Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 1999

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 1999

The Value of Mission Statements in Public Agencies.
April 1, 1999... ABSTRACT Many public management scholars have argued that defining a strong mission for public agencies is a useful step toward performance improvement. Public managers and elected officials have begun widespread adoption of formal mission...

Inside a Swiss Army Knife: An Assessment of AmeriCorps.
April 1, 1999... ABSTRACT This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs,...

Administrators and Citizens: Measuring Agency Officials' Efforts to Foster and Use Public Input in Forest Policy.
April 1, 1999... ABSTRACT This study examines a basic question: In a federal system such as the United States, do officials at lower levels of governance foster and incorporate citizen input in policy making more than do officials at higher levels?...

A Coherent Framework for the Study of Public Administration.
April 1, 1999... ABSTRACT The identity crisis of public administration, discussed on both sides of the Atlantic since the Second World War, is a debate about both its academic stature and its relevance to society. American students of Public...

Public-Private Differences and the Assessment of Alternatives for Decision Making.
April 1, 1999... ABSTRACT Decision making in public, private, and third-sector organizations was examined to isolate the practices used to assess alternatives and compare them with the analytical, judgmental, and bargaining tactics discussed in the...

Reinventing Public Education.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Paul T. Hill, Lawrence C. Pierce, and James W. Guthrie. 1997. Reinventing Public Education, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 267 pp, paper. Since the 1980s, numerous studies have reported the state of the American educational system....

Continuity and Disruption: Essays in Public Administration.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Matthew Holden, Jr. 1996. Continuity and Disruption: Essays in Public Administration. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 291 pp, hardback. This collection of essays drawn from Professor Holden's 1987 Ransone Lecture Series at the...