Public Administration Review articles from November 2000

Public Administration Review archives from November 2000

The Transformation of Governance: Globalization, Devolution, and the Role of Government
November 1, 2000... Over the last generation, American government has undergone a steady, but often unnoticed, transformation. Its traditional processes and institutions have become more marginal to the fundamental debates. Meanwhile, new processes and...

Loose Cannons and Rule Breakers, or Enterprising Leaders? Some Evidence about Innovative Public Managers
November 1, 2000... Introduction One of the many controversial aspects of the New Public Management is its encouragement of public-sector entrepreneurship. In his review of Osborne and Gaebler's Reinventing Government, Goodsell (1993) points out that...

Reinvention as Reform: Assessing the National Performance Review
November 1, 2000... Presidents undertake reform of the administrative machinery of the executive branch for a variety of reasons, both substantive and symbolic. Substantive reasons have included enhancing the capacity of the president to manage the bureaucracy,...

Reinventing the Proverbs of Government
November 1, 2000... Public administration experiences periodic reform movements that exhibit the enthusiasm of a tent revival, but the success of the Soviet economy. Popularizers of these reforms are strong on charisma and communication. For example, two recent...

Reinventing Government: City Manager Attitudes and Actions
November 1, 2000... Administrative reform has been a perennial if highly variable phenomenon in the United States since the Progressive Reform era. It has been experienced at all levels of government, memorialized by numerous study commissions, and embodied in...

The New Public Service: Serving Rather Than Steering
November 1, 2000... Public management has undergone a revolution. Rather than focusing on controlling bureaucracies and delivering services, public administrators are responding to admonishments to "steer rather than row," and to be the entrepreneurs of a new,...

Race, Social Welfare, and the Decline of Postwar Liberalism: A New or Old Key?
November 1, 2000... In recent years, scholars and practitioners have offered an increasing number of explanations for the decline of liberalism in the United States after World War II. Whether "race" has been a determining factor in this decline is currently of...

Influencing Policy at the Top of the Federal Bureaucracy: A Comparison of Career and Political Senior Executives
November 1, 2000... Since the demise of the politics-administration dichotomy, we can no longer assume that public bureaucrats simply and neutrally implement the will of the legislative branch. Studies confirm that both career and political administrators...

The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Terry L. Cooper, The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 4th edition (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1998). 304 pp., $27.95 hard. The title of this review is not a feeble attempt at humor, but...

The Ethics Edge.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Evan M. Berman, Jonathan P. West, Stephen J. Bonczek, eds., The Ethics Edge, (International City/County Management Association, 1998). 246 pp., $24.95 paper. The title of this review is not a feeble attempt at humor, but rather...

Managing the Environment--Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Richard N.L. Andrews, Managing the Environment--Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999). 463 pp., $65 hard; $30 paper. In its September 1963 issue, Public Administration...

Managing for the Environment: Understanding Legal, Organizational, and Policy Changes.(Review)
November 1, 2000... Rosemary O'Leary, Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Paul Weiland, Managing for the Environment: Understanding Legal, Organizational, and Policy Changes (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999). 436 pp., $34.95 hard. In its September...

Booknotes
November 1, 2000... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay are encouraged to send copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay...