Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 2003

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 2003

A new era for the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. (Editorials).(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Publication of the January 2003 issue of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory marks several important changes. First, JPART is now published by Oxford University Press and joins the impressive collection of books and...

The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and the Public Management Research Association.
January 1, 2003... The Public Management Research Association is pleased that the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory is the official journal of PMRA. The association between PMRA, JPART, and Oxford University Press promises to be an excellent...

Building social capital: civic attitudes and behavior of public servants.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION This study will assess the civic attitudes and the behavior of public servants and other citizens. First, civil society will be defined, and the importance of social capital in the larger scheme of this study will be...

What lies beneath: the political roots of state merit systems.
January 1, 2003... STATE MERIT REFORM: AN ENIGMA The history of the rise and diffusion of the merit principle in American government is common lore to students of public administration and political science. Most textbook accounts of this period of American...

Plus ca change: public management, personnel stability, and organizational performance.
January 1, 2003... Ideas swing wildly in and out of fashion--take, for instance, the notion of stability in administration. For decades conventional wisdom simply assumed that stability contributes to public administrative performance. Such core bureaucratic...

From passive to active representation: the case of women congressional staff.
January 1, 2003... On a day-to-day basis, there is nothing that members do in the modern legislature that is not affected by their staffs (Rundquist, Schneider, and Pauls 1992). In Congress, staff outnumber their elected principals by a ratio of 45:1 (Ornstein,...

The new face of government: citizen-initiated contacts in the era of e-government.
January 1, 2003... One of the most remarkable and dramatic changes in recent decades has been the explosion of interest in the Internet, with the phenomenon of e-commerce--unheard of only a decade ago--becoming in just a few years a principal growth area in the...

In the web of politics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman. 2000. In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive. Washington, D.C.: Brookings. 230 pp. In 1981, Joel Aberbach and Bert Rockman (with their colleague Robert Putnam) published...

Forging bureaucratic autonomy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Daniel P. Carpenter. 2001. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press. 479 pp. It is entirely fitting that Gifford Pinchot...

Public-sector performance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Richard C. Kearney and Evan M. Berman, eds. 1999. Public Sector Performance: Management, Motivation, and Measurement Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 372 pp. Much of the promise and achievement of public-sector performance management--as...

Civil Servants and Their Constitutions.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... John Rohr. 2002. Civil Servants and Their Constitutions. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 208 pp. John Rohr's knowledge is great, his tone of address mild, and his reflective attitude calm. Rohr has chosen four countries to study: the...