Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 2005

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 2005

Is hierarchical governance in decline? Evidence from empirical research.
April 1, 2005... "Governance" fever is catching: Many of public administration's leading scholars have embraced the concept of governance to frame the ongoing discourse on public management reform (Garvey 1997; Kettl 2000, 2002; Peters and Pierre 1998; Salamon...

Developing and testing an integrative framework of public sector leadership: evidence from the public education arena.
April 1, 2005... Few topics in organization theory and organizational behavior have garnered more attention than managerial leadership. For more than half a century, experts have been laboring to understand managerial leadership, particularly the paths by which...

Why and how do state governments adopt and implement "managing for results" reforms?
April 1, 2005... THREE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PUZZLES This article seeks to answer three puzzles related to "managing for results" (MFR) reform efforts in state governments: Why were reforms adopted despite evidence of nonuse among statewide...

Individual-level factors and organizational performance in government organizations.
April 1, 2005... In this journal, Rainey and Steinbauer (1999) proposed a theory of effective government organizations, urging that this theory be tested empirically; Brewer and Selden (2000) conducted an empirical study with data from the 1996 Merit Principles...

High-reliability bandwidth management in large technical systems: findings and implications of two case studies.
April 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Previous research on high-reliability organizations (HROs) has identified that a strategy of managing fluctuations in performance is crucial in maintaining reliability as opposed to attempting to achieve invariance in critical...

Institutional design versus reputation affects on bureaucratic performance: evidence from U.S. government macroeconomic and fiscal projections.
April 1, 2005... Is a public bureau's performance "hardwired" by the structural design choice made by politicians? The answer to this question is of utmost importance to those interested in the nexus between democratic accountability and the administrative...

"Best practices" research: a methodological guide for the perplexed.(Methods And Epistemology)
April 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Over forty years ago, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted in his classic work, Sciences of the Artificial (1963), that many applied fields shared a common concern over design and action. It is therefore not surprising to see...