Public Administration Review articles from July 1995

Public Administration Review archives from July 1995

The Big Questions of Public Management
July 1, 1995... Whenever physicists get together, they discuss the big questions of physics. Physicists have big questions about the universe: How did the universe begin (Weinberg, 1993)? When did the universe begin? How big is the universe (which is the same...

Policy Issue Networks and the Public Policy Cycle: A Structural-Functional Framework for Public Administration
July 1, 1995... Public administration has been influenced substantially in recent years by the public policy cycle literature--a fact which is illustrated by the rich contributions of the growing number of policy implementation studies. This research strain can...

The Implementation Gap in Environmental Management in China: The Case Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, and Nanjing
July 1, 1995... Protecting the environment from pollution has now become one of the global concerns of the modern world. Our world faces potentially convulsive change. The world's degradation is damaging human health, slowing the growth in world food production,...

The Impact of Agenda Conflict on Policy Formulation and Implementation: The Case of Gun Control
July 1, 1995... With passage of the Brady Bill and subsequent focus on assault weapons, the issue of gun control has returned to the public spotlight. Both opponents and advocates of gun control have used the heightened interest and increased media attention to...

Race Neutral Programs in Public Contracting
July 1, 1995... Because the racial and ethnic characteristics of America's urban areas have changed dramatically in the last two decades, strategies for including new groups in employment, education, and public contracting opportunities have been debated in most...

The Legal Evolution of Sexual Harassment
July 1, 1995... In this article, we examine the legal evolution of sexual harassment in the workplace. The U.S. Supreme Court's 1993 unanimous decision in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., clarified some aspects of law. Here, a lower court ruling was overturned...

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Workplace: Management's Responsibilities in AIDS-Related Situations
July 1, 1995... Because it protects over 43 million people, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 has the potential of being the most significant piece of civil rights legislation enacted in the last three decades. ADA is comprehensive in its...

Will Locality Pay Solve Recruitment and Retention Problems in the Federal Civil Service?
July 1, 1995... Do differences in the competitiveness of local labor markets affect the government's ability to recruit and retain federal workers? The Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA) assumes that they do. FEPCA replaces a uniform national...

The Right to Die: Policy Innovation and Its Consequences.
July 1, 1995... Few public policy questions are so personal as those of life and death. End-of-life choices have become harder as they have been complicated by the growing sophistication of medical procedures and technology. Events that once occurred naturally...

Deathright: Culture, Medicine, Politics and the Right to Die.
July 1, 1995... Few public policy questions are so personal as those of life and death. End-of-life choices have become harder as they have been complicated by the growing sophistication of medical procedures and technology. Events that once occurred naturally...

Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation.
July 1, 1995... Schoenbrod, a law professor, argues that over the past half century Congress has unconstitutionally delegated its legislative power to federal agencies. He urges the federal courts to declare these delegations invalid and force Congress to...

Conflict Resolution and Public Policy.
July 1, 1995... The late Miriam Mills edited this farranging collection of essays for the Contributions in Political Science series of the Policy Studies Organization. The essays, which differ widely in subject, tone, and approach, are grouped into five parts:...

Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society.
July 1, 1995... The New York Times covered the story in 15 column inches: A jealous youth from Ann Arbor, Michigan assaulted and threatened to kill his 13-year-old girlfriend. Authorities were not sure which agencies had jurisdiction, so nothing was done. A...

Balancing Access, Costs, and Politics: The American Context for Health Care Reform.
July 1, 1995... These insightful publications will acquaint the uninitiated with the complexity of the current health care system and the main players. In addition, all three of these Urban Institute studies define the terms of the new rhetoric, such as...

Determinants of Hospital Costs: Outputs, Inputs, and Regulation in the 1980s.
July 1, 1995... These insightful publications will acquaint the uninitiated with the complexity of the current health care system and the main players. In addition, all three of these Urban Institute studies define the terms of the new rhetoric, such as...

Medicare Now and in the Future.
July 1, 1995... These insightful publications will acquaint the uninitiated with the complexity of the current health care system and the main players. In addition, all three of these Urban Institute studies define the terms of the new rhetoric, such as...

Invisible, Outlawed and Untaxed: America's Underground Economy.
July 1, 1995... The initials of this book's title--Invisible, Outlawed, and Untaxed--produce a familiar acronym. Perhaps the underground economy constitutes one big IOU to all conscientious taxpayers who will never realize any public benefit that could flow...

AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Nonlawyer.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1995... In the ten years since AIDS was identified as a new medical phenomenon, public administrators, like everyone else, have had to learn about it and how their governmental units should deal with it. The lesson came harder to some than others....

The Concept of Governmental Management: Or, What's Missing in the Gore Report
July 1, 1995... Since President Clinton and Vice President Gore released the report of the National Performance Review--better known as the Gore Report (or the "Reinventing Government" report)--in September of 1993, most of the public, and congressional,...