Public Administration Review articles from May 1994

Public Administration Review archives from May 1994

Demonstrating neutrality: the Rockefeller philanthropies and the evolution of public administration, 1927-1936.
May 1, 1994... Few ideas in the field of public administration are as poorly regarded as the concept of the politics-administration dichotomy. Proponents of the dichotomy argued that a clear line could be drawn between policy making, or "politics," and the...

The effect of the Growth Management Act on local comprehensive planning expenditures: the south Florida experience.
May 1, 1994... In response to citizens' concerns about the environment, state governments have been actively involved in establishing programs for managing growth since the early 1970s. Most of the earlier growth management programs attempted to balance the...

Designing service delivery systems: lessons from the development of community-based systems of care for the elderly.
May 1, 1994... Over the last 60 years, interest groups have played an increasingly important role in defining problems and providing solutions to pressing social issues. Through their activities, remarkable improvements have been made in health, welfare,...

Regionalizing emergency management: counties as state and local government.
May 1, 1994... Hurricanes Hugo, Andrew, and Iniki and the Loma Prieta earthquake are still having profound impacts on the national emergency management system. The failures to prepare and respond adequately to these emergencies may well lead to fundamental...

Grounded beefs: monopoly prices, minority business, and the price of hamburgers at U.S. airports.
May 1, 1994... Recently in an attempt to improve the quality and appearance of airport food and merchandise, both concessionaires and airport officials have made a concentrated effort to change the way they do business (Weinstein and Madrigal, 1991; Finney,...

Women and minorities in federal government agencies: examining new evidence from panel data.
May 1, 1994... The employment of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the public work force has grown considerably in the past 20 years, and projections have suggested that such growth can be expected to continue into the immediate future (Johnston et al.,...

Women, occupations, and federal agencies: occupational mix and interagency differences in sexual inequality in federal white-collar employment.
May 1, 1994... The status of women varies strikingly across major federal agencies. In 1987, for instance, women comprised 66 percent of all white-collar employees in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) but only 23 percent in the Department of...

Gender and Lowi's thesis: implications for career advancement. (T.J. Lowi)
May 1, 1994... Representative bureaucracy and female parity at all levels in public organizations are attainable yet unrealized goals. Many years have elapsed since the passage of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action legislation, yet women...

Asian Americans in the public service: success, diversity, and discrimination.
May 1, 1994... Although high levels of schooling and occupational achievement suggest that Asian Americans have succeeded in American society (Taylor and Kim, 1980, p. 2), their image as a model minority" conceals both their diversity and the discrimination...

The impact of political structures on public policies in American counties.
May 1, 1994... American county governments have experienced substantial change as intergovernmental actors and service providers over the past several decades.(1) Although academic research on American county governments and their operations has been...

Agenda for Excellence: Public Service in America.
May 1, 1994... The conditions under which public affairs accomplishment is enhanced by career service magnificence is one of the intriguing questions raised by the eleven edited edited by Patricia W. Ingraham and Donald F. Kettl and twelve other authors...

Customer Service in Local Government: Challenges for Planners and Managers.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1994... This informative and well-written commentary on government service should be required reading for everyone in public administration. Bruce McClendon, himself a veteran administrator in municipal government and a professional urban planner, took...

Social Administration: A Client Centered Approach.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1994... The most important sentence in this 1992 textbook is in chapter three, entitled "Managing Information." After reviewing five performance areas considered by Rapp and Poertner to be crucial to client-centered management (client outcomes,...

Disaster Management: Recent Disasters Demonstrate the Need to Improve the Nation's Response Strategy.
May 1, 1994... The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the national political spotlight again, this time as a result of congressional scrutiny, public criticism, and Clinton administration reexamination. In past year, both the National...

Disaster Management: Improving the Nation's Response to Catastrophic Disasters.
May 1, 1994... The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the national political spotlight again, this time as a result of congressional scrutiny, public criticism, and Clinton administration reexamination. In past year, both the National...

Coping with Catastrophe: Building an Emergency Management System to Meet People's Needs in Natural and Manmade Disasters.
May 1, 1994... The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the national political spotlight again, this time as a result of congressional scrutiny, public criticism, and Clinton administration reexamination. In past year, both the National...

Organizational performance and multiple constituencies.
May 1, 1994... Agency performance represents the ongoing results of public organizational processes. Evaluating it has long been a central concern of public administration, in part because it is the primary means of judging consistency of agency decisions...

Commentary on patronage. (response to David K. Hamilton, Public Administration Review, vol. 53, p. 381, July/August 1993)
May 1, 1994... In his article on Illinois after Rutan, David Hamilton (1993) describes the steps that the state has taken to comply with the Supreme Court's prohibition of patronage hiring. Although the patronage system established under Governor James...