Public Administration Review articles from January 1998

Public Administration Review archives from January 1998

Why public administration?
January 1, 1998... In recent years, there has been much criticism of organizations in general and governmental organizations in particular. Economists (and others) argue that human behavior in organizations, like all other human behavior, is driven by...

Whistleblowing, red chips, and the Provisional Legislature in Hong Kong.
January 1, 1998... The reversion of Hong Kong and its 6.4 million residents from Britain to China became an international headline. The grand reversion celebration at midnight on June 30, 1997, was attended by world leaders. There was much debate about who would...

Richardson v. McKnight: what does the future of qualified immunity hold for nongovernmental employees?
January 1, 1998... Independent contractors arc playing an increasingly important role in the provision of services once supplied by government. However, the standards by which actions of independent contractors arc judged is not a settled issue. Are independent...

Who benefits from the presence of professional sports teams? The implications for public funding of stadiums and arenas.
January 1, 1998... State and local governments have become increasingly responsible for financing many of the new arenas and stadiums demanded by professional sports teams (Olbermann, 1997). While local officials have a long history of efforts to attract team to...

Public administration in America: why our uniqueness is exceptional and important.(SICA Silver Jubilee)
January 1, 1998... In honor of the silver jubilee anniversary of ASPA's Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA), I was asked to write an introspective essay on my own work and that of SICA. My main point in this essay is: the comparative...

Comparative and international public administration: building intellectual bridges.(SICA Silver Jubilee)
January 1, 1998... The Section on International and Comparative Administration (SICA) of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) is 25 years old. This is an opportune time both for retrospection and for looking ahead. My purpose, however, is not to...

Public administration in a global context: bridging the gaps of theory and practice between Western and non-Western nations.(SICA Silver Jubilee)
January 1, 1998... Public bureaucracies operate increasingly in a global environment that requires greater communication and cooperation among nations. This globalization of public administration has highlighted the parochial nature of much of the literature, which...

The politics-administration dichotomy model as aberration.
January 1, 1998... One of the most important and enduring theoretical constructs in public administration is the politics-administration dichotomy model. It has been useful for marking off the boundaries of public administration as an intellectual field and for...

Estimates of burnout in public agencies: worldwide, how many employees have which degrees of burnout, and with what consequences?
January 1, 1998... The phase model of burnout (Golembiewski, Boudreau, Munzenrider, and Luo, 1996) permits for the first time informed estimates of the incidence of this modern disease. This article focuses on data about burnout in public work--in 13 U.S. work...

The state of the states: performance-based budgeting requirements in 47 out of 50.
January 1, 1998... The current wave of budgeting reform focuses on the performance of government agencies and programs and is reflected in state efforts to introduce performance-based budgeting (PBB). In the ideal, this budget system requires measurement of...

Political prudence and the ethics of leadership.
January 1, 1998... A vital policy initiative fails due to skilled opposition. A fine program disintegrates under pressure of an unanticipated backlash. A powerful and strong institution collapses when its long-time leader departs. A new leader full of good...

Did Adarand kill minority set-asides? (Adarand Constructors Inc. v. Pena)
January 1, 1998... Federal minority contracting opportunities serve as a major point of entry for socially and economically disadvantaged business entrepreneurs and small business concerns into the mainstream of American business enterprise. In 1994, the Minority...

Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA.
January 1, 1998... W. Henry Lambright, Webb of NASA (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 271 pp.; $35.95 cloth. New Series in NASA History. The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 opened a new era in the administration of science...

Making Waves: Engineering, Politics, and the Social Management of Technology.
January 1, 1998... Edward Wenk, Jr., (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1995),269 pp.; $33.95 cloth. The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957 opened a new era in the administration of science and technology in the United States. The...

Restructuring Medicare's Cost-Sharing.
January 1, 1998... Marilyn Moon, 1996. New York: The Commonwealth Fund. Asking beneficiaries to pay more of the costs of their own care is likely to be one of the approaches considered in the debate on Medicare's future. And one of the most direct ways to...

Reform of the Individual Health Insurance Market.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1998... Gary Claxton and Larry Lexitt (1996). New York: The Commonwealth Fund. The Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) assures that people changing jobs of losing their group coverage cannot be...