Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 1998

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 1998

Legislatures: rational systems or rational myths?
July 1, 1998... Legislatures have been neglected in the literature on organizations. Organization theory, with roots in sociology, industrial psychology, and economics, was developed around an interest in understanding the private firm. Theories of public...

Assessing health care report cards.
July 1, 1998... Report cards have become a prominent feature of the health policy landscape (F. Thompson 1994; Epstein 1995; Corrigan and Rogers 1995; Brennan and Berwick 1996). Although the federal government no longer distributes annual hospital report...

The impact of federal grants and other funds on general fund expenditure decisions: a detailed analysis of one city.
July 1, 1998... In their book, Underground Government: The Off-Budget Public Sector (1984), James Bennett and Thomas DiLorenzo examine the trends and implications of off-budget expenditures at all levels of government. The term off-budget refers to government...

Pay, productivity, and the public sector: the case of electrical engineers.
July 1, 1998... Although most U.S. governments have committed themselves to policies of pay comparability between the public and private sectors, few observers believe they have achieved that goal. As we will show, opinions vary markedly about whether...

Whistle blowers in the federal civil service: new evidence of the public service ethic.
July 1, 1998... For some time, public administrationists have suggested that some individuals are imbued with a unique public-service ethic that attracts them to government service and drives their subsequent job performance (Perry 1996; Crewson 1995a;...

The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy.
July 1, 1998... William R. Barnes and Larry C. Ledebur. 1998. The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage. The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy advocates a new...

Games Real Actors Play: Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research.
July 1, 1998... Fritz W. Scharpf. 1997. Games Real Actors Play: Actor-Centered Institutionalism in Policy Research. Boulder, Colo: Westview. 318 pp. Given specific social problems, why do some public policies rather than others emerge as solutions? To what...