Angel Luis Molina
Biographic Data
| ID | 4401201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angel Luis Molina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angel Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | Molina |
| SIGNATURE | MOLINA A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7514-8830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Think Leader, Think Gender? The Gendered Attributes Associated with Ideal Leadership Roles
The top-ranking official of a public organization might be called a leader, manager, public manager, or a more specific term tied to the organization. While these terms have similar meanings and are sometimes used interchangeably, each one might convey a very different set of normative role expectations and requisite attributes. This study examines how the word used to describe the top-ranking official of an organization is associated with gender…
School Choice and Neighborhood Relationships in Urban Areas
Traditional school enrollment practices, especially in urban areas, were guided by neighborhood boundaries and students had to attend their zoned school. However, there has been an increase of “school choice” policies across the United States, in which parents are allowed to openly enroll their children in schools regardless of boundary restrictions. Concomitantly, there is an increase in loneliness and a decrease in social connectedness in indiv…
Does leader gender matter for performance evaluations? Evidence from two experiments
Public evaluations of organizations and their leaders are core features of public management used to foster accountability. Yet, prior research suggests that evaluations can be unduly influenced by leaders’ personal attributes and social identities, such as those signalled by gender. We examine these expectations using preregistered vignette experiments that vary the manager’s gender and level of performance in two distinct settings: education an…
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité
During a global pandemic, individual views of government can be linked to citizens' trust and cooperation with government and their propensity to resist state policies or to take action that influences the course of a pandemic. This article explores citizens' assessments of government responses to COVID‐19 as a function of policy substance (restrictions on civil liberties), information about performance, and socioeconomic inequity in outcomes. We…
Improving the performance of public organizations
The link between expenditures and organizational performance is central to our understanding of public sector governance. Despite various empirical and theoretical accounts of how organizations buffer or exploit financial situations to stabilize outcomes, the literature remains split on how money influences organizational performance. This study sheds new light on this puzzle by developing an analysis of clientele contexts, and how such contexts …
Ethnoracial Representation and the Politics of Public-Sector Responsiveness
Representation in service-providing organizations is vital to the inclusion of ethnoracial minorities in a democratic society. The political contexts that encompass these organizations can influence the equity of services that historically underserved groups experience. These contexts are especially meaningful for Latino communities, where bureaucratic representation is a growing venue of responsiveness in American democracy. Yet relatively littl…
Conceptualizing Lenses, Dimensions, Constructs, and Indicators for Urban Park Quality
Social and environmental quality are essential components of urban parks, yet they are difficult to define and measure systematically and comprehensively across different types of parks. To simplify this issue, scholars have often equated park size with quality. However, we argue that there are many other significant aspects of park quality in addition to park size, which include constructs such as safety, access, amenities, social inclusion, aes…
Angling for Sharks, Not Pilot Fish
The existing literature in public administration and related disciplines tends to view government corruption in terms of legal transgression, specific acts by public officials in violation of public law. The present authors contend that a particularly worrisome form of corruption, one generally overlooked in the literature, is deep corruption, acts by public officials thwarting public values but acts not necessarily countermanded by public laws. …
Politics or Professionalism? Budgeting for Bilingual Education
What drives budgetary support for minority-targeted policies? This question is increasingly salient because the public sector serves numerous minority clientele. One perspective suggests that budgetary decisions are grounded in need or demand, while another contends that political pressures will result in the allocation of resources to those with political power. This article presents a theory of budgetary allocation based on the interaction betw…
Demographic dreams, institutional realities
Structural elements of the political process can influence whether the interests of racial and ethnic minorities are accounted for by policy-making organizations. This study focuses on these elements by analyzing how the institutional design of local elections impacts the representation of the Latino demographic. We use an original, nationally representative survey of the 1800 largest U.S. school districts conducted over several years to assess t…
Is Active Representation an Organizational-Level Process? The Indirect Effect of Bureaucrats on Clients They Don’t Directly Serve
A now well-established link exists between passive representation of racial and gender minorities in certain bureaucracies and substantive benefits for the represented groups. However, few quantitative studies have distinguished between the multiple possible mechanisms by which passive representation might produce such effects. We conduct a novel set of empirical analyses aimed at determining whether or not passive representation produces effects…
Judging dream keepers
There is consensus among scholars, policy experts, and ordinary Latinos that a Latino education crisis exists, and that education is the primary vehicle for achieving the American Dream. Yet we know surprisingly little about what predicts Latinos' views of the bureaucrats and organizations charged with translating their educational hopes into reality. This study links disparate literatures to provide theory and evidence about how group features a…
Is Active Representation an Organizational-Level Process? The Indirect Effect of Bureaucrats on Clients They Don’t Directly Serve
A now well-established link exists between passive representation of racial and gender minorities in certain bureaucracies and substantive benefits for the represented groups. However, few quantitative studies have distinguished between the multiple possible mechanisms by which passive representation might produce such effects. We conduct a novel set of empirical analyses aimed at determining whether or not passive representation produces effects…
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité
During a global pandemic, individual views of government can be linked to citizens' trust and cooperation with government and their propensity to resist state policies or to take action that influences the course of a pandemic. This article explores citizens' assessments of government responses to COVID‐19 as a function of policy substance (restrictions on civil liberties), information about performance, and socioeconomic inequity in outcomes. We…
Improving the performance of public organizations
The link between expenditures and organizational performance is central to our understanding of public sector governance. Despite various empirical and theoretical accounts of how organizations buffer or exploit financial situations to stabilize outcomes, the literature remains split on how money influences organizational performance. This study sheds new light on this puzzle by developing an analysis of clientele contexts, and how such contexts …
Politics or Professionalism? Budgeting for Bilingual Education
What drives budgetary support for minority-targeted policies? This question is increasingly salient because the public sector serves numerous minority clientele. One perspective suggests that budgetary decisions are grounded in need or demand, while another contends that political pressures will result in the allocation of resources to those with political power. This article presents a theory of budgetary allocation based on the interaction betw…
Demographic dreams, institutional realities
Structural elements of the political process can influence whether the interests of racial and ethnic minorities are accounted for by policy-making organizations. This study focuses on these elements by analyzing how the institutional design of local elections impacts the representation of the Latino demographic. We use an original, nationally representative survey of the 1800 largest U.S. school districts conducted over several years to assess t…
Ethnoracial Representation and the Politics of Public-Sector Responsiveness
Representation in service-providing organizations is vital to the inclusion of ethnoracial minorities in a democratic society. The political contexts that encompass these organizations can influence the equity of services that historically underserved groups experience. These contexts are especially meaningful for Latino communities, where bureaucratic representation is a growing venue of responsiveness in American democracy. Yet relatively littl…
Judging dream keepers
There is consensus among scholars, policy experts, and ordinary Latinos that a Latino education crisis exists, and that education is the primary vehicle for achieving the American Dream. Yet we know surprisingly little about what predicts Latinos' views of the bureaucrats and organizations charged with translating their educational hopes into reality. This study links disparate literatures to provide theory and evidence about how group features a…
Demographic dreams, institutional realities
Structural elements of the political process can influence whether the interests of racial and ethnic minorities are accounted for by policy-making organizations. This study focuses on these elements by analyzing how the institutional design of local elections impacts the representation of the Latino demographic. We use an original, nationally representative survey of the 1800 largest U.S. school districts conducted over several years to assess t…
Is Active Representation an Organizational-Level Process? The Indirect Effect of Bureaucrats on Clients They Don’t Directly Serve
A now well-established link exists between passive representation of racial and gender minorities in certain bureaucracies and substantive benefits for the represented groups. However, few quantitative studies have distinguished between the multiple possible mechanisms by which passive representation might produce such effects. We conduct a novel set of empirical analyses aimed at determining whether or not passive representation produces effects…
Angling for Sharks, Not Pilot Fish
The existing literature in public administration and related disciplines tends to view government corruption in terms of legal transgression, specific acts by public officials in violation of public law. The present authors contend that a particularly worrisome form of corruption, one generally overlooked in the literature, is deep corruption, acts by public officials thwarting public values but acts not necessarily countermanded by public laws. …
Politics or Professionalism? Budgeting for Bilingual Education
What drives budgetary support for minority-targeted policies? This question is increasingly salient because the public sector serves numerous minority clientele. One perspective suggests that budgetary decisions are grounded in need or demand, while another contends that political pressures will result in the allocation of resources to those with political power. This article presents a theory of budgetary allocation based on the interaction betw…
Conceptualizing Lenses, Dimensions, Constructs, and Indicators for Urban Park Quality
Social and environmental quality are essential components of urban parks, yet they are difficult to define and measure systematically and comprehensively across different types of parks. To simplify this issue, scholars have often equated park size with quality. However, we argue that there are many other significant aspects of park quality in addition to park size, which include constructs such as safety, access, amenities, social inclusion, aes…
Ethnoracial Representation and the Politics of Public-Sector Responsiveness
Representation in service-providing organizations is vital to the inclusion of ethnoracial minorities in a democratic society. The political contexts that encompass these organizations can influence the equity of services that historically underserved groups experience. These contexts are especially meaningful for Latino communities, where bureaucratic representation is a growing venue of responsiveness in American democracy. Yet relatively littl…
Improving the performance of public organizations
The link between expenditures and organizational performance is central to our understanding of public sector governance. Despite various empirical and theoretical accounts of how organizations buffer or exploit financial situations to stabilize outcomes, the literature remains split on how money influences organizational performance. This study sheds new light on this puzzle by developing an analysis of clientele contexts, and how such contexts …
Liberté, Égalité, Crédibilité
During a global pandemic, individual views of government can be linked to citizens' trust and cooperation with government and their propensity to resist state policies or to take action that influences the course of a pandemic. This article explores citizens' assessments of government responses to COVID‐19 as a function of policy substance (restrictions on civil liberties), information about performance, and socioeconomic inequity in outcomes. We…
Does leader gender matter for performance evaluations? Evidence from two experiments
Public evaluations of organizations and their leaders are core features of public management used to foster accountability. Yet, prior research suggests that evaluations can be unduly influenced by leaders’ personal attributes and social identities, such as those signalled by gender. We examine these expectations using preregistered vignette experiments that vary the manager’s gender and level of performance in two distinct settings: education an…
Think Leader, Think Gender? The Gendered Attributes Associated with Ideal Leadership Roles
The top-ranking official of a public organization might be called a leader, manager, public manager, or a more specific term tied to the organization. While these terms have similar meanings and are sometimes used interchangeably, each one might convey a very different set of normative role expectations and requisite attributes. This study examines how the word used to describe the top-ranking official of an organization is associated with gender…
School Choice and Neighborhood Relationships in Urban Areas
Traditional school enrollment practices, especially in urban areas, were guided by neighborhood boundaries and students had to attend their zoned school. However, there has been an increase of “school choice” policies across the United States, in which parents are allowed to openly enroll their children in schools regardless of boundary restrictions. Concomitantly, there is an increase in loneliness and a decrease in social connectedness in indiv…
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