Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 2000

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 2000

Onto the Darkling Plain: Globalization and the American Public Service in the Twenty-First Century.
October 1, 2000... Although globalization has perhaps not yet quite achieved the currency of reinvention, quality, performance, or some of the other mots au courant in contemporary public administration, it is clearly a term on the move. Most major public...

Why Elephants Gallop: Assessing and Predicting Organizational Performance in Federal Agencies.
October 1, 2000... Improving the performance of government agencies is a central concern of public administration, and speculation about the factors related to agency effectiveness is abundant in the literature and elsewhere. Unfortunately, little effort has been...

Public-Service Motivation: A Multivariate Test.
October 1, 2000... Efforts to improve the performance of government organizations hinge in part on the ability to successfully motivate public employees. Often looking toward the private sector for guidance, reform efforts frequently have borrowed tools used in...

Moving Beyond Discretion and Outcomes: Examining Public Management from the Front Lines of the Welfare System.
October 1, 2000... As a field, public management is in a period of substantial, far reaching changes. The new public management is reorienting the field by offering new paradigms, new goals, and new processes to practitioners and researchers (Ingraham and Romzek...

Strategic Stewards: Managing Accountability, Building Trust.
October 1, 2000... Libraries and conflict? Joining the two seems to be a contradiction of terms. As many of the participants in my study commented, "Everyone loves libraries." Yet city managers report that these well-loved local public services are often a thorn...

Examining Red Tape in Public Private Organizations: Alternative Explanations from a Social Psychological Model.(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2000... Theoretical frameworks, just like mirrors, have blind spots. The oft-quoted dictum by Waldo, "[O]ne man's red tape is another man's system," aptly sums up the nature of a blind spot regarding red tape (Waldo 1946, 399).(1) Most explanations of...

Information Technology and Restructuring in Public Organizations: Does Adoption of Information Technology Affect Organizational Structures, Communications, and Decision Making?(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2000... The relationship between organizational structure and information technology (IT) has long been of interest to researchers. Opinions vary as to how IT affects organizational structure. It is often supposed that IT creates a flatter...

Public Service and Democracy: Ethical Imperatives for the 21st Century.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Louis C. Gawthrop. 1998. Public Service and Democracy: Ethical Imperatives for the 21st Century. New York: Chatham House. 192 pp. $35.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. In Public Service and Democracy Louis C. Gawthrop addresses an important...