Public Administration Review articles from January 2001

Public Administration Review archives from January 2001

Dwight Waldo 1913-2000.
January 1, 2001... The Early Years Dwight Waldo was born in 1913 in DeWitt, Nebraska, into a farming family of five brothers and sisters. He claimed his two most important boyhood achievements were winning second place in a baby contest and winning a...

Ralph's Pretty-Good Grocery versus Ralph's Super Market: Separating Excellent Agencies from the Good Ones.
January 1, 2001... Charles Goodsell (1983) compares American bureaucracy to a good used car: it is reliable, relatively inexpensive to operate, and generally gives good service. Bureaucracy, in Goodsell's estimation, is the equivalent of Ralph's Pretty Good...

Major Players: Bureaucracies In American Government.
January 1, 2001... The Goal of this Essay I mean by "bureaucracies" all the people who are on the payroll of some unit of government, federal, state, or local, but are not elected, not in the legislative or judicial branches, and are not removable at the...

Budgetary Collective Action Problems: Convergence and Compliance under the Maastricht Treaty on European Union.
January 1, 2001... Introduction When governments enter into budgetary accords and treaties or institute debt limitations by way of constitutions or statutes, they create potential collective action problems in which the dilemma is maintaining compliance with...

Budgeters' Views of State Performance-Budgeting Systems: Distinctions across Branches.
January 1, 2001... Introduction The wave of state-level performance-budgeting initiatives is almost complete (Melkers and Willoughby 1998). That is, 47 of 50 states have performance-budgeting requirements (legislative or executive), most which have been...

The Diminishing Publicness of Public Service under the Current Mode of Governance.
January 1, 2001... Introduction In both the academic and practical discourse on public administration, the "publicness" of public service used to be a common concern, especially with regard to its realization and representation of public interests and its...

Welfare and Work: Job-Retention Outcomes of Federal Welfare-to-Work Employees.
January 1, 2001... In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (P.L. 104-193). The centerpiece of this law is a block grant, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), designed to reform...

School Bureaucracy and Student Performance at the Local Level.
January 1, 2001... Scholars, political officials, the media, and the public have paid a great deal of attention to the topic of school choice in recent years. Scholarly attention has focused primarily on whether a market-based approach to education improves...

Performance-Comparison Projects in Local Government: Participants' Perspectives.
January 1, 2001... Gone are the days when local governments could proclaim their uniqueness and comfortably declare their immunity from comparison to other units. Whether citizens, the media, or aspirants to public office ever really accepted this argument is...

Theory Competency For MPA-Educated Practitioners.
January 1, 2001... Introduction The question of how theory is properly related to practice is one of the most persistent and vexing issues facing the field of public administration. This issue arises most pointedly in the arena of the MPA curriculum. The...

That Old-Time Religion: Efficiency, Benchmarking, and Productivity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... That Old-Time Religion: Efficiency, Benchmarking, and Productivity Evan M. Berman, Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Strategies and Techniques (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998). 312 pp., $54.00 hard; $24.95...

The Rise of Professional Government: Evidence from Large-Scale Public Works Projects.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Fetherston, Drew. The Chunnel: The Amazing Story of the Undersea Crossing of the English Channel, (New York: Time Books, Random House, 1997). 404 pp.; $35.00 cloth. Goldman, Joanne Abel. Building New York's Sewers: Developing Mechanisms of...

Booknotes.
January 1, 2001... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay should send copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay later. ...