Public Administration Review articles from May 1998

Public Administration Review archives from May 1998

Administrative leadership, neo-managerialism, and the public management movement.(Symposium: Leadership,, Democracy, and the New Public Management)
May 1, 1998... Scholars in the public policy community have used a collection of different approaches to advance the understanding of public management research and practice.(1) These approaches may be broadly classified as quantitative/analytic management,...

An inclusive Democratic polity, representative bureaucracies, and the new public management.(Symposium: Leadership,, Democracy, and the New Public Management)
May 1, 1998... Public administration scholars separate over whether the public bureaucracy of the democratic polity ought to be the starting point of public administration scholarship. Dwight Waldo (1948). John J. Kirlin (1996), and Vincent Ostrom (1997)...

What right do public managers have to lead?(Symposium: Leadership,, Democracy, and the New Public Management)
May 1, 1998... Leadership is not just a right of public managers.(1) It is an obligation. The American system of governance is certainly not perfect, and, by exercising leadership, public managers can help correct some of the imperfections. Leadership...

Politics, political leadership, and public management.
May 1, 1998... Political institutions are distinctive entities. They are both instrumental to and of a regime. They are the principal means by which a polity can achieve its collective purposes. But, political institutions also exert a formative effect on a...

The new public management: how to transform a theme into a legacy.
May 1, 1998... Two Parables A traveler returns from a three-day stopover in India and entertains his friends with stories he heard there. "Aha!" cries one of them, a publisher. "Your stories will make a fine book." "I was there only three days," the...

Dimensions of federalism in Medicaid reform.
May 1, 1998... The debate in the 104th Congress over the future of Medicaid and welfare programs was more than a budget debate. It embroiled legislators in a discussion of the nature of federalism--the proper division of roles between states and the federal...

Reinventing government accountability: public functions, privatization, and the meaning of "state action"
May 1, 1998... Public sector privatization is typically viewed as a means of maximizing economic efficiency--reducing government costs while increasing the scope and quality of service delivery by transferring (or "returning") government functions to the...

Downsizing big science: strategic choices.
May 1, 1998... In good times, management mistakes can often be ignored. But in times of cutback, tough choices must be made over priorities and mistakes are more obvious. It is much more challenging to manage in cutback times because few decisions are win-win...

The New Public Management: Canada in Comparative Perspective.
May 1, 1998... Peter Aucoin (1995). The New Public Management: Canada in Comparative Perspective. Montreal, Quebec: IRPP, Ashgate Publishing company; $19.95 paper; 280 pages. Public management reforms around the globe face a perennial challenge: How can...

Public Management: The New Zealand Model.
May 1, 1998... Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh (1996). Public Management: The New Zealand Model. Oxford University Press; $65.00 paper; 416 pages. Public management reforms around the globe face a perennial challenge: How can...

Public Management as Art, Science and Profession.
May 1, 1998... Lynn, Laurence E., Jr. Public Management as Art, Science, and Profession (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1996), 220 pp.; $19.95 paper. The 1990s have been challenging years for theory builders in the public administration and public...

The State of Public Management.
May 1, 1998... Kettl, Donald F. and H. Brinton Milward, The State of Public Management (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 324 pp.; $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. The 1990s have been challenging years for theory builders in the public...

Whither (or Wither) OPM? (Office of Personnel Management)
May 1, 1998... The recent departure of Jim King as the director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) marks the closure of a dramatic period in the short history of the agency. During King's tenure, over half of the agency's personnel were sacked and...