Public Administration Review articles from March 1995

Public Administration Review archives from March 1995

The hidden dimensions of Japanese administration: culture and its impact.
March 1, 1995... We have witnessed an abundance of literature on the Japanese culture and its impact on management in business and industrial organizations. Paradoxically, the literature on Japanese public administration has given little explicit consideration to...

Rediscovering principles of public administration: the neglected foundation of public law.
March 1, 1995... Over the past five decades, the field of public administration has gradually lost its theoretical distinctiveness. Today, public administration has largely abandoned or forgotten its roots in public law - in the Constitution, statutes, and case...

Old wine in new bottles tastes better: a case study of TQM implementation in the IRS. (total quality management)
March 1, 1995... Joseph Juran is an author, lecturer, and corporate advisor on Total Quality Management (TQM). Juran (1964) has had experience in universities, industry, and government agencies, and he believes that the principles of TQM can be applied with equal...

State agencies' experience with strategic planning: findings from a national survey.
March 1, 1995... Since the early 1980s, strategic planning has been one of the "hot" innovations in public administration, promising public agencies the benefits of a rational and highly structured, future-oriented management technique borrowed from the best run...

Chinese public administration: change with continuity during political and economic development.
March 1, 1995... A decade ago in this journal, Worthley (1984) argued that public administration in the People's Republic of China was becoming ripe for comparative analysis. Since then, China has experienced extraordinary economic growth and has initiated major...

Reform with Chinese characteristics: the context of Chinese civil service reform.
March 1, 1995... In an article in 1887, Woodrow Wilson called for a discipline of public administration separate from political science. He argued that Americans should look to European governments for administrative structures. He spent much of the article...

Why don't they do what we want? An exploration of organizational responses to institutional pressures in community health centers.
March 1, 1995... Throughout the last two decades, the nonprofit sector has emerged as a major provider of basic health and human services and as a prime implementor of certain public policies (Kramer, 1981; Saidel, 1991; Salamon, 1987; Smith and Lipsky, 1993). At...

Bureaucracy, organizational redundancy, and the privatization of public services.
March 1, 1995... A common theme in the platforms of political candidates from presidents to big city mayors is a promise to consolidate fragmented systems, reduce needless duplication of services, and streamline public bureaucracies upon election to office....

Gay Issues in the Workplace.
March 1, 1995... Public managers, personnel specialists, and public administration programs need to become more aware of issues posed by gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in the public work force. Seventeen states, several federal agencies, and many cities now...

The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America.
March 1, 1995... Public managers, personnel specialists, and public administration programs need to become more aware of issues posed by gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in the public work force. Seventeen states, several federal agencies, and many cities now...

Gay Cops.
March 1, 1995... Public managers, personnel specialists, and public administration programs need to become more aware of issues posed by gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in the public work force. Seventeen states, several federal agencies, and many cities now...

The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal.
March 1, 1995... In this superb account of the invention of the modern presidency and party system, Sidney Milkis offers a thoroughly probing and thought-provoking interpretation of the creation of the American administrative state and its consequences. Indeed,...

Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal.
March 1, 1995... This volume on defense management is in the spirit of what has come to be called "the new public management," which has developed a sizeable body of literature. Various authors on the new public management focus on different aspects of the topic,...

The Reorganisation of British Central Government.
March 1, 1995... Recent literature suggests uncertainty and, in some cases, confusion among practitioners and academicians about the future of public administration. At the political level, calls for reform emerge clearly. President Clinton has argued, "It's not...

Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared Power World.
March 1, 1995... John Bryson and Barbara Crosby provide public leaders with a primer on promoting positive change in public policy in a world where no single actor or institution is in charge. Their interdisciplinary framework for understanding the dynamics of...