Public Administration Review articles from May 2002

Public Administration Review archives from May 2002

Can nonprofit management help answer public management's "big questions"? (Big Questions/Big Issues).
May 1, 2002... Introduction Defining moments in academic disciplines often occur when their principal unanswered questions are specified. Such was the case with Robert D. Behn's frequently cited 1995 article in Public Administration Review, "The Big...

A comparison of disaster paradigms: the search for a holistic policy guide.
May 1, 2002... Introduction An impressive amount of attention is currently being given to the future of emergency management. Without a doubt, a new theoretical perspective and policy guide are required. Modern disasters are complex and diverse phenomena...

Moral reasoning in the context of reform: a study of Russian officials.
May 1, 2002... The Ethical Challenges in Russian Public Service Today Historians and political scientists agree that Russia's historical legacy of despotism, anarchy, and totalitarianism is directly relevant to future political developments in the country...

Particularism versus universalism in the Brazilian public administration literature.
May 1, 2002... Introduction The contemporary study of public administration as a separate academic discipline is generally seen as having its origins in the United States (Dunshire 1999). As the discipline spread, questions were soon raised about the...

Politics, public opinion, and privatization in France: assessing the calculus of consent for market reforms.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... With perceptions of government overload, fiscal stress, and maladministration pandemic worldwide, proponents of administrative reform have embraced the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as a major component of the New Public...

Global public policy, partnership, and the case of the World Commission on Dams.
May 1, 2002... Public Service in a Globalized World Recent articles and reflections in Public Administration Review illustrate the struggle to understand the place of public administration, its relevance, and its practice in a rapidly changing,...

Defining the client in the public sector: a social-exchange perspective.
May 1, 2002... Introduction Undoubtedly, the customer is sovereign for government reformers at the end of the century. Under the market models of Reagan and Thatcher, or Clinton's "Reinventing Government" and Blair's "Third Way," "customer focus" has...

A critique of "Reinventing Government in the American States: Measuring and Explaining Administrative Reform". (A Difference of Opinion).(response to article by Jeffrey L. Brudney, F. Ted Hebert and Deil S. Wright, Public Administration Review, vol. 59, p. 19, 1999)
May 1, 2002... One of the least welcome tasks in the scholarly business is to publicly criticize the work of colleagues. The work in question is Jeffrey L. Brudney, F. Ted Hebert, and Deil S. Wright's (to be referred to as "the authors") article, "Reinventing...

Revisiting administrative reform in the American states: the status of reinventing government during the 1990s. (A Difference of Opinion).(response to article by Donald J. Calista in this issue, p. 295)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... Introduction Reinventing government is a phrase and a movement that burst onto the public administrative landscape like a bombshell, a lightening rod, an epithet, or a combination of all three. The intensity of sentiment associated with...

Reinvention in the states: ripple or tide? (A Difference of Opinion).
May 1, 2002... In 1990, the term "reinvention" seldom, if ever, emerged in everyday discourse, let alone as an organizing concept for the pursuit of administrative reform. By the end of the decade, it was the stuff of New York Times headlines (Steinberg 1997)...

The Nixon Pay Board--a public administration disaster. (The Reflective Practitioner).
May 1, 2002... The Context In August of 1971, President Nixon announced his New Economic Plan, which immediately froze all wages and prices in the country. It was a bold--perhaps drastic--move, and it delighted the country. It signaled an unprecedented...

Is privatization passe? The case for competition and the emergence of intersectoral administration.(five books)
May 1, 2002... Graeme A. Hodge, Privatization: An International Review of Performance (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000). 312 pp., $32.00 paper. Jeffrey D. Greene, Cities and Privatization: Prospects for the New Century (Upper Saddle River, NJ:...

Valuing public participation in policy making.('Some Buildings Just Can't Dance,' 'Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response,' and 'Controlling Technocracy: Citizen Rationality and the NIMBY Syndrome')
May 1, 2002... Richard Stuart Olson, Robert A. Olson, and Vincent T. Gawronski, Some Buildings Just Can't Dance: Politics, Life Safety, and Disaster (Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1999). 188 pp., $78.50 hard. Louise K. Comfort, Shared Risk: Complex Systems in...

Booknotes.
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