Experimental research in the Asia-Pacific region: review and assessment of regional capacity
TL;DR: The authors examine the ex antecedents of causal inferences in public administration and examine the effect of experimental research on causal inference and methodological capacity of public administration scholars, focusing on public administration research.
Abstract: Scholars of public administration are increasingly using experimental research to develop more robust causal inferences and greater methodological capacity. Against this backdrop, we examine the ex...
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TL;DR: This article examined whether time slack would influence the prediction of task completion time and whether need for cognition would influence prediction accuracy if time scenarios were manipulated, and found that time slack was positively associated with task completion times.
Abstract: This study examined whether time slack would influence the prediction of task completion time and whether need for cognition would influence prediction accuracy if time scenarios were manipulated. ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research and suggest that claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias.
Abstract: There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser pre-selection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research.
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...As a “design science”, public administration research has long sought to resolve complex, interconnected real-world problems from an interdisciplinary perceptive (Simon, 1996)....
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TL;DR: This work uses data from three bibliographic databases in biology, physics, and mathematics to answer a broad variety of questions about collaboration patterns, such as the numbers of papers authors write, how many people they write them with, and what the typical distance between scientists is through the network.
Abstract: By using data from three bibliographic databases in biology, physics, and mathematics, respectively, networks are constructed in which the nodes are scientists, and two scientists are connected if they have coauthored a paper. We use these networks to answer a broad variety of questions about collaboration patterns, such as the numbers of papers authors write, how many people they write them with, what the typical distance between scientists is through the network, and how patterns of collaboration vary between subjects and over time. We also summarize a number of recent results by other authors on coauthorship patterns.
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...Co-authorship provides a record of the social and professional networks of scholars (Newman, 2004) and their geographical locations (Abbott, 1997)....
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TL;DR: The authors argues that sociology's major current problems are intellectual, and traces these problems to the exhaustion of the current variables paradigm and considers the Chicago School's contextualist paradigm as an alternative.
Abstract: This essay argues that sociology's major current problems are intellectual. It traces these problems to the exhaustion of the current variables paradigm and considers the Chicago School's contextualist paradigm as an alternative. Examples of new methodologies founded on contextual thinking are considered
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...Co-authorship provides a record of the social and professional networks of scholars (Newman, 2004) and their geographical locations (Abbott, 1997)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effect of transparency on trust in government in the Netherlands and South Korea and found that transparency has a subdued and sometimes negative effect on public trust in the Dutch government, while the negative effect in South Korea is much stronger.
Abstract: Transparency is considered a key value for trustworthy governments. However, the effect of transparency on citizens’ trust across national cultures is overlooked in current research. This article compares the effect of transparency on trust in government in the Netherlands and South Korea. The effect is investigated in two similar series of three experiments. The authors hypothesize that the effect of transparency differs because the countries have different cultural values regarding power distance and short- and long-term orientation. Results reveal similar patterns in both countries: transparency has a subdued and sometimes negative effect on trust in government. However, the negative effect in South Korea is much stronger. The difference in the magnitude of transparency's effect suggests that national cultural values play a significant role in how people perceive and appreciate government transparency.
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...%) articles were cross-territorial comparative studies: Walker et al. (2013), Kim and Kim (2016a), Lee et al. (2017) and Grimmelikhuijsen et al. (2013)....
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...Other topics included the representativeness of local officials (Ryan et al., 2018), the effect of transparency on trust in government (Grimmelikhuijsen et al., 2013), how citizens’ help deservingness shape discretional decision making (Lu et al., 2021), citizen satisfaction (Noda, 2020), cultural…...
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