What Should Be Paid Attention to in the Study of"Attention Allocation"in Public Management?—A Comparative Analysis of Domestic and International Studies on Attention Allocation
Attention allocation is one of the hot spots of domestic public management re-search in recent years,and related research shows obvious preferences.Examining such tenden-cies from a comparative perspective can enrich and expand the diversity of research in this field.Through comparative analysis,it is found that there are differences between domestic and foreign studies in terms of mindset,focus of attention,methods,variable manipulation,and material ac-quisition.Generally speaking,the literature on attention allocation in foreign countries is charac-terized by diversity,and mainly focuses on attention allocation as an outcome variable;while do-mestic studies focus on the attention allocation of government officials,and most of them take at-tention allocation as an independent variable to analyze the determining effect of attention alloca-tion on their actions.For future research in this area,it is recommended that attention be paid to the following topics:the adaptive function of attention,the pulling effect of the actor's"fantasy"on attention allocation,the dissolution of the explanatory power of attention allocation by behav-ioral learning and imitation effects,and the phenomenon of attentional depletion.