Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2005

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2005

A model of choice for public policy.
July 1, 2005... Incrementalism implies that policy choice at a particular time is a marginal adjustment from a previous policy choice. The model has been thoroughly discredited by theoretical, methodological, and empirical critiques, but it survives because no...

Interest group participation in rule making: a decade of change.
July 1, 2005... The study of lobbying and the role that interest groups play in the U.S. democratic system continues to be of interest to political scientists. We continue to learn more about how organizations attempt to influence public policy at a number of...

Linking citizen satisfaction with e-government and trust in government.
July 1, 2005... During the past four decades, there has been a decline of public trust in government. The decline offers tough challenges to politicians, public administrators, and citizens because it implies the loss of public confidence in political and...

Exploring and explaining contracting out: patterns among the American states.
July 1, 2005... Research in public administration and allied fields is often castigated for following rather than leading developing trends in practice. That case cannot be made with respect to privatization, however, especially public contracting for the...

Testing how management matters in an era of government by performance management.(Frederick Mosher's Democracy and the Public Service)
July 1, 2005... AN ERA OF GOVERNMENT BY PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Frederick Mosher's Democracy and the Public Service (1982) characterizes the history of public administration in the United States as falling into different eras. He portrays the twentieth...

A question of Genesis: an analysis of the determinants of public authorities.
July 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The past half century in the United States has seen a dramatic yet little remarked experiment in local government: specifically, state and local governments are increasingly choosing to solve policy problems by spinning off...

Grading the graders.(Government Performance: Why Management Matters)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Patricia Ingraham, Philip K. Joyce, and Amy Kneedler Donahue. 2003. Government Performance: Why Management Matters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 193 pp. This book is the flagship report on the Government Performance Project...

Making a market in education.(Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems, The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, Market-Based Reforms in Urban Education and School Choice: Doing It the Right Way Makes a Difference)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Frederick M. Hess. 2002. Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. 268 pp. William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson. 2002. The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban...

Goo-goos in paradise.(Promoting Welfare: Government Information Policy and Social Citizenship, Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Penny Leonard. 2003. Promoting Welfare? Government Information Policy and Social Citizenship. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 176 pp. Lawrence M. Mead. 2004. Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University...