Public Administration Review articles from September 1999

Public Administration Review archives from September 1999

Determinants of Graduate Research Productivity in Doctoral of Programs of Public Administration
September 1, 1999... More than forty years ago, Frederick C. Mosher (1956) complained that scholars of public administration were not doing enough to advance knowledge in the field. He maintained that too little research had been performed, the stimulus for research...

Contracting and Accountability in State Medicaid Reform: Rhetoric, Theories, and Reality
September 1, 1999... Introduction Privatization and contracting out have enjoyed widespread popularity in the current climate of government reform. Frequently, privatization and contracting initiatives are pursued because they are consistent with popular...

How Managed Care Is Reinventing Medicaid and Other Public Health-Care Bureaucracies
September 1, 1999... Approximately three-quarters of U.S. workers with health insurance are enrolled in a health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, or point-of-service health care plan (Jensen et al., 1997). More than 53 percent of all...

He Says, She Says: Gender and Worklife
September 1, 1999... Introduction Many studies have shown that women often encounter glass ceilings when they try to make their way up the organizational promotion ladder. They often feel excluded from power, sidetracked, and socially isolated. The literature has...

Agency Discretion and the Dynamics of Procedural Reform
September 1, 1999... It is axiomatic that important policy decisions are made in the administrative process, that governmental and nongovernmental actors have a large stake in that process, and that they try to influence it. One way politicians and courts try to...

Public Service and Democracy: Ethical Imperatives for the 21st Century.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Louis C. Gawthrop, Public Service and Democracy: Ethical Imperatives for the 21st Century (Chappaqua, New York: Chatham House Publishers of Seven Bridges Press, 1998) 178 pp.; $21.95 paper. New, new, new -- do public administrators need a...

Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice.(Review)
September 1, 1999... John A. Rohr, Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998) 177 pp.; $29.95 cloth; $15.95 paper. New, new, new -- do public administrators need a new set of ethics? Or do we need...

Changing Public Sector Values.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Montgomery Van Wart, Changing Public Sector Values (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998) 328 pp.; $70.00 hardcover; $24.95 paper. New, new, new -- do public administrators need a new set of ethics? Or do we need to rediscover the...

The Spirit of Public Administration.(Review)
September 1, 1999... H. George Frederickson, The Spirit of Public Administration (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1997) 272 pp.; $29.95 hard. No government will be successful, no government will endure, which does not rest on the individual, and no government...

The Doctorate in Public Administration: Some Unresolved Questions and Recommendations
September 1, 1999... Introduction The traditional view of doctoral education, borrowed from the social sciences, is the reproduction of the professoriate to ensure continued knowledge development through research and the dissemination of knowledge through...