PA Brown Bag Series: Greg Porumbescu
October 5, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
PA Brown Bag Series: Greg Porumbescu (Rutgers), 2102 AEH
Is There a Double Standard? Assessing How Public Manager Race Shapes Effects Citizens’ Responses to Performance Information Disclosure
Gregory A. Porumbescu
Rutgers – Newark
In public management, discrimination is assessed in terms of citizens’ access to public goods and services. Yet, citizens are also likely to discriminate in their dealings with public officials. This perspective on discrimination has gone unaddressed by public management scholars, yet is significant for the reason that it likely makes it much more difficult for public managers on the receiving end to do their job.
The objective of this study is to help shed light on this important issue. Our assessment is guided by three research questions:
- To what extent do citizens’ evaluations of public manager performance vary according to whether a public manager is white or black?
- Does citizen attribution for high or low performance vary according to the race of the public manager being evaluated?
- Does greater performance information disclosure strengthen or weaken citizen biases in evaluation and attribution?
Date posted
Jul 11, 2018
Date updated
Sep 27, 2018