Research

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Belardinelli, P., & Zhu, X. (2025). Pre-Registering Public Administration Studies: Avoiding the Poor Practice of a ‘Best-Practice’. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 8.

Bellé, N., Belardinelli, P., Cucciniello, M., & Nasi, G. (2025). Experimental evidence on the determinants of citizens’ expectations toward public services. Public Administration Review, 85(1), 176-191.

Belle, N., Cantarelli, P., & Belardinelli, P. (2024). Bounded subadditivity in management decisions. Management Decision, 62(11), 3518-3533.

Perego, A., & Belardinelli, P. (2024). Telework and public employees’ attitudes post-pandemic: experimental evidence from Italy. Review of Public Personnel Administration.

Belardinelli, P., Belle, N., Cantarelli, P., & Battaglio, P. (2023). Performance-related pay, fairness perceptions, and effort in public management tasks: a parallel encouragement design. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 89(4), 1062-1078.

Mele, V., Belardinelli, P., & Bellé, N. (2023). Telework in public organizations: a systematic review and research agenda. Public Administration Review.

Belardinelli, P., Torbica, A., & Fattore, G. (2022). Longitudinal associations between different measures of socioeconomic status and health behavior among adolescents. Data from a wealthy Italian region. Preventive Medicine, 160, 107092.

Woodhouse, E., Belardinelli, P., & Bertelli, A. (2022). Hybrid Governance and the Attribution of Political Responsibility: Experimental Evidence from the United States. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 32(1), 150-165.

Belardinelli, P., Bellé, N., & Cantarelli, C. (2021). The impact of bounded subadditivity on administrative behavior among public and private workers. Public Administration, 99(4), 679-693.

Cantarelli, P., Belle, N., & Belardinelli, P. (2020). Behavioral public HR: Experimental evidence on cognitive biases and debiasing interventions. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 40(1), 56-81.

Belle, N., Belardinelli, P., Cantarelli, P., & Mele, V. (2019). On Iron Cages and Suboptimal Choices: An Experimental Test of the Micro-Foundations of Isomorphism in the Public Sector. International Public Management Journal, 22(2), 373-414.

Mele, V., & Belardinelli, P. (2019). Mixed Methods in public administration research: Selecting, sequencing and connecting. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 29(2), 334-347.

Belardinelli, P., Belle, N., Sicilia, M., & Steccolini, I. (2018). Framing Effects under Different Uses of Performance Information: An Experimental Study on Public Managers. Public Administration Review, 78(6), 841-851.

Belle, N., Cantarelli, P., & Belardinelli, P. (2018). Prospect Theory Goes Public: Experimental Evidence on Cognitive Biases in Public Policy and Management Decisions.  Public Administration Review, 78(6), 828-840.

Belle, N., Cantarelli, P., & Belardinelli, P. (2017). Cognitive Biases in Performance Appraisal: Experimental Evidence on Anchoring and Halo Effects with Public Sector Managers and Employees. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 37(3), 275-294.

Cantarelli, P., Belardinelli, P., & Belle, N. (2016). A Meta-Analysis of Job Satisfaction Correlates in the Public Administration Literature. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 36(2), 115-144.

BOOKS

Belardinelli, P. (2024). Mapping Behavioral Public Policy: Citizens’ Preferences and Trust. Springer Nature.

Bertelli, A., Woodhouse, E., Castiglioni, M., & Belardinelli, P. (2021). Partnership Communities: Political Accountability and the Success of Infrastructure Development Around the World. Cambridge University Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Belardinelli, P., & Mele, V. (2021). Mixed Methods in Public Administration: Advantages and Challenges. In Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, Management and Policy, ed. Vigoda-Gadot E., & Vashdi D. Edward Elgar Publishing.

BOOK REVIEWS

Belardinelli, P. (2022). Mark Esteve and Christian Schuster, eds., Motivating Public Employees (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). 94 pp. International Public Management Journal.

Belardinelli, P. (2018). Eva Moll Sørensen, Hanne Foss Hansen, and Mads Bøge Kristiansen, eds., Public Management in Times of Austerity (New York and London: Routledge, 2017). 282 pp. $120.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781138680531. Public Administration Review, 78(5), 809-811. – Laverne Burchfield Award 2018.

SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

Belardinelli, P. & Lodge, M. Citizen ReConnect, Cultural Biases and Administrative Burdens.

Belardinelli, P. & Lodge, M. Citizens’ support for behavioral public policy and trust in government: evidence from two online experiments.

Belardinelli, P., Belle, N., Cucciniello, M., & Nasi, G. Experimental evidence on how to fuel prosociality.

Belle, N., & Belardinelli, P.SOUND Experimental Public Administration. A systematic review and a typology.

Woodhouse, E., Belardinelli, P., & Lee, N. Policymakers’ Preferences Over Public-Private Procurement and Credit-Claiming: Experimental Evidence.