Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness.
Policy makers have increasingly relied on performance ranking regimes based on information collected through public complaint systems to improve grassroots governments' accountability, transparency, and responsiveness. This article contributes to the existing literature by examining whether grassroo...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 607 - 629 |
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May2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=185068310&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 185068310 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1541132X MJJ jtl: Review of Policy Research issn: 1541132X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: May2025 vid: 42 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 185068310 10.1111/ropr.12565 ppf: 607 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Performance ranking, span of control, and grassroots government responsiveness. aug: au: Zhang, Youlang Zhai, Wenkang Li, Wenzhao affil: School of Public Administration and Policy, Capital Development and Governance Institute, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China su: Leadership Government accountability sug: subj: Leadership Government accountability keyword: government responsiveness grassroots governments ICT complaint systems performance ranking span of control capacidad de respuesta del gobierno gobiernos de base rango de control ranking de desempeño sistemas de quejas de TIC 基层政府 政府响应度 管理跨度 绩效排名 ICT投诉系统 government responsiveness grassroots governments ICT complaint systems performance ranking span of control capacidad de respuesta del gobierno gobiernos de base rango de control ranking de desempeño sistemas de quejas de TIC 基层政府 政府响应度 管理跨度 绩效排名 ICT投诉系统 ab: Policy makers have increasingly relied on performance ranking regimes based on information collected through public complaint systems to improve grassroots governments' accountability, transparency, and responsiveness. This article contributes to the existing literature by examining whether grassroots governments strategically adjust their responsiveness according to their ranking positions and the number of their peers that are supervised by the same superior government (i.e., span of control). To test the theorized relationships, we built an original panel dataset consisting of monthly responsiveness information and socioeconomic and leadership characteristics of 333 grassroots governments in Beijing, China from February 2019 to December 2020. Our empirical findings consistently show that having a high/low ranking is associated with a decrease/increase in grassroots governments' responsiveness in the next period. Additionally, as the span of control increases, the effect of ranking position on responsiveness changes among grassroots governments weakens. A series of robustness checks were used to validate the theorized relationships. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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