Public Administration Review articles from September 1994

Public Administration Review archives from September 1994

The role demands and dilemmas of minority public administrators: the Herbert thesis revisited.
September 1, 1994... In 1974, ten years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Public Administration Review published a symposium entitled "Minorities in Public Administration" (Herbert, 1974a). This symposium included six essays that addressed a variety of...

Civil service reform: misdiagnosing the patient.
September 1, 1994... The political leadership that came into office in the 1980s in many Anglo-American style democracies sought to perform radical surgery on the civil service. Indeed, some argue that the decade was a watershed period in the development of Western...

Building development capacity in nonmetropolitan communities.
September 1, 1994... The primary responsibility for economic growth and survival has gradually shifted from the national government to communities and their local governments. Whereas the previous two decades saw the rapid emergence of subnational economic...

Regulating the flow of data: OMB and the control of government information.
September 1, 1994... The United States government collects, analyzes, and disseminates a wide variety of information that is important and useful for decision makers in both the public and private sectors. Information that is accurate, timely, and relatively...

Targeting in federal grant programs: the case of the Older Americans Act.
September 1, 1994... With state and federal governments undergoing a continual reduction of funds, Congress and legislators, administrators, and citizen groups are searching for ways to stretch the public dollar without harmful results. Programs based on...

Project-focused total quality management in the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
September 1, 1994... In this article, we describe and assess an effort to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) in the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. We are not disinterested analysts in this process but are actively involved in the...

Can public officials correctly be said to have obligations to future generations?
September 1, 1994... Consider the oath taken by citizens of the Athenian city-state: We will ever strive for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; we will unceasingly seek to quicken the sense of public duty; we will...

Visions of corruption control and the evolution of American public administration.
September 1, 1994... Changing Visions of Corruption and Corruption Control The anticorruption project has been an integral part of the intellectual and political reform movements that have shaped American federal, state, and local governments throughout the...

An assessment of public administration journals: the perspective of editors and editorial board members.
September 1, 1994... The growth and direction of public administration as a field are significantly affected by editors and editorial boards of academic and practitioner journals. Rigorous evaluation and selection of research for publication are essential to...

Response to Croson. (City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.)
September 1, 1994... To what extent has the Supreme Court's decision in City of Richmond V. J.A. Croson Co.(1989) affected the amount of money spent by local governments on minority business enterprises (MBEs)? The ruling stipulates that nonfederal minority...

Public Management: The State of the Art.
September 1, 1994... Barry Bozeman, Editor, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993), 424 pp.; $39.95 hardbound. American public administration is awesomely multidisciplinary and more--complicatedly multicultural--drawing on the expertise and insights,...

Estimating Capital and Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Planning.
September 1, 1994... Aurelio Menendez, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993), 187 pp.; $47.95 hardbound. This is a timely study in that the 1993 Gore report on reinventing government has recommended a new "consensus-building" approach to improve transportation...

Managing Information Technology: Transforming County Governments in the 1990s.
September 1, 1994... Patricia T. Fletcher, Stuart I. Bretschneider, and Donald A. Marchand, (Syracuse: School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, August 1992), 213 pp.; $34.95 paper. Most of the generalizations and theories of information management...

Managing the Public Sector: A Comparative Analysis of the United Kingdom and the United States.
September 1, 1994... Andrew Massey, (Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1993) 227 pp.; $64.95 hard. Massey's comparison of public sector reform in the United Kingdom and the United States emanates from a conviction that the two nations share...

State Government and Economic Performance.
September 1, 1994... Paul Brace, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 152 pp.; $28.95 The premise of this insightful book is that the success of state government interventions to stimulate economic development is almost solely a function of...

The Tacit Organization.
September 1, 1994... J. Steven Ott, (Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1989), 231 pp.; $22.50 paper. When teenagers and others short of 30 began a cultural revolution in the 1960s, the government drafted them, the National Guard shot them at Kent State...

The Organizational Culture Perspective.
September 1, 1994... Virginia Hill Ingersoll and Guy B. Adams, (Greenwhich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., 1992), 280 pp.; $ 73.25 cloth. When teenagers and others short of 30 began a cultural revolution in the 1960s, the government drafted them, the National Guard shot...

An overview of state-published local government financial data.
September 1, 1994... See appendix for an extensive list of state-published local government financial data which are the subject of this report. Governmental bureaucracies, private sector groups, and the general public often have a need for revenue,...