Public Administration Review articles

Recent articles from Public Administration Review

Awards 2001.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Dwight Waldo Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career John A. Rohr is a professor of public administration at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State...

Donald C. Stone lecture.(Transcript)
July 1, 2002... Some unfinished business in public administration First let me thank ASPA for inviting me to give the seventh Donald C. Stone Guest Lecture. It is a special honor to join such distinguished luminaries in public administration as Ferrell Heady, Harland Cleveland, Louis Gawthrop, Naomi...

Who wants to work for the government?(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Will governments be able to attract the workers they need in the early twenty-first century? For the past two decades, observers have warned of a "quiet crisis" of steadily deteriorating "quality, morale, and effectiveness of the federal civil service" (Levine 1986, 200), "ubiquitous anomie"...

Gender differences in agency head salaries: the case of public education.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Nearly 40 years have gone by since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the first modern statute directed at protecting workers against wage discrimination. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits unequal pay for equal or "substantially equal" work performed by men and women. (1) This legislation...

Sex-based occupational segregation in U.S. state bureaucracies, 1987-97.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Introduction The literature on the distribution of women and men in public-sector jobs and the integration of women into government managerial ranks is replete with evidence that women often face glass walls, especially in certain types of agencies (Lewis and Emmert 1986; Pfeifer and...