New from me in the Public Integrity Journal 🤗

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Tackling Corruption: Identifying and Dismantling Implementation Obstacles in Corruption Risk Management Policy: Public Integrity: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

Volume 27 issue 5 now out, featuring 10 articles (3 open access), and the work of @tobiasbach.bsky.social @verschuerebram.bsky.social @ixchelperezduran.bsky.social and many others! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpxm20/2...

Felicidades Manu!!

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✅ Providing “substantive information” on the services received,

✅ Public oversight by government authorities, and

✅ Active involvement of families
📌Trust in long-term care services is not built through less oversight or participation — but through government regulation and family involvement

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We examine trust in nursing home service providers.

Based on a national survey of relatives of nursing home residents in Spain, our findings show that the following conditions have a positive effect on general trust and on its three dimensions: benevolence, integrity, and competence:

💥 Happy to share this new paper with Koen Verhoest in Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social !

What conditions contribute to building trust in services with high levels of opacity, information asymmetries, and vulnerable users?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We have landed in Birmingham! First panel on Tuesday looks at problems of governance in various guises. Featuring papers from:
Oscar Nowlan
@samwarner.bsky.social
@ixchelperezduran.bsky.social
Looking forward to it!

DIARY with WEEK 8. I also sent it to subscribers as a separate WEEK 8 file. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/diary

I am looking forward to participating in this webinar on #accountability measures in #nursing homes, organized by the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care on February 25 at 13:00 GMT.

UPCOMING WEBINAR: #Accountability mechanisms in nursing home services 🏠

Join us on 25 February for the next #CareHome markets webinar featuring @ixchelperezduran.bsky.social + Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen and insights on #Accountability mechanisms. 💡

REGISTER NOW: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

3/ However, perceptions are shaped by alignment: regulators and executive branch actors with similar professional trajectories view RBs more favorably, while societal actors—often disconnected from the “shared language” of regulators—tend to be more critical.

2/ Neither professional diversity nor expertise alone significantly impacts how regulatory bodies are perceived by regime actors.

1/ Contrary to popular belief, ministries, often seen as traditional bureaucracies, are just as capable of integrating highly specialized experts as new regulatory agencies. This suggests that the long-held notion of regulatory agencies as uniquely expert-driven may thus be overstated.

Thrilled to share my new paper, “Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? ”, coauthored with Yannis Papadopoulus, @bastiaanredert.bsky.social and @juancarlos-trivino.bsky.social, published in Regulation & Governance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Key findings:

Felicidades !!!!

and this case explores the potential ways of regulating the rights of workers employed in the digital platform-based economy. Link: ddd.uab.cat/record/27237...

This case examines the implementation of alternative solutions for providing school meals to children from low-income families during the COVID-19 pandemic
Link: ddd.uab.cat/record/27237...

All these cases have been developed within the framework of the P-CUBE project (Erasmus+). We can use these cases to discuss topics such as accountability reforms, crisis management, challenges in implementing artificial intelligence in social service provision, and market regulation.

Happy to share this publication with Miriam Acebillo and Josep Comellas at TPA. We describe four educational game scenarios for teaching public policy and public administration. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...