Public Administration Review articles from November 1995

Public Administration Review archives from November 1995

Fiction and imagination: how they affect public administration.
November 1, 1995... For more than 50 years, scholars and practitioners have examined the role that fiction plays in public administration. For the most part, attention has centered on the degree to which practitioners can learn something about administration by...

Similarities and differences in perceptions of public service among public administrators on the U.S.-Mexico border.
November 1, 1995... Internationalizing Public Management As the end of the 20th century nears, all public managers must prepare to participate in a global environment (Riggs, 1991). At the same time, U.S. public administrators are finding that their public now...

Dealing with them: preparing state and local officials for the cross-cultural challenge.
November 1, 1995... Because encounters between state and local officials and the representatives of foreign companies and governments have become daily occurrences, state and local governments are being driven to develop methods for dealing with them. According to...

Settlement women and bureau men: constructing a usable past for public administration.
November 1, 1995... In the conclusion to his early monograph on the history of public administration in the United States, John Gaus (1930) argued that the field needed a "usable past:" studies that would bring to light "buried" aspects of its history and enrich...

Reinventing government or reinventing ourselves: two models for improving government performance.
November 1, 1995... In this article, I analyze the Bureau of Municipal Research's concept of efficient citizenship as an alternative paradigm to customer-centered public administration. Reinventing government is a powerful buzz phrase these days both in the world of...

Political science, public administration, and the rise of the American administrative state.
November 1, 1995... U.S. political science is itself a political phenomenon, and, as such, is a product of the state;... every regime tends to produce a political science consonant with itself (Lowi, 1992; 1). The political power struggle underlying the...

Outcomes of planned organizational change in the public sector: a meta-analytic comparison to the private sector.
November 1, 1995... There is a growing recognition of the need for fundamental changes in the way public organizations are structured and managed (Barzelay, 1992; Johnston, 1993; Osborne and Gaebler, 1992). With the environment becoming more turbulent,...

Managing information technology projects in the public sector. (Vermont)
November 1, 1995... Public sector organizations are being scrutinized and held accountable for their use of funds, now more than ever. Further, taxpayers are increasingly comparing the public sector to the private sector, demanding better customer service. As an...

Research note: public and private managers' perceptions of red tape.
November 1, 1995... Red tape is an important topic in administration. For example, the title of the Report of the National Performance Review (NPA), From Red Tape to Results, emphasizes the objective of reducing red tape in government (Gore, 1993). In spite of its...

The Bureaucratic Experience: A Critique of Life in Modern Organizations, 4th ed.
November 1, 1995... Certainly all political experience confirms the truth that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. Max Weber Between the idea and the reality, falls the shadow......

Politics and Administration in Changing Societies: Essays in Honour of Professor Fred W. Riggs.
November 1, 1995... This book in honor of Fred Riggs is in the Indian tradition of paying tribute to a guru--a mentor. Riggs began life as a comparativist, spending his early years in China, where his father organized an agricultural station. Later, as a scholar...