标题：Governmental policy capacity and policy work in a small place: Reflections on perceptions of civil servants in Prince Edward Island, Canada from a practitioner in the field
期刊名称：JPAS (Journal of Public Administration Studies)
印刷版ISSN：2548-902X
电子版ISSN：2541-6979
出版年度：2020
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：79-88
DOI：10.21776/ub.jpas.2020.005.02.7
语种：English
出版社：University of Brawijaya
摘要：The body of public administration literature is missing contributions from practitioners in the field. Emic or insider-led studies of public administration can act as powerful mechanisms to generate new knowledge. This article studies the relationship between place, perceptions and policy work by drawing on the author’s own public administration experience and interviews with civil servants. The results show that societal factors such as political culture and reduced anonymity associated with small place create challenges when developing public policy. However, expedited public engagement and problem identification were perceived by civil servants to be enhanced by a small context. This means that small place can be both limiting and beneficial for high levels of policy capacity. Overall, this article finds that geospatial factors such as smallness impact perceptions of policy work and capacity. Furthermore, this article finds that insider-led studies of public administration can indeed make important and unique contributions to the body of literature and are therefore deserving of more serious methodological consideration.
关键词：policy capacity;government;civil servants;islands;emic;insider research;qualitative research
