Public Administration Review articles from November 1996

Public Administration Review archives from November 1996

From institutions to dogma: tradition, eclecticism, and ideology in the study of British public administration.
November 1, 1996... Has British Public Administration lost its sense of coherent identity? This article describes the major changes of the postwar period. It describes the decline of traditional Public Administration with its distaste for theory, focus on...

Public service ethics: a global dialogue.
November 1, 1996... Do divergent values embedded in distinctive cultures satisfactorily explain current directions in public service ethics around the world? The authors draw upon expert observation by government and corporate officials who administer ethics...

The sources of ethical decision making for individuals in the public sector.
November 1, 1996... What was the value in changing ASPA's Code of Ethics? Until recently, the Code of Ethics of the American Society for Public Administration symbolized the confusion in the field rather than its insights. The fine content of the former code was...

Assuring institutional constancy: requisite for managing long-lived hazards.
November 1, 1996... What role do demands for constancy play in the operations of public agencies? Institutional constancy of agencies and firms is discussed as a concept and an increasingly important political requirement for the operation of hazardous systems in...

Managing system-wide change in HIV prevention programs: a CDC perspective. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
November 1, 1996... What are the variety and scope of administrative challenges faced by large bureaucratic structures when they implement system-wide change? Specifically, when decision making about priorities for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention...

Human factors in adoption of geographic information systems: a local government case study.
November 1, 1996... How do perceptions, experience, attitudes, and communication behavior of local government employees affect the adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as an organizational innovation? Nedovic-Budic and Godschalk examine the...

Mainframe and PC computing in American cities: myths and realities.
November 1, 1996... How much can PCs aid city management? This article is based on a 1993 survey that compares computing in cities that use only personal computers (PCs) with computing in cities that use central computer systems. The authors found that claims that...

A framework for evaluating the government contracting-out decision with an application to information technology.
November 1, 1996... How can government do a better job at contracting out? Steven Globerman and Aidan Vining argue that contracting out is justified only when one can expect to lower the sum of production costs and the costs of managing the relationship [between...

Sex on the docket: reports of state task forces on gender bias.
November 1, 1996... Women have fought many political and legal battles against bias in the United States, winning the right to vote, access to jobs and occupations formerly dominated by men, and legal prohibitions against sex-based discrimination. Remarkable...

Responsibility as Paradox.
November 1, 1996... Responsibility as Paradox explicates the meanings of responsibility and the contradictions inherent in a rationalist interpretation of the concept. Drawing on the literature of philosophy, political theory, and psychology, Harmon ventures into...

Responsibility as Paradox.
November 1, 1996... In Responsibility as Paradox, Michael Harmon seeks to redefine how we think about administrative responsibility. It is an important work because debate about individual responsibility has not received the attention it once commanded in public...

Responsibility as Paradox.
November 1, 1996... In Responsibility as Paradox: A Critique of Rational Discourse on Government, Michael Harmon sets out to make his readers aware of the necessarily paradoxical nature of responsibility. This is an altogether laudable and needed project that...

Harmon responds. (response to criticisms of Michael Harmon's book 'Responsibility as Paradox' in this issue)
November 1, 1996... More than anything else, the essays by Professors Burke and Cooper illuminate one of the chief barriers to reframing conventional, but nolonger-useful debates between rival philosophical factions. Faced with criticisms of their favored...

Stop bashing the bureaucracy.
November 1, 1996... We live in a time when the federal bureaucracy seems to have reached a new low in public esteem. Bashing it is the order of the day. As might be expected, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has come in for its share of...