Public Administration Review articles from September 2000

Public Administration Review archives from September 2000

Examining Empirical Evidence on Diversity Effects: How Useful Is Diversity Research for Public-Sector Managers?
September 1, 2000... The philosophy of "managing for" diversity is gaining popularity, and both public- and private-sector organizations are investing significant financial resources, time, and energy into diversity missions, programs, and strategies. Yet empirical...

A Twenty-First-Century Reception for Diversity in the Public Sector: A Case Study.
September 1, 2000... Introduction American workplaces appear to be more receptive to workforce diversity as they enter the twenty-first century. The merits of diversity are being debated everywhere from corporations to government, from city councils to the...

Performance Measurement in U.S. Counties: Capacity for Reform.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... In recent years, there has been great interest in using performance measurement for increasing accountability and improving performance (Walters 1998; Holzer 1998; Ammons 1996; Greiner 1996; Keehley et al. 1997; Harris 1995). Despite efforts in...

Buying in a Businesslike Fashion--And Paying More?(*).(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Introduction The logic of "best practice" in reforming government operations is simple and compelling. To reform any particular government operation, the government should (1) do a thorough benchmarking analysis of public and private...

Defining the Boundaries of Public Administration: Undisciplined Mongrels versus Disciplined Purists.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... A crisis of identity has always hounded the field of public administration (Mainzer 1994; Waldo 1968). Some people worry that the field lacks focus and thus has no identity. Others worry that the field is being "slowly nibbled to death" by the...

The Public Administration Doctoral Dissertation Reexamined: An Evaluation of the Dissertations of 1998.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... This study reports the results of a survey of 1998's public administration doctoral dissertations that examined the quality of the research presented in these studies. Questions about the quality of public administration doctoral research...

The Reflective Practitioner.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... In this issue's "Reflective Practitioner," Douglas J. Watson, city manager of Auburn, Alabama, tells the story of Auburn's collaboration with the Bulgarian city of Blagoevgrad. Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the...

The International Resource Cities Program: Building Capacity in Bulgarian Local Governments.
September 1, 2000... Since 1989, the transformation of municipal governments in Bulgaria to democratic, participatory practices has been a difficult one alter 45 years of Communism. Leaders and bureaucrats accustomed to the highly centralized administration of...

Spirited Dialogue: The Case for Administrative Evil: A Critique.
September 1, 2000... Spirited Dialogue: The Case for Administrative Evil: A Critique Melvin J. Dubnick, Rutgers University--Newark Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour's Unmasking Administrative Evil (UAE) is an important book in several respects, not the...

A New Concept.
September 1, 2000... Vivifying the need to unmask and to further explore the concept of administrative evil cannot be underestimated. Guy Adams and Danny Balfour have unveiled a previously unexplored notion in Public Administration (PA), one that deserves the...

Unmasking Administrative Evil: The Book and Its Critics.
September 1, 2000... In 1987, in preparation for a paper that was delivered at the International Conference on the Holocaust at Oxford the following year, I mailed a brief questionnaire to a sample of prominent names in the field of public administration and public...

Booknotes.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2000... Authors and publishers interested in having their books included in Booknotes and considered for inclusion in a book review essay are encouraged to send copies to the book review editor. Books listed here may be included in a book review essay...