Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 2000

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 2000

Studying Governance and Public Management: Challenges and Prospects.
April 1, 2000... Public policies and programs, including many social programs, are carried out in the public, nonprofit, and proprietary sectors through webs of states, regions, special districts, service delivery areas, local offices, independent...

Research on Policy Implementation: Assessment and Prospects.
April 1, 2000... The explicit study of policy implementation has swung in and out of fashion during the past quarter century. Beginning with Pressman and Wildavsky's classic investigation (1984 [1973]) of an Economic Development Administration project gone sour...

Above Politics: Credible Commitment and Efficiency in the Design of Public Agencies.
April 1, 2000... The state, like Janus, has two faces: one benign and one malevolent. The creation of the state facilitates the provision of public goods that would otherwise be absent. But the state also allows a degree of hierarchical exploitation that would...

State Agent or Citizen Agent: Two Narratives of Discretion.
April 1, 2000... Story 1. Midwestern Police Department: "God Protect Me from the Police." I'm just relaying back to last week, the seventh of January. I was working in my office. [The storyteller is the second-in-command, the assistant to the chief of...

Governing the Hollow State.
April 1, 2000... Command and control mechanisms associated with bureaucracy are being replaced by much more complicated relationships for the delivery of health and human services. Nonprofits, firms, and governments all play a role in the new world of devolved...

Measuring Government Management Capacity: A Comparative Analysis of City Human Resources Management Systems.
April 1, 2000... How governments translate resources into services is a question of long-standing significance to public administration, political science, and public policy analysis. Analysis of this issue most often has focused on contingent influences on...

Accountability of Congressional Staff.
April 1, 2000... Most of the pressures for government reform during the past decade, whether in administrative or electoral politics arenas, can be traced to concerns for increased accountability.(1) The rhetoric that surrounds accountability is often...

Comparing Public and Private Organizations: Empirical Research and the Power of the A Priori.
April 1, 2000... No enemy of empiricism, Immanuel Kant simply insisted on empiricism's knowing its place. God, freedom, and immortality, Kant asserted, cannot be denied. Each is an a priori category of the mind and, as such, must necessarily be presupposed. One...

Bringing Society In: Toward a Theory of Public-Service Motivation.
April 1, 2000... The empirical study of public-service motivation (PSM) has advanced noticeably during the decade covering the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory's (J-PART) existence. Ten years ago, Lois Wise and I (1990) published the...