American Review of Public Administration articles from December 1998

American Review of Public Administration archives from December 1998

The limits of reinventing government.
December 1, 1998... The near absence of any reference to democratic accountability is perhaps the most striking feature of the Gore report. - J. Q. Wilson (1994) Richard Nathan (1995) recently raised two timely questions about government reinvention in...

Where values collide: motivation and role conflict in child and adult protective services.
December 1, 1998... Public employees in a wide variety of jobs and programmatic areas deal with important, complex, difficult societal problems. Understanding what motivates these individuals to choose public sector work is vitally important to the field of...

Earthquake recovery: gaps between norms of disaster agencies and expectations of small businesses.
December 1, 1998... What do you do as a small business owner when the community in which your business operates, and perhaps your facility as well, collapses in the wake of a natural disaster such as an earthquake? What expectations would you have for local,...

Performance evaluation of federal administrative law judges: challenge for public administration?
December 1, 1998... The thesis herein is that the challenging question of applying performance evaluation to the small but significant category of federal administrative law judges (ALJs) deserves wider attention and more disinterested discussion than it has so...

Deregulating the Public Service.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by John J. DiIulio, Jr. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994. 308 pp., Softcover. These books provide valuable information about and insights into ongoing reform theories and actions in public administration and the public...

Inside the Reinvention Machine.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Donald F. Kettl, Jr. and John J. DiIulio, Jr. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995.205 pp., Softcover. These books provide valuable information about and insights into ongoing reform theories and actions in public...

Managerial Reform and Professional Empowerment in the Public Service.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Walter L. Balk. Quorum Books, 1996. 216 pp., Softcover. These books provide valuable information about and insights into ongoing reform theories and actions in public administration and the public service in the United States in the...

Continual Improvement in Government.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Jerry W. Koehlor and Joseph M. Pankowski. Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press, 1996. 160 pp., $39.95, Softcover. These books provide valuable information about and insights into ongoing reform theories and actions in public administration...

The Spirit of Public Administration.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By H. George Frederickson. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 272 pp., Hardcover. Each of the three volumes reviewed here represents a return to issues and questions articulated years ago. James Perry's Handbook of Public Administration...

Handbook of Public Administration, 2d ed.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by James L. Perry. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. 769 pp., Hardcover. Each of the three volumes reviewed here represents a return to issues and questions articulated years ago. James Perry's Handbook of Public Administration is...

Refounding Democratic Public Administration.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Gary L. Wamsley and James F. Wolf. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 404 pp., Softcover. Each of the three volumes reviewed here represents a return to issues and questions articulated years ago. James Perry's Handbook of Public...

Economic Effects of Social Security.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Henry J. Aaron. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1982. 84 pp., $10.95, Softcover. All three of these volumes are useful additions to the literature about the various programs under the social security umbrella. The Kingson and...

Social Security in the 21st Century.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Eric R. Kingson and James H. Schulz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 313 pp., $65.00, Hardcover; $24.95, Softcover. All three of these volumes are useful additions to the literature about the various programs under the...

Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions, 6th ed.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Joseph L. Matthews with Dorothy Matthews Berman. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1996. 304 pp., $25.95, Hardcover; $19.95, Softcover. (1997 edition now in print) All three of these volumes are useful additions to the literature about the...