Public Administration Review articles from May 1996

Public Administration Review archives from May 1996

A Major Transfer of Government Responsibility to Voluntary Organizations? Proceed with Caution
May 1, 1996... There is growing interest in transferring to voluntary organizations more organizational and financial responsibility for human services such as job training, low income housing, and care of distressed children. This raises the questions of how...

Struggles in Transformation: A Study in TQM, Leadership, and Organizational Culture in a Government Agency
May 1, 1996... Listen to the experts in total quality management (TQM), and you will repeatedly hear that the key to successful implementation of TQM is to begin at the top of the organization, and then, with constancy of purpose, proceed downward (Deming, 1986;...

Escalating in a Quagmire: The Changing Dynamics of the Emergency Management Policy Subsystem
May 1, 1996... On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into southern Dade County, Florida. What followed was tragic, costly, and remarkable in many respects. In this article, we focus on one multi-faceted aspect of Andrew's aftermath - the policy aspect,...

Role of the "Reinventing Government" Movement in Federal Management Reform
May 1, 1996... Vice President Al Gore (1995a; 12) often tells an anecdote about a taxidermist and a veterinarian who went into business together - outside their establishment hangs a sign that guarantees "either way you get your dog back." This story serves as a...

Reinventing Government as Postmodern Symbolic Politics
May 1, 1996... The title of this article stands as a claim that something can be learned from viewing the reinventing government movement as an example of postmodern symbolic politics. It is not, however, a claim to exclusive truth; it would be wrong to dismiss...

Comparing the Reinventing Government Movement with the New Public Administration
May 1, 1996... No movement associated with the administrative aspects of modern American government has had the visibility of reinventing government. The phrase reinventing government has entered the lexicon of government, and the constellation of ideas...

The Advent of an Ambiguous Federalism and the Emergence of New Federalism III
May 1, 1996... How does one gauge the health of a federal system? The elemental constitutional foundations of our federalism are threefold: (1) establishing a territorial division of power and functions between the national and state governments (which still...

Managing Incoherence: The Coordination and Empowerment Conundrum
May 1, 1996... Governments increasingly must contend with major forces pulling in diametrically opposite directions. Some of the forces are largely the result of their own policies, but others are not. Regardless of their origin, these two sets of forces compete...

The Reinvention Game
May 1, 1996... Evaluating the success or failure of the National Performance Review (NPR) on the basis of its proclaimed goal of making government "work better and cost less" is problematic. Whether the federal government works better than it did in 1993 is a...

The Future of Federal Reinvention: Congressional Perspectives
May 1, 1996... The future of federal reinvention depends in part upon congressional action (Foreman, 1995). Setting aside normative and operational questions about the National Performance Review (NPR), the general approach and many activities of the NPR will be...

The Poverty of Welfare Reform.
May 1, 1996... Beyond the budget, welfare reform has been one of the hottest issues on the national agenda for the past year. While there is no doubt that the demand for reform is strong, there is considerable reason to ask whether contemporary reform...

Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America.
May 1, 1996... Beyond the budget, welfare reform has been one of the hottest issues on the national agenda for the past year. While there is no doubt that the demand for reform is strong, there is considerable reason to ask whether contemporary reform...

Response to Fine, Reeves and Harney's Article on Employee Drug Testing
May 1, 1996... I wish to call to your attention what I believe to be errors in the article "Employee Drug Testing: Are Cities Complying with the Courts?" as the article speaks of the program in place in the city of St. Louis. At the present time we do have...