal management in political science is often too narrow as it focuses on the budget and pays hardly an…
How Does Public Service Motivation Among Teachers Affect Student Performance in Schools
The literature expects public service motivation (PSM) to affect performance, but most of the existing studies of this relationship use subjective performance data and focus on output rather than outcome.This article investigates the association between PSM and the performance of Danish teachers using an objective outcome measure (the students' academic performance in their final examinations).Combining survey data and administrative register dat…
Political Consensus and Fiscal Outcomes
It is becoming difficult to maintain consensus in a period of economic austerity, and this possibly challenges the ability of democratic institutions to take decisions on tough economic questions. In order to find out how political consensus influences fiscal outcomes, this article sets out to analyse the association between political consensus and public expenditure growth. The results show that political consensus is positively associated with …
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