Kohei Suzuki
@skohei.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Leiden University's Institute of Public Administration, FGGA @fggaleiden.bsky.social Bureaucracy; Comparative PA, Cuban salsa dance enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/koheisuzuki
Started a Substack — connecting research on public administration with real-world practice. First post: civil service staffing shortages across Japan, South Korea, Spain, and the Netherlands. More widespread than it looks. koheisuzuki2025.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Happy to share our new paper: Tackling grand challenges with digital innovation. This expands on our Springer book with Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and my former student Manuel Di Loreto, which grew out of Manuel's MA thesis @fggaleiden.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tackling grand challenges with digital innovation: The case of demographic shifts
Although digital innovation is widely considered a cure for demographic decline, it will only succeed if governments confront how demographic decline itself undermines the capacity to innovate. Thi...
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Our new systematic review on job security, organizational performance, and employee attitudes is published. We find that reducing job security of public servants does not lead to good performance @fggaleiden.bsky.social
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration@apjournalpa.bsky.social · 9mo agoJust out & relevant in the light of current bureaucrat-bashing moods globally. Oliveira et al. conduct a systematic review of evidence drawn from 119 empirical studies on the link between job security, employee attitudes, & performance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
公務員の離職については国際的な実証研究結果が積み重なっています。最近の国際的な実証研究（59件のメタ分析、Hur & Abner 2024）によると、離職意向を左右するのは仕事への関与度、疲労度、満足度、役割の明確さ、組織への愛着、意思決定参加です。 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
深刻化する国家公務員離れ 「職務基準」への転換が急務 - 日本経済新聞
国家公務員離れが進むなか、人事院の有識者会議「人事行政諮問会議」が3月下旬に最終提言をまとめました。優秀な人材を確保できなければ国の行政は将来停滞しかねません。キャリア官僚の給与引き上げや、職務基準の人事運営への転換など、旧来型人材マネジメントの抜本的な見直しを求めています。「公務が危機に瀕（ひん）している」。最終提言はこう書き出します。2024年度の採用試験（総合職）申込者は1万8333人で
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Excited to announce our book with Manuel Loreto, my former master student @fggaleiden.bsky.social, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu on demographic decline & digital innovation from @springernature.com in May! This research builds upon Manuel's insightful master's thesis on 110 Italian municipalities.
@koheisuzuki.bsky.social shares insightful evidence based research on why good governance and a professional, non-partisan civil service is important in liberal democracies. This also helps explain why the damage DOGE is doing must be contained, and be reversed in the future.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.New, from Professor Kohei Suziki at Can We Still Govern: Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
ドナルド・モイニハン教授のブログに寄稿させていただく機会をいただきました。メリトクラシー、政府の質、政治化に関する重要な研究からの実証的証拠をまとめました。この記事が現状理解の一助となれば幸いです。元々の記事は日本経済新聞の経済教室にしたものです。 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.New, from Professor Kohei Suziki at Can We Still Govern: Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
New, from Professor Kohei Suziki at Can We Still Govern: Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
Administrative Backsliding Accompanies Democratic Backsliding
Warning signs from other countries about politicization of the administrative decline
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Thank you very much @donmoyn.bsky.social !
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.New, from Professor Kohei Suziki at Can We Still Govern: Trump’s assault on civil service systems is part of broader pattern: where there is democratic backsliding, there is also administrative backsliding (see also, Turkey, Hungary and Venezuela). 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/administra...
Autocratization and public administration: the revolutionary-populist regime in Venezuela in comparative perspective: Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration: Vol 45, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Autocratization and public administration: the revolutionary-populist regime in Venezuela in comparative perspective
What happens to state bureaucracies when authoritarianism emerges? How do autocrats seek to use the administration to their ends, and how does it react? The paper analyzes Venezuela as a showcase f...
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My new book chapter exploring local co-production through Japanese neighborhood associations. While co-production theory is well-established in public administration literature, Japan's NHAs offer an understudied perspective on service delivery through co-production link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Local Government and Citizen Co-production Through Neighborhood Associations
This chapter explores co-production practices of local governments, focusing on the role of neighborhood associations (NHAs) in Japan. This chapter investigates the overall research question of this b...
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