Public Administration Review articles from November 1998

Public Administration Review archives from November 1998

The Americans with Disabilities Act: Who Isn't Covered?
November 1, 1998... The Americans with Disabilities Act, 104 Stat. 337, 42 U.S.C. [subsections] 12101 et seq., was enacted on July 26, 1990 and became effective in July of 1992. The purpose of the Act is to prevent discrimination against individuals with...

Bureaucratic Theory Meets Reality: Public Choice and Service Contracting in U.S. Local Government.
November 1, 1998... Public choice theory suggests that if public officials monopolize service delivery, then the result is oversupply and inefficiency (Blais and Dion, 1992; Jackson, 1982; McMaster and Sawkins, 1996; Mueller, 1989). By contrast, if services are...

Reinventing or Repackaging Public Services? The Case of Community-Oriented Policing.
November 1, 1998... If the sound bites of the reinventing government movement are ever to attain the status of sound scripture, they must first be operationalized in terms of specific services. These slogans call for a market-oriented, customer-driven government,...

Contracting and Negotiation: Effective Practices of Successful Human Service Contract Managers.
November 1, 1998... Governments increasingly need to rely on private, non-profit, and other non-governmental entities for delivery of services, and contemporary government demands that managers understand the negotiation and contracting process (Kettl, 1988;...

Entitlement Budgeting vs. Bureau Budgeting.
November 1, 1998... As entitlements have become a larger part of the federal budget, they have received more attention in discussions of the federal deficit. That entitlements influence budget totals is well known (Bipartisan Commission, 1995, 1994; U.S. Congress...

"Reinventing" Government: Does Leadership Make the Difference?
November 1, 1998... What makes management reform or reinvention successful? The operating principle of the Clinton-Gore reinvention model for changing the federal bureaucracy is that an organization's culture is a major determinant of organizational performance....

The Eight-Step Path of Policy Analysis: A Handbook for Practice.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Eugene Bardach (1996). The Eight-Step Path of Policy Analysis: A Handbook for Practice. Berkeley Academic Press; $ 8.95 paper; 126 pages. Policy studies has been one of the most dynamic parts of the social sciences over the past several...

Evaluation for the 21st Century.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Eleanor Chelimsky and William R. Shadish eds. (1997). Evaluation for the 21st Century. Sage; $85.00 hardbound, $36.50 paper; 542 pages. Policy studies has been one of the most dynamic parts of the social sciences over the past several...

Democracy and the Policy Sciences.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Peter deLeon (1997). Democracy and the Policy Sciences. State University of New York Press; $18.95 paper; 160 pages. Policy studies has been one of the most dynamic parts of the social sciences over the past several decades. There has been...

Evaluating Public Policy.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Frank Fischer (1995). Evaluating Public Policy. Nelson-Hall; $24.95 paper. Policy studies has been one of the most dynamic parts of the social sciences over the past several decades. There has been substantial growth in the literature, the...

Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis & Discourse.
November 1, 1998... Policy studies has been one of the most dynamic parts of the social sciences over the past several decades. There has been substantial growth in the literature, the number of courses, the number of professionals who identify themselves with the...

The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Paul C. Light, The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work 1945-1995. New London, CT: Yale University Press (1997), 304 pages; $40.00 hard cover, $17.00 paper. A suspicion that gnawed at our consciousness for decades has become an all but...

The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models.(Review)
November 1, 1998... B. Guy Peters, The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas (1996), 184 pages; $35.00 hard cover, $14.95 paper. A suspicion that gnawed at our consciousness for decades has become an all but...

Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Authority.(Review)
November 1, 1998... Paul C. Light, Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Authority. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution and The Governance Institute (1995), 217 pages; $34.95 hard cover, $14.95 paper. A suspicion that gnawed at...

A Research Police Force?
November 1, 1998... In "Resources for Qualitative Research: Advancing the Application of Alternative Methodologies in Public Administration" (N/D, 1997), Janet Foley Orosz provides eye-opening information about the burgeoning effort to pull public administration...