Browsing by Author "Suzuki, Kohei"
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Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment of Senior Public Officials: Evidence from a Cross-National Study of 20 European Countries
Suzuki, Kohei; Hur, Hyunkang (2018-11)In recent years there has been growing scholarly interest in the effects of bureaucratic structures on corruption, socioeconomic development, government effectiveness, policy implementation, and support for democracy. ... -
Does Chief Executive’s Experience Moderate Consolidation’s Impact on Municipal Performance
Suzuki, Kohei (2016-09)A profound structural change is municipal merger. This come about through absorption of small units or merge of units to create a new entity. Both are intended to improve efficiency by taking advantage of economies of scale ... -
Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizen’s perceptions of public service quality
Suzuki, Kohei (2019-05)Government impartiality is considered a core feature of government quality that leads to favorable macro-level outcomes. We still have limited knowledge, however, of how impartiality affects citizens’ perceptions of public ... -
Municipality Merger and Local Democracy: An assessment of the merger of Japanese municipalities.
Suzuki, Kohei; Ha, Hyesong (2017-07)Municipal mergers have been widely used as a tool for administrative reform (Fox and Gurley-Calvez 2006; OECD 2014). While municipal mergers have been planned or implemented with the hope of increasing efficiencies in ... -
New public management and municipal performance: Do NPM reforms boost performance?
Suzuki, Kohei (2018-12)New Public Management (NPM) reforms have been adopted worldwide since the mid-1970s to improve government effectiveness and efficiency. The basic premise of NPM reforms is that market orientation and management focus in ... -
Rediscovering Bureaucracy: Bureaucratic Professionalism, Impartiality, and Innovation
Suzuki, Kohei; Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif (2017-07)This study examines an empirical link between bureaucratic structures and country-level innovation outputs. Although there has been growing scholarly attention to public sector innovation, we still have a limited understanding ... -
The Prudent Entrepreneurs. Women and Public Sector Innovation
Lapuente, Victor; Suzuki, Kohei (2017-10)This paper suggests a new argument to explain gender differences in public management: the “prudent entrepreneur theory.” We hypothesize that male and female public managers have three differences in their attitudes towards ... -
Women and Risk-Taking Behavior in Local Public Finance
Suzuki, Kohei (2017-07)This study examines how female representation in local elected (mayor and legislature) and administrative (mid-level manager) positions influences municipal financial decision making in 764 Japanese city-level governments. ...