New publication in Public Administration Review (PAR)

We are delighted to share our interdisciplinary collaboration, co-authored by Moshe Maor, Dovilė Rimkutė,Tereza Capelos:

"Emotions and Reputation Learning by Audience Networks: A Research Agenda in Bureaucratic Politics"
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Check out our new publication with Adriana Cerdeira, 'Reputational Pragmatism at the European Central Bank,' in New Political Economy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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(5) Our interviewees explain that these patters are strongly driven by reputational considerations.

In particular, accusations of technical misconduct threaten the core of EU agencies' credibility and authority.

(4) Media salience has a direct and strong positive effect on bureaucratic responsiveness. 

We provide new insight by showing that negative media attention in particular strengthens responsiveness to demands about technical and moral organizational conduct.

(3) Relative to demands about moral (mis)conduct by political principals, citizens' moral demands evoke higher bureaucratic responsiveness.

In the words of one respondent:

(2) Our analysis reveals that particular stakeholders can most forcefully voice demands concerning specific aspects of agency conduct, in particular:

- Technical demands by the Parliament
- Performative demands by the Commission
- Legal demands by national agencies

Findings:

(1) We find that bureaucrats are most responsive to demands exercised by their political principals (the European Parliament and the European Commission), as well as to demands that receive adverse media attention.

New study in PAR on Bureaucratic Responsiveness (with @jorisvandervoet.bsky.social)

When do bureaucrats respond to external demands? We theorize and test how bureaucrats prioritize between simultaneous stakeholder demands.

For more information see:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...