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100			_a Vogel, Rick Vogel, Dominik Liegat, Marlen Christin and Hensel, David _953901
245			_aFrom social categorization to implicit citizenship theories: Advancing the socio-cognitive foundations of state–citizen interactions
260			_aPublic Administration Review
300			_a85(2), Mar, 2025: p.402-418
520			_aPublic 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 concept of implicit citizenship theories (ICTs) and elaborating it in four sequential empirical studies. ICTs are implicit assumptions about citizens' typical or ideal characteristics that emerge freely and associatively in the minds of public employees and guide cognitive categorization. We investigate the content and structure of these ICTs and extract a taxonomy of six distinctive, yet interrelated, prototypes of citizens that public employees bring to their jobs. As implicit theories influence attitudes and behaviors, ICTs are relevant to the quality of public services delivered to citizens. This is particularly evident where negative prototypes give rise to unequal treatment. Practical interventions to change those prototypes might target their individual beholders or the social context that makes ICTs accessible.- Reproduced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.13844
773			_aPublic Administration Review
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