Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2000

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2000

From Organizational Values to Organizational Roles: Examining Representative Bureaucracy in State Administration.
July 1, 2000... Recent empirical studies have established the importance of representative bureaucracy in the American political system (Meier and Stewart 1992; Meier 1993a; Hindera 1993; Selden, Brudney, and Kellough 1998). These investigations have expanded...

The Senior Executive Service: Gender, Attitudes, and Representative Bureaucracy.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Political scientists commonly assume that public administrators influence public policy through their use of administrative discretion. Positioned at the top of the federal career bureaucracy, Senior Executive Service (SES) members work...

Work Motivation in the Senior Executive Service: Testing the High Performance Cycle Theory.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Work motivation is one of the most intensely studied topics in the social sciences,(1) and it is one of the big questions in public management (Belin 1995). Scholars have devoted substantial time and effort to developing a master theory of work...

Defining the Implementation Problem: Organizational Management versus Cooperation.
July 1, 2000... The main thrust of research in the area of Public-policy implementation has been to analyze the problems of implementing public policy. In other words, What accounts for the differential success of public policies in the implementation process?...

Where Do Policy Ideas Come From? A Study of Minnesota Legislators and Staffers.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2000... Many books have been written about how bills become laws, with details of the bills' journeys through the U.S. Congress or state legislatures. But only one notable book--by John Kingdon--has been written on how an idea becomes a bill; this book...

Regulatory Negotiation versus Conventional Rule Making: Claims, Counterclaims, and Empirical Evidence.
July 1, 2000... Negotiated rule making is a relatively new alternative to conventional rule making. While it is most often considered to be a procedural reform of more conventional administrative practice, it is, in fact, statutory public policy. The use of...

Legislative Success and Failure and Participation in Rule Making.
July 1, 2000... In contemporary American national government, much public policy is made in the bureaucracy, through activities such as adjudication and rule making. Bureaucratic policy making is important not only because of its prevalence, but also because...

Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America.(Review)
July 1, 2000... David Rusk. 1999. Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. 375 pp., $28.95 cloth. Inside Game/Outside Game is a very personal book. The author, David Rusk, serves...