International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. In 2011, during the Arab Spring, citizens in some Arab countries marched in the streets, demanding decreased corruption, increased public participation in running state affairs, and provi…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. New post-bureaucratic organizational forms, such as projects, are increasingly used in policy implementation. Their assumed benefits in decreasing bureaucracy and increasing flexibility h…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. Red tape is a salient societal problem but there is a dearth of research on how perceived red tape can be reduced. Building on the transparency literature, we hypothesize that higher leve…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. This article explores public innovations implemented by local authorities, which consider them as a key means of improving their performance in response to a restrictive context. The auth…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of rese…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. Open data policies are increasingly being adopted by governments. However, civil servants find it challenging to comply with open data policies. Gaming can help civil servants to practise…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. How to optimize China’s protective mechanism for overseas citizens has become the top agenda of China’s public administration. A comparison of the evacuation policies of China and the US …
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. To what extent can the public service bargain framework be applied to non-partisan ministerial advisors? Public service bargains are defined as ‘explicit or implicit agreements between pu…
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. Few studies have linked public corruption to the quality of public infrastructure, particularly in developed countries. This article examines how public corruption affects the quality of …
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print. This article adopts an employee-level perspective, which is currently lacking in the public sector literature, and responds to the call for additional research concerning factors that aff…