Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 1997

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 1997

Branch Rickey as a public manager: fulfilling the eight responsibilities of public management.
January 1, 1997... ABSTRACT What is the job of the public manager? How does it differ from the work of the private-sector manager? The author argues that public managers have eight different responsibilities, the first of which is to seek to achieve an...

Assessing determinants of bureaucratic discretion: an experiment in street-level decision making.
January 1, 1997... ABSTRACT This article reports findings from an experimental analogue that examined the influence of several potential determinants of bureaucratic discretion in street-level bureaucracies. This findings showed that two factors, the...

Guns, butter, and federal careers: growth, decline, and personnel in defense and domestic agencies.
January 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Comparably educated and experienced federal employees held lower grades in the Department of Defense (DOD) than in the rest of the civil service in every year between 1976 and 1995, even at the height of President Reagan's...

Computing and public organizations. (Symposium on Public Management Information Systems (PMIS))
January 1, 1997... ABSTRACT This survey of empirical research on computing in government updates a review that appeared ten years earlier in Public Administration Review. It focuses primarily on research related to the management of computing and on...

The impact of red tape's administrative delay on public organizations' interest in new information technologies.(Symposium on Public Management Information Systems (PMIS))
January 1, 1997... ABSTRACT Empirical evidence shows that public organizations have greater red-tape based administrative delay than do private organizations. If public administrators view red tape, at least partially, as a result of organizational...

Decision quality, confidence, and commitment with expert systems: an experimental study.(Symposium on Public Management Information Systems (PMIS))
January 1, 1997... ABSTRACT This experiment investigates the relationship between results produced by an expert system (ES), its physical structure and features, and the user's commitment and confidence in its solutions. One hundred one subjects among...

The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity and Postmodernity.
January 1, 1997... It is incumbent on me as reviewer to state at the outset that Farmer's book is the other one. That is to say there are two books published in 1995 that relate to the postmodern problematic as it affects public administration: The one under...

Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector: Toward Service, Effort and Accomplishment Reporting.
January 1, 1997... In bringing together the chapters for this work, editors Halachmi and Bouckaert indicate their purpose is to "... help managers develop a better understanding of both the overt and covert parts of performance measurement systems" (p. 2). Not...

Leadership of Public Bureaucracies: The Administrator as Conservator.
January 1, 1997... It is evident that a book titled Leadership of Public Bureaucracies belongs in die public administration literature. Yet, in this book Larry Terry brings a new approach to the topic. Leadership is an enduring theme, and this book resuscitates...