📖 Our new book "AI innovations in public services" is available here link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Book Authors: make sure to check to see if you are eligible for payment (re: Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website) One of my 2 books is (both should have been my one of my publishers failed to register my copyright) www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

For the article in GIQ, see

The Screen That Ate Your Child’s Education www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

🤓 Take a look at our co-authored article with lead author Juliane Schmeling on "Data collaboration in digital government research: A literature review and research agenda" published in Government Information Quarterly: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Candidates’ explanatory style – how they attributed causes to bad events – predicted election outcomes.

The next step in dismanteling science: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...

Not surprising: www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

✨ Our new paper, co-authored with Noella Edelmann and Nathalie Haug, was just published in the journal Digital Government: Research and Practice: "Outcomes of Value Co-Creation and Co-Destruction in the Digital Transformation of Public Services." ✨ 🆓 Read it here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Our paper "Digitally-induced change in the public sector: a systematic review and research agenda" was the top-cited article in Public Management Review. You can read it here open access: lnkd.in/eTbE-MSj

Le sigh... 🫣

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

New article alert 🤓 "Co-Production Phases in the Development and Implementation of Digital Public Services," co-authored with Noella Edelmann and Nathalie Haug Now published in Oxford University's Perspectives on Public Management and Governance journal: doi.org/10.1093/ppmg...

Website to track firing of federal employees in the US: trumpcostsamerica.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Why not help out? 🇩🇰 denmarkification.com

I talked with three experts on government efficiency about DOGE taking over the Obama-era US Digital Service, including its co-founder @pahlkadot.bsky.social. They all said Elon Musk has a rare opportunity to make government work better. And they all worried he might blow it. wapo.st/4jHi3s3

DOGE will take over the US Digital Service - effectively destabilizing its integration into the bureaucracy given that DOGE itself is only a temporary organization: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Sad loss to the community of public management researchers :(

Hello editors, what can we do to make our academic content more accessible? We need to write in plain language, avoid wild abbreviations, explain better/easier than convoluted language, maybe put the research design into an appendix, and get right to the core of the findings.

Not only keep them out of evaluations, but stop entirely. Do not use.

Wouldn't it be nice to apply similar design principles to public service design? www.dw.com/en/how-the-f...

Not good: Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Hi all. First post. I've created a starter pack for people interested in public administration. You can suggest names, including your own. #publicadministration go.bsky.app/DLEUWFj

Academic journals are flocking to BSKY 🦋 JPART @jpart1991.bsky.social PMR @pmreview.bsky.social PA @journalpa.bsky.social JBPA @jbpa.bsky.social BPP @bppjournal.bsky.social Governance @govjournal.bsky.social NHB: @naturehumbehav.bsky.social & many others More to come, hopefully.

🔥 New special issue in Public Management Review titled "Implementing AI in the Public Sector" co-edited with Helen Dickinson, Jari Stenvall, and Mila Gasco Hernandez. The SI provides first insights into how different public sector organizations are starting to implement AI into their operations. 🔥

👀 In my research group, we have either two 50% TVL-13 positions or one 100% TVL-13 position open. The job descriptions are available in English and German. 🎯 We are working on all things agile and digital in the public sector.

Together with Mila Gasco, Greta Nasi, Albert Meijer, and M. Jae Moon, I am co-editing a special issue in the journal 'Public Administration' on the dynamics of digital transformation in public administration. Consider submitting your paper! CfP: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Big news: We successfully recruited Pontus Westerberg as our first Executive Director. Pontus will lead the expansion of our operations and the implementation of our strategic goals. Read the press release here: www.teachingpublicservice.digital/en/news/teac...

Freshmen in the online program at ASU pay about $32K/year-- so it looks like what this "partnership" means is ASU is proposing to charge freshman comp students $4000 for a class where they are "tutored" by ChatGPT, a technology that currently can be used for free online.

Take a look at our new paper on the institutional work of smart city managers: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very happy to share that I just published an article in the journal Public Administration Review: I looked at the social affordances of introducing agile work practices into administrative routines of public sector organizations.

Next week's "Agile and Digital Governance Research Colloquium" is hosting Steven NÕmmik from TalTech who will present his work on user contributions in multi-actor innovative healthcare initiatives in Estonia. You can sign up for our mailing list here: lnkd.in/e6Y3eb8h

📢 Our next Agile and Digital Governance Research Colloquium was moved to November 16th. 🗣 David Eaves (Professor at UCL) will present his paper titled "Unpacking Complexity in Digital ID Systems Design: The Case of Jamaica's National ID Legislation".

We just set the dates for a new masterclass for university professors and instructors. People so far found it useful and felt better prepared to go into the new semester. Come join us! lnkd.in/du83DUU

Based on an ethnographic study of German management consultants, Felix Stein identified three forms of ignorance that arise as part of commodifying expertise: ignorance due to profit, ignorance due to rhetoric, and ignorance due to strong assumptions: www.felixstein.net/monograph

👩‍🎓 Our online "Agile and Digital Governance Research Colloquium" starts again.

Something that we can rarely observe: a new school of government and policy is born that embeds science, data, and the role and impact of technology in the curricula: hub.jhu.edu/2023/10/06/j...

Detected a blatant case of plagiarism of one of my articles today. The authors claim that no one ever worked on this topic. Then they used my coding taxonomy, conceptual framework (scrawly graphic) & copied many of the text passages (8 pages full of incidences). I am sad: so much work to prove it.

Congratulations to all new fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration: napawash.org/press-releas...

Really interesting article about hybrid work environments. Hasn't really arrived in the environments I work in: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

📚 This week, I participated in a book sprint for a new co-authored book we are working on. We had a writing trainer who guided us through the process. We adopted the Scrum roles: developers as the editorial/author team, a project manager as the Scrum master who timeboxed us.

Come join us for our next Masterclass on how to use our "Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age" syllabus: www.teachingpublicservice.digital/masterclass5-1