Public Administration Review articles from November 1997

Public Administration Review archives from November 1997

Performance-based organizations: assessing the Gore plan. (federal bureaucracy reform)
November 1, 1997... In March 1996, Vice-President Gore announced a new initiative that would dramatically change the way federal agencies provide services to the public. Gore's proposal is to establish many service delivery functions' within the federal...

Race, sex, and performance ratings in the federal service.
November 1, 1997... The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 required all federal agencies to develop performance evaluation systems to "provide for periodic appraisals of job performance of employees" and to "use the results...as a basis for training, rewarding,...

Governance education: helping city councils learn.
November 1, 1997... Breakdowns in group processes cause most governing bodies to act at a "distressingly small fraction" of their leadership potential (Carver, 1990, xviii). This article focuses on how city councils can learn to manage their group decision making,...

Total quality management: a selective commentary on its human dimensions, with special reference to its downside.
November 1, 1997... Total Quality Management (TQM) is bent on transforming the way organizations work. Many people, not just Al Gore, seem to think that this is a pretty good thing. These days one rarely picks up an academic review, professional journal, or trade...

The line-item veto in practice in ten southern states.
November 1, 1997... Forty-three governors currently possess some form of item veto power, which is generally the power to delete an item in an appropriations bill without rejecting the entire bill (Council of State Governments, 1991). While the line-item veto has...

Ethics in government: from a winter of despair to a spring of hope.
November 1, 1997... The issue of ethics in public service is as old as government itself. Yet "post-Watergate morality" has produced an enduring and unprecedented level of concern about the integrity of democratic governance (Garment, 1991). In the 1990s alone, the...

Public administration, ethnic conflict, and economic development.
November 1, 1997... The implications of ethnic pluralism has been a neglected topic in the literature on public administration.(1) Normally, this literature assumes a society of individuals who may be divided by age, gender, region, occupation, or class, but not by...

The changing roles of the Irish department secretary.
November 1, 1997... In Ireland, the cabinet minister has sole responsibility for a department and works through a cabinet secretary who has longer tenure and is more like a senior career official in the United States. The evolution of the relationship between the...

Designing Qualitative Research.
November 1, 1997... Marshall, Catherine and Gretchen B. Rossman, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995), 178 pp,; $17.95 paper. The quest for research that builds theory and helps practice in public administration reached a way station with a collection of essays...

Critical Issues in Qualitative Research Methods.
November 1, 1997... Morse, Janice M, ed., (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994), Capp; $26.00 paper. The quest for research that builds theory and helps practice in public administration reached a way station with a collection of essays covering 15 years of debate...

Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook, 2d ed.
November 1, 1997... Miles, Matthew B. and Michael Huberman, 2d ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995), 338 pp.; $65-00 cloth, $32.00 paper. The quest for research that builds theory and helps practice in public administration reached a way station with a...

Computer Programs for Qualitative Analysis.
November 1, 1997... Weitzman, Eben A. and Matthew B. Miles, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995), 371 pp.; $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. The quest for research that builds theory and helps practice in public administration reached a way station with a collection of...