Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 1998

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 1998

Amateur Government.
October 1, 1998... No one would ever have brain surgery performed by a science policy expert without a medical degree, someone who had never set foot inside an operating room. No one would ever have a high-rise office tower designed and built by a real estate...

Implementing Information Technology in Government: An Empirical Assessment of the Role of Local Partnerships.
October 1, 1998... Public managers in the current era confront two dissimilar vistas. In one direction we can see mounting evidence that a high-technology information society is close at hand: a world awash with ever more and ever newer computerized tools to...

Constitutions As Relational Contracts: Explaining Procedural Safeguards in Municipal Charters.
October 1, 1998... CONSTITUTIONS AS RELATIONAL CONTRACTS Constitutions facilitate cooperation. From neighborhood associations to nations, a constitution specifies who may be a member of a group, what the group does, and how it makes decisions. The...

Institutions and Time: Problems of Conceptualization and Explanation.
October 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION: TIME IN INSTITUTIONAL THEORY Over the past few decades, institutional theories have emerged as a powerful framework for understanding policy choice and public policy as well as political and social behavior in a broader sense....

Institutionalism: Intergovernmental Exchange, Administration-Centered Behavior, and Policy Outcomes in Urban Agencies.
October 1, 1998... For many years, institutionalism has been a primary means of applying organization theory to public administration. More recent interest, however, is sparked by growing complexities and increased outcome uncertainties associated with American...

Strategies in Governmental Accounting.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Roy T. Meyers. 1996. Strategic Budgeting. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 246 pp. Roy Meyers presents a virtual handbook of strategies linked primarily to governmental accounting and reporting practices that influence the budget...

Framework for Change.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Montgomery Van Wart. 1998. Changing Public Sector Values. New York: Garland, Inc. Professor Van Wart has undertaken an ambitious project with two goals in mind: to chart the value changes that are occurring in the public sector and to...