Tansu Demir
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tansu Demir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tansu |
| FAMILY NAME | Demir |
| SIGNATURE | DEMIR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6502-368X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Categorical Framework of Ethical Leadership for Public Organizations
Organizational managers serve as ethical role models in their capacity as leaders. Mainstream research on ethics leadership is multidisciplinary, although empirical research is dominated by business administration and psychology scholars with less empirical work in public administration. This article develops and tests a categorical framework for ethical leadership behavior by applying it to data from a national survey of Chief Administrative Off…
Toward an Organizational Ethics Culture Framework
This research explores what public managers think about the elements of an ethical organizational culture predominately discussed in the literature. It develops a multidimensional framework of these elements and uses it to explore data from a national survey of local government administrators. The framework is derived from the literature in public administration on organizational ethics. This research tests the organizational ethics framework on …
Ethical Performance in Local Governments
How to promote ethical conduct in the public sector has been discussed extensively in the public administration literature, yet empirical studies that employ comprehensive datasets are rare. This study proposes a hybrid model to explain ethical performance in local governments. Results of our study point to the importance of leadership in creating ethical organizations. Analysis of comprehensive survey data collected from local governments suppor…
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments
The literature in public administration has advanced various propositions to promote ethical behavior. Local governments have undertaken various efforts in that direction. Those efforts are considered critical for building ethical leadership and culture in the long run. Based on a literature review and use of Social Learning Theory, we identify four building blocks of an ethics infrastructure for public organizations. Employing a comprehensive su…
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management
This article examines two approaches to ethics management found in the literature: compliance‐based and integrity‐based, often called the low road and high road. It asks whether both approaches genuinely exist in practice as the literature suggests and whether they are distinct. Data were collected in a national survey of 764 International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) on ethics management practice…
Citizen satisfaction with public service delivery
Two prevailing theories explain citizen satisfaction with public services from different levels and sizes of government. Reform theory argues that citizens derive the most satisfaction from larger government units because of economies of scale in service delivery. Political economy theory argues that citizens achieve the most satisfaction from smaller local government units since their voice is more likely to be heard. Both theories have been tes…
The Professional Mind-Set of City Managers
We develop a theoretical model of city manager professionalism addressing professional guidance and commitment, and four public service values: ethical solutions, neutral competence, political responsiveness, and political solutions. We tested these professionalism values on a national survey sample of city managers in the United States. Using structural equation modeling, we found evidence that professionalism acted directly on reported ethical …
Horizontal, Vertical, and Hybrid
The existing accountability research in public administration either provides conceptual analyses and definitions of forms of accountability or case studies on accountability. They focus on the structure of responsibility or responding behavior. This article is different in that it tests actors’ perceptions of the three commonly cited forms of accountability identified in the literature—vertical, horizontal, and hybrid. We test accountability on …
Municipal Professionalism
Although professionalism remains important to the study and practice of public administration, its features have remained unclear. Whether public managers share a professional identity has yet to be empirically tested. In this article, we test a model of professional identity among public managers, using a national sample of city managers, the first profession in public administration. Both public administration in general and city management in …
Understanding Shared Roles in Policy and Administration
Recent literature in public administration emphasizes enhanced collaboration between elected and administrative officials. The complementarity view is presented as an alternative to the traditional politics–administration dichotomy. At the center of this new perspective lies the concept of shared roles between elected officials and public administrators with respect to policy making and administration. This article expands the emerging literature…
Politics and Administration
The question of how public administration fits into the governance process of a democratic society has been of great concern to scholars and practitioners since the emergence of public administration as an academic field of study in the late 1880s. The politics-administration relationship is considered of pivotal importance, as the issue bears important implications for both the disciplinary identity (and autonomy) and the institutional developme…
The Complementarity View
The politics–administration dichotomy has drawn criticism from contemporary public administration scholars largely because of its lack of descriptive accuracy and particular normative inclinations. In their search for an alternative model to the dichotomy, some scholars developed what is widely known today as complementarity. Although this emerging view received an enthusiastic welcome from many scholars and practitioners, more research has yet t…
The Politics–Administration Dichotomy
The politics–administration dichotomy has been one of the most disputed theories of public administration. Despite serious critiques, neither the theoretical utility nor the normative power of the dichotomy has totally disappeared over the past decades. The dichotomy has been advocated on the grounds that the dichotomous division of labor and authority between elected and administrative officials increases the democratic accountability and planni…
Politically Driven Regulations and Enforcement
This article examines the policy of monitoring private broadcast contents in Turkey from 1993 to 2002. In general, the policy aimed to regulate the growing number of private stations that operated almost free of government control and to protect the public from the negative effects of private broadcasts. Implementation nonetheless attempted to prevent and reduce Kurd separatist and Muslim fundamentalist broadcasts. These broadcasts were often fou…
Politics and Administration
The question of how public administration fits into the governance process of a democratic society has been of great concern to scholars and practitioners since the emergence of public administration as an academic field of study in the late 1880s. The politics-administration relationship is considered of pivotal importance, as the issue bears important implications for both the disciplinary identity (and autonomy) and the institutional developme…
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management
This article examines two approaches to ethics management found in the literature: compliance‐based and integrity‐based, often called the low road and high road. It asks whether both approaches genuinely exist in practice as the literature suggests and whether they are distinct. Data were collected in a national survey of 764 International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) on ethics management practice…
Horizontal, Vertical, and Hybrid
The existing accountability research in public administration either provides conceptual analyses and definitions of forms of accountability or case studies on accountability. They focus on the structure of responsibility or responding behavior. This article is different in that it tests actors’ perceptions of the three commonly cited forms of accountability identified in the literature—vertical, horizontal, and hybrid. We test accountability on …
The Professional Mind-Set of City Managers
We develop a theoretical model of city manager professionalism addressing professional guidance and commitment, and four public service values: ethical solutions, neutral competence, political responsiveness, and political solutions. We tested these professionalism values on a national survey sample of city managers in the United States. Using structural equation modeling, we found evidence that professionalism acted directly on reported ethical …
Toward an Organizational Ethics Culture Framework
This research explores what public managers think about the elements of an ethical organizational culture predominately discussed in the literature. It develops a multidimensional framework of these elements and uses it to explore data from a national survey of local government administrators. The framework is derived from the literature in public administration on organizational ethics. This research tests the organizational ethics framework on …
Ethical Performance in Local Governments
How to promote ethical conduct in the public sector has been discussed extensively in the public administration literature, yet empirical studies that employ comprehensive datasets are rare. This study proposes a hybrid model to explain ethical performance in local governments. Results of our study point to the importance of leadership in creating ethical organizations. Analysis of comprehensive survey data collected from local governments suppor…
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments
The literature in public administration has advanced various propositions to promote ethical behavior. Local governments have undertaken various efforts in that direction. Those efforts are considered critical for building ethical leadership and culture in the long run. Based on a literature review and use of Social Learning Theory, we identify four building blocks of an ethics infrastructure for public organizations. Employing a comprehensive su…
Citizen satisfaction with public service delivery
Two prevailing theories explain citizen satisfaction with public services from different levels and sizes of government. Reform theory argues that citizens derive the most satisfaction from larger government units because of economies of scale in service delivery. Political economy theory argues that citizens achieve the most satisfaction from smaller local government units since their voice is more likely to be heard. Both theories have been tes…
Politically Driven Regulations and Enforcement
This article examines the policy of monitoring private broadcast contents in Turkey from 1993 to 2002. In general, the policy aimed to regulate the growing number of private stations that operated almost free of government control and to protect the public from the negative effects of private broadcasts. Implementation nonetheless attempted to prevent and reduce Kurd separatist and Muslim fundamentalist broadcasts. These broadcasts were often fou…
The Politics–Administration Dichotomy
The politics–administration dichotomy has been one of the most disputed theories of public administration. Despite serious critiques, neither the theoretical utility nor the normative power of the dichotomy has totally disappeared over the past decades. The dichotomy has been advocated on the grounds that the dichotomous division of labor and authority between elected and administrative officials increases the democratic accountability and planni…
Politics and Administration
The question of how public administration fits into the governance process of a democratic society has been of great concern to scholars and practitioners since the emergence of public administration as an academic field of study in the late 1880s. The politics-administration relationship is considered of pivotal importance, as the issue bears important implications for both the disciplinary identity (and autonomy) and the institutional developme…
The Complementarity View
The politics–administration dichotomy has drawn criticism from contemporary public administration scholars largely because of its lack of descriptive accuracy and particular normative inclinations. In their search for an alternative model to the dichotomy, some scholars developed what is widely known today as complementarity. Although this emerging view received an enthusiastic welcome from many scholars and practitioners, more research has yet t…
Understanding Shared Roles in Policy and Administration
Recent literature in public administration emphasizes enhanced collaboration between elected and administrative officials. The complementarity view is presented as an alternative to the traditional politics–administration dichotomy. At the center of this new perspective lies the concept of shared roles between elected officials and public administrators with respect to policy making and administration. This article expands the emerging literature…
Municipal Professionalism
Although professionalism remains important to the study and practice of public administration, its features have remained unclear. Whether public managers share a professional identity has yet to be empirically tested. In this article, we test a model of professional identity among public managers, using a national sample of city managers, the first profession in public administration. Both public administration in general and city management in …
The Professional Mind-Set of City Managers
We develop a theoretical model of city manager professionalism addressing professional guidance and commitment, and four public service values: ethical solutions, neutral competence, political responsiveness, and political solutions. We tested these professionalism values on a national survey sample of city managers in the United States. Using structural equation modeling, we found evidence that professionalism acted directly on reported ethical …
Horizontal, Vertical, and Hybrid
The existing accountability research in public administration either provides conceptual analyses and definitions of forms of accountability or case studies on accountability. They focus on the structure of responsibility or responding behavior. This article is different in that it tests actors’ perceptions of the three commonly cited forms of accountability identified in the literature—vertical, horizontal, and hybrid. We test accountability on …
Citizen satisfaction with public service delivery
Two prevailing theories explain citizen satisfaction with public services from different levels and sizes of government. Reform theory argues that citizens derive the most satisfaction from larger government units because of economies of scale in service delivery. Political economy theory argues that citizens achieve the most satisfaction from smaller local government units since their voice is more likely to be heard. Both theories have been tes…
Ethical Performance in Local Governments
How to promote ethical conduct in the public sector has been discussed extensively in the public administration literature, yet empirical studies that employ comprehensive datasets are rare. This study proposes a hybrid model to explain ethical performance in local governments. Results of our study point to the importance of leadership in creating ethical organizations. Analysis of comprehensive survey data collected from local governments suppor…
In Search of Ethics Infrastructure in U.S. Local Governments
The literature in public administration has advanced various propositions to promote ethical behavior. Local governments have undertaken various efforts in that direction. Those efforts are considered critical for building ethical leadership and culture in the long run. Based on a literature review and use of Social Learning Theory, we identify four building blocks of an ethics infrastructure for public organizations. Employing a comprehensive su…
A compliance—integrity framework for ethics management
This article examines two approaches to ethics management found in the literature: compliance‐based and integrity‐based, often called the low road and high road. It asks whether both approaches genuinely exist in practice as the literature suggests and whether they are distinct. Data were collected in a national survey of 764 International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) on ethics management practice…
A Categorical Framework of Ethical Leadership for Public Organizations
Organizational managers serve as ethical role models in their capacity as leaders. Mainstream research on ethics leadership is multidisciplinary, although empirical research is dominated by business administration and psychology scholars with less empirical work in public administration. This article develops and tests a categorical framework for ethical leadership behavior by applying it to data from a national survey of Chief Administrative Off…
Toward an Organizational Ethics Culture Framework
This research explores what public managers think about the elements of an ethical organizational culture predominately discussed in the literature. It develops a multidimensional framework of these elements and uses it to explore data from a national survey of local government administrators. The framework is derived from the literature in public administration on organizational ethics. This research tests the organizational ethics framework on …
Political science (14 works) · Public Administration (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Public Administration (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (12 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Business (6 works)