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100			_aPrebble, Mark
245			_aHas the study of public service motivation addressed the issues that motivated the study?
260			_c2016
300			_ap.267-291.
362			_aMay
520			_aThe study of Public Service Motivation (PSM) has achieved considerable academic momentum with increasingly subtle research appearing each year. It is now opportune to look back at decades of work to see whether the concerns that initiated this area of study have been addressed. This article uses seminal articles that have shaped the field to find three main topics of interest: a concern about the way that theories of public choice characterized human nature, an ambition to crystallize and measure long-held understandings about a public service ethos, and a wish to promote a practical basis for incentivizing staff in the public sector. The application of PSM to these goals is examined, with the conclusion that PSM studies have made little progress in addressing any of those concerns. The implications of that conclusion are briefly considered. - Reproduced.
650			_aMotivation
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a111679
999			_c111674 _d111674