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Informationen zum Autor Oliver James, PhD, is professor of political science at the University of Exeter. Recent published research focuses on the politics of public services, citizen-provider relationships, and public sector organisation and reform. He was recently elected to the board of the Public Management Research Association and his experimental research won the Haldane Prize for best article published in the journal Public Administration. At the University of Exeter, he is director of the Master in Public Administration programme and he has acted as a consultant to bodies including the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the UK Treasury, the UK National Audit Office and the UK Audit Commission. Sebastian R. Jilke, PhD, is assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he co-directs the Center for Experimental and Behavioral Public Administration. He has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the European Journal of Political Research, Public Administration Review, and Regulation and Governance. He is currently co-chairing the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) Permanent Study Group on 'Behavioral Public Administration'. His interests include citizen-state interactions and equality in service provision, and his recent work examines how citizens and public officials respond to market-type mechanisms in public service delivery. Gregg G. Van Ryzin, PhD, is professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he directs the PhD program and co-directs the Center for Experimental and Behavioral Public Adminstration. He has interests in both survey research and experimental methods, and conducts empirical studies on a range of topics, including citizen satisfaction with urban services, coproduction, performance measurement, nonprofit organizations, housing and neighborhood issues, and comparative public opinion about government policy and institutions. Van Ryzin is widely published in scholarly journals in public administration, policy analysis, and urban affairs and is author of Research Methods in Practice (with Dahlia K. Remler, 2011, 2nd edition 2014). Klappentext An overview of experimental research and methods in public management, and their impact on theory, research practices and substantive knowledge. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive overview of experimental research in public management offers a detailed analysis of experimental methods and sets out their role in defining modern theory and research practices. An ideal read for researchers and graduate-level students in public administration! public management! government! politics and policy studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction. Experiments in public management research Oliver James, Sebastian R. Jilke and Gregg G. Van Ryzin; 2. A systematic review of experimental studies in public management journals Huafang Li and Gregg G. Van Ryzin; 3. Experiments and the classical roots of public administration: comments on the potential utility of experiments for contemporary public management Kenneth Meier and Kendall Funk; 4. Causal inference and the design and analysis of experiments Oliver James, Sebastian R. Jilke and Gregg G. Van Ryzin; 5. Field experiments in public management Oliver James, Peter John and Alice Moseley; 6. Survey experiments for public management research Sebastian R. Jilke and Gregg G. Van Ryzin; 7. Laboratory experiments: their potential for public management research Markus Tepe and Christine Prokop; 8. Work motivation Nicola Belle and Paola Cantarelli; 9. Experimenting with leadership in public organisations Lotte Andersen, Louise Bro, Anne Bøllingtoft and Jacob Ladenburg; 10. Prospects for experimental approaches to research on bureaucratic red tape Sanjay Pandey, Sh...
