Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 1997

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 1997

Why must we reinvent the federal government? Putting historical developmental claims to the test.
July 1, 1997... In several recent studies of public administration that are meant to shape public policy, authors have argued that administrative structures in America have changed little from their Weberian rational-legal form in the Progressive Era to the...

Bureaucracy's house in the polis: seeking an appropriate presence.(The Waldo Symposium)
July 1, 1997... Dwight Waldo has left us many wonderful aphorisms to enrich our discourse. One is that democracy is Greek while administration is Roman. Another is that democracy is horizontal while hierarchical administration is vertical, suggesting an...

Size and organizational differentiation in historical perspective.
July 1, 1997... During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries public bureaucracies grew in size and scope at an unprecendented rate. The combined effects of industrialization, urbanization, technological innovation, democratization, the...

The implications for democracy in a networked bureaucratic world.(The Waldo Symposium)
July 1, 1997... [B]oth private and public administration were in an important and far-reaching sense false to the ideal of democracy. They were false by reason of their insistence that democracy, however good and desirable, is nevertheless something...

Bureaucratic reform and issues of political responsiveness.
July 1, 1997... As the town meeting is both a real and a metaphorical representation of democracy, so also state and local government organizations are often the exemplification of bureaucracy for many citizens. Bureaucracy, writ small in many local...

Secularization of public administration.
July 1, 1997... The excitement and meaning of our very existence--indeed, the future of life itself on this planet--is linked to the administrative process. Theory, values and practice are inexorably interwoven and enmeshed. It is this complex net which is the...

The State of Public Management.
July 1, 1997... Donald F. Kettl and H. Brinton Milward, eds. 1996. The State of Public Management. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 324 pp.; $16.95 soft cover. The State of Public Management reflects the development of the field of public...