Public Administration Review articles from March 1994

Public Administration Review archives from March 1994

Administrative Entrepreneurship and Space Technology: The Ups and Downs of "Mission to Planet Earth."
March 1, 1994... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency seeking to pour new wine into old bottles as the post-cold War era evolves. NASA is as close to a "pure technology" agency as exists in the U.S. federal government. It...

Deregulating the Public Service: Can Government Be Improved?
March 1, 1994... John J. DiIulio., ed., (Washington, DC, The Brookings Institution, 1994) $34.95 hard, $14.95 paper. Currently on the market is a spate of books on what is wrong with American society and institutions and what needs to be done to...

Improving Government Performance: An Owner's Manual.
March 1, 1994... John J. DiIulio Jr., Gerald, and Donald F. Kettl, (Washington, D.C., The Brookings Institution, 1993) 100 pp.; $9.95 paper Currently on the market is a spate of books on what is wrong with American society and institutions and what needs to...

Revitalizing State and Local Public Service: Strengthening Performance, Accountability, and Citizen Confidence.
March 1, 1994... Frank J. Thompson, (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993) 450 pp., $35.00. Currently on the market is a spate of books on what is wrong with American society and institutions and what needs to be done to revitalize them. Some,...

At Last, an Alternative to Performance Appraisal: Total Quality Management
March 1, 1994... During the past decade, public agencies and business firms experimented with various forms of employee involvement and participative management (Ledford et al., 1989). Many of these initiatives could not be sustained because they often were...

Evaluating TQM: The Case for a Theory Driven Approach
March 1, 1994... Speaking to General Accounting Office (GAO) evaluators in 1991, Total Quality Management (TQM) guru Joseph Juran lamented how woefully inadequate our understanding was of his progeny's impact. Wrote Juran (1991, p. 51): "As far as measuring the...

Opportunities and Incentives for Improving Program Quality: Auditing and Evaluating
March 1, 1994... The evolution of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the federal agencies has attracted much attention during the last ten years. Recent observers have pointed to the increased use of performance audits by IG offices, and the highly visible...

Citizen Ratings of Public and Private Service Quality: A Comparative Perspective
March 1, 1994... Currently there is considerable interest in quality and customer service in both business and government, as total quality management philosophy and practices (Deming, 1982; Scherkenback, 1986) have become widespread in the private sector and...

Can Reorchestration of Historical Themes Reinvent Government? A Case Study of the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Act of 1993
March 1, 1994... Reinventing government is rapidly becoming the orchestral theme for public sector officials who must face the music of increasing demands on, and a decline in, available resources. Generally associated with issues of productivity and efficiency,...

What Will New Governance Mean for the Federal Government?
March 1, 1994... Across the country, there is wide interest in new ways of doing the public's business. Most of the activity so far, chronicled in books like Osborne and Gaebler's (1992) Reinventing Government and Barzelay and Armajani's Breaking Through...

Contracting out Government Services: Lessons from the Private Sector
March 1, 1994... Contracting out has become a popular method of simultaneously reducing government expenditures and improving the efficiency of government services.(1) Proponents of privatization can point to the apparent satisfaction of most government decision...

The Strategic Management of Accountability in Nonprofit Organizations: An Analytical Framework
March 1, 1994... Private nonprofit organizations comprise a vast and growing sector of the national economy, and they are a vital partner with government in the provision of a wide range of social and human services.(1) Growth in the size and influence of the...

Information for Control: Another Management Proverb?
March 1, 1994... As Herbert Simon (1946) pointed out decades ago, some ideas are so powerful that they become uncritically absorbed into the theory and practice of public management. The cybernetic theory of information for control is just such a powerful idea...

ADR and Administrative Responsiveness: Challenges for Public Administrators
March 1, 1994... In recent years, alternative dispute resolution (ADR)(1) has received a great deal of attention at the federal level. The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), whose mission is to promote improvements in the efficiency,...

"Mainstream" Public Administration over Time: A Topical Content Analysis of Public Administration Review
March 1, 1994... This article focuses on the question, how have the theoretical and substantive concerns of the public administration community changed over time? in other words: What is "mainstream" public administration and how has it changed? To answer this...

Management Politics in Local Government Finance, 3d ed.
March 1, 1994... J. Richard Aronson and Eli Schwartz, eds., 3d ed. (Washington, DC: International City and County Management Association, 1987), 449 pp.; $39.95 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long...

The Financial Analysis of Governments.
March 1, 1994... Robert Berne and Richard Schramm, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986), 431 pp.; $50.00 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and...

Public Financial Management.
March 1, 1994... Charles K. Coe, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1989), 254 pp.; $31.00 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and techniques," much as...

Accounting and Budgeting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Manager's Guide.
March 1, 1994... C. William Garner, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991), 252 pp.; $31.95 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and techniques," much as...

Public Budgeting Systems, 4th ed.
March 1, 1994... Robert D. Lee, Jr., and Ronald W. Johnson, 4th ed. (Rockville, MD.: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1989), 354 pp.; $39.00 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the...

Public Budgeting in America, 3d ed.
March 1, 1994... Thomas D. Lynch, 3d ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990), 372 pp.; $59.90 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and techniques,"...

Effective Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Agencies: A Practical and Integrative Approach.
March 1, 1994... Jerome G. McKinney, (New York: Quorum Books, 1986), 378 pp.; $59.50 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and techniques," much as...

Fiscal Administration, 3d ed.
March 1, 1994... John L. Mikesell, 3d ed. (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991), 510 pp.; $43.95 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and techniques," much...

Local Government Finance: Concepts and Practices.
March 1, 1994... John E. Petersen and Dennis Strachota, eds., (Chicago: Government Finance Officers Association, 1991), 465 pp.; $55.95 hardbound, for nonmembers. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated...

Public Finance Administration.
March 1, 1994... B. J. Reed and John W. Swain, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990), 355 pp.; $47.00 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and...

Financial Management in Public Organizations.
March 1, 1994... Alan Walter Steiss, (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1989), 245 pp.; $33.95 hardbound. Publishers of state and local government financial management textbooks have long relegated them to the background as "took and techniques," much as...

Taxing Choices: The Politics of Tax Reform.
March 1, 1994... Timothy J. Conlan, Margaret T. Wrightson, and David R. Beam, Taxing Choices. The Politics of Tax Reform. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1990), 275 pp.; $15.95 paper. Judging by traditional views of the policy making process, public...

Fairness in Taxation: Exploring the Principle.
March 1, 1994... Allan M. Maslove, ed., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), 159 + xiii pp.; $17.95 paper. Anyone who believes that good tax policy requires more than maximizing revenue and economic efficiency will find this volume of original...

Reconstructing the American Welfare State.
March 1, 1994... David Stoesz and Howard Jacob Karger, (Lanham, MD: Rownian and Littlefield, 1992), 197 pp.; $54.50 cloth; $21.00 paper. What David Stoesz and Howard Jacob how in Reconstructing the American Welfare State is the obvious need for change in...

Balanced Growth: A Planning Guide for Local Government.
March 1, 1994... John M. DeGrove, with the assistance of Patricia M. Metzger, eds., (Washington DC: ICMA, 1991), 163 pp.; $21.95 paper. Balanced Growth is a recent entry in the ICMA's Practical Management Series and continues the tradition of their...

Introduction
March 1, 1994... TOPS: Those Other Publications Reviewing the Winter Commission Report Introduction Christine Gibbs The Line in Winter: An Academic Assessment of the First Report of the National Commission on the State and Local Public...

The Line in Winter: An Academic Assessment of the First Report of the National Commission on the State and Local Public Service
March 1, 1994... Those readers of the first report of the National Commission on the State and Local Public Service, will be surprised if--like the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged 2nd edition)--they understand the term "public...

The Winter Commission Report: The Practitioner's Perspective
March 1, 1994... In reviewing the Winter Commission Report, I asked myself two questions. What insight in the problems of public sector management will this report give me? What concrete suggestions for implementing change can I glean from the report? While the...

Public Affairs, Administrative Faculty and the Winter Commission Report
March 1, 1994... The following is a summary of a larger report prepared by the National Association of Schools and Public Affairs and Administration Task Force on Education for the State and Local Public Service. This summation reflects written contributions to...

The "Reinventing Government" Exercise: Misinterpreting the Problem, Misjudging the Consequences
March 1, 1994... A mid high expectations and considerable 4 fanfare, Vice President Al Gore presented the report of his National Performance Review (NPR) to President Bill Clinton and the public on September 7, 1993.(1) The high expectations were set by the Vice...