What makes an administrative burden acceptable or excessive, reasonable or unreasonable? Meghan Doughty (The Evergreen State College) and Karen J Baehler (School of Public Affairs) propose a five-part test to assess the justifications for bureaucratic procedures and requirements doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov…

[email protected] and James L. Perry, incorporating psychology into public accountability research, theorize that the micro-foundations of accountability are affected by 5 factors: attributability, observability, evaluability, answerability, and consequentiality doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov…

What factors are most relevant in understanding managerial response to technological change? @shalini_misra, Patrick Roberts, and Matthew Rhodes have a social ecological framework for that: doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov…

Using different nation-state examples, Andrew B. Witford (School of Public & International Affairs | UGA) demonstrate several dilemmas in historically important mechanisms for designing field administration. Read for free: doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov…

🎉Congratulations to Rob Greer and @TylerScottPhD, recipients of the Camilla Stivers Award for their PPMG article "A Network Autonomy Framework: Reconceptualizing Special District Autonomy in Polycentric Systems" pmranet.org/awards/the-cam…

Wanna be a journal editor? PPMG is looking for a new editor or co-editor team. You can help shape the field in so many exciting ways. Reach out for more info.

PPMG co-editor Joerg Raab is organizing a webinar "PPMG in Conversation: Digital Transformation of Public Management" on Tuesday, November 9, 17:00-18:30 Amsterdam time. Panelists include @alexingrams, @shalini_misra, and Matt Young Register via: tinyurl.com/2c2yvdbn

More than 100 people so far have registered for this webinar. Registration still open. Come join the conversation this coming Tuesday!

PPMG editor Kirk Emerson is organizing a webinar on "Theory and Theory Building in Public Administration Research" on Wednesday, February 23, 8-9:30am MST (4-5:30pm CET). Panelists include Patrick Kenis, Joris van der Voet, and Gregg Van Ryzin Register via: tinyurl.com/556ewk6n

The PMRA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the next editors of PPMG, Professor Kimberly R. Isett (kim isett) and Professor Jessica Sowa (@sowa75), both from University of Delaware taking the helm this June! Congratulations! 🎉🎉 pmranet.org/ppmg/

Does demography shape bureaucrats' policy-relevant decision-making? @webecks & Hongseok Lee apply a psychological and behavioral lens to representative bureaucracy in Perspectives on Public Management and Governance. academic.oup.com/ppmg/advance-a…

The new Editors-in-Chief are ready to roll! If you are sitting on something that you want to submit, finish it and let us help you move it to publication.

The 2022 Camilla Stivers Award winning article "Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Evil" by Matthew Young Johannes Himmelreich Justin Bullock @CheolKyoung is now Free to Read on the Oxford Journals page. Congratulations to these scholars! PMRA academic.oup.com/ppmg/article/4…

Happy 100th birthday to a man that shaped the intellectual pathway of our field. Thank you Herbert Kaufman! We will celebrate his life and legacy in the next issue of PPMG.