Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 1998

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 1998

Why public administration?
January 1, 1998... Editor's Note: At the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration held in Philadelphia in July 1997, Herbert A. Simon presented the second annual Donald C. Stone Lecture. Simon is a Nobel prize winner as well as a...

The venues of influence: a new theory of political control of the bureaucracy.
January 1, 1998... The principal-agent model is currently the dominant theory of the political control of the bureaucracy literature. Empirical studies, based on the model's assumptions, have demonstrated convincingly that principals do indeed influence the...

Political influence on the bureaucracy: the bureaucracy speaks.
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION Scholars of political science and public policy have studied the bureaucracy and its relative power vis-a-vis other political institutions in the United States. The extent of Congress's delegation of authority to executive...

Multinetwork management: collaboration and the hollow state in local economic policy.
January 1, 1998... Public management is now thought of as involving operation of bureaucracies plus connections with other institutions through the processes of governance. According to Frederickson (1997, 84), governance involves "the wide range of types of...

Do public-sector and private-sector personnel have different ethical dispositions? A study of two sites.
January 1, 1998... The distinction between deontological and consequentialist reasoning has been a well-known and long standing contrast in ethical theory for two hundred years or more. In fact, this may be the single most important distinction in the history of...

Explaining the tenure of local government managers.
January 1, 1998... In recent years, considerable attention has been given to turnover in the executive ranks of local government. In particular, the issue of what factors account for turnover among local government managers has been the subject of several empirical...

Reconceiving Liberalism: Dilemmas of Contemporary Liberal Public Policy.
January 1, 1998... In this extended essay, Levin-Waldman is principally concerned with correcting what he sees as the greatest failing of contemporary liberalism - its preoccupation with neutrality. Levin-Waldman's secondary concern is to develop a new methodology...