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American Review of Public Administration
Journal Prestige (SJR): 2.062

Citation Impact (citeScore): 2
Number of Followers: 20

Hybrid journal * Containing 1 Open Access article(s) in this issue *
ISSN (Print) 0275-0740 - ISSN (Online) 1552-3357
Published by Sage Publications

[1086 journals]

Book Review: Good enough for government work: The public reputation crisis
in America (and what we can do to fix it)
- Authors: James Gerard Caillier
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2020-01-30T12:40:09Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074020904455
Book Review: Alexander Hamilton’s public administration
- Authors: Kevin J. Burns
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2020-01-30T12:38:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074020904457
Strategically Marketing Florida’s Cities: An Exploratory Study Into How
Cities Engage in Public Marketing
- Authors: M. Blair Thomas, Daniel L. Fay, Frances S. Berry
  First page: 275
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  Over the course of this decade, Florida has emerged as one of America’s fastest growing and most visited states. As many of the state’s municipalities compete for opportunities to expand their tax base and achieve other municipally centered goals, they are faced with the challenge of needing to strategically differentiate themselves from their peers to attract opportunities. One way to accomplish this is through using marketing as a tool of strategic management. While literature shows that marketing engagement is happening in cities throughout the world, we lack a clear understanding of what American municipalities are doing about marketing and why they are increasingly choosing to participate in the activity. This work provides a glimpse into how a sample of Florida cities are strategically using marketing and what city managers and communication officials are specifically hoping to accomplish with marketing activity. The purpose of this research is to answer the following three questions: Why do city governments engage in marketing' Do city government officials engage in marketing from a strategic management perspective' How do city governments engage in marketing' Utilizing surveys and interviews from city managers and communication officials at the municipal level from across the state, this exploratory study sheds a light onto how several cities using marketing as a strategic management tool to achieve articulated goals. We provide recommendations for practitioners exploring strategic use of marketing and practitioners seeking to expand marketing engagement within their municipalities.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2020-01-10T12:04:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019897599
Corrigendum
- First page: 346
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2020-01-17T04:40:55Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019900404
Corrigendum
- First page: 347
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2020-01-17T04:41:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019900405
Creating Space for Public Administration in International Organization
Studies
- Authors: Kim Moloney, David H. Rosenbloom
  First page: 227
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  The emergent global administrative order includes more than 800 international and regional organizations. Just as the rise of the modern state placed greater importance on the study of public administration, the growth of multistate organizations, their agendas, and personnel require research that draws upon contemporary and classical public administrative thought. This article employs multiple lenses to explore the utility of public administrative theory and empirically based knowledge in analyzing the behavior of international and regional organizations. Specifically, while remaining cognizant of differences between international organizations and sovereign states, we consider the utility of the politics–administration dichotomy, representative bureaucracy, individual and employee due process and other rights, and broader questions of accountability in understanding the administrative life and influence of international organizations in global governance.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-11-16T06:48:26Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019888498
How Nonprofit Arts Organizations Sustain Communities: Examining the
Relationship Between Organizational Strategy and Engagement in Community
Sustainability
- Authors: Alisa V. Moldavanova, Nathaniel S. Wright
  First page: 244
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  This article investigates the relationship between several elements of organizational strategy and arts and culture nonprofits perceived contributions to community sustainability. We ask the following research question: What are the drivers of arts and culture nonprofits’ engagement in community sustainability' Drawing on data collected from a survey of 175 nonprofits in the state of Michigan, this article reports the findings about arts and culture organizations perceived engagement in community sustainability and factors that may foster or inhibit such engagement. The study advances our understanding of the role that nonprofit organizations play in fostering local sustainable development, and it also informs broader scholarly discourse on the role of arts and culture organizations in a society.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-10-29T09:00:48Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019884316
The Politics of Open Government Data: Understanding Organizational
Responses to Pressure for More Transparency
Open Access Article
- Authors: Erna Ruijer, Francoise Détienne, Michael Baker, Jonathan Groff, Albert J. Meijer
  First page: 260
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  This article contributes to the growing body of literature within public management on open government data by taking a political perspective. We argue that open government data are a strategic resource of organizations and therefore organizations are not likely to share it. We develop an analytical framework for studying the politics of open government data, based on theories of strategic responses to institutional processes, government transparency, and open government data. The framework shows that there can be different organizational strategic responses to open data—varying from conformity to active resistance—and that different institutional antecedents influence these responses. The value of the framework is explored in two cases: a province in the Netherlands and a municipality in France. The cases provide insights into why governments might release datasets in certain policy domains but not in others thereby producing “strategically opaque transparency.” The article concludes that the politics of open government data framework helps us understand open data practices in relation to broader institutional pressures that influence government transparency.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-12-05T06:23:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019888065
Does Government Punish Nonprofits for High Administrative Costs in
Contracting Decisions'
- Authors: Jianzhi Zhao, Jiahuan Lu
  First page: 286
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  As government financing of nonprofit organizations to deliver services and implement policies has become a common practice in the public administration landscape, the question of what factors affect government’s source selection has emerged as a significant one. Within this strand of research, how nonprofits’ administrative costs affect their receipt of government contracts is still not fully understood. This article explores that relationship using a large panel data set of U.S.-based international development nonprofits from 1967 to 2014. Different model specifications consistently demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between a nonprofit’s level of administrative costs and its amount of government contracts. In particular, as a nonprofit’s level of administrative costs increases, its amount of government contracts will initially increase, but after its level of administrative costs reaches approximately 16% to 18% of total expenses, further increases in the nonprofit’s level of administrative costs will reduce its amount of government contracts. These findings have implications for both public and nonprofit management.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-12-13T11:01:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019893807
When Law Enforcement Pays: Costs and Benefits for Elected Versus Appointed
Administrators Engaged in Asset Forfeiture
- Authors: Siân Mughan, Danyao Li, Sean Nicholson-Crotty
  First page: 297
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  The billions of dollars in assets seized by law enforcement each year represent a crucial source of revenue for these organizations, but also raise important constitutional questions and can create significant tensions within the jurisdictions they administer. Research on asset forfeiture to date has focused heavily on municipal police, largely neglecting forfeiture activities by sheriffs. Thus, it has missed an important opportunity to build theory about the differences between appointed and elected administrators and neglected an important source of institutional variation that may help to explain this particular administrative activity. To develop expectations about the relative levels of asset forfeiture and the response to intergovernmental incentives related to forfeiture, we draw on and extend scholarship comparing the behavior of elected versus appointed administrators in other settings. We test those expectations in analyses of more than 1,200 sheriff’s offices and over 2,200 municipal police departments between 1993 and 2007. Results suggest that sheriffs receive less forfeiture revenue than municipal police and are less responsive to state-level policies that change the financial rewards of asset forfeiture for agencies. These results hold whether we examine forfeitures made through the federal Equitable Sharing Program, where civil and criminal forfeiture cases can be distinguished, or jurisdictional level data on forfeiture, where civil and criminal forfeitures are combined. We conclude with a discussion of implications for both the research on asset forfeiture and on elected versus appointed public administrators more generally.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-12-18T11:02:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019891993
Do Advanced Information Technologies Produce Equitable Government
Responses in Coproduction: An Examination of 311 Systems in 15 U.S. Cities
- Authors: Benjamin Y. Clark, Jeffrey L. Brudney, Sung-Gheel Jang, Bradford Davy
  First page: 315
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  This article seeks to answer the following primary research question: Do governments respond differently to citizen service requests depending on where those requests originate in the city' This study is particularly salient in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in response to police violence or the gross neglect of infrastructure in Flint, MI. Although numerous studies have been able to demonstrate bias in policing, few (if any) have looked at biases that may be present in other types of general government services. Empirical evidence has supported the claims by some that some cities were responding slower to service requests made in poor and minority neighborhoods than they were in the richer, whiter neighborhoods, but these earlier works were from an era before 311. The article seeks to fill this gap in the modern coproduction literature to evaluate whether advanced information technologies enable equitable responses by governments. The results of our 15-city study of 311 systems (nonemergency service requests made by city residents) demonstrate no systematic differences in how the cities respond that would indicate a bias against minorities and poorer residents. Unsurprisingly, the effects are not consistent across all of our sample cities. Although some cities have statistically significant differences showing slower responses for these neighborhoods and others show quicker, the practical differences are so small as to be of little concern during our study period (2007–2016).
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-12-30T06:32:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019894564
Managing Fiscal Volatility: An Empirical Analysis of California County
Governments’ Saving Behavior
- Authors: Jongmin Shon, Sunjoo Kwak
  First page: 328
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  The increase in the importance of countercyclical behavior has expanded the research on fiscal saving behavior to local governments. In particular, the Great Recession has shown that local governments are not immune to economic shocks, spurring interest in local savings behavior. County governments are particularly vulnerable to negative economic shocks, as they rely more on intergovernmental revenues. With a focus on the determinants of fiscal slack, we empirically examined the relationship between tax revenue volatility and unassigned fund balance in 57 California counties over the period of 2004 to 2014. Employing spatial regression models, our empirical analysis revealed that revenue volatility is positively associated with general unassigned fund balance in California counties, and revenue diversification has partially positive effects on the fund balance. We infer that tax revenue volatility threatens the stabilized delivery of local services, which suggests that local governments should look to the factors that potentially affect revenue stability to improve their capacity for financial management. The spillover effects from the findings suggest that spatial effects need to be taken into account in analyzing the determinants of local fiscal slack.
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2019-12-14T09:48:05Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074019893809
Book Review: Above politics: Bureaucratic discretion and credible
commitment
- Authors: Jennifer L. Selin
  Abstract: The American Review of Public Administration, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: The American Review of Public Administration
  PubDate: 2017-03-31T06:12:12Z
  DOI: 10.1177/0275074017701225