Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2002

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2002

Control, bargains, and cheating: the politics of public-service reform. (Articles).
July 1, 2002... So much academic attention has been given to executive government reforms over recent decades that a person would need to be a public administration Rip Van Winkle, asleep for twenty years, to have missed the exploding worldwide discussion of...

The plot that failed: the republican revolution and congressional control of the bureaucracy. (Articles).
July 1, 2002... There is now a considerable body of evidence, much of it guided by a principal-agent model, that suggests that public bureaucracies are much more responsive to political principals than previously has been thought. There is, for example, a...

Representative bureaucracy in the federal executive: gender and spending priorities. (Articles).
July 1, 2002... With women's growing presence in all branches of government, scholars recently have begun to assess whether or not female political elites alter the substantive policy outputs of government. In 1992, a number of female candidates running for...

Dimensions and patterns in employee empowerment: assessing what matters to street-level bureaucrats. (Articles).
July 1, 2002... Employee empowerment has grown in importance in public administration. Early concern for employees as human resources and for the social aspects of work grew into the Quality of Work Life movement and such other efforts (e.g., McGregor 1960;...

Politics and administration in U.S. local governments. (Articles).
July 1, 2002... The relationship between elected and appointed officials constitutes an enduring and important issue both in democratic theory and in the practice and behavior of public administrators. Practitioners and scholars continue to puzzle about this...

Effective contract implementation and management: a preliminary model. (Articles).
July 1, 2002... A number of state governments recently have enacted reforms that rely on contracting with private organizations for a variety of social services. The proliferation of state contracting is related in part to major reforms in the two largest...

Success and failure in public governance.
July 1, 2002... Mark Bovens, Paul t'Hart, and B. Guy Peters, eds. 2001. Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative Analysis. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar. 688 pp. The literature on governmental performance falls into two categories. There...

Market democracies.
July 1, 2002... Robert E. Lane. 2000. The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 480 pp. Two centuries ago only propertied white men voted--in those few spots on the globe fortunate enough not to be ruled by...