Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7bb8b95d7b-qxsvm Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-09-18T06:55:42.799Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

23 - Changing How Government Works: The Transformative Potential of an Experimental Public Management*

from Part IV - Issues and Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Oliver James
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Sebastian R. Jilke
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Gregg G. Van Ryzin
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
Get access

Summary

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Experiments in Public Management Research
Challenges and Contributions
, pp. 476 - 494
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Angrist, J., Bettinger, E., Bloom, E., King, E. and Kremer, M., 2002. ‘Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment’, The American Economic Review 92(5): 1535–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Berk, R. A., Boruch, R. F., Chambers, D. L., Rossi, P. H., and Witte, A. D. 1985. ‘Social policy experimentation: a position paper’, Evaluation Review 9: 385429.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bloom, H. S. (ed.) 2005. Learning from Social Experiments. New York: Russell Sage.Google Scholar
Bloom, H. S., Orr, L. L., Bell, S. H., Cave, G., Doolittle, F., Lin, W., and Bos, J. M. 1997. ‘The benefits and costs of JTPA Title II-A programs: key findings from the National Job Training Partnership Act study’, Journal of Human Resources 32: 549–76.Google Scholar
Bloom, H. S., Orr, L., Cave, G., Bell, S., and Doolittle, F. 1993. The National JTPA Study: Title II-A Impacts on Earnings and Employment at 18 Months. Bethesda, MD: Abt Associates, Inc.Google Scholar
Brewer, G. A. and Brewer, G. A. Jr. 2011. ‘Parsing public/private differences in work motivation and performance: an experimental study’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21: 347–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Butler, D. and Brockman, D. 2011. ‘Do politicians racially discriminate against constituents? A field experiment on state legislators’, American Journal of Political Science 553: 463–77.Google Scholar
Cabinet Office 2012. Applying Behavioural Insights to Reduce Fraud, Error and Debt. London: Cabinet Office.Google Scholar
Campbell, D. T. 1957. ‘Factors relevant to the validity of experiments in social settings’, Psychological Bulletin 4: 297312.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campbell, D. T. 1969. ‘Reforms as experiments’, American Psychologist 24: 409–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campbell, D. T., and Stanley, J. C. 1963. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally.Google Scholar
Christiansen, J. and Bunt, L. 2012. Innovation in Policy: Allowing for Creativity, Social Complexity and Uncertainty in Public Governance. London: Nesta.Google Scholar
Dolan, P., Hallsworth, M., Halpern, D., King, D., and Vlaev, I. 2010. MINDSPACE: Influencing Behaviour Through Public Policy. London: Cabinet Office and Institute for Government.Google Scholar
Duflo, E., Glennerster, R., and Kremer, M. 2007. ‘Using randomization in development economics research: a toolkit’, Handbook of Development Economics 4: 3895–962.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dunleavy, P., Margetts, H., Bastow, S., and Tinkler, J. 2006. Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State and E-Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dunlop, C. A. 2013. ‘Narrating experiments in public policy: explaining impact through boundary work’, paper to the Policy and Politics Annual Conference, Bristol.Google Scholar
Dunning, T. 2012. Natural Experiments in the Social Science: A Design-Based Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eldersveld, S. T. 1956. ‘Experimental propaganda techniques and voting behaviour’, The American Political Science Review 50: 154–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fisher, R. A. 1935. The Design of Experiments. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyde.Google Scholar
Gerber, A. S., and Green, D. P. 2012. Field Experiments Design, Analysis and Interpretation. New York: William Norton.Google Scholar
Gosnell, H. F. 1926. ‘An experiment in the stimulation of voting’, The American Political Science Review 20: 869–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gosnell, H. F. 1927. Getting-Out-the-Vote: An Experiment in the Stimulation of Voting. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.Google Scholar
Green, D. P. and Gerber, A. S. 2003. ‘The underprovision of experiments in political science’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 589: 94112.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Green, D. P., and Gerber, A. S. 2008. Get Out the Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.Google Scholar
Greenberg, D., Linksz, D., and Mandell, M. 2003. Social Experimentation and Public Policymaking. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.Google Scholar
Greenberg, D. and Shroder, M. 2004. Digest of Social Experiments. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.Google Scholar
Hallsworth, M., List, J. A., and Vlaev, I. 2014. ‘The Behavioralist as Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance’, unpublished paper, http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/nbrnberwo/20007.htm.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Halpern, D., Bates, C., Mulgan, G., and Aldridge, S., with Beales, G. and Heathfield, A. 2004. Personal Responsibility and Changing Behaviour: The State of Its Knowledge and Its Implications for Public Policy. London: Cabinet Office.Google Scholar
Haynes, L. C., Green, D. P., Gallagher, R., John, P., and Torgerson, D. J. 2013. ‘Collection of delinquent fines: an adaptive randomized trial to assess the effectiveness of alternative text messages’, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32: 718–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haynes, L., Service, O., Goldacre, B., and Torgerson, D. 2012. Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials. London: Cabinet Office.Google Scholar
Henderson, M. 2012. The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters. London: Bantam Press.Google Scholar
Henegan, C. 2010. ‘How many randomized trials are published each year?’, http://blogs.trusttheevidence.net/carl-heneghan/how-many-randomized-trials-are-published-each-year.Google Scholar
Treasury, HM 2003. The Magenta Book: Guidance Notes for Policy Evaluation and Analysis. London: HM Treasury.Google Scholar
Humphreys, M., de la Sierra, R. Sanchez, and van der Wind, P. 2012. Social and Economic Impacts of Tuungane. Final Report on the Effects of a Community Driven Reconstruction Program in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. University of Columbia.Google Scholar
Humphreys, M. and Weinstein, J. M. 2009. ‘Field experiments and the political economy of development’, Annual Review of Political Science 12: 367–78.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
John, P. 2013. ‘Policy entrepreneurship in UK central government: the Behavioural Insights Team and the use of randomized trials’, Public Policy and Administration 29: 257–67.Google Scholar
John, P. and Richardson, L. 2012, Nudging Citizens Toward Localism. London: British Academy.Google Scholar
Jones, R., Pykett, J., and Whitefield, M. 2013. Changing Behaviours: The Rise of the Psychological State. Brighton: Edward Elgar.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kahneman, D., Slovic, P., and Tversky, A. 1982. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kanter, R. M. 1983. The Change Masters: Innovations for Productivity in the American Corporation. New York: Simon and Schuster.Google Scholar
Kanter, R. M. 1989. ‘Swimming in newstreams: mastering innovation dilemmas’, California Management Review 414: 4569.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kelman, S. 2005. Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.Google Scholar
Margetts, H. and Dunleavy, P. 2013. ‘The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 28: 117.Google Scholar
McDougall, C., Perry, A., Clarbour, J., Bowles, R., and Worthy, G. 2009. Evaluation of HM Prison Service Enhanced Thinking Skills Programme. London: Ministry of Justice Research Series 3/09 www.justice.gov.uk/publications.Google Scholar
Miles, I. 2013. ‘Public service innovation: what messages from the collision of innovation studies and services research?’ In Osborne, S. and Brown, L. (eds.), Handbook of Innovation in Public Services. Brighton: Edward Elgar.Google Scholar
Munnell, A. H. (ed.) 1987. Lessons from the Income Maintenance Experiments. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series 30. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.Google Scholar
Murphy, S., Moore, G. F., Lynch, K. T. R., Clarke, R., Raisanen, L., Desousa, C., and Moore, L.. 2010. ‘Free healthy breakfasts in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a policy intervention in Wales, UK’, Public Health Nutrition 142: 219–26.Google Scholar
Nooteboom, B. 2000. Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Olken, B. 2005. ‘Monitoring corruption: evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia’, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series p. 11753.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Olken, B., Onishi, J., and Wong, S. 2012 ‘Should aid reward performance?’ www.nber.org/papers/w17892.Google Scholar
Orr, L. 1999. Social Experiments Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Google Scholar
Petrosino, A., Petrosino, C. Turpin, and Colophon, J. Buehler 2002. ‘Scared Straight’ and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency. Campbell Systematic Reviews.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Riccio, J. A. and Bloom, H. 2001. New Directions in Evaluations of American Welfare-to-Work and Employment Initiatives. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.Google Scholar
Richardson, L. and John, P. 2012. ‘Who listens to the grassroots? A field experiment on informational lobbying in the UK’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 144: 595612.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roberts, N. C. and King, P. J. 1991, ‘Policy entrepreneurs: their activity structure and function in the policy process’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 1: 147–75.Google Scholar
Robins, P. K. and Spiegelman, R. G. 2001. Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System. Michigan: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.Google Scholar
Sherman, L. W., Rogan, D. P., Edwards, T., Whipple, R., Shreve, D., Witcher, D., Trimble, W., The Street Narcotics Unit, Velke, R., Blumberg, M., Beatty, A., and Bridgeforth, C. A. 1995. ‘Deterrent effects of police raids on crack houses: a randomized, controlled experiment’, Justice Quarterly 12: 755–81.Google Scholar
Sherman, L. W. and Weisburd, D. 1995. ‘General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime hot spots: a randomized, controlled trial’, Justice Quarterly 12: 635–48.Google Scholar
Student1931, ‘The Lanarkshire milk experiment’, Biometrika 23: 398406.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thaler, R. H. and Sunstein, C. R. 2008. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Torfing, J. B., Peters, G., Pierre, J., and Sørensen, E. 2012. Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Torgerson, D. J. and Torgerson, C. 2008. Designing Randomised Trials in Health, Education and the Social Sciences: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weisburd, D. and Green, L. 1995. ‘Policing drug hot spots: the Jersey City drug market analysis experiment’, Justice Quarterly 124: 711–35.Google Scholar
Weiss, C. 1972. Evaluation Research. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.Google Scholar
Weiss, C. 1997. ‘How can theory-based evaluation make greater headway?Evaluation Review 214: 501–24.Google Scholar
Weiss, C. 1998. ‘Have we learned anything new about the use of evaluation?American Journal of Evaluation 191: 2133.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Word, E., Johnston, J., Bain, H. P., Boyd-Zaharias, J., Lintz, N., Achiles, C. M., Folger, J., and Breda, C. 1989. Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Tennessee’s K-3 Class Size Study. Final Summary Report 1985–1990. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED320692.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×