Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 2003

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 2003

At the regulatory front lines: inspectors' enforcement styles and regulatory compliance.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In recent years, scholars have returned to the front lines of policy implementation. Building upon the seminal insights of Lipsky (1980) concerning the importance of street-level bureaucrats in shaping the reality of policy,...

Salience, complexity, and the legislative direction of regulatory bureaucracies.
April 1, 2003... Questions regarding the political control of administrative agencies have played a major role in reinvigorating the study of bureaucracy. From a theoretical perspective, scholars have used increasingly sophisticated formal models to demonstrate...

Public goods and posterity: an empirical test of intergenerational altruism.
April 1, 2003... "Present-day problems, including poverty, technological and material underdevelopment, unemployment and exclusion, discrimination and threats to the environment, must be solved in the interests of both present and future...

Polling and policy analysis as resources for advocacy.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Discussions among political scientists, political sociologists, and specialists in policy analysis express considerable uncertainty regarding the effects of public opinion and policy analysis on public decision making....

Dealing with wicked problems in networks: analyzing an environmental debate from a network perspective.
April 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION: MANAGING WICKED PROBLEMS Many of today's policy problems are complex and contested, and they are called wicked for good reasons (Rittel and Webber 1973; Radford 1977; Mason and Mitroff 1981). They are persistent despite...

The employment relationship in the U.K. public sector: a psychological contract perspective.
April 1, 2003... The pressures facing public-service organizations in many countries have encouraged a growing interest among policy makers and practitioners in the ways public-service employees are managed. As constraints on available resources confront calls...

Gender Images in PA: the debate is joined.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Camilla Stivers. 2002. Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State, second edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 184 pp. The distinction in Western liberal thought between public and private has created...

The debate continues: Camilla Stivers responds.(response to review in this issue, p. 231)
April 1, 2003... Some people think feminists regard men as the enemy. But with enemies like Ken Meier, who needs friends? Ken is right: in the decade since the first edition of Gender Images, the times, they haven't been a-changing. No wonder this review sends...

Debating governance: whatever that means.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Jon Pierre, ed. 2000. Debating Governance: Authority, Steering, and Governance. New York: Oxford University Press. 264 pp. This book promises a clarification of a widely used catchword and a debate on its content. It fails on the latter...