Public Administration Review articles from March 2000

Public Administration Review archives from March 2000

Lessons from the "Y2K and You" Campaign for the Local Government Community.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Introduction The new millennium has arrived, and the major investment that cities and counties made in Y2K remediation and preparation has paid off. Early reports from Public Technology, Inc. (PTI) members indicate that the rollover from...

The Political Theory of Reinvention.
March 1, 2000... In 1992, David Osborne and Ted Gaebler published Reinventing Government, putting forward 10 principles through which "public entrepreneurs" might bring about massive governmental reform. The book captured the imagination of thousands of public...

The President and Representative Bureaucracy: Rhetoric and Reality.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Since Donald Kingsley coined the term "representative bureaucracy" in 1944, scholars have written about the many benefits of achieving a civil service that mirrors the U.S. population in terms of race, national origin, and gender (such as,...

Merit, Management, and Neutral Competence: Lessons from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, FY 1988-FY 1997.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Merit principles have helped to define the character of bureaucracy in the United States for more than a century. Indeed, civil service protections of employee rights have affected American government in ways that extend far beyond the...

Employer Liability for Employee Sexual Harassment: A Judicial Policy-Making Study.
March 1, 2000... Since 1991, sexual harassment has been one of the most hotly debated topics pertaining to employment discrimination. In that year, the Navy's Tailhook convention in Las Vegas revealed long-standing harassment of women naval officers. Also in...

Measuring Disparity in Government Procurement: Problems with Using Census Data in Estimating Availability.
March 1, 2000... Introduction Public procurement is a multibillion-dollar business for vendors who provide a large variety of products and services to federal, state, and local governmental agencies. Thus, there are very large potential dollar benefits to...

Applying Large-Group Interaction Methods in the Planning and Implementation of Major Change Efforts.
March 1, 2000... Introduction Public policy makers, planners, and managers are increasingly relying on what might be called large-group interaction methods (LGIMs) to involve large numbers of people (as few as eight to more than 2,000) in planning and...

Tax Evasion from a Policy Perspective: The Case of the Motor Fuels Tax(*).
March 1, 2000... Taxes are fundamental to the existence of government, for tax revenues finance the bulk of services our governments provide including education, welfare, public safety, highways, and basic public services. Among other factors, the widespread...

Goal Displacement: Assessing the Motivation for Organizational Cheating.
March 1, 2000... Policy making at all levels of government has become much more complex over the past three decades. Governments are responsible for maintaining economic stability, combating racial discrimination, providing a safety net for the poor, educating...

Class, Tax, and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Irene S. Rubin, Class, Tax, and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States. (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1998). 248 pp.; $29.95, paper. Efficiency is a cherished value in public administration, and empathetically learning from others'...

The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Donald R. Stabile, The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the Constitutional Era, 1776-1836. (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1998). 208 pp.; $59.95, cloth. Efficiency is a cherished value in public...

A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. (New York: Hill & Wang, Inc., 1998). 351 pp., $27.50 hard; 368 pp., $14.00 paper. Public administration scholarship cannot ignore the remarkable accomplishments of...

Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt.(Review)
March 1, 2000... John Steele Gordon, Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt. (New York: Walker & Company, 1997). 224 pp., $21.00 hard; 220 pp., $11.95 paper. Public administration scholarship cannot ignore the remarkable...

Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Peter McNamara, Political Economy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, and the Foundation of the Commercial Republic. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997). 256 pp., $35.00 hard. Public administration scholarship cannot...

Booknotes.
March 1, 2000... A new feature of PAR's book review section that began with volume 60, issue 1, Booknotes presents brief, non-evaluative descriptions of books related to public administration. Authors and publishers interested in having their books included are...