Public Administration Review articles from July 2001

Public Administration Review archives from July 2001

Awards 2000.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Dwight Waldo Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career Patricia Wallace Ingraham Syracuse University Patricia Wallace Ingraham is Distinguished...

Donald C. Stone Lecture.
July 1, 2001... Priorities for 2001 and Beyond I. We have been preoccupied for some time now with the prospect of beginning a new millennium. In fact, I must admit that I speculated about this many years ago. A while back I reread letters exchanged...

Remembering Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001).(college professor)
July 1, 2001... Herbert A. Simon died on February 9, 2001, at the age of 84. At the time of his death, he was the Richard King Mellon University Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, an institution that he had graced for 52 years. During his long career, he...

John Stuart Mill's Theory, of Bureaucracy within Representative Government: Balancing Competence and Participation.(economist and philosopher)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2001... The role of bureaucracy within representative government has been a central concern of American public administration since its inception, and it continues to be central in important dialogue today. At the heart of this concern is the...

Do Networks Really Work? A Framework for Evaluating Public-Sector Organizational Networks.
July 1, 2001... An important issue in the delivery of publicly funded health and human services at the local-community level is the integration and coordination of organizational providers into service-delivery networks. The development and utilization of...

Drug Testing in the Public Sector: An Interpretation Grounded in Rosenbloom's Competing-Perspectives Model.
July 1, 2001... In the last few decades, drug testing has become a major policy issue in the workplace, with a host of actors competing to promote their own needs and interests. Employers, for example, seek ways to combat the use and abuse of illegal...

A Strategic Framework for Devolving Responsibility and Functions from Government to the Private Sector.
July 1, 2001... A new element has found its way into government decision making in the United States as public officials are asked to justify government funding of services and direct government provision of services. Whether a job belongs within or outside...

Probing the Strategic Intricacies of Public--Private Partnership: The Patent as a Comparative Reference.
July 1, 2001... Discussion about the privatization of public services often reflects the analyst's policy preferences regarding corporate involvement in government affairs. Advocates of public-private partnerships generally predict near-term performance...

Work-Family Balance and Job Satisfaction: The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies on Attitudes of Federal Government Employees.
July 1, 2001... Introduction Widely noted demographic and sociological changes in the U.S. workforce, both public and private, over the last 40 years have gradually but increasingly focused attention on the need for workplace policies to assist employees...

Hybrid Organizations and the Alignment of Interests: The Case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
July 1, 2001... Although their names suggest Southern folksiness, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are recognized in Washington for their political clout, not their down-home cooking. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal National Mortgage...

Appointment Delay for Vacancies on the Federal Communications Commission(*).
July 1, 2001... Partisanship and Confirmation Delay On September 19, 1952, Robert Jones, a Republican, announced his retirement from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Less than a month later, President Truman granted a recess appointment to...

Challenges of (Dis)Connectedness in the "Big Questions" Methodologies in Public Administration.
July 1, 2001... A series of Public Administration Review articles proposed big questions of public management and public administration. In a thoughtful approach to the value of developing shared research agendas, Robert Behn (1995) borrowed from physics to...

Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice.(Review)
July 1, 2001... John P. Burke, Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice (London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000). 437 pp., $65 hardback. The presidency and the executive branch itself is an ever-evolving institution. As it changes, new holes in...

Wreath Layer or Policy Player? The Vice President's Role in Foreign Policy.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Paul Kengor, Wreath Layer or Policy Player? The Vice President's Role in Foreign Policy (New York: Lexington Books, 2000). 325 pp., $65 cloth; $24.95 paper. The presidency and the executive branch itself is an ever-evolving institution. As...

In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Joel Aberbach and Bert Rockman, In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000). 230 pp., $42.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. The presidency and the executive branch itself is...

Street-Level Leadership: Discretion and Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Janet Coble Vinzant and Lane Crothers, Street-Level Leadership: Discretion and Legitimacy in Front-Line Public Service (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998). 185 pp., $18.95 paper. There are perhaps few other concepts or terms...

Transparency in Public Policy: Great Britain and the United States.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Neal Finkelstein, ed., Transparency in Public Policy: Great Britain and the United States (London: Macmillan Press, 2000). 200 pp.; $65.00 hardback. This edited volume comprises eight essays written by participants in the Atlantic...

Booknotes.
July 1, 2001... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay should send copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay later. ...