Public Administration Review articles from March 1998

Public Administration Review archives from March 1998

Judicial federalism: the resurgence of the Supreme Court's role in the protection of state sovereignty.
March 1, 1998... Throughout history, the courts have played a key role in determining the nature of the intergovernmental system in the United States. In particular, the Federal Courts haw been the central arbiter in deciding between assertions of national...

Elizabeth I and the limits of privatization.
March 1, 1998... Scholars and practitioners of public administration are familiar with the large body of recent research on the privatization of governmental functions. As noted by Wallin (1997, 12), privatization arrangements are entered into with the...

Making "common sense" of federal budgeting.
March 1, 1998... Budgeting is a ubiquitous, frequently controversial, and almost always dissatisfying aspect of government. Because it Influences so many decisions and provokes so much debate, budgeting attracts study from a wide variety of perspectives,...

Risk culture in public and private organizations.
March 1, 1998... Compared to private managers, are public managers more afraid to take risks' If so, why? These questions have permeated much of the recent discussion of bureaucratic reform, especially the work of the National Performance Review (Gore, 1993). The...

The role of the independent political executive in state governance: stability in the face of change.
March 1, 1998... The First Report of the National Commission on the State and Local Public Service (Winter, 1993) argued that fragmentation of authority among a number of political actors denies governors the opportunity to lead effectively. In 1995, a...

The changing nature of accountability: the role of the inspector general in federal agencies.
March 1, 1998... Federal managers are currently changing the way they do business in response to a variety of initiatives from both the executive and legislative branches. Signals from the White House contained in the National Performance Review (1993) and from...

Why some communities pay more than others? The example of Illinois teachers.
March 1, 1998... Increased labor costs for salaries and fringe benefits is one of the budgeting consequences of growth in the employment levels of state and local governments.(1) Little research, however, determines what causes high or low public sector salaries....

Balancing conflicting policy objectives: the case of school finance reform.
March 1, 1998... Public policy decisions frequently require the establishment of a balance between conflicting objectives. This is especially true for many current state policy efforts, particularly with regard to funding for public education. This policy area,...

The naval nuclear propulsion program: a brief case study in institutional constancy.
March 1, 1998... In an article published in the November/December 1996 issue of Public Administration Review, LaPorte and Keller argued that the management of large organizations that deal with hazardous materials (materials that pose significant risks over long...

Reliability, validity, and the MV index: toward the clarification of some fundamental issues. (Measure of Variation index)
March 1, 1998... The need to find effective ways to counter racial, ethnic, gender, and other forms of discrimination in the public work force has been an important item on our policy agenda for a considerable number of years. This concern has led to the pursuit...

In a Dark Wood: The Fight Over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology.
March 1, 1998... Chase, Alston, (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), 535 pp., $29-95 cloth. In his important 1948 treatise on the administrative state, Waldo (1984, 8-9) identified the conservation movement as a key force in furthering the notion that...

Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War Two.
March 1, 1998... Hirt, Paul W., (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), 416 pp., $20.00 paper. In his important 1948 treatise on the administrative state, Waldo (1984, 8-9) identified the conservation movement as a key force in furthering the...

Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West.
March 1, 1998... Langston, Nancy, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1995). 368 pp., $24.95 cloth. $16.95 paper. In his important 1948 treatise on the administrative state, Waldo (1984, 8-9) identified the conservation movement as a key force in...

Unsung Heroes: Federal Execucrats Making a Difference.
March 1, 1998... Riccucci, Norma T., (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1995), 251 pp.; $17.95 paper. In a period of enthusiasm for entrepreneurial action by and in government,(1) Norma Riccucci's Unsung Heroes is in some ways a tract for the...

The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective.
March 1, 1998... Anechiarico, Frank and James B. Jacobs, The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996), 274 pages, $24.95 Ask most public administration scholars if...

Comments on "The Federal Line Item Veto: What is it and What Will it Do?" (Public Administration, March/April 1997; includes response by authors Philip Joyce and Robert Reischauer)
March 1, 1998... Robert Reischauer and Phil Joyce's "The Federal Line Item Veto: What Is It and What Will It Do?" (Public Administration Review, March/April 1997) is a very informative and useful piece for both researchers and practitioners. However, even...