Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 2003

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 2003

Bounded rationality and political science: lessons from public administration and public policy.
October 1, 2003... Most people who study politics and government care little about the fine details of the specifics of human cognition; they are quite content to leave that to biologists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists. What they cannot escape, however,...

Dark networks as problems.
October 1, 2003... Most of the literature on networks and collaboration is quite positive. Collaborative networks are seen as appropriate devices to tackle public management problems and to successfully coordinate political, social, and economic action. Figure 1...

Transaction costs and institutional explanations for government service production decisions.
October 1, 2003... Perhaps the central decision that governments make is choosing which services to deliver to citizens. However, governments also decide how to deliver these services. Traditionally governments have internally produced services--that is, they...

Look for the silver lining: when performance-based accountability systems work.
October 1, 2003... Reforms intended to create results-based government and management have been frequent and widespread in the United States and elsewhere for the past decade. Managing for results (MFR), many have argued, will not only increase overall...

Strategic planning environment, process, and performance in public agencies: a comparative study of departments in Milwaukee.
October 1, 2003... Since the 1980s governments at all levels of this country and others have been implementing a series of related reforms that focus on making government more productive, responsive, and focused on performance. For many governments the first...

Policy diffusion through institutional legitimation: state lotteries.
October 1, 2003... In the general diffusion of innovations as well as in public policy diffusion, the process may transpire in a relatively coherent fashion, with those adopting a policy having internal characteristics that make the adoption appear very standard....

Governing structures and structured governing: local political control of public services in Denmark.
October 1, 2003... This article explores the impact of the institutions that structure governing in three cases of public-service provision in Denmark. High schools and hospitals are the responsibility of locally elected officials in the county councils. Local...

Are Federal Trust Fund Locked Boxes a Lock?(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Erik M. Patashnik. 2000. Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 280 pp. A "trust fund" is a federal budget category in which revenues are typically...

The Challenge of Leadership in a Federal Agency.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Beryl A. Radin. 2002. The Accountable Juggler: The Art of Leadership in a Federal Agency. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press. 160 pp. While not a novel book, Beryl Radin's The Accountable Juggler is a valuable one for...