Administration & Society articles from February 1994

Administration & Society archives from February 1994

The cabinet member as policy entrepreneur.
February 1, 1994... The role of the cabinet member as a policy entrepreneur has received little attention in the literature of political science and public administration. Chosen for personal loyalty, policy expertise, or political gain, the cabinet member...

Understanding the development of local government: theory and evidence from the Dutch case.
February 1, 1994... Fried, R. C. (1980), Party politics and performance: The case of Dutch cities. Acta Politica, 15(1), 61-110. Fukuyama, F. (1991). The end of history and the last man. New York: Free Press. Gladden, E. N. (1972). A history of public...

Dilemmas of legitimacy: the Supreme Court, patronage, and the public interest.
February 1, 1994... Challenges to the legitimacy of public administration have taken many forms. At the core, however, charges of illegitimacy stem from public administration's unclear constitutional parentage within the separation of powers. Recent literature has...

Key for locks in administrative argument.
February 1, 1994... The study of public administration mediates theory and practice. Its mission is to be an honest broker, informing practitioners of theoretical insights, advising theorists of practitioners' needs, and forming the common ground into doctrines...

Subsystem congruence: a strategic change model for public organizations.
February 1, 1994... The role of humanistic psychology as a facilitator of change in public organizations has attracted increasing criticism from a number of theorists. Denhardt (1984), for example, suggested that participative management was a subtle technique for...

The propensity for participative decision making scale: a measure of managerial propensity for participative decision making.
February 1, 1994... Participative decision making (PDM) has been a topic of great interest for organizational researchers and practitioners since Tannenbaum's (1956) work more than three decades ago. Early research (e.g., Vroom & Yetton, 1973) emphasized the role...