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Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung Speyer (FÖV) / German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer
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Public Management Review, 2019
We examine performance impact on management by investigating whether information on past organiza... more We examine performance impact on management by investigating whether information on past organizational performance (‘performance feedback’) in fluences future managerial quality. We employ a regression discontinuity design to analyse the performance and managerial quality of Korean metropolitan governments’ utility services. We find that (1) providing performance feedback improves managerial quality, but this impact is observed only among low-performing organizations, and (2) the impact of performance feedback is greater if organizations operate in electorally competitive jurisdictions. To explain these findings, we propose a bounded rationality model of organizational decision-making.
This study investigates two competing opinions regarding the role of social media platforms in pa... more This study investigates two competing opinions regarding the role of social media platforms in partisan polarization. The “echo chambers” view focuses on the highly fragmented, customized, and niche-oriented aspects of social media and suggests these venues foster greater political polarization of public opinion. An alternative, which we term the “crosscutting interactions” view, focuses on the openness of the Internet and social media, with different opinions just a click away. This view thus argues that polarization would not be especially problematic on these outlets. Exploiting the variation among members of the U.S. House of Representatives in measured positions of political ideology, this study estimates the association between politicians’ ideological positions and the size of their Twitter readership. The evidence shows a strong polarization on Twitter readership, which supports the echo chambers view. Lastly, we discuss the implications of this evidence for governments’ use of social media in collecting new ideas and opinions from the public.
Public Management Review, 2019
We examine performance impact on management by investigating whether information on past organiza... more We examine performance impact on management by investigating whether information on past organizational performance (‘performance feedback’) in fluences future managerial quality. We employ a regression discontinuity design to analyse the performance and managerial quality of Korean metropolitan governments’ utility services. We find that (1) providing performance feedback improves managerial quality, but this impact is observed only among low-performing organizations, and (2) the impact of performance feedback is greater if organizations operate in electorally competitive jurisdictions. To explain these findings, we propose a bounded rationality model of organizational decision-making.
This study investigates two competing opinions regarding the role of social media platforms in pa... more This study investigates two competing opinions regarding the role of social media platforms in partisan polarization. The “echo chambers” view focuses on the highly fragmented, customized, and niche-oriented aspects of social media and suggests these venues foster greater political polarization of public opinion. An alternative, which we term the “crosscutting interactions” view, focuses on the openness of the Internet and social media, with different opinions just a click away. This view thus argues that polarization would not be especially problematic on these outlets. Exploiting the variation among members of the U.S. House of Representatives in measured positions of political ideology, this study estimates the association between politicians’ ideological positions and the size of their Twitter readership. The evidence shows a strong polarization on Twitter readership, which supports the echo chambers view. Lastly, we discuss the implications of this evidence for governments’ use of social media in collecting new ideas and opinions from the public.