Public Administration Review articles from July 1994

Public Administration Review archives from July 1994

The new job of the federal executive.
July 1, 1994... In March 1993, President Clinton asked me to lead a review of the performance of the federal government. I enlisted the support of a core of very capable career federal employees to help craft a vision of what the federal government should be...

Innovation in public management: the adoption of strategic planning.
July 1, 1994... State governments have undergone tremendous changes in the last 15 years. Reagan's New Federalism devolved more program responsibilities upon the states through new unfunded federal mandates, leading to large increases in required state...

The bureaucratic entrepreneur: the case of city managers.
July 1, 1994... Unelected bureaucrats regularly influence the implementation of public policies. Some entrepreneurial bureaucrats play an even more important role in shaping policy agendas and in formulating new policy. Such bureaucratic entrepreneurship,...

Coordination and welfare reform: the quest for the philosopher's stone.
July 1, 1994... In ancient times alchemists believed implicitly in the existence of a philosopher's tone, which would provide the key to the universe and, in effect, solve all of the problem of mankind. The quest for coordination is in many respects the...

What level of government for ecologists?
July 1, 1994... First and foremost, environmentalists have focused their attention on the physical environment, on questions regarding the quality of the air, the water, and the soil. As radical as they may appear to be, most environmentalist groups focus on...

Public administration education and formal administrative position: do they make a difference? A note on Pope's proposition and Miles' law in an intergovernmental context.
July 1, 1994... Tis education forms die common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined (Alexander Pope, 1734). Where you stand depends on where you sit (Rufus Miles, 1978). Few topics promote more extensive and even endless debate than...

The listening bureaucrat: responsiveness in public administration.
July 1, 1994... Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participation. (John Dewey in Levin, 1989, p. 29) In public administration, "responsiveness" is a problematic concept. Democracy would seem to require administrators who are responsive to the popular...

Toward a definition of organizational incompetence: a neglected variable in organization theory.
July 1, 1994... This article presents an exploration of the nature of organizational incompetence both as a social construct and as an "objective" reality. Incompetence is a vitally important but minimally explored variable in organization theory. The...

Post-progressive public administration: lessons from policy networks.
July 1, 1994... Traditional-Progressive Model: Supply-Side Public Administration Critiques of closed-system organizations and Weberian, Wilsonian, and Tayloristic management practices have long flourished the literature. In practice, however, it...

Did tax reform kill segmentation in the municipal bond market?
July 1, 1994... The net return to an investor in tax-exempt municipal bonds is determined by two things: the yield on comparable taxable bonds and the investor's tax rate. The flurry of tax reform legislation in the 1980s resulted in significant changes in the...

Images and reality in local government personnel practices: investigating the "quiet crisis" among Illinois city officials.
July 1, 1994... In recent years, the public administration community and political leadership have expressed increasing concern that the conditions and status of public service are declining. It has been called a "quiet crisis" in American government (Levine...

The United Way: Dilemmas of Organized Charity.
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

Who Benefits from the Nonprofit Sector?
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

Government and the Third Sector: Emerging Relationships in Welfare States.
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

The Nonprofit Organization: Essential Readings.
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

Nonprofit Almanac: 1992-1993, Dimensions of the Independent Sector, 4th ed.
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

The Third America: The Emergence of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States.
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

America's Nonprofit Sector: A Primer.
July 1, 1994... Nonprofit organizations have become increasingly prominent in the delivery of public services in the United States in recent times. While grounded in deep-rooted traditions, nonprofit service provision has also been furthered by the...

Budgetary Politics in American Governments.
July 1, 1994... With this book, James Gosling has filled a void that has existed for many years in the budget literature. The book provides an excellent description and analysis of budgetary practices and processes at all three level of government. In so...

Public Official Associations and State and Local Government: A Bridge Across One Hundred Years.
July 1, 1994... David Arnold and Jeremy Plant wrote this very informative book to advance understanding of associations that represent public officials in state and local government. Their two major purposes are, tracing the historical development of these...

Unfunded mandates: the view from the states.
July 1, 1994... Unfunded mandates continue to dominate state-local relations. The greatest change in the issue of mandates is the amount of information that is brought to the discussion. For a decade, localities pressed for institutional solutions to unfunded...