Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 1997

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 1997

Antecedents of public service motivation.
April 1, 1997... Public administration practitioners and educators have long contended that public employees are different from employees in other sectors of American society (Perry and Porter 1982; Wittmer 1991). In fact, an increasing number of empirical...

Agency policy making and political control: modelling away the delegation power.
April 1, 1997... To what degree can and do elected politicians control the policy decisions of administrative agencies? If recent scholarship in the mainstream of political science is any indication, it would seem that the weight of opinion is shifting away...

Public management as interagency cooperation: testing epistemic community theory at the domestic level.
April 1, 1997... EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES The concept of epistemic community has garnered much attention recently in the international relations literature, where it has been used to explain international cooperation (P. Haas 1990 and 1992) and learning...

Power distribution in complex environmental negotiations: does balance matter?
April 1, 1997... Everyone understands the adage "everything is negotiated." Everything from international treaties to refrigerators is said to be subject to bargaining. One thing that is commonly believed about bargaining is that those who have the power win....

Crises and crisis management: toward comprehensive government decision making.
April 1, 1997... With organizational structures more complex (Wilson 1975, 288-92) and technological systems becoming even more interdependent, vulnerable, and problematic in their intended and unintended consequences (Perrow 1984, 330; Sagan 1993), industrial...

Bureaucratic politics: the view from below.
April 1, 1997... Students of organization theory, public administration, and political science have generated a substantial body of research and theory about the political activities of elite players at or near the top of public agencies. But politics does not...

The Meaning of Democracies and the Vulnerability of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville's Challenge.
April 1, 1997... Vincent Ostrom. Forthcoming (1997). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Vincent Ostrom's new book is challenging, dense, wide ranging--and it is likely to be provocative and even troubling to many public administration scholars. In...

Public Management: The New Zealand Model.
April 1, 1997... Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. 1996. Auckland: Oxford University Press. 406 pp. Whether as a result of a deliberate strategy, a lack of results, or just disinterest on the part of the press, the visibility of the...

Public Service Reforms: Issues of Accountability and Public Law.
April 1, 1997... Dawn Oliver and Gavin Drewry. 1996. New York: Pinter. 168 pp. Whether as a result of a deliberate strategy, a lack of results, or just disinterest on the part of the press, the visibility of the National Performance Review (NPR) has...

Next Steps: Improving Management in Government?
April 1, 1997... Barry J. O'Toole and Grant Jordan, eds. 1995. Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth. 207 pp. Whether as a result of a deliberate strategy, a lack of results, or just disinterest on the part of the press, the visibility of the National Performance Review...

Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality.
April 1, 1997... Sonia Ospina. 1996. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (ILR Imprint). 214 pp. (plus appendix, notes, references, index). . . . organizations endorse an institutional discourse of equal opportunity and merit while simultaneously sanctioning...