Implicit Citizenship Theories

From social categorization to implicit citizenship theories: Advancing the socio‐cognitive foundations of state–citizen interactions

Public administration research has recently paid increasing attention to public employees' social categorization of citizens and the consequences thereof for administrative decision-making. We advance this line of scholarship by theorizing the …

Aggressions and associations: How workplace violence affects what public employees think of citizens

Scholars have recently spent growing attention to what public employees think of citizens, which influences policy implementation through more manifest attitudes and behaviors. The origins of employees' positive and negative associations with …

Implicit Citizenship Theories

Which implicit conceptions about typical or ideal characteristics of citizens do public employees have?