This article provides a comprehensive overview of how policy makers, practitioners, and
scholars can fruitfully use behavioral science to tackle public administration, management …

Field experiments have become popular in public administration. By allowing for the
identification of causal effects in realistic settings, field experiments may become central in …

Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems
offers provocative and thorough coverage of the complex issues faced by employees and …

This article tests a broad range of cognitive biases branching out from prospect theory in the
context of public policy and management. Results illuminate systematic deviations from …

A revolution in the measurement and reporting of government performance through the use
of published metrics, rankings and reports has swept the globe at all levels of government …

Public managers' decisions are affected by cognitive biases. For instance, employees'
previous year's performance ratings influence new ratings irrespective of actual …

We draw on behavioral science to investigate a set of decisions that may have an impact on
public human resource management, thus affecting public service provision. Our survey-in …

We draw on the focus theory of normative conduct and nudge theory to experimentally test
the effect of descriptive social norms on desired behaviors that public employees may …

Combining insights from public administration, accounting, and psychology, this article
explores the microprocesses by which public managers use performance information …

This article theorises how behavioural public administration can help improve our
understanding of frontline policy implementation. The human factors that characterise policy …