When the state meets the street: Public service and moral agency
About:
This article is published in Contemporary Political Theory.The article was published on 2019-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 69 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Moral agency & Public service.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sketch some possible ways in which the public policy and administration community can make an enduring commitment to the COVID-19 challenge. But, they do not discuss how to tackle the challenges of public policy.
Journal ArticleDOI
Fieldwork in Political Theory : Five Arguments for an Ethnographic Sensibility
Lisa Herzog,Bernardo Zacka +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a positive case for an ethnographic sensibility in political theory, and they argue that such a sensibility can contribute to normative reflection in five distinct ways: epistemic argument, diagnostic argument, evaluative argument, probe, question and refine our understanding of values, and uncover underlying social ontologies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Smart Technology and the Emergence of Algorithmic Bureaucracy : Artificial Intelligence in UK Local Authorities
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of desk research, a survey questionnaire, and interviews were used to better understand the extent and nature of these changes in local government, finding that local authorities are beginning to adopt smart technologies and that these technologies are having an unanticipated impact on how public administrators and computational algorithms become imbricated in the delivery of public services.
Dissertation
Evaluating civic technology design for citizen empowerment
TL;DR: Zuckerman et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed empowerment-based design principles for civic technology and a prototype toolkit for evaluating the impact of civic technology on political efficacy, focusing on tools and platforms built to support "monitorial citizenship," an increasingly popular form of civic engagement aimed at holding institutions accountable.
Journal ArticleDOI
Frightened Mandarins: The Adverse Effects of Fighting Corruption on Local Bureaucracy
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper used a dataset of sub-provincial inspections in China's recent anti-corruption campaign to identify the ''chilling effect'' by exploiting variation in the timing of inspections from 2012 to 2017.
References
More filters
Book
Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina
TL;DR: It is argued that while waiting, the poor learn the opposite of citizenship, they learn to be patients of the state, because there is nothing else that they can do.