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=...

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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

When schools close, due to COVID-19 lockdown or holidays, the gender gap in reading increases. This is a challenge as boys already struggle more with reading skills than girls.

New paper in @pnas.org with Emil Smith, @davidreimer.bsky.social & @madsjaeger.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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.)

Building affordable housing ➡️ support for funding housing.

Nearby homeowners ⬆️ support; renters ⬇️ support. Both are “the policy adjacent”—secondhand recipients & drivers of policy feedback.

Forthcoming @ajpseditor.bsky.social ( doi.org/10.1111/ajps...) w/ A. Magazinnik & @msands.bsky.social 1/9

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#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

Public Administration Beyond Public Administration Journals - https://cup.org/4bp1jna

- @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, @karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social & Paul van Leeuwen

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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

YES! And thank you, Matthias. We tried to sell to a PA journal but no luck...

If PA wants to understand its own research frontier, it cannot just read PA journals.

PA is bigger, more global, and more methodologically ambitious than its journal boundaries suggest.

A way forward is for PA to be the integrator of knowledge across fields.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Stylized fact 5: PA scholars do not dismiss this work as irrelevant.

When asked directly, they rate PA in economics about as highly as PA in PA journals on relevance, inspiration, discovery, and overall quality.

So the issue is not fit. It is fragmentation.

Stylized fact 4: PA in economics uses tougher causal designs.

More field experiments.
More quasi-experimental work.
More explicit identification.

A lot of the cleanest causal evidence on public administration is being published outside PA journals.

Stylized fact 3: PA in economics studies a much broader world.

Compared with PA journals, it includes more non-Western settings and more work from the Global South.

If you only read PA journals, your picture of the field is systematically too narrow.

Stylized fact 2: PA in economics exists in a parallel universe.

PA journals cite economics a bit.
Economics barely cites PA journals back.

This is not one integrated field. It is two literatures studying similar questions with very limited connection.

Stylized fact 1: PA in economics is not niche.

It is only a small share of top econ output, but economics is so large that this still adds up to a body of research comparable in size to all quantitatively oriented PA in top PA journals.

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!

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@karlemilbendtsen.bsky.social

Five stylized facts:

I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...

Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?

Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:

tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Forfatter: DR vil faktatjekke mere. Det er en farlig vej at gå - Altinget DR vil styrke demokratiet med fakta og verificering, men risikerer at bidrage til en misvisende forestilling om sandt og falsk. Demokratiet lider ikke af for lidt fakta, men af manglende vilje til uen...

Veloplagt forskerkritik af Philip Larsen: www.altinget.dk/artikel/forf...

"Can AI automate policy evaluation?" Looks like an amazing project - AI is changing science production in very deep ways: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

"Vil du med hjem og se min samling af .md-filer?"

Contender for worst logo of all time

Trump right now on the psychological benefits of owning Greenland:

>>who the hell wants to defend a license agreement<<

🫣

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Linked Greenland Push to Nobel Prize Snub, Officials Say

"President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" 🙃 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

What is something nice I can say about Delaware? bsky.app/profile/donm...

Bipartisan group of lawmakers to visit Denmark as Trump threatens to take over Greenland President Trump's remarks about taking Greenland by military force have prompted bipartisan criticism from lawmakers who have said they do not support acquiring the Danish territory in such a way.

I would like to announce my own goodwill mission to Denmark this May, where I will meet @asmusletholsen.bsky.social and the King.
www.cbsnews.com/news/congres...

New stuff bsky.app/profile/jose...

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.

My first working paper is now live!

Can minority role models help diversify the bureaucracy of the future?

This: In the same week that Vance expressed concern that France and the United Kingdom had nuclear weapons, he said Denmark was not a very good ally to the US. It is shameful.
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