Public Administration Review articles from November 2001

Public Administration Review archives from November 2001

Fanatical Terrorism versus Disciplines of Constitutional Democracy
November 1, 2001... Fanatical terrorism of 11 September 2001 wiped out already-shaken illusions of American invulnerability. Far more, this epochal attack made it clear that asymmetrical threats beyond conventional understanding are now powerful challenges to...

The Varieties of Faith-Related Agencies
November 1, 2001... The use of religious agencies in publicly funded social service programs is advocated by politicians, contemporary public policy makers, essayists, ministers, and many lay people. The benefits of religion are touted for dealing with such vexing...

American Federalism and the Search for Models of Management
November 1, 2001... Public administration and the processes of federalism have merged to a nearly indistinguishable point. Since the "cooperative federalism" of the 1930s, managing within the federal system has become an increasingly more important activity....

Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs and Processes at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
November 1, 2001... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced plans to increase the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques and practices across all agency programs. (1) In this context, ADR refers to the variety of approaches...

Promoting the Utilization of Performance Measures in Public Organizations: An Empirical Study of Factors Affecting Adoption and Implementation
November 1, 2001... The past decades have witnessed a growing body of literature on performance measurement in the public sector. A number of authors have discussed the history of performance measurement (Bouckaert 1992), the value of performance measurement...

The Influence of Jurisdiction Size and Sale Type on Municipal Bond Interest Rates: An Empirical Analysis
November 1, 2001... The United Sates municipal bond market is very large, with $150 billion to $300 billion issued annually. The total municipal debt outstanding equals about 18 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. Most local governments selling municipal...

Police Budgeting: Winning Strategies
November 1, 2001... Police departments are big players in the municipal budgeting arena. According to the most recent data, U.S. police departments spent $20.9 billion (U.S. Department of Commerce 1991/92). In competing for limited resources, police departments can...

A Framework for Analyzing Emergency Management with on Application to Federal Budgeting
November 1, 2001... Disasters are calamitous natural or human-caused emergency events that suddenly result in extensive negative economic and social consequences for the populations they affect. While disasters vary in scale, all threaten the general welfare of...

Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities. (Book reviews: community sustainability and land use).
November 1, 2001... Timothy Beatley, Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000). 491 pp., $30 paper. Community sustainability and land use are at the forefront of changes in our ideas about the environment. Cities and...

The Impact of Public Policy on Environmental Quality and Health: The Case of Land Use Management and Planning. (Book reviews: community sustainability and land use).
November 1, 2001... Amer El-Ahraf, Mohammad Qayoumi, and Ron Dowd, The Impact of Public Policy on Environmental Quality and Health: The Case of Land Use Management and Planning (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1999). 181 pp., $59.95 hard. Community...

Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. (Book reviews: community sustainability and land use).
November 1, 2001... Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, eds., Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). 323 pp., $25 paper. Community sustainability and land use are at the...

Building Rules: How Local Rules Shape Community Environments and Economies. (Book reviews: community sustainability and land use).
November 1, 2001... Kee Warner and Harvey Molotch, Building Rules: How Local Rules Shape Community Environments and Economies (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000). 204 pp., $59 hard; $25 paper. Community sustainability and land use are at the forefront of...

Social Security and Medicare, individual versus collective risk and responsibility.
November 1, 2001... Sheila Burke, Eric Kingson, Uwe Reinhardt, eds., Social Security and Medicare, Individual versus Collective Risk and Responsibility (National Academy of Social Insurance, 2000). 232 pp., $20.95 paper. Imagine we are all 30 years olden The...

Booknotes
November 1, 2001... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay should send copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay later. ...