Public Administration Review articles from September 2001

Public Administration Review archives from September 2001

Public Administration Research from a Practitioner Perspective.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... In recent years, a number at authors nave studied me accumulated works of public administration scholars. This series began with research on public management conducted by Garson and Overman (1983). Since this time, an impressive body of...

The Big Questions of Public Administration Education.
September 1, 2001... Following Behn's observation that scientists in other fields understand the big questions of their disciplines and focus attention and their discussions on those questions, public administration scholars have attempted to identify the "big...

New Labour and the Public Sector in Britain(1).
September 1, 2001... "The Third Way" has become a familiar slogan in modern politics: Former president Bill Clinton even hosted a symposium under that heading, attended by the new generation of socialist leaders in Europe including Tony Blair from Britain and...

Reforming Budget Systems in Countries of the Former Soviet Union.
September 1, 2001... Seventy years of central planning by authoritarian government distorted the economies of the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) almost beyond belief and left them unprepared for a smooth transition to market economies.(1) Factories...

Checks, Balances, and Appointments in the Public Service: Israeli Experience in Comparative Perspective.
September 1, 2001... This article explores the appointment process for government ministers in the Israeli cabinet and senior executive officials in the Israeli public service. It examines the institutions that are supposed to exercise oversight and check these...

Anticipated Changes in Human Resource Management: Views from the Field.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Although public institutions and administrative processes have been subjected to a virtually uninterrupted string of reform movements dating back to 1883, the personnel function in particular has been regarded as a "work in progress" (Stevens...

Human Resource Practices in State Government: Findings from a National Survey.
September 1, 2001... Since the early 1990s, many state civil service systems have been attacked as the "quiet crisis" has become louder. Critics characterize civil service and personnel systems as rigid, regressive, rule bound, and cumbersome. Public managers...

New Public Management and Substantive Democracy.
September 1, 2001... Introduction: The Challenge This is an article about the relationship between American democracy and public administration in a time when the public sector is under considerable pressure to adopt the values and operational techniques of...

The Reflective Practitioner.
September 1, 2001... In this issue, a practitioner/academic team reflects on a collaborative project. Mary Raymer (Veterans Administration Medical Center, Salem, Virginia) and Larkin Dudley (Virginia Tech, Center for Public Administration and Policy) describe how...

Inside Organizational Change: Puzzling across Permeable Boundaries.
September 1, 2001... The notion that the perfect method of organizing people and tasks is just around the corner seems to be part of public administration's heritage from the progressive era. Although the literature gives mixed marks to efforts at planned change...

Creating the American State: The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made.
September 1, 2001... Richard Stillman II, Creating the American State: The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1998). 207 pp., $29.95 cloth. Introduction Public administration did not...

Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Camilla Stivers, Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000). 187 pp., $29.95 cloth. Introduction Public administration did not fare well...

Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State--1946-1999.(Review)
September 1, 2001... David H. Rosenbloom, Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State--1946-1999. (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2000). 199 pp., $34.95 cloth. Introduction Public...

Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Joanna Cagan and Neil deMause, Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, revised ed., 1999/1998). 258 pp., $22.95 hard; $16.95 paper. Who finances professional...

Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Jerold J. Duquette, Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999). 162 pp., $59.95 hard. Who finances professional sporting playgrounds? What roles do local governments play? Are these increasingly...

Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports.(Review)
September 1, 2001... James Quirk and Rodney Fort, Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999). 233 pp., $24.95 hard. Who finances professional sporting playgrounds? What roles do local governments play?...

The Economics and Politics of Sports Facilities.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Wilbur C. Rich, editor, The Economics and Politics of Sports Facilities (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000). 237 pp., $67.50 hard. Who finances professional sporting playgrounds? What roles do local governments play? Are these increasingly...

Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Mark S. Rosentraub, Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for It (New York: Basic Books, Revised Edition, 1999). 364 pp., $16.00 paper. Who finances professional sporting playgrounds? What roles do local governments...

Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Jay Weiner, Stadium Games: Fifty Years of Big League Greed and Bush League Boondoggles (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). 503 pp., $25.95 hard; $15.95 paper. Who finances professional sporting playgrounds? What roles do...

A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Bardach, Eugene. 2000. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving. New York: Chatham House Publishers. In this handbook for policy analysis, Bardach provides a step-by-step guide that begins...

Quality Public Management: What It Is and How It Can Be Improved and Advanced.
September 1, 2001... Beam, George. 2001. Quality Public Management: What It Is and How It Can Be Improved and Advanced. Chicago, IL: Burnham Inc., Publishers. Beam describes the empirical foundations for quality management, identifies its principles, assesses...

Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Burbank, Matthew J., Gregory D. Andranovic, and Charles H. Heying. 2001. Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Using case studies of Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City, the...

Radical Reform of the Civil Service.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Condrey, Stephen, and Robert Maranto, eds. 2001. Radical Reform of the Civil Service. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. The contributors to this volume present research exploring efforts to replace civil service systems with more...

Risky Business: Canada's Changing Science-based Policy and Regulatory Regime.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Doern, Bruce G., and Ted Reed, eds. 2000. Risky Business: Canada's Changing Science-based Policy and Regulatory Regime. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press. Based on papers first presented at a conference held in Ottawa in 1998, this...

Understanding the Budget of the United States Government, Fifth Edition.(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... The EOP Foundation. 2001. Understanding the Budget of the United States Government, Fifth Edition. Washington, DC: The EOP Foundation. This volume attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of the federal budget and budget process that is...

Russia's Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare during the Transition.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Field, Mark G., and Judyth L. Twigg, eds. 2000. Russia's Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare during the Transition. New York: St. Martin's Press. This edited volume contains essays by Russian and American scholars describing and...

Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Gonzalez, George A. 2001. Corporate Power and the Environment: The Political Economy of U.S. Environmental Policy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Starting with a premise that environmental policy is usually considered an exception to...

Restructuring Education: Innovations and Evaluations of Alternative Systems.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Hakim, Simon, Daniel J. Ryan, and Judith C. Stull, eds. 2000. Restructuring Education: Innovations and Evaluations of Alternative Systems. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. This edited volume reviews current research on choice and...

Governance and Performance: New Perspectives.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Heinrich, Carolyn J., and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds. 2000. Governance and Performance: New Perspectives. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. The contributors to this volume include relatively new names as well as some well-known...

Creating an Economic Development Action Plan: A Guide for Development Professionals, Revised and Updated Edition.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Lyons, Thomas S., and Roger E. Hamlin. 2001. Creating an Economic Development Action Plan: A Guide for Development Professionals, Revised and Updated Edition. Westport, CT: Praeger Paperback. Suggesting that most economic development...

Comparative Performance Measurement.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Morley, Elaine, Scott P. Bryant, and Harry P. Hatry. 2001. Comparative Performance Measurement. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press. The authors present a step-by-step guide to using comparative performance measurement (CPM). They...

Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Pearce, Jone L. 2001. Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Recognizing that governments set the frameworks on which all organizations are built, Pearce argues that the effects of...

The Future of Merit: Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Pfiffner, James P., and Douglas A. Brook, eds. The Future of Merit: Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Viewing the Civil Service...

Reforming the Civil Service for Government Performance: A Partnership Perspective.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Rahman, A. T. Rafiqur. 2001. Reforming the Civil Service for Government Performance: A Partnership Perspective. Dhaka, Bangladesh: The University Press. Since reforming the civil service to improve government performance is a common...

To Market, To Market: Reinventing Indianapolis.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Ritchie, Ingrid, and Sheila Suess Kennedy, eds. 2001. To Market, To Market: Reinventing Indianapolis. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. The editors asked their contributors to participate in an effort to provide non-partisan,...

Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters in Organizational Ethnography.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Rosen, Michael. 2000. Turning Words, Spinning WorMs: Chapters in Organizational Ethnography. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers. Instead of using ethnography to study peoples of the second, third, or fourth worlds, Rose...

Sanctified Snake Oil: The Effect of Junk Science on Public Policy.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Sarnoff, Susan K. 2001. Sanctified Snake Oil: The Effect of Junk Science on Public Policy. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing. Concerned that "junk social science" wastes tax dollars and confuses the public into supporting public service...

Government Failures and Institutions in Public Policy Evaluation: The Case of Dutch Technology Policy.(Review)(Brief Review)
September 1, 2001... Schilder, Ard. 2000. Government Failures and Institutions in Public Policy Evaluation: The Case of Dutch Technology Policy. Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum and Company. This is not a cynical view of government. The author does not prefer...