Public Administration Review articles from July 1999

Public Administration Review archives from July 1999

Devising Administrative Reform That Works: The Example of the Reinvention Lab Program.
July 1, 1999... Administrative reform doesn't work. At least such is the conclusion drawn by a number of scholars in reviewing the history of attempts to reorganize and reform the federal executive establishment. Their verdict is based on their observations,...

Politics, Bureaucracy, and Farm Credit.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... A central issue in public administration is the conflict between democracy and the bureaucratic demands of governance (Redford, 1969). The predominant view in the literature is that bureaucracy is best subjected to political control through...

Bank Supervision and the Limits of Political Influence over Bureaucracy.
July 1, 1999... The relationship between elected officials and unelected bureaucrats is one of recurring interest to students of government. It is widely asserted (albeit incorrectly, see Rabin and Bowman, 1998; Svara, 1998) that the first generation of public...

Changing the Form of County Government: Effects on Revenue and Expenditure Policy.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... The past few decades have brought an enormous increase in county government reorganization. Even though the traditional form of commission government is still most prevalent, over 1,100 counties across the country now operate under some version...

Performance Measurement in Municipal Government: Assessing the State of the Practice.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... Performance measurement has been part of the lexicon of public administration in the United States for several decades, but rhetoric has outdistanced practice by far in this area. Currently, however, there is a renewed interest in performance...

Municipal Recycling Performance: A Public Sector Environmental Success Story.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 1999... In the field of solid waste management, the 1990s are most aptly described as the decade of recycling. The remarkable growth in the national recycling rate from 9 percent in 1989 to 28 percent in 1996 indicates robust popular support and...

International Development Management in a Globalized World.
July 1, 1999... It is difficult to pick up a newspaper or turn on a television without reading or hearing commentary on the impact of global trends on the fate of nations and the lives of their citizens. Fukuyama tells us that we have entered an unprecedented...

Translating Out of Time: Public Administration and Its History.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Jonathan Kahn, Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America 1890-1928 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997), 222 pp.; $42.50 cloth. Hindy Lauer Schachter, Reinventing Government or Reinventing Ourselves: The...

Community Mental Health Centers Under Managed Care.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Pamela Diamond, David Warner and Patrick Tong, Project Directors, Community Mental Health Centers Under Managed Care: Authority or Provider? Policy Research Project Report No. 128, (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of...

A Response to James F. Guyot's "Representative Bureaucracy Recast".(response to James F. Guyot, Public Administration Review, July/August 1998)
July 1, 1999... In our PAR article (September/October 1997), "The Representativeness of State-Level Bureaucratic Leaders: A Missing Piece of the Representative Bureaucracy Puzzle," we offered one way to think about recasting the representative bureaucracy...