🤝Want to talk about how you can target your research to JPART? . 📅We are offering 1:1 meet the editors sessions at #ASPA2025,#IRSPM2025, #PMRC2025 & #EGPA2025 .We start with ASPA in D.C. next week - book your time below: .@OleHelby @SassMikkelsen.

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What to Expect: .Morning Sessions: Presentations on theory and academic writing. Afternoon Sessions: 1:1 or group discussions with authors, offering tailored feedback and insights.

📢 Exciting News for PMRC 2025! 📢. As you prepare for this year’s conference, we invite you to attend the Pre-Conference Workshop on Academic Writing and theorizing with JPART and PPMG Editors.

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Across all stakeholder groups, expertise in the agency’s mission is associated with higher competence and lower political responsiveness. The study highlights how recruitment choices can shape perceptions of good governance.

somewhat more politically responsive when they lack a career civil service background with mission-specific expertise. While citizens show little concern, administrators strongly prefer career bureaucrats over former politicians.

📑 This article examines how the professional backgrounds of senior bureaucrats influence their perceived competence and political responsiveness in a meritocratic system. Using a paired survey experiment in Norway, it finds that agency heads are seen as less competent and.

🚨 Issue 1, Volume 35 (2025) ➡️ “The professional profile, competence, and responsiveness of senior bureaucrats: a paired survey experiment with citizens and elite respondents” by Jostein Askim, Tobias Bach, Kristoffer Kolltveit. 🧵.

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to prevent implementation failure and maintain credibility. 🔗 Read more about it here:.

While they bypass the notice-and-comment process for new or joint rules to avoid political intervention, they are more likely to seek public input for complex and stringent rules, particularly in agencies with a higher proportion of professional bureaucrats,.

🚨 Issue 1, Volume 35 (2025) ➡️ "Procedural Politicking for What? Bureaucratic Reputation and Democratic Governance" by Joohyung Park.🧵. 📑 Bureaucrats’ choices in rulemaking procedures are influenced by their need to balance strategic goals with reputational concerns.

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Positive and neutral sentiment have no significant effect. The study shows how accumulated negative media reputations shape political–administrative decisions to reform agencies. 📑 Read it here:.

It finds an inverted U-shaped relationship where moderate negative sentiment increases the likelihood of reform but, beyond a threshold, decreases it.

The paper uses BERT-based sentiment analysis on media coverage of 14 Flemish agencies to examine how reputational signals affect structural reforms.

🚨 Issue 1, Volume 35 (2025) ➡️ “A reputational perspective on structural reforms: how media reputations are related to the structural reform likelihood of public agencies” by Jan Boon, Jan Wynen, Koen Verhoest, Walter Daelemans, and Jens Lemmens.🧵.

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