Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2001

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2001

Managerial Strategies and Behavior in Networks: A Model with Evidence from U.S. Public Education.
July 1, 2001... Public managers often operate in settings that involve public and other institutional actors networked in patterns of interdependence. Considerable attention has been focused on networks, as scholars in a number of countries have sought to...

Big Questions in Public Network Management Research.
July 1, 2001... As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long is it alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.... It is by the solution of problems that the investigator tests the...

Municipal Reinvention: Managerial Values and Diffusion among Municipalities.
July 1, 2001... After extensive debate about and implementation of various concepts of new public management (NPM)(1) during the last decade, public management scholars have recently turned to the evaluation of theoretical frameworks and reinvention efforts in...

Comprehensive Administrative Reform Implementation: Moving beyond Single Issue Implementation Research.
July 1, 2001... Comprehensive state government administrative reform(1) is relatively rare (Chackerian 1996; Garnett 1980). The most prevalent type of reform tends to be simple and incremental, leading to small changes mainly in intraorganizational structure,...

Measuring Power and Presence: Bureaucratic Representation in the American States.
July 1, 2001... A fundamental concern in liberal democracies is whether socially and politically meaningful groups are fairly represented in the full range of public business, including equitable access to government employment. This latter is of interest not...

Hypotheses about Performance Measurement in Counties: Findings from a Survey.
July 1, 2001... Governments in the United States have a long history of reporting performance indicators (General Accounting Office [GAO] 1997a; Hatry 1978; Poister and Streib 1984; 1989; 1994). Although a considerable amount of literature has recently emerged...

Policy Entrepreneurs and Social Choice.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Michael Mintrom. 2000. Policy Entrepreneurs and Social Choice. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, Cloth $65.00; Paper $24.95, 336 pages. School choice is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary discussions about...