Public Administration Review articles from May 2000

Public Administration Review archives from May 2000

"An Impossible Job": Report on the Building Bridges Tour
May 1, 2000... Keep the relationship, albeit difficult, between practitioners and academics. It might be an impossible job, but PAR should continue to do it. --Discussion group comment During the fall of 1999, Larry D. Terry, editor in chief; Larry...

The Terror That Failed: Public Opinion in the Aftermath of the Bombing in Oklahoma City
May 1, 2000... Introduction The deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in U.S. history occurred April 19, 1995, when a bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City's central business district. This unnatural disaster has had...

Is There a Dark Side to Government Support for Nonprofits?
May 1, 2000... A debate of increasing intensity in the public economics literature surrounds the relationship between government subsidies and private donations to the nonprofit sector. One hypothesis is that public spending displaces or "crowds out" private...

The "Best Place" Debate: A Comparison of Graduate Education Programs for Nonprofit Managers
May 1, 2000... An enduring debate has been taking place among faculty teaching in professional degree programs on the best place to educate managers of nonprofit organizations. Should nonprofit management degrees be full programs offered in a business school...

Disconnect in the Hollow State: The Pivotal Role of Organizational Capacity in Community-Based Development Organizations
May 1, 2000... Introduction Observers have long discussed the concept of public goods being provided through nonpublic actors and nonprofit organizations. Hall (1994) provided an extensive overview of the historical development of the nonprofit sector and...

Cross Pressures of Accountability: Initiative, Command, and Failure in the Ron Brown Plane Crash(*)
May 1, 2000... Introduction Current management trends emphasize leadership, initiative, and entrepreneurial approaches to administrative duties (Bryson and Crosby 1992; Hesselbein, Goldsmith, and Beckhard 1996; O'Toole 1995). Accompanying and, in part,...

Individual Conceptions of Public Service Motivation
May 1, 2000... The public administration community has long maintained that some individuals have strong norms and emotions about performing public service. This "public service ethic" is thought to attract certain individuals to government service and foster...

You Know More Than You Can Say: In Memory of Donald A. Schon (1930-1997)
May 1, 2000... Let me introduce you to Don Schon, the extraordinary author of The Reflective Practitioner, as I knew him. As Ford Professor of Planning and Education in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, he was my faculty advisor from 1977 to...

Forging Nonprofit Alliances.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Jane Arsenault, Forging Nonprofit Alliances. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1998). 175 pp., $25.95 cloth. Collaboration by public and nonprofit organizations has become a key issue in American public administration. While relationships...

Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Eugene Bardach, Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship. (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1999). 348 pp., $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Collaboration by public and nonprofit...

Crossing Boundaries: Collaboration, Coordination, and the Redefinition of Resources.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Seymour B. Sarason and Elizabeth M. Lorentz, Crossing Boundaries: Collaboration, Coordination, and the Redefinition of Resources. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1998). 224 pp., $30.95 cloth. Collaboration by public and nonprofit...

Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public.(Review)
May 1, 2000... John Brehm and Scott Gates, Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public. (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1997), 245 pp., $39.50 cloth. In just over 200 pages of text, Brehm and Gates...

Booknotes
May 1, 2000... A feature of PAR's book review section that began with volume 60, issue 1, Booknotes presents brief, non-evaluative descriptions of books related to public administration. Authors and publishers interested in having their books included are...