Administration & Society articles from March 1997

Administration & Society archives from March 1997

An alternative source for contemporary public administration: aspects of public service employment in classic Jewish tradition.
March 1, 1997... AUTHOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this article was presented as the Third Annual Herbert Schiff Lecture in Management and Administration - Yeshiva University and the Wiener Center of UJA-Federation, July 19, 1994. The author wishes to...

Medicaid and managed care: the cost-effectiveness of Arizona's approach to mandated organ transplantations.
March 1, 1997... Medicaid has long been considered a drain on health care resources and a major contributor to health care inflation. An important question arose in the wake of President Clinton's failed 1993 health care reform effort: Are the 50 states, which...

Approaches to the iron cage: reconstructing the bars of Weber's metaphor. (bureaucracy; Max Weber)
March 1, 1997... Debate about the merits and demerits of bureaucracy has rung in the halls of American academia since the notion was popularized in the 1940s. The classic battles in public administration have revolved around the major tenets of bureaucracy....

Reason, discretion, and tradition: a reflection on the Burkean worldview and its implications for public administration. (political philosopher Edmund Burke)
March 1, 1997... Edmund Burke was one of the most prominent political philosophers of the 18th century. The contribution of Burke to political thought is understood and acknowledged in disciplines such as history, political science, and philosophy. Yet the...

NIH: deconstruction of a grand synthesis? (National Institutes of Health)
March 1, 1997... The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been the main source of funds for biomedical research at the nation's universities and medical schools since before World War II. NIH's "extramural programs" have constituted a vital transmission...