Unfulfilled Promise: Laboratory experiments in public management research

Anderson, Derrick M.; Edwards, Barry

doi:10.1080/14719037.2014.943272

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“…Public administration scholars have recently started using experiments more frequently (Anderson and Edwards ; Bouwman and Grimmelikhuijsen ; Jilke, Van de Walle, and Kim 2016). That being said, public administration today is far from an experimental science on the same scale as psychology, where thousands of experiments are published each year.…”

Section: Behavioral Public Administration: Theory and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

Grimmelikhuijsen

Jilke

Olsen

et al. 2016

Public Administration Review

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Behavioral public administration is the analysis of public administration from the micro-level perspective of individual behavior and attitudes by drawing on insights from psychology on the behavior of individuals and groups. The authors discuss how scholars in public administration currently draw on theories and methods from psychology and related fields and point to research in public administration that could benefit from further integration. An analysis of public administration topics through a psychological lens can be useful to confirm, add nuance to, or extend classical public administration theories. As such, behavioral public administration complements traditional public administration. Furthermore, it could be a two-way street for psychologists who want to test the external validity of their theories in a political-administrative setting. Finally, four principles are proposed to narrow the gap between public administration and psychology.

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Section: Behavioral Public Administration: Theory and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

Grimmelikhuijsen

Jilke

Olsen

et al. 2016

Public Administration Review

436

325

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“…A more heterogeneous sample of individuals in employment may make the association between treatment and outcome less clear (Shadish, Cook, and Campbell 2002), as participants could be influenced by other factors, such as previous employment experience. Third, the validity of an experiment is based on the principle of random allocation of individuals to treatment and control groups, rather than the representativeness of the sample (Anderson and Edwards 2015).…”

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Attracting future civil servants with public values? An experimental study on employer branding

Weske

Ritz

Schott

et al. 2019

International Public Management Journal

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A frequently cited recommendation of public service motivation (PSM) research is to use PSM in the context of HR marketing. However, empirical evidence demonstrating the usefulness of addressing PSM in the recruitment process is limited. Moreover, we know little about the relative importance of PSM for public employers' attractiveness. We address this gap using an experimental research design to investigate whether public service motivated individuals differ from extrinsically motivated individuals in terms of their attraction to organizations that emphasize either "traditional" public or private values in their employer branding. Our findings indicate that public service motivated individuals are attracted neither to public nor to private

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“…First there was feasibility: the logistics of carrying out randomized field experiments with samples large enough to allow statistical analyses were daunting without a compelling proof of concept that our ideas were viable. Second, while working with actual practitioners would have been ideal, previous research has shown the benefits of using students, in terms of the cost and recruitment efficiency, may outweigh the costs to external validity as student and nonstudent responses often are largely equivalent (Anderson and Edwards 2015).…”

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The Closer, the Better? Untangling Scientist–Practitioner Engagement, Interaction, and Knowledge Use

Lemos

Wolske

Rasmussen

et al. 2019

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Scholarship on climate information use has focused significantly on engagement with practitioners as a means to enhance knowledge use. In principle, working with practitioners to incorporate their knowledge and priorities into the research process should improve information uptake by enhancing accessibility and improving users’ perceptions of how well information meets their decision needs, including knowledge credibility, understandability, and fit. Such interactive approaches, however, can entail high costs for participants, especially in terms of financial, human, and time resources. Given the likely need to scale up engagement as demand for climate information increases, it is important to examine whether and to what extent personal interaction is always a necessary condition for increasing information use. In this article, we report the results from two experimental studies using students as subjects to assess how three types of interaction (in-person meeting, live webinar, and self-guided instruction) affect different aspects of climate information usability. Our findings show that while in-person interaction is effective in enhancing understanding of climate knowledge, in-person interaction may not always be necessary, depending on the kinds of information involved and outcomes desired.

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Unfulfilled Promise: Laboratory experiments in public management research

Cited by 42 publications

References 94 publications

Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

Attracting future civil servants with public values? An experimental study on employer branding

The Closer, the Better? Untangling Scientist–Practitioner Engagement, Interaction, and Knowledge Use

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