Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 1999

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 1999

Galloping Elephants: Developing Elements of a Theory of Effective Government Organizations.
January 1, 1999... ABSTRACT Much of the theory and discourse on public bureaucracies treats them negatively, as if they incline inevitably toward weak performance. This orientation prevails in spite of considerable evidence that many government organizations...

Political Institutions, Public Management, and Policy Choice.
January 1, 1999... ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, the literature on political institutions and policy choice has diverged so much from the literature on public management that they now have little in common. Contemporary theories of political...

State Bureaucratic Discretion and the Administration of Social Welfare Programs: The Case of Social Security Disability.
January 1, 1999... ABSTRACT The impact of the bureaucracy on policy programs through the use of discretion has been both applauded and bemoaned by scholars. By examining variation in the implementation of the Social Security Disability program in the fifty...

Reforming Medicaid through Contracting: The Nexus of Implementation and Organizational Culture.
January 1, 1999... ABSTRACT This article investigates the administrative experience resulting from the intersection of two popular public management trends: social service reform and contracting out. In this case, the reform involved the state of Kansas...

Red Tape and Clean Air: Title V Air Pollution Permitting Implementation as a Test Bed for Theory Development.
January 1, 1999... ABSTRACT The greatest test of a theory's utility is the degree to which it translates to subject areas for which it was not designed. This article conducts such a test, by applying an etiological theory of red tape to Title V of the 1990...

Transforming Government: Lessons from the Reinvention Laboratories.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Patricia W. Ingraham, James R. Thompson, and Ronald P. Sanders, eds. 1998. Transforming Government: Lessons from the Reinvention Laboratories. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 256 pp. Government reinvention is a topic that occupies a prominent...

The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Judith E. Michaels. 1997. The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Judith Michaels, in The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush, examines...