Does stereotyping stir emotions for public service employees? Yes! And coping behavior depends on their emotions. Example: anger is related to confronting citizens. Read more in our latest article with @neosheeling.bsky.social in @pmreview.bsky.social . www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New publication from @overman.bsky.social & me: 💬 What does it do to police officers when they hear over & over again that "all officers are racist"? Emotions are NOT noise in public services. They guide the actions of professionals towards citizens. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇Thread:

George Orwell warned: bad writing leads to bad thinking. Academia trains us to write for journals, not the public. Clarity feels risky, because it exposes us. But clear communication is essential for democracy. So how do we do it? 🧵 New post 👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/why-clarit...

📣 Calling all students and early-career scholars in public policy and public administration: Together with Hannah Lebovits, we’ve put together a collaborative, evolving resource list to help you navigate the field, no matter where you're starting from.

First single-authored paper finally published in @bppjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 With 3 experiments, I tested whether perceiving corruption leads to corrupt intentions & dishonest behaviors among 1,356 pub employees. I found: NO overall causal relationship. Paper➡️ lnkd.in/eJyCyVrC Find out more! 👇

Super excited to be at PMRC2025! 🇰🇷 Come join us - Sangwon will be sharing our work tomorrow about Public Employee Identity across the US, CAN and NL at 3.40pm at Room L! 👮‍♂️🧑‍🚒👩‍🔧👩‍🏫👨‍⚖️🧑‍✈️

(1/2) Our faculty and students are in 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea, to present their papers at the Public Management Research Conference 2025 @pmrc.bsky.social!

SPA is proud to see our faculty and students presenting at #PMRC2025 in Seoul. Asst. Prof. David Schwegman's research paper are titled "Tax Salience and Citizen Evaluation of Government", and "The Role of Discounted Price in Public Service Consumption and Trust in Government". #SPAProud #Research

So honored to be selected as the 2025 @aompnp.bsky.social Best Dissertation Award winner! HUGE thanks to @tummers.bsky.social & Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Gabriela Szydlowski, Isa Bertram, Noor de Boer & Robin Bouwman & to the amazing committee chair, @schwoererskayla.bsky.social!

🎉Feeling honored to receive the Paul Volcker Junior Research Award from @apsa.bsky.social PA Section. This grant will support my journey with Sangwon ­Ju to explore what public employee identity looks like in 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇳🇱🇰🇷

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🚨 Are bureaucrats being judged unfairly? Today, Isa Bertram will defend her PhD on stereotypes about civil servants. She shows: ❌ We have negative stereotypes about bureaucrats ❓ Such stereotypes affect our experience with bureaucrats, no matter how good the service is. 📷 Photos Jan Banning.

📢 Promotie "Gezichten van de Bureaucratie" Maandag verdedigt Isa Bertram haar proefschrift over stereotypen over ambtenaren. 🎓 Iedereen heeft wel een mening over ambtenaren – en vaak geen positieve. Ambtenaren vinden we saai, inflexibel en ze ook nog vroeg naar huis. 📷 Foto's Jan Banning.

Hey folks, I'm chairing this committee, and we have not yet received any applications. This is a great opportunity for junior scholars!! Deadline is April 1, so get your applications in!!!

New 📢 Angela Hall & @overman.bsky.social ! How do public employees FEEL abt public accountability? :😁😌😡😟😰😁, depending on types of accountability. These emotional reactions have implications. If account. mechanisms are designed without considering emotions, they may do more harm than good!

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Join us this Thursday, 2/27, at 12:30 PM ET for a critical discussion featuring @nicholasbednar.bsky.social, @lorenraeds.bsky.social, and Donald Kettl. Moderated by @donmoyn.bsky.social. Register now: tinyurl.com/ytudtp59

🧵New paper: Does public sector culture affect the honesty of public employees? The ideal that honesty is a central part of public sector culture is found across cultures and throughout history from Confucian administrative ethics and Plato's writing. 1/7>>

The Better Government Lab - a joint research center at @McCourtSchool & @fordschool - has a fresh website. www.bettergovernmentlab.org You can now follow us on LinkedIn --> www.linkedin.com/company/bett... @pamherd.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @jbarofsky.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social