Public Administration Review articles from January 1995

Public Administration Review archives from January 1995

Aaron Wildavsky: a man and scholar for all seasons. (public administration scholar)
January 1, 1995... The conventional wisdom in academia is that great scholars, once they have achieved international reputation for work in their fields and success in attracting research sponsorship, feel little motivation to spend time in the classroom explaining...

Reinventing a government corporation: professional priorities and a clear bottom line.
January 1, 1995... Economic theories of organizational behavior assume that private organizations are driven by efficiency concerns. If the organization is not reaching its goals in an efficient manner, profits drop, dividends are withheld, and competitors are...

Entrepreneurship in the public sector: the horns of a dilemma.
January 1, 1995... Private support for public services is not new. Even in ancient Greece and Rome, rich citizens were obliged to underwrite the cost of public activities, albeit primarily festivities. In the American context, private contributions for public...

Overcoming the inadequacies of performance measurement in local government: the case of libraries and leisure services.
January 1, 1995... The key to meaningful advances in performance measurement in local government may lie in meeting the public interest challenge. In this case, the challenge will be met not only by formulating measures that address the public interest but, perhaps...

MBO in municipal government: variations on a traditional management tool. (management by objectives)
January 1, 1995... Management By Objectives, or MBO, is a traditional management approach to directing the efforts of managers and the organizational units for which they are responsible. This technique has been used in government for more than 20 years, and...

Municipal commitment to total quality management: a survey of recent progress.
January 1, 1995... In the past two years, there has been considerable interest in Total Quality Management (TQM). At the level of local government, interest is shown by the increasing number of TQM initiatives in such services as garbage collection, street...

The role of commitment in collective action: comparing the organizational behavior and rational choice perspectives.
January 1, 1995... Powerful environmental forces are transforming the way organizations operate. In particular, forces such as innovations in information technology, demographic changes, and globalization (Drucker, 1988; Naisbitt, 1982; Peters, 1990; Toffler, 1990)...

Humor and administration: a serious inquiry into unofficial organizational communication.
January 1, 1995... This article has as its focus a discussion of administrative humor. Although the topic suggests rib ticklers and knee slappers, in fact humor can be serious communication. Managers are taught about several aspects of their work such as...

Fuzzy set theory movement in the social sciences.
January 1, 1995... Some very familiar constructs in the realm of public administration discourse are supervisor-worker, teacherstudent, public-private, democracy-autocracy, conservatism-liberalism, patronage-merit, individualism-collectivism, and...

Formal models of legislative administrative interaction: a survey of the subfield.
January 1, 1995... The purpose of this article is to review an important developing subfield of public administration: formal models of legislative/administrative interaction.(1) Formal modeling was originally an approach confined to voting behavior, public policy...

Networking between practitioners and academics in law enforcement.
January 1, 1995... Are those who teach and do research in colleges and universities (academicians) out of touch with the realities of what goes on in the "real" world? Are those who work in that real world (practitioners) so wrapped up in their job that they cannot...

Ethical Frontiers in Public Management.
January 1, 1995... In 1994, a seeker of reelection to the U.S. Senate in Nebraska promises, if elected, to continue to "keep the bureaucrats at bay," as if public employees are villains to be warded off, like a band of baying dogs or an enemy at the gates. The...

Handbook of Administrative Ethics.
January 1, 1995... In 1994, a seeker of reelection to the U.S. Senate in Nebraska promises, if elected, to continue to "keep the bureaucrats at bay," as if public employees are villains to be warded off, like a band of baying dogs or an enemy at the gates. The...

Ethics and Public Administration.
January 1, 1995... In 1994, a seeker of reelection to the U.S. Senate in Nebraska promises, if elected, to continue to "keep the bureaucrats at bay," as if public employees are villains to be warded off, like a band of baying dogs or an enemy at the gates. The...

A Decade of Deficits: Congressional Thought and Fiscal Action.
January 1, 1995... The past decade has been a time for weighing the efficacy of the federal congressional budget process. Does the process do what people want it to do, and what is it exactly that people do want? Two recently published books that address these...

Making Ends Meet: Congressional Budgeting in the Age of Deficits.
January 1, 1995... The past decade has been a time for weighing the efficacy of the federal congressional budget process. Does the process do what people want it to do, and what is it exactly that people do want? Two recently published books that address these...

The Institutional Presidency.
January 1, 1995... Both The Institutional Presidency by John Burke and The Administrative Presidency Revisited by Robert F. Durant underscore the tremendous scope of the tasks he faces and offer insights useful to presidential advisers and students of the...

The Administrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands, the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution.
January 1, 1995... Both The Institutional Presidency by John Burke and The Administrative Presidency Revisited by Robert F. Durant underscore the tremendous scope of the tasks he faces and offer insights useful to presidential advisers and students of the...

Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy.
January 1, 1995... Let me begin by making a confession: I have found much of the literature on rulemaking to be boring, dry, and a sure cure for insomnia. Not so with Cornelius Kerwin's excellent new book, Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make...

Understanding and Preventing Violence.
January 1, 1995... The administration of states, counties, cities, towns, and school districts is stymied by the complexities surrounding the crisis of violence. The political effect of violence has compelled administrators to increase spending in an effort to...

Saving Youth from Violence.
January 1, 1995... The administration of states, counties, cities, towns, and school districts is stymied by the complexities surrounding the crisis of violence. The political effect of violence has compelled administrators to increase spending in an effort to...

Promoting Youth Violence and Aggression and Promoting Safety in Schools.
January 1, 1995... The administration of states, counties, cities, towns, and school districts is stymied by the complexities surrounding the crisis of violence. The political effect of violence has compelled administrators to increase spending in an effort to...

Dispute Resolution, Youth, and Violence.
January 1, 1995... The administration of states, counties, cities, towns, and school districts is stymied by the complexities surrounding the crisis of violence. The political effect of violence has compelled administrators to increase spending in an effort to...