Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2006

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2006

Interests and implementation: fostering voluntary regulatory actions.
July 1, 2006... Most of the understanding of regulatory policy implementation is based on the study of regulatory mandates that establish directives for addressing particular harms and specific classes of regulated entities. Less attention has been given to...

Taking initiative: proactive management and organizational performance in networked environments.
July 1, 2006... INTRODUCTION For more than a century, the classical intraorganizational management perspective has guided studies in public administration. Unfortunately, this orientation is increasingly inapplicable as agencies become characterized as...

Administrative responsiveness to the disadvantaged: the case of children's health insurance.
July 1, 2006... Students of American politics and pluralism have long emphasized that certain groups face power deficits. As E. E. Schattschneider (1960, 35) observed over four decades ago, "The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings...

Taking tough choices seriously: public administration and individual moral agency.
July 1, 2006... The thoughtful bureaucrat is the subject of this article. The study of public administration in general should be aimed at analyzing how public administrators make decisions in the face of dilemmas and in the context of the structures that...

Managing stakeholder involvement in decision making: a comparative analysis of six interactive processes in the Netherlands.
July 1, 2006... All over the world, governments are exploring different types of decision making that considers the increased interdependency of public actors on private, semiprivate, and other public actors. This also enhances the opportunity for citizen...

Dramatic reform in the public service: at-will employment and the creation of a new public workforce.
July 1, 2006... Advocates for public management reform have frequently identified traditional civil service structures and their associated rules and regulations as prime targets for administrative change, with the objective of establishing more "efficient"...

New public management is dead--long live digital-era governance.
July 1, 2006... Defining periods in the evolution of any complex system, such as public management systems in advanced industrial countries, is a tricky task. New developments accrete and accumulate while older trends are still playing out and apparently...

Privatization and the public interest: Highway 407 revisited.(If You Build It: Business, Government and Ontario's Electronic Toll Highway)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Chandran Mylvaganam and Sandford Borins. 2004. "If You Build It...": Business, Government, and Ontario's Electronic Toll Highway. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 164 pp. The term "privatization" is typically used to...