Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from July 2007

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from July 2007

Strategic management and the performance of public organizations: testing venerable ideas against recent theories.(Author abstract)
July 1, 2007... Systematic evidence has accumulated in recent years that public management makes a difference in a variety of ways when programs are implemented (for recent coverage, see Ingraham and Lynn 2004; also Lynn et al. 2001). Particularly salient in...

E-government and bureaucracy: toward a better understanding of intranet implementation and its effect on red tape.
July 1, 2007... Weberian bureaucracies are highly ordered, rule-bound, hierarchically structured systems of authority designed to implement and administer politically determined policies and programs in a neutral fashion (Bozeman 2000; Rainey 2003). While...

Institutional shaping of interagency working: managing tensions between collaborative working and client confidentiality.(Author abstract)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION For some years, governments in the United Kingdom have increased the pressure on public services to share personal information with other agencies about the people with whom they work, especially in such fields as health and...

Resource tangibility and patterns of interaction in a publicly funded health and human services network.
July 1, 2007... The role of government in the United States has changed over the past 10-15 years. Public services are now often provided by a complex network of partnerships, contracts, and alliances between government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and...

Performance targets and public service improvement.
July 1, 2007... One of the most enduring debates in the public administration literature concerns the relative merits of rational planning and incrementalism as alternative styles of policy making (Lindblom 1959, 1979; Simon 1961; Dror 1968; Wildavsky 1973;...

Toward a relevant agenda for a responsive public administration.
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Public administration is at crossroads. Once dominated by a technical-rational culture, public administration is now traveling three not necessarily compatible paths: technical-rational, entrepreneurial, and citizen...

The smart-seller challenge: exploring the determinants of privatizing public nursing homes.(Author abstract)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In the early 1990s, Donald Kettl coined the phrase "smart-buyer government" to describe a trained, informed, and responsible ideal of the public sector (Kettl 1993). Being a "smart buyer" was increasingly important as the...

Interpreting public administration.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwart-Shea, eds. 2006. Interpretation and Methods: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 440 pp. This is only a "methods" book in the sense that Moby Dick is a book...

Social capital complications.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Jo Anne Schneider. 2006. Social Capital and Welfare Reform: Organizations, Congregations, and Communities. New York: Columbia University Press. 456 pp. Welfare reform is complicated. And, befitting such a topic, this is a complicated book....