Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 2004

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... The October 2004 and January 2005 issues of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory mark two very important changes. First, with this issue of JPART, Beryl A. Radin finishes her term as managing editor. The new editor, Carolyn...

Announcement.
October 1, 2004... In January 2005, JPART will go electronic! Keeping in step with other top academic journals, JPART is adopting a new electronic manuscript processing and review system that will benefit everyone. Authors should anticipate a reduction in time...

JPART symposium introduction: researching intergovernmental relations.
October 1, 2004... So long as there have been systems of dividing decisions and functions of governments there have been attempts to organize and manage them. "Intergovernmental relations, not always recognized as such and certainly not so denominated, have been...

The devolution revolution in intergovernmental relations in the 1990s: changes in cooperative and coercive state-national relations as perceived by state administrators.
October 1, 2004... Few words relevant to intergovernmental relations were featured more recently and frequently than devolution or devolution revolution. In the 1990s a series of congressional, presidential, and judicial actions was taken to shift policy...

Public management in intergovernmental networks: matching structural networks and managerial networking.
October 1, 2004... In the United States, intergovernmental programs have become more the rule than the exception. Most "national" public initiatives are implemented with active involvement by states and localities, and a large portion of U.S.-based state programs...

Another look at bargaining and negotiating in intergovernmental management.
October 1, 2004... Lost within the recent attention given to network management and collaboration is the continuing importance of bargaining and negotiation in intergovernmental relations and management. The field of public management has been learning a great...

Devolution, fiscal federalism, and changing patterns of municipal revenues: the mismatch between theory and reality.
October 1, 2004... In an essay entitled "The New American Devolution: Problems and Prospects," Max Sawicky observes that "if we exclude Social Security, Medicare, net interest on the federal debt, and defense from the total expenditures of federal, state, and...

Horizontal federalism: exploring interstate interactions.
October 1, 2004... The study of intergovernmental relations is typically vertical, that is, the relationship of a government at one level with governments at another level: the national government with the states or the states with their local governments. But...

Solidary and functional costs: explaining the presidential appointment contradiction.
October 1, 2004... ADDRESSING A CONTRADICTION There is a fundamental puzzle in the executive appointment literature. Presidential and bureaucratic scholars now argue that political appointments represent the single greatest source of presidential influence...

Interest group influence on managerial priorities in public organizations.
October 1, 2004... The recognition that public bureaucracies are political entities that make important policy choices, as well as depend on political support for their legitimacy, has spawned a large body of research on the interaction between these...

Linking passive and active representation: the case of frontline workers in welfare agencies.
October 1, 2004... There is a rich body of research addressing the issue of representative bureaucracy in the passive sense (i.e., the degree to which the social characteristics of the bureaucracy reflect the social characteristics of the populations the...