Public Administration Review articles from March 1996

Public Administration Review archives from March 1996

Music of the Squares: A Lifetime of Study of Public Administration
March 1, 1996... Author's Note: In 1989, Nelson W. Polsby and Martin Landau, of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, contemplated an experiment to preserve the intellectual heritage of public administration by having...

The Future of Public Administration: End of a Short Stay in the Sun? or a New Day A-Dawning?
March 1, 1996... Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of two articles on the intellectual development of public administration under Professor Jack Rabin's editorship. The Editors are very grateful to him for creating the series and bringing the articles...

Public Policy and Administration: The Goals of Rationality and Responsibility
March 1, 1996... No problem is more momentous for the modern democratic state than its capacity to develop rational, responsible, goal-oriented policy. In many fields, including the most crucial ones, foreign policy and defense, the staff work on which well...

Workplace Preparedness and the Americans with Disabilities Act: Lessons from Municipal Governments' Management of HIV/AIDS
March 1, 1996... Although the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is designed to protect all disabled individuals from workplace discrimination, its mission is somewhat more difficult to accomplish in situations involving employees and job applicants who...

A Demand-Side Perspective on the Importance of Representative Bureaucracy: AIDS, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
March 1, 1996... In a polity that relies on representation to achieve a semblance of democracy, the composition of a non-elected arm of government such as the bureaucracy is important. In recent years, public administration scholars have addressed the topic in a...

Balancing Work and Family Responsibilities: Flextime and Child Care in the Federal Government
March 1, 1996... Our increasingly diverse work force struggles to manage child care, elder care, family emergencies, and other personal commitments, while working conditions become ever more important. The federal government must maintain its "model employer"...

Bringing Politics Back In: Defense Policy and the Theoretical Study of Institutions and Processes
March 1, 1996... In 1960, Morris Janowitz argued that the publication of Samuel Huntington's landmark study, The Soldier and the State, represented "the first time since Alexis de Tocqueville that American military institutions were being analyzed as an aspect of...

Channel Modeling: From West Point Cadet to General
March 1, 1996... The U.S. Army and Air Force are two of many organizations that are characterized as meritocracies, where career advancement is supposed to be determined mostly by one's ability to achieve institutional goals. Critics have long claimed, however,...

The Promotion Record of the United States Army: Glass Ceilings in the Officer Corps
March 1, 1996... Although the federal government has achieved unprecedented diversity in its labor force, achieving representation across agencies and throughout their hierarchies remain two of the greatest challenges to contemporary personnel administration....

Public Administration Illuminated and Inspired by the Arts.
March 1, 1996... Public administration has enjoyed for at least a half century a small but significant stream of scholarship on the arts and humanities as they bear on the issues of our field. Charles T. Goodsell and Nancy Murray's fine collection of essays,...

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military.
March 1, 1996... How does the military enforce its policy to deny employment rights to gay men and lesbians? Brutally and unconstitutionally, according to Randy Shilts. Take the case of Lt. (j.g.) Tom Dooley, USN, who supervised the medical treatment of 600,000...

The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health.
March 1, 1996... John Duffy's excellent book is a narrative history that describes public health problems and details public attempts to cope with them from the early 17th century to the very recent past. This book is a rich account of public administration and...

Engineering Culture.
March 1, 1996... Why review a book on the organizational culture of an engineering organization for a journal oriented toward public administrators? This wonderfully crafted ethnographic study of the engineering division of an American computer manufacturing...

The Tax Decade: How Taxes Came to Dominate the Public Agenda.
March 1, 1996... The 1980s, according to Eugene Steuerle, were "the tax decade" because "tax issues were to dominate the political agenda in a manner seldom, if ever, seen in the nation's history." As one of the principal economists involved in developing the...

The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military.
March 1, 1996... Seth Shulman's, The Threat at Home, is a journalistically styled account of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Cold War assault on the environment at its military installations. Plucked directly from today's headlines projecting a 30-year, $200...

Public Personnel Administration and Constitutional Values.
March 1, 1996... The last four decades saw the Supreme Court recognize the constitutional rights of public employees. The high court sharply limited the authority of public employers to condition public employment on public employees limiting their on and...

Decision Making: Alternatives to Rational Choice Models.
March 1, 1996... Every now and then I find myself leafing through another Sunday supplement or looking at magazines at the grocery checkout, and queries cry out to me: "Have trouble making decisions?" "Can't decide which car to buy?" "Which career is for me?"...

Authentic Leadership: Courage in Action.
March 1, 1996... As a political scientist, with extended service in academe and government, I have long approached the study of political leadership through the works of such figures as James David Barber, James MacGregor Burns, Erik H. Erikson, Alexander and...

The Pursuit of Significance: Strategies for Managerial Success in Public Organizations.
March 1, 1996... Ever since publication of the blockbuster tome, In Search of Excellence (Peters and Waterman, 1982), public administrationists have exuded a kind of "sector envy" that places successful private organizations on a pedestal. High performance...

Reinventing Government: The Case of the Department of Defense
March 1, 1996... The Department of Defense (DoD), the largest of federal government bureaucracies in both numbers and budgets has undergone sustained organizational reform since the National Security Act of 1947 and the Key West decision of 1948 which resolved...