Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 2004

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 2004

Making sense of stories: a rhetorical approach to narrative analysis.
April 1, 2004... Scholars of public administration and public policy have recently focused attention on the use of narratives and narrative analysis. (1) Although this approach has an air of novelty, studying stories and other forms of narrative as they occur...

Privatization and its reverse: explaining the dynamics of the government contracting process.
April 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The new public management encourages governments to be more efficient and responsive by employing market approaches to public service delivery (Eggers and O'Leary 1995; Hood 2002; Kettl 1997; Osborne and Gaebler 1992). Recent...

What do they know, and whom do they hold accountable? Citizens in the government--nonprofit contracting relationship.
April 1, 2004... As devolution and other governmental reforms continue, pressures from elected officials and citizens to reduce government involvement in service areas in which there are alternatives to public provision have increased. As a result, many public...

Learning under pressure: the effects of politicization on organizational learning in public bureaucracies.
April 1, 2004... U.S. politicians have criticized federal agencies severely in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, with both Republicans and Democrats denouncing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its part in failing to protect the country from...

Strategy content and public service organizations.
April 1, 2004... The need for a clearer understanding of the strategies of public service organizations is urgent. Programs of management reform frequently require public managers to develop new strategies that will lead to better performance. These...

Primed for public administration theory.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... H. George Frederickson and Kevin B. Smith. 2003. The Public Administration Theory Primer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 288 pp. Every ambitious professional field needs a primer, a basic compilation of expert knowledge. H. George...

The collaborative management of the metropolis.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Gerald Benjamin and Richard P. Nathan. 2001. Regionalism and Realism: A Study of Governments in the New York Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 308 pp. Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, J. Eugene Grigsby III, and...

Managing a federal deficit: here we go again.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Irene S. Rubin. 2003. Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn? Washington, DC: CQ Press. 318 pp. The federal budget, in the form we know it today, did not come into being until after passage of the Budget...