It attempts to better understand the cycle of causes and consequences after putting orders or laws into motion to govern or administrate one or many humans within a specific group.
It is an interdisciplinary academic discipline that studies public administration "from the micro-level perspective of individual and group behavior and attitudes.
[4] The journal, edited by professors Sebastian Jilke, Joanna Lahey, Kenneth J. Meier, and William G. Resh,[5][6] is dedicated to behavioral and experimental research in public administration.
[2][8] Some of the leading research studies on BPA are Performance information in politics: How framing, format, and rhetoric matter to politicians’ preferences (2019) by Martin Bækgaard, Street-Level Bureaucrats as Individual Policymakers: The Relationship between Attitudes and Coping Behavior toward Vulnerable Children and Youth (2017) by Siddhartha Baviskar and Søren C. Winter, and The Creativity of Coping: Alternative Tales of Moral Dilemmas among Migration Control Officers (2018) by Lisa Marie Borrelli and Annika Lindberg.
The methods and measurement techniques used to study public administration have, to an increasing extent, become influenced by the practices of the psychological field, most notably seen as in the more frequent use of experiments.