TY  - GEN
AU  - James, Oliver (Ed.)
AU  - James, Oliver, editor.
AU  - Jilke, Sebastian R., editor.
AU  - Van Ryzin, Gregg G., editor.
TI  - Experiments in public management research : : challenges and contributions 
SN  - 9781316614235
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Research
N1  - Includes index.; Part I: Context -- Introduction: Experiments in Public Management Research -- A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies in Public Management Journals -- Experiments and the Classical Roots of Public Administration: Comments on the Potential Utility of Experiments for Contemporary Public Management -- Part II: Methods -- Causal Inference and the Design and Analysis of Experiments -- Field Experiments in Public Management -- Survey Experiments for Public Management Research -- Laboratory Experiments: Their Potential for Public Management Research -- Part III: Substantive Contributions -- Work Motivation -- Experimenting with Leadership in Public Organisations -- Prospects for Experimental Approaches to Research on Bureaucratic Red Tape -- Managerial Use of Performance Data by Bureaucrats and Politicians -- Citizens and Public Performance Measures: Making Sense of Performance Information -- Public Sector Transparency -- Representative Bureaucracy: An Experimental Approach -- Coproduction of Public Services -- Expectations of and Satisfaction with Public Services -- Citizen and Users' Responses to Public Service Failure: Experimentation about Blame, Exit, and Voice -- Assessing Public Support for Government Policy: Comparing Experimental and Attitudinal Approaches -- Legislative Oversight of the Bureaucracy: Insights from Formal Modelling and Experimental Testing -- Experimental Research for Nonprofit Management: Charitable Giving and Fundraising -- Part IV: Issues and Implications -- Replication of Experimental Research: Implications for the Study of Public Management -- The Experimental Turn in Public Management: How Methodological Preferences Drive Substantive Choices -- Changing How Government Works: The Transformative Potential of an Experimental Public Management -- Conclusions - Towards an Experimental Public Management
N2  - Interest in experimental research in public management is on the rise, yet the field still lacks a broad understanding of its role in producing substantive findings and theoretical advances. Written by a team of leading international researchers, this book sets out the advantages of experiments in public management and showcases their rapidly developing contribution to research and practice. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between experiments and public management theory, and the benefits for examining causal effects. It will appeal to researchers and graduate-level students in public administration, public management, government, politics and policy studies. The key topics addressed are the distinct logic of experimental methods in the laboratory, in the field, and in survey experiments; how leading researchers are using different kinds of experiment to build knowledge about theory and practice across many areas of public management; and the research agendas for experimental work in public management
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