Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 1998

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 1998

Consumer sovereignty and quasi-market failure.
April 1, 1998... The delivery of public goods and services by local government has been profoundly changed over the last twenty-five years by the substitution of quasi markets for the traditional institutions of progressive reform government. According to both...

Principal-agent models: an expansion?
April 1, 1998... Principal-agent models, derived from such disparate disciplines as law, finance, accounting, and economics, have become the basis for an extensive set of studies relating bureaucracy to elected officials (see Mitnick 1973, 1975, and 1980; Moe...

Principles for controlling agents: the political economy of network structure.
April 1, 1998... THE PROBLEM OF INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN The focus of a 1995 study by the authors of this article was on the relationship between funding, network structure, and client outcomes. Institutional design was added to the study by chance when...

Governance without government? Rethinking public administration.
April 1, 1998... The traditional conceptualization of the public sector has come under increasing strain during the past several decades. The idea that national governments are the major actors in public policy and that they are able to influence the economy...

Interest groups in the rule-making process: who participates? Whose voices get heard?
April 1, 1998... In the textbook version of American politics, Congress is responsible for law making. This has led scholars to study the legislative process and to pay particular attention to the role of interest groups in that process. However, particularly...

The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work, 1945-1995.
April 1, 1998... Paul C. Light. 1997. 1945-1995. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. xii + 290 pp. At a time when public distrust of government and government employees is high, Paul Light contends that targeted, experimental reform, not more reform,...

Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law.
April 1, 1998... Jerry L. Mashaw. 1997. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. In this critical analysis of the field of public law, Yale Law professor Jerry Mashaw assesses the long-term effects of public-choice theory on the future of government. Mashaw...

Down from Bureaucracy: The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment.
April 1, 1998... Joel F. Handler. 1996. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Joel Handler, the Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles, writes on the implications of the current fascination with...

Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government.
April 1, 1998... Mark H. Moore. 1995. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Creating Public Value is a well-written examination of the difficulty of determining what values ought to guide public organizations. Mark Moore takes the structure for his...

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.
April 1, 1998... Michael Sandel. 1996. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy begins by describing two fears at the heart of democracy's discontent in our time: the loss of self-government...