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Call-for-Papers | IRSPM 2016, Hong Kong
Panel E105 – Behavioral and Experimental Public Administration: Probing the Microfoundations of Theory and Practice
Closing date for paper proposals is 19 October 2015
To submit paper proposals go to www.cityu.edu.hk/lamp/irspm
Panel Chairs
Oliver James, University of Exeter, UK; o.james@exeter.ac.uk (twitter: @_Oliver_James)
Sebastian Jilke, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL; jilke@fsw.eur.nl (twitter: @SebJilke)
Gregg Van Ryzin, Rutgers University, US; Gregg.vanryzin@gmail.com (twitter: @GGVanRyzin)
Panel Description
Behavioral public administration combines insights from psychology and other behavioral sciences with public administration in order to understand the microfoundations of public administration theory and practice. Indeed, recent advances in psychology let us to rethink the role of individuals within public administration research. Many public management theories are macro- or meso-level conceptions that rest on implicit and seldom tested assumptions about the views and behaviours of individuals. For example, many of the ideas behind New Public Management reforms rest on the assumption of the rational actor: individuals act as rational and utility maximising agents. The microfoundations underlying how citizens and public sector workers interpret information, make evaluative judgements and consequently behave, form the core of much of the theoretical knowledge within the discipline. Thus it is not surprising that there exists a growing movement among public administration scholars to integrate theory and findings from the field of psychology and other behavioural sciences into public administration research. Yet, public management scholars have only recently begun to explicitly examine the behavioral micro-level assumptions within public administration by integrating psychological and behavioural insights and methodologies, especially randomized experiments, into the discipline.
With these broader developments in mind we invite theory-based, empirical contributions that seek to integrate psychological and behavioural science insights into public administration research in order to better understand the microfoundations of both the theory and practice of public administration. The panel aims to address a broad set of research question from various study areas within public administration, such as the decision-making processes of individual public managers and politicians, as well as the attitudes and judgments of citizens in their daily interactions with public services and organizations (including both government and non-profit organizations). We especially encourage papers that include the use of experimental methods to develop and test theory, including laboratory experiments, survey experiments, and field experiments. The common denominator of papers in this panel, therefore, will be both a theoretical grounding in psychology and the behavioural sciences and a rigorous approach, often using experimental methods, to investigate the microfoundations of public administration theory and practice.
See http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lamp/irspm/panel-e105.asp
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Dr. Sebastian Jilke
Postdoc
Department of Public Administration
Erasmus University Rotterdam
PO Box 1738, room M17-46
3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands
F: +31 (0)10 408 2539
M: +49 (0)176 7601 6371
www.sebastianjilke.net