Public Administration Review articles from January 2002

Public Administration Review archives from January 2002

Government shekels without government shackles? The administrative challenges of charitable choice.
January 1, 2002... In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, reforming welfare "as we know it". (1) Among the provisions of that bill was a "Charitable Choice" requirement that states contract with faith-based...

Paradigm lost: public administration at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-96.
January 1, 2002... How broad should the curriculums of public administration programs be? Is there a place for normative values and public philosophy? Certainly, the era of ascendancy for narrowly focused management curriculums seems to have ended. The National...

The Ombudsman revisited: thirty years of Hawaiian experience.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... During the 1960s, the attention of many American reformers was drawn to the Scandinavian ombudsman. Herbert Kaufman (1969, 6) summarized the arguments of the ombudsman's proponents: "Today, some observers contend that only a specialized,...

The budget-minimizing bureaucrat? Empirical evidence from the senior executive service.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... In a representative democracy, we assume the populace exerts some control over the actions and outputs of government officials, ensuring they comport with public preferences. Since the founding of the United States, public control over...

Implementing performance-based program budgeting: a system-dynamics perspective.
January 1, 2002... Throughout the last century, state and local governments were laboratories for budget reform. Many reforms were heralded but never implemented; others were implemented initially but did not survive changes in administration. Others at least...

The equality of public school district funding in the United States: a national status report.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Public education is the largest area of state and local government spending in the United States, accounting for almost one-fifth of direct state and local government expenditures in 1996 (Statistical Abstract of the United States 1999, table...

Working capital fund pricing policies: lessons from defense finance and accounting service expenditure and workload data.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Background The federal government is, in some ways, like a very large multiproduct firm. There are agencies within the government whose primary purpose is to provide support services to other governmental entities. One can imagine there...

Competition and choice in New York City Social Services.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Introduction Local governments provide social welfare benefits in the United States through three main mechanisms: (1) directly, using their own personnel; (2) indirectly, through grants or contracts awarded to private nonprofit or...

Welfare reform, Mississippi style: temporary assistance for needy families and the search for accountability.
January 1, 2002... Introduction Recent developments in American public policy include a strong movement toward the devolution of federal policy to states. Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, states were given discretionary...

Theory and the public administration student/practitioner. (The Reflective Practitioner).
January 1, 2002... Is public administration theory useful to practitioners? Do MPA teachers offer theories useful to students and practitioners of public administration? To proclaim theory as "useless" (Hummel 1997) resonates with some public administration...

Cost and Optimization in Government. (Book reviews: toward a better understanding of politics: linking costs, cultures, and institutional rules to budgets).
January 1, 2002... Aman Khan, Cost and Optimization in Government (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000). 393 pp., $65.00 cloth. The broad question of whether government actions and behaviors, as tracked through budgets, reflect social values and goals is an...

The Politics of Food Stamps. (Book reviews: toward a better understanding of politics: linking costs, cultures, and institutional rules to budgets).
January 1, 2002... Ronald F. King, Budgeting Entitlements: The Politics of Food Stamps (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000). 256 pp., $65.00 cloth. The broad question of whether government actions and behaviors, as tracked through budgets,...

Public Budgeting in the United States: The Cultural and Ideological Setting. (Book reviews: toward a better understanding of politics: linking costs, cultures, and institutional rules to budgets).
January 1, 2002... Steven G. Koven, Public Budgeting in the United States: The Cultural and Ideological Setting (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999). 164 pp., $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. The broad question of whether government actions and...

A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the US Forest Service. (Book reviews: pessimistic views of the U.S. Forest Service).
January 1, 2002... Robert H. Nelson, A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the US Forest Service (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). 186 pp., $24.95 paper. Established in 1905 under the leadership of Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S....

Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest. (Book reviews: pessimistic views of the U.S. Forest Service).
January 1, 2002... Kathie Durbin, Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1999). 336 pp., $19.95 paper. Established in 1905 under the leadership of Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt,...

A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service. (Book reviews: pessimistic views of the U.S. Forest Service).
January 1, 2002... Roger Sedjo, ed., A Vision for the U.S. Forest Service (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2000). 255 pp., $39.95 cloth. Established in 1905 under the leadership of Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Forest Service...

Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships. (Book reviews: tools for governing: privatization, public-private partnerships, and entrepreneurial management).
January 1, 2002... E.S. Savas, Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000). 350 pp., $32.95 paper. Recommendations for reforming public administration have a long history in the United States. For example, between the...

Public-Private Policy Partnerships. (Book reviews: tools for governing: privatization, public-private partnerships, and entrepreneurial management).
January 1, 2002... Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, ed., Public-Private Policy Partnerships (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000). 256 pp., $45.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Recommendations for reforming public administration have a long history in the United States. For...

Entrepreneurial Management and Public Policy. (Book reviews: tools for governing: privatization, public-private partnerships, and entrepreneurial management).
January 1, 2002... Van R. Johnston, ed., Entrepreneurial Management and Public Policy (Huntington, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2000). 281 pp., $59.00 hard. Recommendations for reforming public administration have a long history in the United States....

Making Government Work: Lessons from America's Governors and Mayors. (Book reviews: tools for governing: privatization, public-private partnerships, and entrepreneurial management).
January 1, 2002... Paul J. Andrisani, Simon Hakim, and Eva Leeds, eds., Making Government Work: Lessons from America's Governors and Mayors (Lanham MD: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, 2000). 244 pp., $45.00 cloth. Recommendations for reforming public...

Booknotes.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2002... 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. ...