Public Administration Review articles from March 1999

Public Administration Review archives from March 1999

Budgeting for the Millennium
March 1, 1999... The year 2000 is almost upon us. Figuring out the implications of the millennium for budgeters is an urgent task: This editorial lays out some likely scenarios. To budgeters used to thinking in terms of annual and biennial budgets, a...

Federal Authority vs. State Autonomy: The Supreme Court's Role Revisited
March 1, 1999... Charles Wise's "Judicial Federalism: The Resurgence of the Supreme Courts Role in the Protection of State Sovereignty" (Public Administration Review, March/April 1998) provides an informative survey of recent cases in which the U.S. Supreme...

Mini-Symposium on Intergovernmental Comparative Performance Data
March 1, 1999... As David Ammons points out in his article, performance measurement has become a major management tool across the country, and in fact, the world. It is bringing a new public administration focus on results-oriented government to United States...

A Proper Mentality for Benchmarking
March 1, 1999... The public sector has come a long way in measuring performance and "managing for results," but there is much still to do. Delving even modestly into the history of public management yields the discovery that performance measurement and related...

Local Government Benchmarking: Lessons from Two Major Multigovernment Efforts
March 1, 1999... Benchmarking and performance measurement are increasingly "hot" subjects among public administrators. A brief historical summary of events illustrates this point. In 1992 the Urban Institute and the International City/County Management...

Comparative Performance Measurement: Insights and Lessons Learned from a Consortium Effort
March 1, 1999... "Regular monitoring of service quality and program results is a key component of informed public management and the identification of opportunities for improved of public-sector performance" (Wholey and Hatry, 1992, 604). Local governments...

Defense Contingency Budgeting in the Post-Cold-War World
March 1, 1999... One of the major government reform initiatives in the industrialized democracies in the 1990s has been the new public management. In the United States, the initiative gained considerable attention when a report issued by a commission chaired by...

Innocents Abroad: Reflections from a Public Administration Consultant in Bosnia
March 1, 1999... Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a veritable army of Western consultants--economists, lawyers, management specialists, and others--has marched east, across the plains of Poland, through the valleys of Hungary, and on to the farthest...

Emmette S. Redford: The Eyes of Texas Are upon Him
March 1, 1999... Emmette Shelburn Redford was the classic Texan. Tall in stature, he was a man of southern charm, Washington savvy, an insatiable need to examine how things worked, an intense interest in how democratic theory could be satisfied, and a strong...

Spirituality in Public Service: A Dialogue
March 1, 1999... John When I read your essay, I was far from comfortable with the idea that spirituality is a missing ingredient in public service. You anticipate some of my feelings when you discuss the reluctance of some to even entertain the idea. I even...

Christian Coalition: Dreams of Restoration, Demands for Recognition.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Justin Watson, Christian Coalition: Dreams of Restoration, Demands for Recognition (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), 256pp; $35.00 hard, $17.95 paper. The role of religion in public life has moved to the center of national debate in...

The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore, The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997); $22.00 hard, $13.00 paper. The role of religion in public life has moved to the center of...

Hallowed Ground: Rediscovering Our Spiritual Roots.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Stephen Burgard, Hallowed Ground: Rediscovering Our Spiritual Roots (New York: Plenum Press, 1997), 250pp; $25.95 paper. The role of religion in public life has moved to the center of national debate in the 1990s: What place should...

Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Stephen L. Carter, Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy (New York: Basic Books, 1998), 384pp; $25.00 hard. The role of religion in public life has moved to the center of national debate in the 1990s: What place should...

An Inner Voice for Public Administration.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Nancy Murray, An Inner Voice for Public Administration (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997); $55.00 hard. The role of religion in public life has moved to the center of national debate in the 1990s: What place should religious rhetoric...

The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Stephen L. Carter, The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion. (New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, originally published 1993, Revised 1994), 328pp; $15.95 paper. These books, each for its own...

The Greening of Protestant Thought.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Robert Booth Fowler, The Greening of Protestant Thought. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 242pp; $37.50 hard, $16.95 paper. These books, each for its own reasons, will stand for some time as primers of thought...

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Robert Booth Fowler and Allen D. Hertzke, Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices. (Boulder, Colorado: The Westview Press, 1995); $25.00 paper. These books, each for its own reasons, will stand for some...

Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Ronald F. Thiemann, Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma of Democracy. (Washington, D.C.: The Georgetown University Press, 1996), 186pp; $59.95 hard $17.95 paper. These books, each for its own reasons, will stand for some time as primers...