Public Administration Review articles from January 1997

Public Administration Review archives from January 1997

Free speech: government employees and government contractors. (effects of judicial decisions regarding free speech on US public administration)
January 1, 1997... Public administration is based in law. Practitioners need little reminding of this, as they are faced daily with issues that arise through lawsuits, judicial decrees, new legislation, and intergovernmental relations that are embodied in...

Public sector succession: a strategic approach to sustaining innovation.
January 1, 1997... Is it possible to think strategically about succession in the public sector? The author reviews the private-sector succession literature for insight and analyzes the barriers in the public sector to taking succession seriously. With a case...

The need for privatization process: lessons from development and implementation.
January 1, 1997... The decision to privatize state services is often a controversial one. What are the pitfalls commonly encountered, and how can a state avoid them? In Massachusetts, a healthy clash of interests between a Republican governor eager to privatize...

Privatization of municipal services in America's largest cities.
January 1, 1997... Thanks in large part to three nationwide surveys sponsored by the International City/ County Management Association in 1982, 1988, and 1992, we know a great deal about the extent of municipal privatization in the United States. These surveys,...

A conflict resolution approach to public administration.
January 1, 1997... Public administrators often have to deal with conflicts. However, many public administrators have not been adequately exposed to the skills and rationales of conflict resolution. Ample literature about conflict exists in sister disciplines...

The rise and fall of interagency cooperation: the U.S. global change research program.
January 1, 1997... Harold Seidman has called interagency committees "the crabgrass in the garden of government." They are universally condemned, but efforts to extirpate them seldom succeed, for new committees grow in their place. This is because alternatives...

Treating networks seriously: practical and research-based agendas in public administration.
January 1, 1997... How well equipped are today's public administrators to face the challenges they confront from the involvement of businesses, not-for-profits, other units of government, and even clients in complex patterns of program operations? Not very well...

Public administration and the theater metaphor: the public administrator as villain, hero, and innocent victim.
January 1, 1997... Since the founding of this nation, the theater metaphor has had an influence on political discourse. Politicians often invoke the metaphor when they enact political dramas to construct themselves in the image of leader. An argument is...

Balancing risk and finance: the challenge of implementing unfunded environmental mandates.
January 1, 1997... What impact have unfunded environmental mandates had on local governments? Carol Cimitile, Victoria Kennedy, Henry Lambright, Rosemary O'Leary, and Paul Weiland's two-pronged research studied seven local governments in New York State in 1994....

Top bureaucrats and the distribution of influence in Reagan's executive branch.
January 1, 1997... How did career executives think influence was distributed in their agencies during the Reagan administration? Who would top bureaucrats have preferred to exercise influence? Which actors did career executives believe had too much influence and...

Old Problems in New Times: Urban Strategies for the 1990s.
January 1, 1997... Since the 1950s and the heady days of urban renewal, conventional thinking has emphasized that saving central cities depends on increasing their tax bases, retaining or reclaiming the white middle class, and investing in downtowns through...

Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation.
January 1, 1997... Since the 1950s and the heady days of urban renewal, conventional thinking has emphasized that saving central cities depends on increasing their tax bases, retaining or reclaiming the white middle class, and investing in downtowns through...

New Visions for Metropolitan America.
January 1, 1997... Since the 1950s and the heady days of urban renewal, conventional thinking has emphasized that saving central cities depends on increasing their tax bases, retaining or reclaiming the white middle class, and investing in downtowns through...

Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World.
January 1, 1997... Since the 1950s and the heady days of urban renewal, conventional thinking has emphasized that saving central cities depends on increasing their tax bases, retaining or reclaiming the white middle class, and investing in downtowns through...

Cities Without Suburbs.
January 1, 1997... Since the 1950s and the heady days of urban renewal, conventional thinking has emphasized that saving central cities depends on increasing their tax bases, retaining or reclaiming the white middle class, and investing in downtowns through...

Restoring Balance to the American Federal System.
January 1, 1997... Restoring Balance to the American Federal System contains an assessment of the status of the federal system in the United States and four proposals to restore balance to that system. The first section of the report frames the debate by...

New ethics journal makes a splashy debut. (inaugural edition of Public Integrity Annual)
January 1, 1997... The measure of a state's public integrity laws -- campaign finance, lobbying, and ethics codes -- is not whether they restrict a cup of coffee, but how clearly and comprehensively they cover the variety of ethics decisions facing state...

Settlement women and bureau men: did they share a usable past?
January 1, 1997... In "Settlement Women and Bureau Men: Constructing a Usable Past for Public Administration" Stivers (1995) highlights the important role that substantive as opposed to procedural concerns played in the emergence of public administration as a...