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Choice is more important than effort

Couple of recent papers on AI and public sector accountability with my Queen's University Belfast 🎓 colleagues Deepak Padmanabhan and Marc Elliott. The first examines accountability issues arising from real-world AI-based problems: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10……

DOGE was never about "efficiency."

🎉 Great news! #IJPA’s 2024 Scopus CiteScore has increased to 5.4 (from 4.7 in 2023) — and we’re now officially in Q1! 📈 📊 Rankings: ▪️ 48/242 in Public Administration ▪️ 145/451 in Business & Intl. Management Thanks to our authors, reviewers & editors! 🙌

How does China’s central bank communicate under political control? 📢🇨🇳 Our new study analyzes 4,575 PBOC documents (2005–2021) to show how it shifts between professional and political messaging to manage reputation and risk. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/109674….

🎉 Join IJPA’s Happy Hours for Asian Stories at #PMRC2025 PMRC 2025! 📷 June 26, 15:30–17:00 📷Scan the code & sign up now! #AsianPerspectives Alfred Tat-Kei Ho Seulki Lee Kohei Suzuki Liang Ma Sungho Park PMRA Meng Ye

Wrapped up our IJPA-led dialogue event at #PMRC2025 in Seoul yesterday. Moderating a conversation on how to share Asian stories and perspectives was such a privilege. A big thanks to our amazing panelists and everyone who joined us in the room!

🚨New publication in Perspectives on Politics! /w Sharon Gilad🟣 Nir Kosti Dr. Ilana Shpaizman How do career civil servants respond to democratic backsliding, and what shapes their reactions? In our new article, we examine how Israeli bureaucrats responded to the 2023 legal overhaul.

📷 PMRC 2025 Meritocracy Section! 📷 Wonderful catching up with old friends & meeting new ones. Gained so much! 📷 #PMRC2025 #PMRC2025 #KnowledgeGain

Attended IPSA 2025 with great gains—joined 5/6 SOG panels, chaired and co-chaired 2 panels, present 2 papers and discussed 6 papers. Our China panel was a highlight: scholars used ML and experiments to localize and innovate reputation theory. #IPSA2025 #SOG #RC27 #GovReputation

New article at International Journal for Equity in Health with excellent colleagues from all the Asian tigers, Japan, and Mainland. Providing financial protection in health for low-income populations: a comparison of health financing designs in East Asia equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🌟 PPMR Editorial Board Spotlight 🌟 Meet Prof. Kaifeng Yang, Editor-in-Chief of Public Performance & Management Review and Dean of SPAA at Rutgers University-Newark . 🏅 Recipient of the 2025 Fred Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement 👉 Learn more: spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/kaifeng-yang #PPMR #EditorialBoard

Our new article in Environmental Politics shows how market ideas, shaped China’s water market reforms (1998–2021).We trace how policy entrepreneurs and Party ideology forged a “two hands, multiple fingerprints” approach: state steering, local markets, and ideas as the glue.

New open-access paper: doi.org/10.1080/096440…

But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.” ——The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Chapter 24, Concluding Notes

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📚 The IJPA team is heading to Atlanta for the #ABFM2025! Excited to share our latest research and connect with colleagues in #PA. Dr. Elaine Yi Lu Kelly Shi Gang Chen Sungho Park Meng Ye Barrett and Greene ABFM #IJPA #NYCBudget

📚 IJPA Editorial Team had a great time at the #ABFM2025 Conference in Atlanta! 🎉 Grateful for the inspiring discussions and connections with colleagues across the #PA community. ABFM Dr. Elaine Yi Lu Kelly Shi Gang Chen Sungho Park Meng Ye Barrett and Greene

The day Cristiano Ronaldo made rival fans applaud his greatness.