Public Administration Review articles from September 1995

Public Administration Review archives from September 1995

Guest Editorial
September 1, 1995... It is with deep gratitude and more than a little nostalgia that I accept this award that also honors Dwight Waldo - gratitude for the recognition of my work in public administration, mainly during the first decade and a half of my career;...

Oklahoma City
September 1, 1995... The April 19 attack on federal employees and their children at the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was a shocking crime that destroyed, ruined, and damaged many lives. It belatedly sensitized many people to the stupidity of bureaucrat-bashing....

Reform's Changing Role
September 1, 1995... President Clinton initiated the National Performance Review in March 1993. Bill Clinton had campaigned promising change in government, and comprehensive executive reorganization would be part of that effort. Clinton claimed the National...

Toward a Political Economy of Government Waste: First Step, Definitions
September 1, 1995... According to Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review, the latest blue-ribbon commission report on economy and efficiency in the federal government, "the average American believes we waste 48 cents of every tax dollar" (Gore, 1993; 1)....

The First Step in the Reinvention Process: Assessment
September 1, 1995... The age-old dictum, "know thyself," applies to organizations as well as people. The penalty for lack of self-understanding is usually failure in crisis and an inability to plan realistically for the future. Because the need and desire to change is...

Testing the Tools Approach: Tax Expenditures versus Direct Expenditures
September 1, 1995... Over the last 15 years, a number of scholars have called attention to the wide variety of policy tools used by governments. Led by Lester Salamon, they have tried to rewrite the usual equation of government equals direct expenditures plus laws and...

Decisive Decision Making in the Executive Budget Process: Analyzing the Political and Economic Propensities of Central Budget Bureau Analysts
September 1, 1995... More than 50 years ago, V.O. Key (1940) asked the central question of budgetary decision making - on what basis shall we decide to allocate X funds for program A instead of program B? It remains an important, if elusive, area of inquiry. Much of...

The Use of Geographic Information Systems in Local Government
September 1, 1995... Countless land-related decisions are made by local units of government. Municipal governments and local offices of state and federal agencies deal with real property, development, infrastructure, and so forth. Many other records such as health and...

Academics in Service to the Legislature: Legislative Utilization of College and University Faculty and Staff
September 1, 1995... The Importance of Research to Legislatures Prior to the 1950s, most legislative staffs were comprised of a few part-time members whose primary function was recordkeeping. Over the years, these staffs slowly grew. By the 1950s, states had...

The End of the Republican Era.
September 1, 1995... In this volume, Theodore Lowi returns to the task he began with The End of Liberalism to explore prevailing political ideology in the United States and to identify its weaknesses. Ideology is made up of the "ideas that defend and justify one's...

The End of the Republican Era.
September 1, 1995... In his latest book, The End ofthe Republican Era, Theodore J. Lowi unwittingly does American public administration a good turn: he helps us understand, even more than before, that professional bureaucracy is an indispensable ally of...

The End of the Republican Era.
September 1, 1995... We live in confusing times. A conservative era is supposedly upon us, but it includes an odd melange of economic libertarians, fiscal conservatives, moral traditionalists, patricians, communitarians, gun lovers, and, oddest of all, anarchists -...

The End of the Republican Era.
September 1, 1995... The End of the Republican Era is the sequel to The End of Liberalism, a marvelous book that was published in 1969. We who viewed the political science profession from the bottom, as graduate students, treated Lowi as a magnificent gunfighter...

Lowi Responds
September 1, 1995... To be read seriously is the highest compliment any author can receive. I therefore must open this response with an expression of gratitude to the four reviewers and to the editors of PAR for making the reviews possible and my response necessary....