Stuart Bretschneider
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1502533 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stuart Bretschneider |
| PRENOMES | Stuart |
| SOBRENOME | Bretschneider |
| ASSINATURA | BRETSCHNEIDER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Syracuse University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 354 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Simulation-Based Behavioral Experiments on Active Representation
This article tests the implications of linking active representation in representative bureaucracy with social identity theory through experiments using a resource allocation simulation. The simulation places participants in the role of a health care manager who can improve overall health network performance by sharing resources with other clinics. Empirical results do not support the preregistered hypotheses stating greater sharing will occur wh…
Speaking truth to power … or to the Ivory tower? Public affairs researchers’ reports of practitioners’ use of their research
We test a model pertaining to practitioners’ use of public affairs research. The data are from a survey of journal article authors, focusing on authors’ reports of use of their research by practitioners. The survey asks about articles authored by the respondents and published in one of seven leading public affairs journals between 2015 and 2019. Results show that 29.7% of published articles examined are reported by the respondents to have been us…
How do academic public administration and public policy researchers affect policymaking? Functional groupings from survey data
The deformation of democracy in the United States
Recent years have seen a step‐change in the severity and nature of threats to United States democracy, including extensive efforts by elected officials to undercut democratic governance. When elected officials undermine democracy, this constitutes “deformation of democracy.” As implementors and agents of policy, public administrators can sometimes play essential roles as bulwarks against democratic deformation. However, among public administrator…
Reports of practitioners’ use of public affairs faculty published research
Using a unique dataset built around published papers in top quality public policy, public administration and program evaluation journals, we find that 29.7% of respondent authors indicate that the knowledge from their articles was used by policymakers or public administrators. These data are used to test for different patterns of use for policy vs management knowledge. Findings suggest that journal quality positively affects policy use but negati…
Best practice is not just “best”
This paper proposes five major criteria—importance, innovativeness, effectiveness, sustainability and replicability—for determining best practices in public management. The influence of each criterion on the probability that a judge recommends a case as a best practice is examined using data from the first Best Practice Cases for Urban Governance in the Yangtze River Delta competition. The results show that perceptions of innovativeness, effectiv…
E-procurement system adoption in local governments
The article examines how local governments’ procurement complexity and structure interact to influence e-procurement adoption. Drawing on the survey data of over 400 cities, we find that a centralized structure enhances the likelihood that local governments adopt an e-procurement system to cope with the increasing procurement complexity; while governments with a coordinated structure are less likely to adopt e-procurement as they can rely on the …
Social Public Purchasing
Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts. However, as yet, there is little understanding about social public purchasing research in the field of public administration. We provide a theoretical framew…
Organization formalization, sector and social media
Public Management Research Association
A Three‐Stage Adoption Process for Social Media Use in Government
Social media applications are slowly diffusing across all levels of government. The organizational dynamics underlying adoption and use decisions follow a process similar to that for previous waves of new information and communication technologies. The authors suggest that the organizational diffusion of these types of new information and communication technologies, initially aimed at individual use and available through markets, including social…
Politics of E‐Government
This case study reports an innovative e‐government experiment by a local government in Seoul, South Korea—Gangnam‐gu. A new local political leadership in Gangnam made strategic use of e‐government applications to exert greater political control over the local civil service bureaucracy. The authors find that e‐government applications possess political properties that can be applied effectively by the political leadership as instruments to improve …
Th e Decision to Contract Out
Government contracting, especially for information technology products and services, has accelerated in recent years in the United States. Drawing on the insights of privatization studies, the authors examine the economic and political rationales underpinning government decisions to contract out e‐government services. This article tests the extent to which economic and political rationality influence governments’ contracting decisions using data …
Institutions and intellectual property
Over the past 20 years, the number of patents assigned to universities has increased dramatically. This increase coincided with several policy initiatives, such as the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, designed to foster technology transfer between universities and the private sector. This paper examines the effect of such policies using an institutional framework, designed to illustrate how factors both from inside and outside of academia influence the dec…
"Best Practices" Research
Like many applied fields, public administration has a long-running love affair with the idea of “best practices” research. Although occasional reviews and critical examinations of approaches to best practices research have appeared in the literature (Overman and Boyd 1994), very little critical examination and reflection have been devoted to core methodological issues surrounding such work. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we critic…
Information Technology, E‐Government, and Institutional Change
Voluntary behavior by electric utilities
No Abstact
Information Technology and Restructuring in Public Organizations
It has been argued that the adoption and use of information technology (IT) in organizations affects its structure. Few studies extend this analysis to examine whether such restructuring, if it in fact occurs, improves the performance of the organization. It is even more rare for these assertions to be examined in the context of public organizations. We use data from a survey of program managers who work in county-level public agencies to explore…
Introduction to a Symposium on Public Management Information Systems (PMIS)
The Impact of Red Tape's Administrative Delay on Public Organizations' Interest in New Information Technologies
Empirical evidence shows that public organizations have greater red-tape based administrative delay than do private organizations. If public administrators view red tape, at least partially, as a result of organizational communications, then it is likely that burdensome levels of red-tape based delay could motivate interest in new information technologies for facilitating organizational communications. In this article we use a national sample of …
Spillovers of State Policy Innovations
States are often seen as policy laboratories where innovations are tried that may later be adopted by other states or the federal government. Engendering such experiments may, however, promote spillovers on other states. We analyze several of New York State's policy initiatives from the 1980s that were intended to influence the selection of waste management technologies by hazardous waste generators. Time series analysis of hazardous waste manife…
Information Management in Counties
The “Publicness Puzzle” in Organization Theory
Publicness" is defined as a characteristic of an organization which reflects the extent the organization is influenced by political authority. The concept, operationalized as a series of interval measures, is placed in direct competition with the traditional core definition of publicness as ownership (i.e., formal legal status). Using a sample of research and development laboratories, the two approaches are compared in terms of their ability to e…
Statistical Laws of Confidence Versus Behavioral Response
Rational policy analysis confronts the problem of uncertainty directly through various methods of quantification. This paper considers the extent to which individuals are able to subjectively apply the basic tenets of inferential statistics surrounding the generation, use, and interpretation of prediction and confidence intervals. In a small-group experiment, subjects successfully internalized the tradeoff between an interval's accuracy and its s…
Internal Rationality” and the Effects of Perceived Decision Difficulty
Recent work in behavioral decision theory, despite its widespread impact on the social sciences, has not had a corresponding influence on policy decisionmaking. Internal rationality models, in contrast to external rationality models, assume that there can be a rational decision although there is variance in the internal structure of criteria imposed by individual decisionmakers. One concern with internal rationality models is that by legitimizing…
The “Publicness Puzzle” in Organization Theory
Publicness" is defined as a characteristic of an organization which reflects the extent the organization is influenced by political authority. The concept, operationalized as a series of interval measures, is placed in direct competition with the traditional core definition of publicness as ownership (i.e., formal legal status). Using a sample of research and development laboratories, the two approaches are compared in terms of their ability to e…
A Three‐Stage Adoption Process for Social Media Use in Government
Social media applications are slowly diffusing across all levels of government. The organizational dynamics underlying adoption and use decisions follow a process similar to that for previous waves of new information and communication technologies. The authors suggest that the organizational diffusion of these types of new information and communication technologies, initially aimed at individual use and available through markets, including social…
The Impact of Red Tape's Administrative Delay on Public Organizations' Interest in New Information Technologies
Empirical evidence shows that public organizations have greater red-tape based administrative delay than do private organizations. If public administrators view red tape, at least partially, as a result of organizational communications, then it is likely that burdensome levels of red-tape based delay could motivate interest in new information technologies for facilitating organizational communications. In this article we use a national sample of …
Information Technology and Restructuring in Public Organizations
It has been argued that the adoption and use of information technology (IT) in organizations affects its structure. Few studies extend this analysis to examine whether such restructuring, if it in fact occurs, improves the performance of the organization. It is even more rare for these assertions to be examined in the context of public organizations. We use data from a survey of program managers who work in county-level public agencies to explore…
"Best Practices" Research
Like many applied fields, public administration has a long-running love affair with the idea of “best practices” research. Although occasional reviews and critical examinations of approaches to best practices research have appeared in the literature (Overman and Boyd 1994), very little critical examination and reflection have been devoted to core methodological issues surrounding such work. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we critic…
The deformation of democracy in the United States
Recent years have seen a step‐change in the severity and nature of threats to United States democracy, including extensive efforts by elected officials to undercut democratic governance. When elected officials undermine democracy, this constitutes “deformation of democracy.” As implementors and agents of policy, public administrators can sometimes play essential roles as bulwarks against democratic deformation. However, among public administrator…
Organization formalization, sector and social media
Do revenue forecasts influence budget setting? A small group experiment
Curriculum Recommendations for Public Management Education in Computing. Final Report of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Ad Hoc Committee on Computers in Publ…
The United States is increasingly becoming an information society. Over half of the labor force is now engaged in work requiring some level of information processing. Computers are the engines powering this information society and, consequently, their diffusion is considerable and growing. Moreover, from the beginning of the computer age, government has been at the forefront of computer utilization. Given the extensive diffusion of computers thro…
Internal Rationality” and the Effects of Perceived Decision Difficulty
Recent work in behavioral decision theory, despite its widespread impact on the social sciences, has not had a corresponding influence on policy decisionmaking. Internal rationality models, in contrast to external rationality models, assume that there can be a rational decision although there is variance in the internal structure of criteria imposed by individual decisionmakers. One concern with internal rationality models is that by legitimizing…
Statistical Laws of Confidence Versus Behavioral Response
Rational policy analysis confronts the problem of uncertainty directly through various methods of quantification. This paper considers the extent to which individuals are able to subjectively apply the basic tenets of inferential statistics surrounding the generation, use, and interpretation of prediction and confidence intervals. In a small-group experiment, subjects successfully internalized the tradeoff between an interval's accuracy and its s…
Spillovers of State Policy Innovations
States are often seen as policy laboratories where innovations are tried that may later be adopted by other states or the federal government. Engendering such experiments may, however, promote spillovers on other states. We analyze several of New York State's policy initiatives from the 1980s that were intended to influence the selection of waste management technologies by hazardous waste generators. Time series analysis of hazardous waste manife…
Symposium Editors' Foreword
In a recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education Jeffery Moore, assistant dean for computers and information systems at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, was quoted on his description of the area of management information systems (MIS) as A practice in search of a theory.' According to Moore, the paucity of MIS theory has led business school MIS teachers to emphasize the use of specific hardware and software, software devel…
Curriculum Recommendations for Public Management Education in Computing. Final Report of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Ad Hoc Committee on Computers in Publ…
The United States is increasingly becoming an information society. Over half of the labor force is now engaged in work requiring some level of information processing. Computers are the engines powering this information society and, consequently, their diffusion is considerable and growing. Moreover, from the beginning of the computer age, government has been at the forefront of computer utilization. Given the extensive diffusion of computers thro…
The Dynamics of Computing
Public Management Information Systems
One reflection of the enormous increase in interest in management information systems (MIS) is the rapid growth of research, theory, and prescription. But available knowledge of MIS is not of equal service to all managers. Managers working in the public sector must exercise particular caution as they seek to draw lessons from MIS literature. The vast majority of MIS knowledge, both formal and know how, has been developed from private-sector data …
Using Linear Trend Models to Analyze Policy Impact
Policy researchers have become increasingly familiar with a number of improved techniques for analyzing data obtained from interrupted time‐series designs for evaluating public programs and policies. In this paper we contribute to this trend by presenting two groups of data analysis techniques which are not currently widely used by policy researchers, but are likely to be valuable adjuncts to traditional regression techniques for analyzing data o…
Do revenue forecasts influence budget setting? A small group experiment
Political Ecology of Model Use
Management Information Systems in Public and Private Organizations
Statistical Laws of Confidence Versus Behavioral Response
Rational policy analysis confronts the problem of uncertainty directly through various methods of quantification. This paper considers the extent to which individuals are able to subjectively apply the basic tenets of inferential statistics surrounding the generation, use, and interpretation of prediction and confidence intervals. In a small-group experiment, subjects successfully internalized the tradeoff between an interval's accuracy and its s…
Internal Rationality” and the Effects of Perceived Decision Difficulty
Recent work in behavioral decision theory, despite its widespread impact on the social sciences, has not had a corresponding influence on policy decisionmaking. Internal rationality models, in contrast to external rationality models, assume that there can be a rational decision although there is variance in the internal structure of criteria imposed by individual decisionmakers. One concern with internal rationality models is that by legitimizing…
Information Management in Counties
The “Publicness Puzzle” in Organization Theory
Publicness" is defined as a characteristic of an organization which reflects the extent the organization is influenced by political authority. The concept, operationalized as a series of interval measures, is placed in direct competition with the traditional core definition of publicness as ownership (i.e., formal legal status). Using a sample of research and development laboratories, the two approaches are compared in terms of their ability to e…
Spillovers of State Policy Innovations
States are often seen as policy laboratories where innovations are tried that may later be adopted by other states or the federal government. Engendering such experiments may, however, promote spillovers on other states. We analyze several of New York State's policy initiatives from the 1980s that were intended to influence the selection of waste management technologies by hazardous waste generators. Time series analysis of hazardous waste manife…
Introduction to a Symposium on Public Management Information Systems (PMIS)
The Impact of Red Tape's Administrative Delay on Public Organizations' Interest in New Information Technologies
Empirical evidence shows that public organizations have greater red-tape based administrative delay than do private organizations. If public administrators view red tape, at least partially, as a result of organizational communications, then it is likely that burdensome levels of red-tape based delay could motivate interest in new information technologies for facilitating organizational communications. In this article we use a national sample of …
Voluntary behavior by electric utilities
No Abstact
Information Technology and Restructuring in Public Organizations
It has been argued that the adoption and use of information technology (IT) in organizations affects its structure. Few studies extend this analysis to examine whether such restructuring, if it in fact occurs, improves the performance of the organization. It is even more rare for these assertions to be examined in the context of public organizations. We use data from a survey of program managers who work in county-level public agencies to explore…
Information Technology, E‐Government, and Institutional Change
"Best Practices" Research
Like many applied fields, public administration has a long-running love affair with the idea of “best practices” research. Although occasional reviews and critical examinations of approaches to best practices research have appeared in the literature (Overman and Boyd 1994), very little critical examination and reflection have been devoted to core methodological issues surrounding such work. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we critic…
Institutions and intellectual property
Over the past 20 years, the number of patents assigned to universities has increased dramatically. This increase coincided with several policy initiatives, such as the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, designed to foster technology transfer between universities and the private sector. This paper examines the effect of such policies using an institutional framework, designed to illustrate how factors both from inside and outside of academia influence the dec…
Th e Decision to Contract Out
Government contracting, especially for information technology products and services, has accelerated in recent years in the United States. Drawing on the insights of privatization studies, the authors examine the economic and political rationales underpinning government decisions to contract out e‐government services. This article tests the extent to which economic and political rationality influence governments’ contracting decisions using data …
Politics of E‐Government
This case study reports an innovative e‐government experiment by a local government in Seoul, South Korea—Gangnam‐gu. A new local political leadership in Gangnam made strategic use of e‐government applications to exert greater political control over the local civil service bureaucracy. The authors find that e‐government applications possess political properties that can be applied effectively by the political leadership as instruments to improve …
A Three‐Stage Adoption Process for Social Media Use in Government
Social media applications are slowly diffusing across all levels of government. The organizational dynamics underlying adoption and use decisions follow a process similar to that for previous waves of new information and communication technologies. The authors suggest that the organizational diffusion of these types of new information and communication technologies, initially aimed at individual use and available through markets, including social…
Public Management Research Association
Organization formalization, sector and social media
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