A Dynamic Measure of Bureaucratic Reputation
New Data for New Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230749 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luca Bellodi (0000-0001-5923-3923, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 880-897 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12695 |
| OpenAlex | W4225080177 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 43 |
Bureaucratic reputation is one of the most important concepts used to understand the behavior of administrative agencies and their interactions with multiple audiences. Despite a rich theoretical literature discussing reputation, we do not have a comparable measure across agencies, between countries, and over time. I present a new strategy to measure bureaucratic reputation from legislative speeches with word‐embedding techniques. I introduce an original dataset on the reputation of 465 bureaucratic bodies over a period of 40 years, and across two countries—the U.S. and the U.K. I perform several validation tests and present an application of this method to investigate whether partisanship and agency politicization matter for reputation. I find that agencies enjoy a better reputation among the members of the party in government, with partisan differences less pronounced for independent bodies. Finally, I discuss how this measurement strategy can contribute to classical and new questions about political–administrative interactions
Agency (philosophy · Bureaucracy · Database · Economics · Government (linguistics · Legislature · Measure (data warehouse · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public relations · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The Future of Public Administration in the U.S.
Reputation Management
The bureaucratic reputation scale
Presidential Appointments of Military Veterans
The reputational dividends of collaborating with a highly reputable agency
Organizational reputation in executive politics
Modelling policy action using natural language processing
Measuring the Impact of Appointee Vacancies on US Federal Agency Performance
The benefits of nonprofit reputation
Do reputational threats influence the rigidity of US agencies? A dynamic panel data approach
Reputational drivers and deterrents of accountability
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy
The Politics of Presidential Appointments
Deliberate Discretion?
Delegating Powers
Political Institutions
Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes
On Categories and the Countability of Things Bureaucratic
Friend or Foe? Inter‐agency Cooperation, Organizational Reputation, and Turf
Meeting expectations in the EU regulatory state? Regulatory communications amid conflicting institutional demands
Information, Commitment and Consensus
Understanding Delegation Through Machine Learning
Institutional Design versus Reputational Effects on Bureaucratic Performance
Explaining Bureaucratic Optimism
Slow-Rolling, Fast-Tracking, and the Pace of Bureaucratic Decisions in Rulemaking
Democratization and Linguistic Complexity
Lobbying Coalitions and Government Policy Change
A Multidimensional Reputation Barometer for Public Agencies
Corpus-based dictionaries for sentiment analysis of specialized vocabularies
Word Embeddings for the Analysis of Ideological Placement in Parliamentary Corpora
Measuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts
Assessing the Effects of Organizational Resources on Public Agency Performance
Transactional Authority and Bureaucratic Politics
Measuring Agency Attributes with Attitudes Across Time
Machine Learning for Public Administration Research, With Application to Organizational Reputation
Organizational Reputation, Regulatory Talk, and Strategic Silence
Organizational Reputation, the Content of Public Allegations, and Regulatory Communication
The Reputational Basis of Public Accountability
Groups, the Media, Agency Waiting Costs, and FDA Drug Approval
What Makes an Agency Independent
The Effects of Female Leadership on Women's Voice in Political Debate
Measurement Validity
Who Leads? Who Follows? Measuring Issue Attention and Agenda Setting by Legislators and the Mass Public Using Social Media Data
Who Polices the Administrative State
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |