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Asmus Leth Olsen

@asmusletholsen.bsky.social

Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. www.asmusolsen.com & paopa.org Foto: Freja Wille.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Case study: Why is AFD of 25%?

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Don’t bother recommending the Titanic museum"

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Still funny

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Contender for worst logo of all time

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The head of the The International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) is a top ranking official in the executive branch of Bahrain. IIAS is the mother organization of EGPA - host of one of the major yearly academic conferences on public administration. #egpa #pa

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Could we maybe land a compromise where you get Faroe Islands?

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Asmus Leth Olsen @asmusletholsen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

With federal employment flatning for 50 years the real action is at the state-level.

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