Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2004

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2004

The middle aging of New Public Management: into the age of paradox?(Articles)
July 1, 2004... THE MIDDLE AGING OF NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT A bureaucratic Rip van Winkle who awoke in the new century after twenty years of slumber might be surprised by the scale of the international "New Public Management" (NPM) industry that had grown...

Institutional isomorphism and public sector organizations.(Articles)
July 1, 2004... Though it has not penetrated deeply into the public administration literature to date, the new institutionalism in organizational analysis has made significant contributions to our understanding of the dynamics of organizations. It has moved...

Riding the wave of opportunity: termination in public policy.(Articles)
July 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION: TERMINATION IN THE POLICY CYCLE Policy analysis was born at an optimistic time: it was the 1960s, and policy analysis sought to develop methods for identifying good, cost-efficient policy alternatives. In this bright...

Comparing the Stewart-Sprinthall Management Survey and the Defining Issues Test-2 as measures of moral reasoning in public administration.(Articles)
July 1, 2004... Public administrators perform complex ethical decision-making tasks in which they must balance professional accountability to agencies, legislators, private stakeholders, and the public. It is often the public administrator who determines how...

Framing moves: interpretive politics at the Federal Reserve.(Articles)
July 1, 2004... This article offers a new approach for studying the micropolitics of policymaking groups. By identifying framing moves, that is, the efforts of group members to influence the interpretation of information, and by mapping the temporal order of...

Denying public value: the role of the public sector in accounts of the development of the Internet.(Articles)
July 1, 2004... It is difficult to recall and acknowledge that the federal government has played a major role in launching and giving momentum to the computer revolution, which now takes pride of place among the nation's recent technological...

Testing a multi-dimensional model of organizational performance: prospects and problems.(Articles)
July 1, 2004... Few topics have perhaps vexed public and nonprofit management scholars more than the question of what constitutes organizational performance or effectiveness. Numerous scholars throughout the development of organization theory have focused on...

Using multiple informants in public administration: revisiting the managerial values and actions debate.(Methods And Epistemology)
July 1, 2004... Survey evidence in public administration research has typically been drawn from single informants. This is the case in the managerial values and actions debate that seeks to provide evidence on the extent of, and reasons for, the adoption of...

When government isn't exactly government.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Jonathan G. S. Koppell. 2003. The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 254 pp. This book by Jonathan Koppell, Assistant Professor at the...

Governing values and relationships--by contract.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Phillip J. Cooper. 2003. Governing by Contract: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press. 192 pp. This is a lively, thoughtful book that engages most of the important dilemmas...