Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 2001

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 2001

Theory and Inference in the Study of Bureaucracy: Micro- and Neoinstitutionalist Foundations of Choice.
January 1, 2001... The focus of this article is the role of scientific inference in the study of bureaucracy, in particular as it is defined by the ideas of King, Keohane, and Verba (hereafter KKV) in their seminal work (1994). I want to begin by stating a set of...

Form of Government, Administrative Organization, and Local Economic Development Policy.
January 1, 2001... To what extent do government structure and the institutions and organizational arrangements of development administration shape cities' economic development actions? This issue has not been systematically addressed, yet it is critical for the...

Citizen Contacting of Municipal Officials: Choosing Between Appointed Administrators and Elected Leaders.
January 1, 2001... Citizen-initiated contacting of municipal bureaucrats--when individuals contact government personnel with requests for services or with complaints--has been the subject of extensive research over the past quarter century (see, for example,...

U.S. Local Government Managers and the Complexity of Responsibility and Accountability in Democratic Governance.
January 1, 2001... The concepts and methods that define accountability and responsibility constitute fundamental issues in democratic theory because they determine how public policy and administration remain responsive to public preferences. This study explores...

Leadership Credibility, Board Relations, and Administrative Innovation at the Local Government Level.
January 1, 2001... The analysis of what leaders do, what roles they perform, and what functions they serve has a long if tenuous history in public administration. Classical management had the executive firmly ensconced, leading the organization in a top-down...

Means and Ends: A Comparative Study of Empirical Methods for Investigating Governance and Performance.
January 1, 2001... Scholars of governance commonly describe their efforts to understand how, why, and with what consequences government is organized and managed as cracking open the black box of program implementation. A wide range of research designs--from case...

Stars Aren't Stupid, But Our Methodological Training Is: A Commentary on Jeff Gill and Ken Meier's Article "Public Administration Research and Practice: A Methodological Manifesto".
January 1, 2001... It is not difficult to imagine Jeff Gill and Ken Meier galloping on horseback in front of the troops in blue war paint, attempting to pick a fight while proclaiming their freedom from traditional political science methodological norms. And what...