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In 1996, Perry found that public sector employees tended to differ from their private sector counterparts on dimensions relating to attraction to public policymaking, commitment to public interest, compassion, and self-sacrifice. While considerable Public Service Motivation (PSM) research has followed, much of the PSM literature either uses secondary data without testing for construct validity or aims to respecify the original scale. Little attention has been paid to testing the validity of the PSM construct using secondary data. This study examines the presence of PSM-related values among a group of individuals who expressed interest in joining the national service program AmeriCorps in 1999. The purpose of the study is to determine whether PSM-related values are identified among a likely population when Perry's PSM Scale was not used. It is found that two of Perry's original dimensions of PSM are identified among the sample as well as one adapted dimension of PSM.

The public service motivation literature has helped scholars and practitioners better understand who is attracted to public service and why. However, little is understood about how public service motivation in individuals may be cultivated or how it changes over time. This article uses panel data collected by the Corporation for National and Community Service to track the longitudinal effects of participation in the AmeriCorps national service program on participants' public service motivation. Findings reveal that participation in AmeriCorps programs had positive effects on participants' levels of commitment to the public interest and civic awareness immediately after the program; many of these program effects were sustained seven years later. However, when observed in isolation, the comparison group showed significant declines in levels of commitment to public interest and civic awareness over an eight‐year period, suggesting that public service motivation may initially decline upon entry into a public service career.

Cities launch major campaigns to convince the International Olympic Committee to grace them with a staging of the Summer or Winter Games, and they spare no expense in readying their cities for the events. But will the promise of tourist riches and urban improvements pan out once the Olympic torch passes to the next host city?

The recent implementation of the FEMA Corps program, which expands the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps program, will provide disaster relief efforts with rapid access to a cadre of 1,000 trained responders. The program is designed to provide cost‐effective labor to disasters, as well as instill a civic ethic among program participants. This research examines the effect that participation in disaster responses among a sample of AmeriCorps NCCC members has on disaster participation later in life. Respondents were not found to give or volunteer to the Hurricane Katrina and Rita efforts at significantly different rates than other NCCC members. Participation in NCCC does appear to positively predict whether an individual donated time to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, although it did not predict if an individual gave money. Rather, age and income were better predictors of monetary donations.

"Statistical Analysis of International Interdependencies" published on by Oxford University Press.