Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
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Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration is a scholarly double anonymized peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting the study, research and enhancement of public governance, policy, administration and management in and beyond Asia and the Pacific.
🎉 1,000+ views! Hameduddin, Alfes & Ritz examine what drives employee engagement across public and private sectors. Coming in APJPA’s #PublicServiceMotivation Symposium (V48.4). 📖 Article: buff.ly/f1kpbIK 📚 Symposium: buff.ly/crGOAeW
🆕 Just published in APJPA! When uncertainty expands bureaucratic discretion, what follows? Drawing on evidence from #Indonesia, Bake, Alam & Wahbi show how uncertainty can trigger two competing responses: integrity-based adaptation or opportunism. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📚 One of our most-read articles: Does removing #JobSecurity foster healthy and effective organisations? 🔎 Reviewing 119 studies across 41+ countries, it links job insecurity to poorer employee and organisational outcomes. 📖 buff.ly/oQYOTLN
How do we build better government? Explore APJPA's collection on Quality of Government in the #AsiaPacific, featuring 11 articles on governance, public trust, integrity, and institutional quality. 🔗 buff.ly/0kbuNtz
#LatinAmerica isn't just a case study—it's reshaping public administration theory. Explore Smith's Guest Editorial on decolonising and discolonialising #PublicAdministration, featured in our #GlobalSouth Special Issue. 🔗 buff.ly/x0d1YCb 🔗 buff.ly/Od48bXm
👤 Meet the Author: Julie A. Beasley Julie A. Beasley is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her latest APJPA article explores how workforce diversity shapes organizational outcomes in U.S. federal agencies. 🔗 buff.ly/wRnjV2o
📢 Just published in APJPA: Cui, Yuan & Tang show that #AntiCorruption information can backfire. The effects of media information depend on citizens' corruption experiences and how information is presented. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📢 Just published in APJPA Levitats, Vigoda-Gadot & Styrin find that citizens' emotions towards algorithmic policy decision-making are associated with trust in government—even beyond perceived governance performance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2327... #AlgorithmicGovernance #PublicAdministration
📈 APJPA continues to grow In Q2 2026, the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration reached 26,978 downloads. It's encouraging to see our published research reaching more readers and sparking conversations beyond academia. Here's to continuing the conversation. 📚🌏
How does workplace fit shape emotional labour among #StreetLevelBureaucrats? Lee finds that person–organization fit, rather than person–job fit, is associated with emotional labour strategies and turnover intention. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📖 APJPA Publishing Report highlights • IF 4.1 (Q1; #16/97) • In Defense of the Deep State: 8K+ downloads (Altmetric 281) • Public Administration in Authoritarian Regimes: 32 citations Thanks to our authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. 🔗 buff.ly/9PoMXUp
📚 From our Symposium on #Burnout and #Motivation: Potipiroon & Tongsongsom (2025) find that among 476 Thai rescue volunteers, pleasure-based prosocial motivation reduces burnout, while pressure-based prosocial motivation increases it. 🔗 buff.ly/7iyhCsN
📈 One of our most-read articles Cuillerier et al. show how open-source and hybrid platforms support co-creating #DigitalPublicServices. 🔗 buff.ly/UGsHXbP
📢 Forthcoming Symposium The September issue of APJPA (Vol. 48, Issue 3) will feature a symposium on #DigitalTransformation, covering #AI, co-creation, organisational resilience, and performance. 📖 buff.ly/7hVSE15 📚 buff.ly/j9G65S6
🌍 New Special Issue Now available in APJPA (Vol. 48, Issue 2): Perspectives from the #GlobalSouth Focusing on Faith, Culture, and Traditions. 📖 buff.ly/ExReO7H 📚 buff.ly/o9jF1tl
📢 New in APJPA Tian, Christensen, and Ma analyse #China’s 2023 Party–state institutional reform, examining how it further institutionalises #PartyDominance and reshapes governance in the context of Chinese modernisation. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
Does #Corruption make people more stressed? Islam (2026) finds that trust-based #SocialCapital can buffer the stress of perceived corruption—but may also reinforce the very conditions that sustain it. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/2327...
APJPA Co-Editor James L. Perry delivered the keynote at the SANPA × University of Birmingham webinar on building more inclusive global #PublicAdministration knowledge. 🎥 Webinar: buff.ly/skwRfeE Related Special Issue: 📖 buff.ly/04AUr3L 📖 buff.ly/zBZWYVT
What happens when public management reforms overlap? Qin & Christensen introduce #China’s “compressed reform trajectory”, showing how traditional #PublicAdministration, #NPM, and post-NPM evolved concurrently rather than sequentially. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📰 Featured in Esade Public Gupta et al. reassess the #PublicServiceMotivation–commitment nexus, highlighting career satisfaction and perceived publicness. Also included in the forthcoming symposium by James L. Perry and W. F. Lam. 📰 buff.ly/WO2DGFc 📖 buff.ly/mgFCNXr 📚 buff.ly/wxqeZgD
👤 Meet the Author: Professor Jing He An Assistant Professor at the University of North Georgia, Professor Jing He studies policy diffusion, risk management, and gender equality using innovative methods and big data in #PublicAdministration. 📄 Read her latest APJPA publication: buff.ly/2I3uLhN
Can more efficient #TaxAdministration enhance fiscal freedom? Using data from 43 #Asian countries, Anjarwi shows that tax complexity and higher tax burdens are associated with lower fiscal freedom. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📢 Just Published in APJPA Can behaviourally informed SMS messages reduce non-payment? A #FieldExperiment in South Africa found that #SocialNorms messages reduced household arrears growth, while deterrence messages did not. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📈 One of APJPA’s most-read Open Access articles Alasdair Roberts explores the “crisis of design” in American government, arguing that over-centralisation contributes to gridlock, polarisation, and inefficiency. Read free: doi.org/10.1080/2327... #PublicAdministration #OpenAccess
Did Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign change more than #corruption? Valdiglesias finds evidence that the 2012 campaign coincided with a significant structural shift in #China's governance system, extending beyond short-term disciplinary measures. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
📢 New #OpenAccess editorial in APJPA How should democracies balance bureaucratic obedience and constitutional accountability? Sanghee Park argues that #SouthKorea's recent reforms offer lessons for democratic governance far beyond Korea. 🔓 Read free: doi.org/10.1080/2327...
What helps retain civil servants? Cheema, Verka & Azam examine the intersections of self-determination theory, #PublicServiceMotivation, and turnover intention among elite civil servants in #Pakistan. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/2327...
👤 Meet the Author: Andrew Podger A former Australian Public Service Commissioner and now Honorary Professor at ANU, Andrew Podger reflects on the achievements and challenges shaping #PublicAdministration in #Asia. 📄 buff.ly/Q8ucsZl
How do faith-based values influence public leadership in a non-theocratic country? Riskawati et al. explore how #Muhammadiyah values shape ethical and inclusive local governance in #Indonesia. 📖 #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/2327... #PublicAdministration #LocalGovernance
Do people in the same cultural tradition share the same #PublicValues? Not necessarily. Zhou, Chen & Kim find notable differences in how future public administrators in #China, #Singapore, and #Taiwan perceive a “good government”. 📖 buff.ly/aYbrv1v #PublicAdministration #ComparativePA