Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 1999

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 1999

Modeling the Impact of Public Management: Implications of Structural Context.
October 1, 1999... How does public management matter for the performance of public programs? Considerable literature suggests myriad ways that the actions of managers seem to shape the outputs and outcomes of public policy. Still, for all the investment by...

The Determinants of the Perceptions of Political Control of the Bureaucracy and the Venues of Influence.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... THE VENUES OF INFLUENCE The focus in most empirical studies of political control of the bureaucracy has been on one or at most a few policy actors. Primarily, studies have focused on the role of the president, Congress, and on occasion the...

Attention, Inertia, and Equity in the Social Security Program.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... Social Security has grown to be so large and to affect so many people that even minor adjustments can have important effects, and it appears that more than minor adjustments are now underway. This analysis uses punctuated equilibrium theory...

The Decline of Welfare in Wisconsin.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... The main weakness of public policy research published by political scientists is that it says little about the performance of government. Studies focus mainly on the policy process that gave rise to a program, seldom on the results of that...

Managing Uncertainty through Bureaucratic Design: Administrative Procedures and State Air Pollution Control Agencies.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... The rise of large government programs has led many scholars to worry that government bureaucracies lie outside the reach of democratic accountability. The returns from early research appear to bear this out (e.g., Bernstein 1955). After early...

The Challenge of Administration by Regulation: Preliminary Findings Regarding the U.S. Government's Venture Capital Funds.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... Hybrid organizations, entities that mix characteristics of private and public-sector institutions, are increasingly popular as solutions to policy problems. They perform a wide range of functions--from the financing of dormitory construction to...

The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Lawrence M. Mead, ed. 1997. The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. 355 pp., paper, ISBN: 0815756518, The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty is a collection of...

The Community of the Future.(Review)
October 1, 1999... F. Hesselbein, M. Goldsmith, R. Beckhard, and R. Schubert. 1998. The Community of the Future. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 285 pp., $25.00 hardcover. The close of any century, particularly at the turn of the millenium, results in concerns...

Catalytic Leadership: Strategies for an Interconnected World.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Jeffrey Luke. 1998. Catalytic Leadership: Strategies for an Interconnected World. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 275 pp., hardcover. The close of any century, particularly at the turn of the millenium, results in concerns about change,...

Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurship and Innovation.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Nancy Roberts and Paula King. 1996. Transforming Public Policy: Dynamics of Policy Entrepreneurship and Innovation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 280 pp., hardcover. The close of any century, particularly at the turn of the millenium,...