Public Administration Review articles from September 1998

Public Administration Review archives from September 1998

Federal Unfunded Mandate Reform: A First-Year Retrospective
September 1, 1998... The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA, P.L. 104-4) was enacted in 1995 as part of the Republicans' Contract with America. The act represented a remarkable convergence of interests that had been divergent for decades. Historically, the Congress...

The End of Executive Dominance in State Appropriations
September 1, 1998... By the middle of the 20th century, governors dominated the state budgeting process (Anton, 1966, 34-35; Howard, 1973, 318; Sharkansky, 1968, 1231; Rosenthal, 1981, 299-300). Starting with a constitutional amendment in Maryland in 1916 (Willoughby,...

Verifying Compliance: Social Regulation and Welfare Reform
September 1, 1998... Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three...

Accountable Welfare Reform: What Consumers Think
September 1, 1998... In the wave of organizational change that is now sweeping the public sector, there is considerable focus on the need to define performance standards, ensure quality of care, and guarantee efficient, effective service delivery (Dilulio, Garvey, and...

Interorganizational Coordination, Administrative Consolidation, and Policy Performance
September 1, 1998... Although administrative and policy reformers often urge coordination as the key to more effective delivery of public services, there is little beyond anecdotal evidence to suggest that most approaches to coordination can actually improve public...

Change and Continuity in State Administration: Administrative Leadership across Four Decades
September 1, 1998... "State governments are the keystones of the federal system." This assertive metaphor takes on added significance as the states are increasingly challenged by Supreme Court decisions, fiscal pressures, federal mandates, selective devolution, and...

WWW.Ethics.Gov: Issues and Challenges Facing Public Managers
September 1, 1998... It is no secret that governments worldwide are going "online" (i.e., accessing the Internet and establishing Web sites) at a very rapid rate. Tracking statistics recorded in 1997 show there are 1,915 national level government agencies worldwide...

Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics.
September 1, 1998... Brian J. Cook, Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 201 pp.; $45.00 cloth; $14.95 paper. An astute observer once...

A New Constitutionalism: Designing Political Institutions for a Good Society.
September 1, 1998... Stephen L. Elkin and Karol Edward Soltan, editors, A New Constitutionalism: Designing Political Institutions for a Good Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 240 pp.; $45.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. An astute observer once...

Democracy, Bureaucracy and Character: Founding Thoughts.
September 1, 1998... William D. Richardson, Democracy, Bureaucracy and Character: Founding Thought (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1997), 201 pp.; $29.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. An astute observer once described the American bureaucratic...

The Founders, the Constitution and Public Administration: A Conflict in World Views.
September 1, 1998... Michael W. Spicer, The Founders, the Constitution and Public Administration: A Conflict in Worm Views (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1995), 114 pp.; $27.50 cloth; $13.95 paper. An astute observer once described the...