Public Administration Review articles from January 1996

Public Administration Review archives from January 1996

The Globalist from Nowhere: Making Governance Competitive in the International Environment
January 1, 1996... Leaders in the United States have functioned for too long on the mistaken assumption that internationalization is incompatible with national interests. This is why international agreements like NAFTA and the GATT virtually ignore the role of...

The United States-Japan Gateway Awards Case of 1990: International Competition and Regulatory Theory
January 1, 1996... For 30 years, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) set national policy of regulated competition within the U.S. air transport system by controlling carrier entry, rates, routes, and mergers. While sharing with the Department of State negotiation of...

Recuperating from Market Failure: Planning for Biodiversity and Technological Competitiveness
January 1, 1996... In discussions of policy analysis and collective action, market-failure theory is the ruling orthodoxy. In public finance, policy analysis, and urban planning, this theoretical construct is applied to subjects ranging from airport noise to...

Employee Drug Testing: Are Cities Complying with the Courts?
January 1, 1996... Testing for controlled substances, a common practice in the work environment in both private and public sectors, remains a frustrating and emotionally charged issue. While endorsing pre-employment testing and suspicion-based testing, numerous...

Administrative Interpretation of Statutes: A Constitutional View on the "New World Order" of Public Administration
January 1, 1996... The delegation of broad discretionary powers from the legislature to administrative agencies is a subject that starts the adrenaline flowing. This is especially true for many who write about public administration and the Constitution. The intense...

The Effect of Underforecasting on the Accuracy of Revenue Forecasts by State Governments
January 1, 1996... In the budget process of any unit of government, the revenue forecast sets the parameters for the allocation of dollars among competing priorities. Because revenues are typically forecast 18 to 24 months prior to the beginning of each fiscal year,...

Does It Make Any Difference Anymore? Competitive versus Negotiated Municipal Bond Issuance
January 1, 1996... Do municipal bonds sold through competition have lower interest rates for issuers than negotiated sales? Research done in the 1970s and 1980s suggests that, all else equal, interest costs are generally lower for competitively hid municipal bonds...

Public Administration in Statist France
January 1, 1996... The development of administrative science in France is inextricably linked to a particular French model of the state. The uniqueness of the state in France rests on the combination of two phenomena. The first of these phenomena is the state's...

Administrative Science as Reform: German Public Administration
January 1, 1996... What characterizes German public administration since the 18th century is its early modernization relative to the political regime. Germany is not a classic constitutional state. The identity as well as the stability of German statehood are based...

Antistatist Reforms and New Administrative Directions: Public Administration in the United Kingdom
January 1, 1996... Compared with the United States, the United Kingdom is a strong unitary state. There are few constitution constraints on the central executive; that executive is controlled by one, highly disciplined political party; and that same party is usually...

Expansion and Diversification in the Postwar Welfare State: The Case of the Netherlands
January 1, 1996... Although public administration is now taught in The Netherlands at 10 of the existing 13 Dutch universities, Dutch public administration seems to be relatively unknown abroad. In the 1984 revision of the well-known German textbook on...

From Continental Law to Anglo-Saxon Behaviorism: Scandinavian Public Administration
January 1, 1996... Norway, Sweden, and Denmark(1) are, in many ways, like three siblings: closely linked, with a common heritage but nonetheless very different and often in conflict with each other although nowadays in a peaceful way.(2) The similarities are...

Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability.
January 1, 1996... When I succeeded Irene Rubin as Book Review Editor, I was fortunate enough to have inherited a back-log of interesting and thoughtful book reviews. This back-log contributed to a smooth transition. In an effort to keep PAR readers up-to-date...

The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City.
January 1, 1996... Joel Schwartz, The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urhan Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City. (Columbus: Ohio State Press, 1993), 375 p.p.; hardback. The substance of Professor Schwartz's work is best summed up in his own preface:...

Comparative Urban Politics: Power and the City in the United States, Canada, Britain and France.
January 1, 1996... Michael Keating, Comparative Urban Politics: Power and the City in the United States, Canada, Britain and France. (Harts, England and Brookfield, VT: Edward Edgar Publishing, 1991), 256 pp.; $56.95 hardcover. What room is there for a city to...

Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America.
January 1, 1996... Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook, Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), 248 pp.; $15.95 paper. This is easily the most comprehensive examination of state lotteries undertaken to...

Bad Times for Good Ol' Boys: The Oklahoma County Commissioner Scandal.
January 1, 1996... Harry Holloway with Frank S. Meyers, Bad Times for Good Ol' Boys: The Oklahoma County Commissioner Scandal Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993), 234 pp., bibliography $24.95 hardcover. Bad Times for Good Ol' Boys studies Bone of the...

Breaking Through Bureaucracy.
January 1, 1996... Michael Barzelay, Breaking Through Bureaucracy. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), pp. xxi + 237; $35.00 hardback, $14.00 paper. Breaking Through Bureaucracy represents one of the more positive accounts of the "new...

Management Dimensions of Development.
January 1, 1996... Milton J. Esman, Management Dimensions Of Development. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1991), 160 pp.; $16.95 paper. Professor Esman offers a spirited defense and pithy assessment of the state of the art of development administration. He...

The Moral Imagination and Public Life: Raising the Ethical Question.
January 1, 1996... Thomas E. McCollough, The Moral Imagination and Public Life: Raising the Ethical Question. (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1991), 176 pp.; $14.95 paper. The moral imagination is not an objective, balanced academic presentation....

Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats.
January 1, 1996... John C. Freemuth, Islands Under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1991), 186 pp.; $25.00. In Islands Under Siege, John Freemuth offers a thoughtful, perceptive, and...

Paperless Grants Via the Internet
January 1, 1996... For many years, people have been trying to simplify and streamline business processes by substituting electronic means for paper documents. These electronic means are generally subsumed under the heading of "electronic commerce," with electronic...

Moving Governments On-Line: Implementation and Policy Issues
January 1, 1996... Genie N. L. Stowers, San Francisco State University National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council. (1995). Common Ground: Fundamental Principles for the National Information Infrastructure--First Report of the National Infrastructure...