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American University School of Public Affairs @au-spa.bsky.social · 5d

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Oliver James @oliver--james.bsky.social · 24d

We invite abstracts for Behavioural & Experimental Public Management Group Panel, 2026 IRSPM Conference. Submit before Oct12th www.irspm.org/panel-pages-... I'm pleased to co-chair this group with @nickpetrovsky.bsky.social @ksweissmueller.bsky.social @ggvanryzin.bsky.social Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen

P11 SIG Behavioural & Experimental Public Management | IRSPM

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Tom Albright @talbright.bsky.social · Sep 6

Whether we like it or not, AI is here and not going anywhere. The excellent colleagues behind @callingbullshit.bsky.social (@jevinwest.bsky.social & @carlbergstrom.com) now have a great resource to help us understand AI and how to deal with it. Highly recommended!
thebullshitmachines.com/index.html

'MODERN-DAY DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world Developed by Carl T Bergstrom and Jevin D. West Yet for all the good that AI systems will do, they will also saturate our information environment with bullshit at ata a scale never before encountered.'

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 23

If you're interested in values & public admin, go check out the full article! bsky.app/profile/jacl...

Jaclyn Piatak @jaclynpiatak.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out our latest ARPA @aspanational.bsky.social article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@nathanfavero.com, @colt-jensen.bsky.social, @minjungckim.bsky.social, & I examine how political ideology & public service motivation influence public value preferences.

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 23

All correlations among value ratings are positive (Table 1). This highlights limitation of Likert scales: some people really like smashing the "Absolutely Essential" button. We thus have to transform data to meaningfully measure prioritization among values bsky.app/profile/nath...

Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 22

Like much of my work, this is arguably a measurement paper in disguise (since measurement is "boring"). For me, the spark behind the paper stems from an argument I heard long ago that deep political disagreements are rooted less in holding different values and more in selecting values to prioritize.

Jaclyn Piatak @jaclynpiatak.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out our latest ARPA @aspanational.bsky.social article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@nathanfavero.com, @colt-jensen.bsky.social, @minjungckim.bsky.social, & I examine how political ideology & public service motivation influence public value preferences.

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 23

Equity is the value with most varied responses. Self-identified liberals indicate higher importance for equity (no surprise) but also representation.

Screenshot from article: Most notably, we find that the prioritization of equity exhibits the greatest variation across respondents from different backgrounds and social identities, suggesting that the importance of this value, more than others, remains contested and context-dependent. Similarly, representation—while generally held as a high priority by the public—is considered especially important by liberal-leaning individuals. Thus, when it comes to symbolic representation (see Keiser et al., 2022), pursuit of a representative bureaucracy may enjoy particularly widespread support among liberal constituencies. These examples suggest that public administrators should acknowledge citizens’ heterogeneous

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 23

🧵I was surprised to find that people rate representation as more important than equity or efficiency, when asked to assess values for public services. From my latest work with @jaclynpiatak.bsky.social @colt-jensen.bsky.social & @minjungckim.bsky.social

Screenshot of Table 1 from article linked to later in thread. Summary stats (means). Equity 2.982. Efficiency 2.964. Effectiveness 3.199. Representation 3.136. N = 814; Response options: Not Important at all (0), Of little importance (1), Of average importance (2), Very Important (3), Absolutely Essential (4).

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 22

I'm thankful to my co-authors for making this come together, and I hope you'll enjoy our work!

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 22

Like much of my work, this is arguably a measurement paper in disguise (since measurement is "boring"). For me, the spark behind the paper stems from an argument I heard long ago that deep political disagreements are rooted less in holding different values and more in selecting values to prioritize.

Jaclyn Piatak @jaclynpiatak.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out our latest ARPA @aspanational.bsky.social article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@nathanfavero.com, @colt-jensen.bsky.social, @minjungckim.bsky.social, & I examine how political ideology & public service motivation influence public value preferences.

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Jaclyn Piatak @jaclynpiatak.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out our latest ARPA @aspanational.bsky.social article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@nathanfavero.com, @colt-jensen.bsky.social, @minjungckim.bsky.social, & I examine how political ideology & public service motivation influence public value preferences.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Nathan Favero @nathanfavero.com · Aug 17

Annual reminder that TurboTax (Intuit) is good at helping us file our taxes and even better at lobbying against reforms that would make filing taxes easier www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

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American National Election Studies @electionstudies.bsky.social · Aug 12

The full release of the ANES 2024 Time Series #Data is now available. More details here: electionstudies.org/anes-announc...

Full release of the ANES 2024 is now available.

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Aug 6

And last but not least...

How do client characteristics influence the willingness of frontline professionals to break rules to help them? 🧵

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Aug 3

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How do government capacities shape the burdens citizens face when accessing public services?

This study shows that administrative capacities, such as communication strategies, resource availability, and inter-agency coordination, can either reduce or intensify administrative burdens.

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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory @jpart1991.bsky.social · Jul 31

Do right-leaning governments run state-owned enterprises (SOEs) better?

This new research from Brazil (2019–2022) finds that SOEs perform better financially under more right-leaning incumbents—but only when their political parties focus on policy over power.