Core values for ideal civil servants
Service‐oriented, responsive and dedicated
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10397804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheeling Neo (0000-0002-7024-8971, Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands, corresponding author), Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (0000-0002-1553-6065, Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands), Lidewij Tummers (0000-0001-9940-9874, Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 838-862 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/puar.13583 |
| OpenAlex | W4310670590 |
| Language | CA |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 70 |
What do citizens want? How do citizens think public servants should behave? Although such questions seem straightforward, little is known about the values citizens expect public servants to uphold. This paper therefore identifies such values through extensive coding of qualitative data from representative samples of United States ( n = 395), Dutch ( n = 369), and South Korean ( n = 379) citizens. Surprisingly, and contrasting to assumptions in the literature on citizen satisfaction, citizens hardly value effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability. In contrast, we found that the top three universal values that citizens desire from public servants are serviceability, responsiveness, and dedication. These values are generic across countries, age, gender, and education level. However, some values are more important in some countries than in others. These differences show the influence of a country's longstanding public administrative tradition and its current situation. Our findings challenge scholars and government officials to rethink what citizens want from their civil servants
Accountability · Civil servants · Civil service · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Public service · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty · Law · Public Administration · Public Administration and Governance · Public Policy and Administration Research
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |