Public Administration Review articles from May 2001

Public Administration Review archives from May 2001

GIS, Public Service, and the Issue of Democratic Governance.(Geographical information systems)
May 1, 2001... Geographic information systems (GIS) are analytical and decision-making tools that organize, compare, and analyze disparate types of information into one organized system. They have powerful visual display capabilities that present the results...

Strategic Positioning and the Financing of Nonprofit Organizations: Is Efficiency Rewarded in the Contributions Marketplace?
May 1, 2001... Today, the nonprofit sector plays an increasingly important role in the provision of vital services in fields such as health, social services, and education. The size of the nonprofit sector has increased rapidly over the past 60 years from a...

Organizational Characteristics and Funding Environments: A Study of a Population of United Way--Affiliated Nonprofits.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2001... In recent decades, we have witnessed dramatic changes in the institutional configuration of human-service provision in the United States (Kramer 1981; Salamon 1995). While government and nonprofit organizations share deep historical roots (Hall...

The Emerging Federal Quasi Government: Issues of Management and Accountability.
May 1, 2001... In recent years, both Congress and the president have turned to hybrid organizations (Fannie Mae, National Park Foundation, Polish-American Enterprise Fund, for example) to implement public policy and functions that traditionally have been...

Environmental Protection Versus Economic Development: A False Trade-Off?
May 1, 2001... Overcoming trade-offs between the social benefits of regulation and the economic benefits of development has never been easy in practice. Tensions between regulatory and economic development policy goals at the state and local level have...

Environmental Policy As Learning: A New View of an Old Landscape(*).
May 1, 2001... Do governments and institutions learn? Are policy makers, activists, experts, and others capable of drawing lessons from their experiences and applying it to problems they face? A persuasive literature in public policy argues that institutions...

Clean Air Federalism: Do States Race to the Bottom?(*).(federal versus state standards for clean air)
May 1, 2001... From the lofty heights of Capitol Hill, it may appear the federal government makes all the important decisions about clean air policy. After all, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) regulations and the detailed provisions of...

The Supreme Court's New Constitutional Federalism: Implications for Public Administration.
May 1, 2001... In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has re-entered an arena that many thought that it had abandoned--interpreting the Constitution for what it says about the respective powers of the federal government and the states (Cooper 1988;...

Mr. Justice Brandeis and the Creation of the Federal Register.
May 1, 2001... Reasonable transparency of government and its accountability under law are enduring goals of American public administration. The Federal Register, created in 1935, is a historic institutional tool designed for these purposes, and it represented...

The Marriage between Theory and Practice.(in government social work)
May 1, 2001... The idea of a dichotomy between theory and the professional practice of public administration is a confusing enigma to this well-seasoned social work management practitioner, currently administering a public human service agency. Over 20 years,...

It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Rebecca M. Blank, It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998). 372 pp., $60.00 hard; $19.95 paper. The federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act...

From Rhetoric to Reform?: Welfare Policy in American Politics.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Anne Marie Cammisa, From Rhetoric to Reform?: Welfare Policy in American Politics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998). 169 pp., $17.00 paper. The federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996...

Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber, Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999). 294 pp., $24.00 hard. The federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity...

Work and Welfare.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Robert M. Solow, Work and Welfare (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998). 100 pp., $27.95 hard. The federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 redefined the American welfare system....

Public Management: Institutional Renewal for the Twenty-First Century.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Lawrence R. Jones and Fred Thompson, Public Management: Institutional Renewal for the Twenty-First Century (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999). 268 pp., $78.50 cloth. This book, written for both academics and practitioners, represents the...

Booknotes.(books on political science)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2001... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay should send copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay later. ...