Public Administration Review articles from July 2000

Public Administration Review archives from July 2000

Awards 1999.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Dwight Waldo Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career Deil S. Wright is Alumni Distinguished Professor of political science and public administration at...

The Future Is Uncentralized.
July 1, 2000... Donald C. Stone Lecture I. I am very grateful to Mary Hamilton and the others who arranged my "homecoming" to ASPA this week. I started my working life as a public administration intern 61 years ago; and though I've tried what looks...

Reinventing Government: The Case of National Service.
July 1, 2000... Bill Clinton is often referred to as a "new" Democrat. It is not surprising, therefore, that he brought to his presidency some unconventional ideas about government, among them reinventing government and national service. In fact, Clinton...

Less Government, More Secrecy: Reinvention and the Weakening of Freedom of Information Law.
July 1, 2000... In the last 15 years, the governments of many advanced democracies have dramatically reorganized their public sectors in an attempt to manage the problems of growing indebtedness, taxpayer burnout, and increasing citizen dissatisfaction with...

Improvisation in Public Administration and Policy Making in Israel.
July 1, 2000... "Improvisation" is one of those elements that stand outside of conventional models for rational policy making and Weberian administration, but nonetheless account for important activities.(1) The roots of the word are in music, theater, and...

Outsourcing Public Health Laboratory Services: A Blueprint for Determining Whether to Privatize and How.
July 1, 2000... Introduction The tasks addressed by public agencies have expanded, and the technical requirements for their operation have grown dramatically. Many tasks, such as public health, environmental and sanitation regulation, and forensics, were...

Mapping Patterns of Support for Privatization in the Mass Public: The Case of Michigan.
July 1, 2000... Privatization has become an important global movement. One indication is that the World Bank has made privatization part of its tool kit for improving ailing economies, with the expectation that nations will privatize whole industries. In the...

Putting More Public in Policy Analysis.
July 1, 2000... Introduction One of the persistent criticisms of policy analysis is that it undermines basic democratic institutions and processes by replacing public participation and debate with esoteric expert analysis. As the criticism goes, policy...

The Practice of Deliberative Democracy: Results from Four Large-Scale Trials.
July 1, 2000... Introduction There is a familiar lament among politicians, public managers, and ordinary citizens about the gulf of suspicion separating citizens from their government (Dionne 1991; Gore 1994; Grieder 1992; Harris 1994; Harwood 1991;...

Bureaucracy and Red Tape.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Barry Bozeman, Bureaucracy and Red Tape (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000). 210 pp., $28.40 paper. As every teacher of public administration knows, the term red tape refers to the cord that tied together government documents in...

Public Administration in Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Ladipo Adamolekun, ed. Public Administration in Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999). 415 pp., $70.00 hard. Of the three continents where Europeans settled or colonized, Africa is perhaps the...

Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Year.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Joshua Bernard Forrest, Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Year (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1998). 408 pp., $75.00 hard. Of the three continents where Europeans settled or colonized, Africa is...

Booknotes.(Bibliography)
July 1, 2000... Booknotes presents brief, non-evaluative descriptions of books related to public administration. Listing books here does not preclude a more detailed, evaluative review later. Authors and publishers interested in having their books included are...