Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from January 2007

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from January 2007

Bureaucracy redux: management reformism and the welfare state.
January 1, 2007... Bureaucratic discretion is a fundamental feature of social provision, one that presents enduring difficulties for management. In the United States the oft-remarked "bureaucracy problem" has drawn the ire of policymakers and citizens alike...

Strategic appointments.(George W. Bush)
January 1, 2007... After his election in 1988, George Bush appointed ostensibly dueling extremists to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Interior. Candidate Bush had dubbed himself an "environmentalist," making these...

"Shielding" the knowledge transfer process in human service research.
January 1, 2007... Given the increase in social science scholarship that attempts to affect public policy, it is not surprising that there has been a concomitant growth in work that aims to understand the ways in which such knowledge crosses the boundary between...

Does democracy matter? A transatlantic research design on democratic performance and special purpose governments.
January 1, 2007... How does the structure and intensity of democratic engagement and supervision affect public service performance? This article proposes a research design, potential data set, and initial hypotheses that can be used to generate answers to this...

Exploring the causal story: gender, active representation, and bureaucratic priorities.
January 1, 2007... The literature on representative bureaucracy has expanded recently and has begun to focus on the role that institutions play in the translation of political presence (passive representation) into political influence (active representation)...

An advocacy coalition framework approach to stakeholder analysis: understanding the political context of California marine protected area policy.
January 1, 2007... The Death of Environmentalism (Shellenberger and Nordhaus 2004) criticized the environmental movement for defining the underlying causes of environmental problems as technical deficiencies rather than value conflicts. While Shellenberger and...

"Choice of organizational form makes a real difference": the impact of corporatization on government agencies in Canada.
January 1, 2007... New public management (NPM) ideas concerning the scope of government have influenced governments around the world (Hood 1991; Ridley 1996; Scott 2001). NPM has been most dramatically summed up as "reinventing government" (Osborne and Gaebler...

Public management by the book.
January 1, 2007... Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., and Christopher Pollitt, eds. 2005. The Oxford Handbook of Public Management. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 789 pp. The publication by Oxford University Press of a handbook of public...

Reform gone bad, gone good, and gone nowhere.(Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... J. Edward Kellough and Lloyd Nigro, eds. 2006. Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 336 pp. There is a revolution underway in the...