Public Administration Review articles from March 2002

Public Administration Review archives from March 2002

Organizing for Homeland Security. (Special Report)
March 1, 2002... The events of September 11 have prompted vastly heightened scrutiny of many aspects of government functioning, as major wars and national cataclysms have done in the past. Few aspects, perhaps, have received more attention than the question of...

Public-Value Failure: When Efficient Markets May Not Do
March 1, 2002... "If markets be ends as well as means, their nonefficiency is hardly sufficient ground for rejection. On the other hand, efficient markets may not do, efficiency of the `invisible hand' does not preclude preference for other efficient...

Public Administration Theory Network Conference Articles
March 1, 2002... For the first time in its existence, now nearly a quarter of a century, the Public Administration Theory Network (also known as "PAT-Net") met last June in Europe. The Network's membership has grown increasingly international over the last...

Remembering While Forgetting: The Role of Automorphism in City Management in Warsaw
March 1, 2002... "Before it becomes a political issue, the will to forget is an anthropological one: man has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and others." --Milan Kundera, The Art of...

From Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracies: How Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control (1)
March 1, 2002... The Issue: Discretionary Power of Civil Servants in the Constitutional State Bureaucracy is no longer what it once was. The term conjures up mental visions of massive buildings in which large groups of men--bureaucrats are, without exception,...

Gendering the "Graying" of Society: A Discourse Analysis of the Care Gap
March 1, 2002... The "second demographic transition" in Western Europe has led to a "graying" and a "de-greening" of the population: an increasing number of old people as baby boomers approach old age, and a decreasing number of young people because of the...

Partnership Arrangements: Governmental Rhetoric or Governance Scheme?
March 1, 2002... Looking for New Forms of Interorganizational Governance The involvement of all kinds of organizations in joint decision making has received a great deal of attention lately. This search for cooperation can be seen in all domains of societal...

Nonincremental Policy Change: Lessons from Michigan's Medicaid Managed Care Initiative
March 1, 2002... The 1990s witnessed a powerful movement in the nation to transfer most, if not all, of its Medicaid clients from the traditional fee-for-service delivery system to a system of managed care. Indeed, the shift to managed care has been evident in...

Workplace Relations: Friendship Patterns and Consequences (According to Managers)
March 1, 2002... New ideas are routinely proposed about what "bureaucracies" should be (Considine and Lewis 1999; Bruce and Novinson 1999; Comeau-Kirschner and Wah 1999; Hesselbein 1997). One such notion is that organizations should condone or even promote...

Participative Management and Job Satisfaction: Lessons for Management Leadership
March 1, 2002... Introduction One of the leading challenges in public management has been implementing effective human capital strategies to enhance government performance and accountability. As a result of the emphasis on performance and results-oriented...

Live Bureaucrats and Dead Public Servants: How People in Government Are Discussed on the Floor of the House
March 1, 2002... This article examines the way members of Congress characterize individuals who work in government. Members of the House are driven by a desire to be re-elected (Mayhew 1974) and to make good public policy (Fenno 1973). Many scholars (Edelman...

The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples.
March 1, 2002... Charles T. Goodsell, The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples (Lawrence, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 2001). 232 pp., $35 cloth. First in his work on city council chambers (1988) and now in this enviable book,...

Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Ashworth, Kenneth. 2001. Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Written as an exchange of letters of advice between an uncle to a niece or nephew embarking...

NBER Macroeconomics Annual.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Bernanke, Ben S., and Kenneth Rogoff, eds. 2001. NBER Macroeconomics Annual. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. The editors find the common element in this volume is that the authors all take a fresh look at important issues in macroeconomics....

Competing in the New Economy: Governance Strategies for the Digital Age.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Bonnett, Thomas W. 2000. Competing in the New Economy: Governance Strategies for the Digital Age. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corporation. The author suggests that the most important factors in enticing knowledge-intensive firms to locate...

Taking Aim: Target Populations and Wars on AIDS and Drugs.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Donovan, Mark C. 2001. Taking Aim: Target Populations and Wars on AIDS and Drugs. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Setting out to explore why certain segments of the population are the beneficiaries of government programs (or...

The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000, Second Edition, Revised.
March 1, 2002... Fainstein, Susan S. 2001. The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000, Second Edition, Revised. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. The author uses case studies of projects in New York (Times Square,...

Conservation Trusts.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Fairfax, Sally K., and Darla Guenzler. 2001. Conservation Trusts. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Examining the potential role of conservation trusts in shaping the next generation of resource-management institutions, the...

Workplace Sabbaticals--Bonus or Entitlement?(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Kramer, Daniel C. 2001. Workplace Sabbaticals--Bonus or Entitlement? Westport, CT: Quorum Books. Kramer argues that there are many good reasons to extend the practice of sabbaticals beyond academia. His research shows that they are not...

Getting Results Through Collaboration: Networks and Network Structures for Public Policy and Management.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Mandell, Myrna P., ed. 2001. Getting Results Through Collaboration: Networks and Network Structures for Public Policy and Management. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. Viewing collaboration in the public sector as significantly different from...

A Cooperative Approach to Local Economic Development.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Merrett, Christopher D., and Norman Walzer, eds. 2001. A Cooperative Approach to Local Economic Development. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. The contributors address challenges faced by the agricultural sector and strategies used by rural...

The Social Psychology of Expertise: Case Studies in Research, Professional Domains, and Expert Roles.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Mieg, Harald A. 2001. The Social Psychology of Expertise: Case Studies in Research, Professional Domains, and Expert Roles. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Looking at the use of experts' expertise, Mieg works from a foundation in...

Alliances, Outsourcing, and the Lean Organization.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Milgate, Michael. 2001. Alliances, Outsourcing, and the Lean Organization. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. Milgate's research shows that many corporate efforts to become leaner, to focus on competencies, and to create alliances have not...

Performance-Based Budgeting.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Miller, Gerald J., W. Bartley Hildreth, and Jack Rabin. 2001. Performance-Based Budgeting. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. An ASPA Classics Volume, this edited collection contains 28 articles on public budgeting and finance. Topics include:...

Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Pearce, Kimber Charles. 2001. Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University. Examining the impact of Rostow's "stages of economic growth" theory on U.S. foreign aid policy during the 1950s...

Superfund's Future: What Will It Cost?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Probst, Katherine N., David M. Konisky, et al. 2001. Superfund's Future: What Will It Cost? Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. Responding to a request from Congress to estimate the future costs of the Superfund program, Resources...

Capital, Labor, and State: the Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Robertson, David Brian. 2000. Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. While other industrializing nations began to regulate labor conditions...

You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: the Economics of Privatization.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Sclar, Elliott D. 2000. You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Believing that markets are wonderful servants but terrible masters, Sclar wants to preserve the domain of...

Public Administration and the State: a Postmodern Perspective.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Spicer, Michael W. 2001. Public Administration and the State: A Postmodern Perspective. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press. Despite the importance of the politics-administration dichotomy in public administration, Spicer...

Nothing Personal, Just Business: a Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Stein, Howard F. 2001. Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness. Westport, CT: Quorum Books. Stein considers organizations to be places of emotional savagery and brutality where intimidation,...

Better Environmental Policy Studies: How to Design and Conduct More Effective Analyses.(Brief Review)
March 1, 2002... Susskind, Lawrence E., Ravi K. Jain, and Andrew O. Martyniuk. 2001. Better Environmental Policy Studies: How to Design and Conduct More Effective Analyses. Washington, DC: Island Press. The authors are concerned that so few environmental...

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, Third Edition.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Viscusi, W. Kip, John Vernon, and Joseph Harrington. 2000. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, Third Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Emphasizing the use of economic theory and empirical analysis in understanding regulatory and...