Public Administration & Development

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Volume 43, issue 5, 2023

Unpacking ‘public silence’: Civil society activism under authoritarian rule in Ethiopia pp. 331-342

Camille Louise Pellerin

Exploring service‐providing non‐governmental organization perceptions of shifting civic space in Ghana: Impacts of government and international actors pp. 343-354

Sandy Zook, Kelly Ann Krawczyk and Franklin Oduro

To know is to act? Revisiting the impact of government transparency on corruption pp. 355-367

Sabina Schnell

Public sector reforms in developing countries: A preliminary review pp. 368-380

Colin Knox and Dina Sharipova

Does citizen participation make public servants more satisfied with their jobs? It depends on whether they are Spectators or Participants pp. 381-392

Kazi Maruful Islam, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Taiabur Rahman and Christian Schuster

Volume 43, issue 4, 2023

Can tax agents support tax compliance in low‐income countries? Evidence from Uganda pp. 269-279

Giovanni Occhiali and Fredrick Kalyango

A review of the unintended gender effects of international development efforts pp. 280-292

Maria van der Harst, Dirk‐Jan Koch and Marieke van den Brink

Using foreign aid contracts to pursue participatory approaches to development within large foreign aid agencies pp. 293-308

Amy Beck Harris

Fiscal self‐sufficiency, debt policy, and long‐term sustainability in China's emerging local bond market pp. 309-322

Yu Shi, Qing Li and Robert Bland

A recipient country‐centered approach to framing digital financial management information systems pp. 323-327

Seongho Jeong and Younhee Kim

Volume 43, issue 3, 2023

Government assistance and family charitable giving: Comparing urban and rural residents in China pp. 209-219

Lili Wang and Peiyao Li

Participatory governance and the capacity to engage: A systems lens pp. 220-231

Elmé Vivier and Diana Sanchez‐Betancourt

“Nobody wants to be a dead hero”: Coping with precarity at the frontlines of the Brazilian and Mexican pandemic response pp. 232-244

Gabriela Lotta, Fernando Nieto‐Morales and Rik Peeters

Measuring and explaining fiscal de/centralization: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia, 1995–2020 pp. 245-259

Bizuneh Yimenu

Pre‐requisites for infrastructure public‐private partnerships in oil‐exporting countries: The case of Saudi Arabia pp. 260-265

Mhamed Biygautane

Volume 43, issue 2, 2023

New developments at Public Administration and Development pp. 95-96

Ian C. Elliott and Alfred Wu

Subnational government responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: Expectations, realities and lessons for the future pp. 97-105

Paul Smoke, Mehmet Tosun and Serdar Yilmaz

Lessons from Brazil's unsuccessful fiscal decentralization policy to fight COVID‐19 pp. 106-119

Ricardo Lopes Cardoso, Ricardo Rocha de Azevedo, José Alexandre Magrini Pigatto, Bernardo de Abreu Guelber Fajardo and Armando Santos Moreira da Cunha

The role of local governments in South Korea's COVID‐19 response pp. 120-128

Yunji Kim and Yeong Ah Jeong

Decentralization: A handicap in fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic? The response of the regional governments in Spain pp. 129-140

Mikel Erkoreka and Josu Hernando‐Pérez

Micro models of COVID 19 pandemic governance: Reflections on the strategies taken by two states in India pp. 141-149

Roma Ranu Dash and Anupama Ar

Collective sensemaking within institutions: Control of the COVID‐19 epidemic in Vietnam pp. 150-162

Chuong H. Pham, Thang V. Nguyen, Thang N. Bach, Canh Q. Le and Hung V. Nguyen

Decentralized governance and collective action dilemma: Sub‐national governments' responses to COVID‐19 in China pp. 163-175

Ge Xin and Jia Chen

Uncoordinated federalism: Subnational response to the pandemic crisis in Mexico pp. 176-184

Guillermo M. Cejudo and David Gómez‐Álvarez

Governance response during COVID‐19 and political affirmative action: Evidence from local governments in India pp. 185-195

Vivek Pandey, Ankita Rathi and Deepak Kumar

Fiscal decentralization, intergovernmental mobility, and the innovativeness of local governments' policy response in COVID‐19: Evidence from China pp. 196-206

Biao Huang, Jiebing Wu and Li Ye

Volume 43, issue 1, 2023

Civil society and democratization: The role of service‐providing organizations amid closing civic spaces pp. 3-13

Alisa Moldavanova, Tamaki Onishi and Stefan Toepler

Civil society organizations and the prevention of mass atrocities: Perspectives from south Sudan pp. 14-25

Susan Appe, Nadia Rubaii and Kerry Whigham

Revisiting the role of civic organizations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan: Confidence, membership, and democratic practice pp. 26-37

Temirlan T. Moldogaziev and Christopher Witko

Democratization from below: Civil society in Tajikistan pp. 38-48

Julie Fisher Melton

Repositioning urban bias: Non‐state providers' use of spatialised networks in Bangladesh pp. 49-59

Aeshna Badruzzaman

Uncivil society and social policies in Brazil: The backlash in the gender, sexual, and reproductive rights and ethnic and racial relations fields pp. 60-69

Catarina Ianni Segatto, Mario Aquino Alves and Andrea Pineda

Asserting integrity in Mexico's civic sector pp. 70-79

Sharon F. Lean and Evan Bitzarakis

Can service providing NGOs build democracy? Five contingent features pp. 80-91

Catherine E. Herrold and Khaldoun AbouAssi

Volume 42, issue 5, 2022

Information for climate finance accountability regimes: Proposed framework and case study of the Green Climate Fund pp. 261-280

Rishi Basak, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen and Katrien J. A. M. Termeer

Personal privacy VS. public safety: A hybrid model of the use of smart city solutions in fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic in Moscow pp. 281-292

Sergey A. Revyakin

COVID‐19 vaccine equity in doldrums: Good governance deficits pp. 293-304

Shahjahan Bhuiyan

Regime threats and state solutions. Bureaucratic loyalty and embeddedness in Kenya. By Hassan Mai, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). 2020. pp. 309. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108858960 pp. 305-307

Guillaume Beaud

Volume 42, issue 4, 2022

Fifty years of capacity building: Taking stock and moving research forward pp. 215-232

Kablan P. Kacou, Lavagnon A. Ika and Lauchlan T. Munro

The role of demonstration projects as policy instruments in the development of nonprofit organizations: Beyond instrumentality pp. 233-244

Zejin Liu and Steven Van de Walle

Hybridisation of institutional logics and civil society organisations' advocacy in Kenya pp. 245-255

Emmanuel Kumi and Tara Saharan

Critical perspectives on public systems management in India: Through the lens of district administration By Amar K. J. R. Nayak and Ram Kumar Kakani, New York: Routledge. 8 March 2021; 1st edn. Language: English. Hardcover: 176 pages. ISBN‐13: 978‐0367540234 pp. 256-257

Sunita Rani

Volume 42, issue 3, 2022

The impacts of marketization on international aid: Transforming relationships among USAID vendors pp. 167-178

Carol Brunt and John Casey

The perils of a bureaucratic fad in Africa: Examining the effects of the agencification of the state apparatus in Gabon pp. 179-189

Gyldas A. Ofoulhast‐Othamot

Indulgent citizens: Bribery in Mexico's bureaucratic procedures pp. 190-208

Carlos Moreno‐Jaimes

Escaping the fragility/conflict poverty trap pp. 209-211

Rogerio F. Pinto

Volume 42, issue 2, 2022

Domestic resource mobilisation strategies of national non‐governmental organisations in Ghana pp. 109-127

Emmanuel Kumi

The case for metagovernance: The promises and pitfalls of multisectoral nutrition service delivery structures in low‐ and middle‐income countries pp. 128-141

Ashley Fox, Jennie R. Law and Keith Baker

Isomorphic dynamics in national action plans on antimicrobial resistance pp. 142-153

Olivier Rubin and Louise Munkholm

Self‐organization's responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic in China pp. 154-158

Ting Zhao, Jialiang Xu, Yuan Tian, Qiwei Zhang and Junao Yuan

Handling in the frontline: A case study of “whistle gathering” in Beijing pp. 159-164

Shenghao Guo, Bo Wen and Natalie Wai‐Man Wong

Volume 42, issue 1, 2022

Recontextualizing street‐level bureaucracy in the developing world pp. 3-10

Gabriela Lotta, Roberto Pires, Michael Hill and Marie Ostergaard Møller

A note on pursuing work on street‐level bureaucracy in developing and transitional countries pp. 11-11

Michael Lipsky

Street‐level bureaucrats in a relational state: The case of Bougainville pp. 12-21

Gordon Peake and Miranda Forsyth

Policy improvisation: How frontline workers cope with public service gaps in developing countries—The case of Mexico's Prospera program pp. 22-32

Sergio A. Campos and Rik Peeters

Discretion on the frontlines of the implementation of the Ghana School Feeding Programme: Street‐Level Bureaucrats adapting to austerity in northern Ghana pp. 33-43

Abdul‐Rahim Mohammed

Community‐level bureaucrats conserving the Peruvian Amazon pp. 44-54

Valeria Biffi Isla

Do visiting monks give better sermons? “Street‐level bureaucrats from higher‐up” in targeted poverty alleviation in China pp. 55-71

Changkun Cai, Qiyao Shen and Na Tang

When street‐level implementation meets systemic corruption pp. 72-84

Anat Gofen, Oliver Meza and Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués

“Fairness” in an unequal society: Welfare workers, labor inspectors and the embedded moralities of street‐level bureaucracy in Argentina pp. 85-94

Luisina Perelmiter

Social conflict on the front lines of reform: Institutional activism and girls' education in rural India pp. 95-105

Akshay Mangla