Public Administration Review articles from July 2002

Public Administration Review archives from July 2002

Awards 2001.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Dwight Waldo Award For Outstanding Contributions to the Literature and Leadership of Public Administration through an Extended Career John A. Rohr is a professor of public administration at the Center for Public Administration and...

Donald C. Stone lecture.(Transcript)
July 1, 2002... Some unfinished business in public administration First let me thank ASPA for inviting me to give the seventh Donald C. Stone Guest Lecture. It is a special honor to join such distinguished luminaries in public administration as Ferrell...

Who wants to work for the government?(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Will governments be able to attract the workers they need in the early twenty-first century? For the past two decades, observers have warned of a "quiet crisis" of steadily deteriorating "quality, morale, and effectiveness of the federal civil...

Gender differences in agency head salaries: the case of public education.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Nearly 40 years have gone by since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the first modern statute directed at protecting workers against wage discrimination. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits unequal pay for equal or "substantially equal" work...

Sex-based occupational segregation in U.S. state bureaucracies, 1987-97.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Introduction The literature on the distribution of women and men in public-sector jobs and the integration of women into government managerial ranks is replete with evidence that women often face glass walls, especially in certain types of...

The evolution of e-government among municipalities: rhetoric or reality?(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Introduction Information technology (IT) has become one of the core elements of managerial reform, and electronic government (e-government) may figure prominently in future governance. IT has opened up many possibilities for improving...

Reinventing local governments and the e-government initiative.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Introduction When the Department of Defense invented the Internet in the 1960s as a communication network for defense research purposes, no one could have foreseen how it would transform society three decades later. Today, the Internet has...

Roadblocks in reforming corrupt agencies: the case of the New York City school custodians.
July 1, 2002... Introduction This article examines one of the most perplexing problems in public administration today--how to reform chronically corrupt agencies. It highlights the roadblocks that can derail traditional control and redress devices through...

What are the Federal Home Loan Banks up to? Emerging views of purpose among institutional leadership.
July 1, 2002... In the summer of 1998, Business Week presented its readers with a quiz: "Name a lender with more assets than Citicorp and a loan book growing 25% a year. A whirling dervish in the capital markets, this outfit can sell scores of bond issues in a...

County service delivery: does government structure matter?
July 1, 2002... Introduction One of the most enduring debates among political reformers, scholars, and practitioners has focused on the hypothesized impact that government structure has on local government policy decisions. Specifically, the debate boils...

Does regionalism beget regionalism? The relationship between norms and regional partnerships for economic development.
July 1, 2002... Introduction Regional governance is on the rise in the United States, according to some scholars and observers (Dodge 1989, 1990; Wallis 1994a). In other words, local government officials are increasingly working together to address...

Gubernatorial use of the item veto for narrative deletion.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... In the policy science literature and in political discourse, a common misconception about the line-item veto in the states is that it is primarily (if not always) used to eliminate or reduce items of expenditure that appear in appropriations...

The evolution of policy analysis.(Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age)
July 1, 2002... David H. Rosenbloom, American University Beryl A. Radin, Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000). 195 pp., $45.00 hardback; $17.95 paper. What do policy analysts do? How do...

Must policy making wait until all the data are in? An empirical look at environmental justice.(Environmental Justice Through Research-Based Decision-Making)
July 1, 2002... Mary M. Timney, California State University, Hayward William M. Bowen, Environmental Justice Through Research-Based DecisionMaking (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001). 256 pp., $85 hard. Environmental justice gained a place on the...

Booknotes.(books on public administration)(Bibliography)
July 1, 2002... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay should send two copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay later....