Making Every Vote Count
The Important Role of Managerial Capacity in Achieving Better Election Administration Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6359196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martha Kropf (0000-0001-8137-4538, University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Joellen V Pope (0000-0003-2239-1594, Florida State University Tallahassee Florida), Mary Jo Shepherd (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Zachary Mohr (0000-0002-7533-3382, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 733-742 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-22 |
| 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.13216 |
| OpenAlex | W3036991482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 49 |
A public agency's capacity to implement policy and achieve valued public outcomes has been a long‐running area of research in public administration. Many articles provide theory and empirics regarding the capacity to implement policy, but relatively few examine multiple types of agency capacity within the same analysis. This article develops a model based on the election administration literature in political science and public administration to examine the effects of managerial capacity, financial capacity, and technology on the election management outcome of the residual vote rate in North Carolina election jurisdictions. The results indicate that higher levels of management capacity and technology significantly reduce problems with voting as measured by the residual vote rate. Financial capacity shows a negative association with the residual vote rate but is not significant. The article concludes by discussing how studying election administration provides an important and uniquely good administrative context for developing administrative theory
Administration (probate law · Agency (philosophy · Business · Context (archaeology · Economics · Microeconomics · Outcome (game theory · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public management · Residual · Sociology · Voting · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
To Elect or Appoint? Evidence from Local Election Administration
Softening Performance's Pitfalls by Integrating Context and Capacity
Bayesian Analysis of State Voter Registration Database Integrity
For the People
The Public Funding of Election Administration
Election administration harms and ballot design
Administrative Burden
The Two Reconstructions
Beta Regression for Modelling Rates and Proportions
Capacity for public administration
The cost of elections
Administering Elections
No Longer Unmeasurable? A Multidimensional Integrated Model of Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness
The Changing Nature … and Costs … of Election Administration
Roll‐Off at the Top of the Ballot
Policy capacity in public administration
Public management and organizational performance
Election Administration Finance in California Counties
The Direct and Interactive Effects of Middle and Upper Managerial Quality on Organizational Performance
Abstention, Protest, and Residual Votes in the 2016 Election
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies
Consumption versus Expenditure
The Administrators of Democracy
Building Capacity in Election Administration
Voided Ballots in the 1996 Presidential Election
Residual Votes Attributable to Technology
Ballot Design and Unrecorded Votes on Paper-Based Ballots
Consideration of Local Government Capacity
Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance
Taking a Closer Look at the Empowerment‐Performance Relationship
A Capacity-Building Framework
More on Cutback Management
Organizational Decline and Cutback Management
Cognitive Biases in Governing
For the Want of a Nail
Mayoral Quality and Local Public Finance
Election Administration and the Pure Effect of Voter Registration on Turnout
Modeling the Impact of Public Management
Municipal Performance
Look for the Silver Lining
Identifying the determinants of electoral integrity and administration in advanced democracies
Voting Technologies
Strategic Spending
How Does Voting Equipment Affect the Racial Gap in Voided Ballots
Privatized Democracy
Voting Technology, Ballot Measures, and Residual Votes
New Public Management Is Dead--Long Live Digital-Era Governance
The Street-Level Bureaucrats of Elections
The Butterfly Did It
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |