Public Service Motivation and Civic Engagement (eBook)

Fabian Homberg is Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy.Joyce Costello is a Senior Lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, UK.     

Foreword 6
Acknowledgements 8
Contents 9
List of Tables 10
1: On the Nature of Public Service Motivation 11
Introduction 11
PSM: A Misnomer? (or: The State Versus Trait Debate) 14
Plan of the Book 17
References 18
2: Zooming In on Public Service Motivation I: Conceptual Facets 23
The Development of the PSM Construct 23
Prosocial Motivation 28
Altruism 28
Intrinsic Motivation 31
Civic Engagement 33
References 34
3: Zooming In on Public Service Motivation II: Construct Measurement 39
The PSM Measurement Space 39
The Original Measure of PSM: “Perry’s 24” 40
“Attraction to Policy Making”: A More Detailed Look 45
Cutting Perry’s 24 46
Enhancing International Comparability 47
Global Measures of PSM 48
Cultural Variations and New Dimensions 50
Local Adaptations of the PSM Measure 51
Expanding the PSM Construct with New Dimensions 52
References 55
4: The Association of Public Service Motivation and Civic Engagement: Linking PSM and Volunteering Intensity 59
Public Service Motivation 61
Volunteering Intensity 64
P-O Fit 67
Method 68
Measurement of Main Variables 69
Analysis 69
Discussion and Conclusion 75
References 77
5: Civic Engagement as Political Participation: Does PSM Create Politically Active Citizens? 83
What Happened to the Engaged Citizen? 84
Individual Differences and Political Participation 86
PSM and Political Participation 87
Method 90
Data and Sample 90
Measures 90
Dependent Variables: Forms of Civic Engagement 90
Independent Variables 92
Control Variables 93
Results 93
Estimation Strategy 93
Findings 93
Discussion 99
Limitations 101
Appendix 5.1: Sample Characteristics 102
Appendix 5.2: Correlations 103
References 104
6: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward 107
A Brief Summary of Findings 107
What Do Our Findings Mean in a Wider Context of the Literature? 109
An Agenda for Future Research on PSM and Civic Engagement 111
References 113
Index 115