Public Administration Review articles from May 1997

Public Administration Review archives from May 1997

The Defense of Qualified Immunity in Employee Termination Suits: Four Cases from the Federal Courts of Appeal
May 1, 1997... Public officials at all levels of government in the United States are provided with some degree of immunity from lawsuits filed against them in their official capacity. At the start it is important to understand that immunity from suit only...

Bureaucracy and Democracy: The Case for More Bureaucracy and Less Democracy
May 1, 1997... It hasn't been my aim to tell people what to think...I have tried, rather, to tell them how to think -- specifically, of course, about public administration. The United States is facing a serious problem with the interface between its...

The Warfare on and over American Government in Waldonian Perspective
May 1, 1997... What's happened? Why is my government such a terrible thing? -- Congressman Henry Hyde, remarks on the House floor, April 2, 1996 From the perspective of Waldonian thought, war against American government challenges public administration to...

Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Hypocrisy Redux: A Search for Sympathy and Compassion
May 1, 1997... I Dwight Waldo's 1977 Royer lecture advances a cogent and concise statement concerning the fundamental essences of democracy and bureaucracy and, by so doing, demonstrates the intrinsic tensions that exist at the interface of these two...

Responding to the Decline in Public Service Professionalism
May 1, 1997... Governmental professionalism is declining. There are many more political appointees in the bureaucracy, and the environment has not been supportive or trusting. But public officials can play a role in restoring the environment for...

Some Anomalies in the Deep History of U.S. Public Administration
May 1, 1997... The essay that follows can be subtitled "Ignorance, Error and Oddity in our Discourse about Public Administration in the United States." It is in the form of an old-fashioned essay, with few footnotes. After all, Woodrow Wilson's famous essay...

Teaching Ethics and Values in Public Administration: Are We Making a Difference?
May 1, 1997... Moral education, Derek Bok (1990) reminds us, once occupied a central place in the intellectual life of students and professors. Strengthening or building the character of students was part and parcel of academe, at least until World War II....

Leadership Turnover, Transaction Costs, and External City Service Delivery
May 1, 1997... One of the more controversial and contentious issues regarding municipal service delivery in recent years is the decision to contract out, "privatize," or employ some other form of external delivery of particular services. This mode of service...

The Structure of Bureaucratic Decisions in the American States
May 1, 1997... Bureaucrats have a significant impact on the ways that governmental policies impinge on American citizens. This is particularly true at the state level. Administrators in state agencies have wide latitude to make vital decisions in important...

Health Against Wealth: HMOs and the Breakdown of Medical Trust.
May 1, 1997... It is almost impossible to open a newspaper in the United States without reading about health care. The Supreme Court's view of the "right to die," the possibility that Congress will change the cost of living index, schemes to save Social...

Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy.
May 1, 1997... It is almost impossible to open a newspaper in the United States without reading about health care. The Supreme Court's view of the "right to die," the possibility that Congress will change the cost of living index, schemes to save Social...

Diminishing Returns from Statistical Analysis: Detecting Discrimination in Public Employment
May 1, 1997... In their article, "Asian Americans in the public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination," Kim and Lewis (1994) note that Asian Americans experience discrimination within the federal service, suggest that the problem is pervasive and...

Asian Americans in the Federal Service: Education, Occupational Choice, and Perceptions of Discrimination: A Reply
May 1, 1997... Christopher Daniel claims that "statistical disparities...shed little light on this issue [job discrimination] because plausible alternatives to the discrimination hypothesis can be formulated." He asserts that differences in linguistic...

Political Science and American Public Administration: A Necessary Cleft?
May 1, 1997... Marcia Lynn Whicker, Ruth Ann Strickland and Dorothy Olshfski in their article, "The Troublesome Cleft: Public Administration and Political Science," argue for a rapprochement between political science and public administration. In their...

Understanding the Federal Budget
May 1, 1997... How do you capture the complexity and breadth of an entity that spends over $1.5 trillion and employs over 4.5 million people? As an initial step in dealing with the challenges presented by the scope and magnitude of the federal government, the...