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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from April 2006
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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from April 2006
What do we talk about when we talk about performance? Dialogue theory and performance budgeting.(PART SYMPOSIUM)
April 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF PERFORMANCE BUDGETING
The President's Management Agenda (PMA) of 2001 heralded the most recent effort to introduce performance budgeting to the federal government, based on the seemingly indisputable premise that...
Assessing performance budgeting at OMB: the influence of politics, performance, and program size.(Office of Management and Budget)
April 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
Because government agencies do not normally seek to earn a profit, and often operate in environments in which earning a profit is either impossible or undesirable, obtaining objective information by which to evaluate the...
Why PART? The institutional politics of presidential budget reform.(PART SYMPOSIUM)
April 1, 2006... The George W. Bush administration's Program Assessment Rating Tool, or PART, is ambitious, carefully crafted, and if history is a guide, probably doomed. Since its initiation in 2002, PART's worksheets have guided Office of Management and...
Accounting for the value of performance measurement from the perspective of Midwestern mayors.
April 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
Performance measurement is the usage of quantitative indicators to regularly measure the results and efficiency of public programs that clients, customers, or stakeholders expect (Broom et al. 1998; Hatry 1999). As early as...
Governing the quango: an auditing and cheating model of quasi-governmental authorities.
April 1, 2006... The whole question of quangos and their use has largely become a political game. This game of musical chairs has involved a barrage of claims and counter claims about the political bias of appointments, the abuses of patronage, and financial...
Casework job design and client outcomes in welfare-to-work offices.
April 1, 2006... The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 imposed new work expectations and time-limited benefits on welfare recipients and also gave states flexibility in administering these programs. Research has...
Comparing public and private sector decision-making practices.
April 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION
Rodriguez and Hickson (1995) and Schwenk (1990) examine decisions in public and private organizations and report notable differences. Private, for-profit organizations have smoother decision-making processes. Public...
Make or buy?(Privatization in the City: Successes, Failures, Lessons)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... E. S. Savas. 2005. Privatization in the City: Successes, Failures, Lessons. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 335 pp.
One of the highlights of my graduate school experience was reading the classic article by E. S. Savas, "The Political Properties...
Service with a smile.(Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make? )(Book review)
April 1, 2006... James L. Perry and Ann Marie Thomson. 2004. Civic Service: What Difference Does It Make? Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 248 pp.
James L. Perry and Ann Marie Thomson argue that civic service "lies in the uneasy tension [that exists in the...
Disaster management.(Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... William H. Starbuck and Moshe Farjoun, eds. 2005. Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 387 pp.
Publication of this collection of essays--where a number of organization theorists...