Public Administration Review articles from May 1995

Public Administration Review archives from May 1995

"Execucrats," politics, and public policy: what are the ingredients for successful performance in the federal government?
May 1, 1995... Ever since the emergence of the politics-administration dichotomy, public administrationists and political scientists have grappled with the question of whether career servants participate, or ought to participate, in high-level decision and...

A case for reinterpreted dichotomy of politics and administration as a professional standard in council-manager government.
May 1, 1995... ffectively carried out the policies of the council. Over the years, a number of scholars have suggested that such a strict interpretation might not be what early proponents of a dichotomy had intended (Golembiewski, 1977; 9-11; Cooper, 1984;...

Tomorrow's city management: guides for avoiding success-becoming-failure.
May 1, 1995... What can be done to reorient tomorrow's city management? The authors suggest the following seven high-priority remedies or palliatives for city managers. 1. an elaboration of a volatile and mixed politics/administration zone, 2. a new blend...

White House control of domestic policy making: the Reagan years.
May 1, 1995... As the federal government has increased its role in society, the executive departments have each become responsible for thousands of programs and billions of dollars. The challenge to presidents in the modern presidency has been how to ensure...

The 1992 regulatory moratorium: did it make a difference?
May 1, 1995... History of Presidential Involvement in Rulemaking Since the Roosevelt administration and the recommendations of the Brownlow Commission, presidents have attempted to assert more control over regulatory agencies. Although in the past the...

Political management strategies and political/career relationships: where are we now in the federal government?
May 1, 1995... For much of this century, but most notably for the past 25 years, political/career relationships in Washington have been marked by presidential efforts to direct and control the permanent bureaucracy better. The key players in this relationship...

A view from the top: reflections of the Bush presidential appointees.
May 1, 1995... Who were the women and men at the highest levels of the federal government, the Senate-confirmed presidential appointees (PASs), who served at the top of George Bush's administration? Little empirical attention has been directed to this group....

Voting for Smokey Bear: political accountability and the new chief of the Forest Service. (Jack Ward Thomas)
May 1, 1995... Has Smokey the Bear become Smokey the Politician? The image of Smokey Bear, peering from magazine pages and billboards, does not cut the profile of someone scrambling for political office. Smokey, the mascot of the U.S. Department of...

Research in Public Administration: Reflections on Theory and Practice.
May 1, 1995... In the halls of Congress and the stately chambers of the White House, the nation's politicians now compete in the quest to cut bureaucracy, trim the role of the public service, and slash budgets. In states throughout the land, governors deplore...

Criteria of Social Scientific Knowledge: Interpretation, Prediction, Praxis.
May 1, 1995... The last quarter century has witnessed a steady decline in the positivist hegemony over social science scholarship. This has, of course, been welcome news to positivism's detractors; but the range of alternative theoretical and methodological...

The Politics of Social Administration.
May 1, 1995... Organizations were once assumed to be run "rationally." For many years, however, theorists have attacked this assumption, proposing alternative explanations for the sometimes strange behavior of businesses and governmental bodies. Currently, the...

Managing with Power.
May 1, 1995... Organizations were once assumed to be run "rationally." For many years, however, theorists have attacked this assumption, proposing alternative explanations for the sometimes strange behavior of businesses and governmental bodies. Currently, the...

The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning.
May 1, 1995... Fischer and Forester have assembled essays by an impressive list of leading scholars of policy analysis and planning. Drawing on theoretical models by Habermas, Wittgenstein, and others, The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning...

Federal Regulation of State and Local Governments: The Mixed Record of the 1980s.
May 1, 1995... A report that seeks to redefine the domestic policy role of the national government in a federal system has been published by the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR). In it, the ACIR updates publications of the 1980s...

The rhetoric of reform and political reality in the National Performance Review.
May 1, 1995... The first phase of the National Performance Review (NPR I), announced September 7, 1993, redistributes control over administration between the president and Congress, and among and within agencies. In focusing on how government works rather than...