Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles

Recent articles from Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Agency theory and beyond: contracted providers' motivations to properly use service monitoring tools.
April 1, 2009... In an environment of increased contracting out for public services, ensuring contracted provider accountability is a key challenge facing public administrators (Bardach and Lesser 1996; Blasi 2002; Breaux et al. 2002; Coats 2002; Johnston and Romzek 1999). Agency theory is one of the major...

Municipal performance: does mayoral quality matter?
April 1, 2009... Scholars and political practitioners constantly search for tools that improve governmental performance. In developing countries, the adoption of decentralization seeks to achieve this goal. Decentralization is expected to improve governmental efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness by...

How do perceived political environment and administrative reform affect employee commitment?
April 1, 2009... Recent public management research has emphasized the need to study public organizations in their unique context: embedded in fragmented political systems and highly charged political environments (O'Toole and Meier 1999; Pandey and Wright 2006; Rainey and Steinbauer 1999). (1) It is...

Power-influence in decision making, competence utilization, and organizational culture in public organizations: the Arab world in comparative perspective.
April 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION Much of the research on bureaucracy and organizational performance in developing countries in general, and in the Arab states in particular, identifies problems of over centralization of power and control (Al-Awaji 1971; Palmer, El Sayeed, and Leila 1985), ineffectiveness of...

Institutional determinants of collaboration: an empirical study of county open-space protection.(Survey)
January 1, 2009... Public administration and management scholars have long recognized the necessity for public managers to interact with entities outside the hierarchical boundaries of their organizations (see Rainey 2003). The growing number of studies on networks (O'Toole 1997; Provan and Milward 1995),...