Asmus Leth Olsen

@asmusletholsen.bsky.social

Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. www.asmusolsen.com & https://paopa.org/ Foto: Freja Wille.

Landing in Belfast for the European Political Science Society. Please share your favorite things to do, places to eat or drink. (Don’t bother recommending the Titanic museum (done it) or conflict tours).

現在は行政研究の黄金期にあるが、かなりの論文が経済学ジャーナルに掲載されている。それらと行政研究ジャーナルの論文とはどう違うか?──を記述的に比較するというもの。 Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals

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And how the do we get Econ to cite PA? Doing literature reviews behind enemy lines is a way forward. Here is a model example by @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social — see: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... bsky.app/profile/asmu...

Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net

(Winter 2025) - Administrative burdens shape people's experiences of, and access to, social safety net programs. They can undermine the goals these programs are trying to achieve. Such burdens are the...

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Asmus Leth Olsen@asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We (@karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social) are re-building the field of Public Administration from the ground up! Well, okay, we built a website with a table of papers. The Archive of PA outside PA is a living archive of PA research published outside PA journals. Go see: www.paopa.org

Election day in Denmark Dutchification of the party system continues with record levels of party fractionalization. We will be more Dutch than the Dutch before the end of today. (The Dutch will still have way more narrative systemic reviews in Public Administration journals.)

This is great paper about interdisciplinarity: *points out that Econ is now doing a lot of high quality public administration research *Econ is also mostly ignoring traditional PA research, PA is a bit more attentive to Econ *Both groups would benefit from engaging much more with each other

Asmus Leth Olsen@asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We got a paper in @pspolisci.bsky.social l on public administration beyond public administration journals A substantial share of quantitatively oriented PA research is being produced in top economics journals! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social Five stylized facts:

This is a really cool paper. It shows that role models can influence how people think about college majors & working in government. But it also shows that effects fade over over time which should constrain our expectations about how one shot interventions like training actually can change behavior.

Josephine Arnfred@josephinearnfred.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My first working paper is now live! Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?