Public Administration Review articles from July 1997

Public Administration Review archives from July 1997

Holding accountable the powers that be: protecting our integrity and the public we serve.(Editorial)
July 1, 1997... I never believed that I would be so consistently pressured in some cases threatened) by the U.S government or its contractors to do harm to the publics (United States and overseas) whose interests I was hired, ostensibly, to protect. I did not...

Trash talk: the Supreme Court and the interstate transportation of waste.
July 1, 1997... Americans generate more domestic waste than any other country in the world. In 1996, for example, we generated an estimated 200,000,000 tons of domestic waste, the equivalent of 875 kilograms per person. That same year, Japan generated an...

Regulatory enforcement: accommodation and conflict in four states.
July 1, 1997... The choice of tools is a central part of every regulatory inspector's task. In any given situation, an inspector may choose to encourage or compel compliance, to improvise or go by the book, to fix a problem or initiate a legal process, to...

The impact of TQM on highway maintenance: benefit/cost implications. (total quality management)
July 1, 1997... While total quality management (TQM) has gained widespread popularity in government, little is known about its effectiveness. Surveys indicate that quality improvement programs and related customer service improvement efforts have been...

Economic espionage: security missions redefined.
July 1, 1997... Introduction Throughout history, espionage has generally been viewed as an activity conducted by spies to obtain the military secrets of an enemy. Some of the most successful and well-known examples of espionage include England's use...

Reframing the metaphor of the citizen-government relationship: a value-centered perspective.
July 1, 1997... One of the prominent paradigms to emerge in recent years is customer-centered public administration. According to this citizen-customer model, government implicitly enters into a "customer service contract" where administrators give taxpayers...

Intergovernmental relations and productivity.
July 1, 1997... How have the efforts to coordinate the actions of federal, state, and local governments adjusted to the iterative shifting of responsibilities among levels of governments? The efficiency and effectiveness of intergovernmental interactions have...

Play it again, Sam; it's still not right: searching for the right notes in administrative reform.(Waldo Symposium)
July 1, 1997... The 1980s and 1990s have been marked by a recurrent and remarkably similar set of administrative reforms in western industrial democracies. Surprisingly -- or perhaps not, given their dominance in international organizations -- western reform...

American vs. European public administration: does public administration make the modern state, or does the state make public administration?(Waldo Symposium)
July 1, 1997... It is often argued that America has produced little original political theory. The Federalist Papers are frequently cited as America's best contribution, but after that the list becomes skimpy or uncertain. As some suggest, the United States,...

Public administration and comparative constitutionalism: the case of Canadian federalism.(Waldo Symposium)
July 1, 1997... As men and women with an abiding commitment to public service, the participants in this symposium will surely be forgiven if they occasionally yield to the temptation to paraphrase Charles Dickens by saying: "It is the worst of times; it is...

Modernity and bureaucracy.(Waldo Symposium)
July 1, 1997... Modernity Bureaucracy has been a fundamental institution of government for several thousand years. All traditional empires and many premodern kingdoms developed more or less elaborate bureaucracies -- those of the Chinese, Roman, and...

The Rebirth of Federalism: Sloughing Toward Washington.
July 1, 1997... Scholars and politicians are closely examining U.S. federalism today, with the hope of revitalizing it for the twenty-first century. The many and various proposals being made have great significance for public administrators, since most of...

The Price of Federalism.
July 1, 1997... Scholars and politicians are closely examining U.S. federalism today, with the hope of revitalizing it for the twenty-first century. The many and various proposals being made have great significance for public administrators, since most of...

The Unconscious Life of Organizations.
July 1, 1997... This book is a "must read" for anyone with an interest in organizations from either a theoretical or practical perspective. Michael A. Diamond presents a comprehensive and exceptionally clear picture of the psychodynamics of organizational...

Public Pensions.
July 1, 1997... The 1995 survey of public pension systems conducted by the Public Pension Coordinating Council demonstrates the strong funding of public pension plans. This survey obtains indepth information about the current administration, membership,...

The Herbert thesis revisited: a critical commentary. (response to Sylvester Murray, Larry D. Terry, Lawrence F. Keller, and Charles A. Washington in Public Administration Review, vol. 54(5), p. 409, 1994)
July 1, 1997... Twenty Years after Adam W. Herbert offered an insightful analysis of role demands and pressures experienced and perceived by minority public administrators, Murray, Terry, Washington, and Keller (1994) set out to revisit and test Herberes...

Minority public administration: the Herbert thesis and America's promise. (response to article by Thomas Martinez in this issue, p. 363)
July 1, 1997... We would like to thank the editors of PAR for this opportunity to respond to Professor Thomas Martinez' (this issue) critique of out article, "Minority Public Administrators: The Herbert Thesis Revisited" (September/October, 1994). We would...

Settlement women and bureau men: rejoinder to Schachter. (response to Hindy Schachter, Public Administration Review, vol. 57, p. 93, 1997)
July 1, 1997... In "Settlement Women and Bureau Men: Constructing a Usable Past for Public Administration" (Stivers, 1995), I argued that public administration needs to broaden its understanding of its origins. Instead of limiting our history to the overly...