Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 2004

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 2004

Public management and organizational performance: the case of law enforcement agencies.
January 1, 2004... The impact of management on performance in public organizations has long been a key question in public administration (see Barnard 1939; Brudney, O'Toole, and Rainey 2000; Rainey 2003). Much of the research in this area has been case based and...

Performance management by culture in the National Labor Relations Board's division of judges and the German Labor Courts of Appeal.
January 1, 2004... "No carrot and no stick": This is how Edward B. Miller (1999, 60), former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), summarizes the employment system operating on the NLRB's administrative law judges. Like other employees in public...

Management as an agent of cultural change in the Turkish public sector.
January 1, 2004... Management of culture is one of the most frequently discussed organizational concepts of the last two or three decades (Driscoll and Morris 2001). Emanating from the United States and Japan, "culture" was quickly disseminated by many large...

The role of work context in work motivation: a public sector application of goal and social cognitive theories.
January 1, 2004... For over two decades, public administration scholars have highlighted a need for an improved understanding of the motivational context in public sector organizations (Balk 1974; Behn 1995; Perry and Porter 1982; Rainey and Steinbauer 1999)....

Managerial values and accountability pressures: challenges of crisis and disaster.
January 1, 2004... Christopher Hood (1991) identifies three broad categories of administrative values: sigma values of economic and purposeful government, which we call production results values; theta values of honesty and fairness, which we call rectitude; and...

Joined-up government in the western world in comparative perspective: a preliminary literature review and exploration.
January 1, 2004... The challenge of improving coordination horizontally within government is an eternal one (Peters 1998a). Administrative reorganization to clarify roles and divisions of labor as a solution to perceived lack of horizontal coordination was...

Governance, governance everywhere.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye Jr., eds. 2001. Governance amid Bigger, Better Markets. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 354 pp. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye Jr., eds. 2002. Market-Based Governance: Supply Side,...

Government: We don't like it, but it won't go away.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Derek Bok. 2001. The Trouble with Government Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 493 pp. In 1955, Alfred Hitchcock produced a lively dark comedy, The Trouble with Harry. The trouble with Harry, it turns out, is that he is dead. The...