Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory articles from October 2008

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory archives from October 2008

Organizing attention: responses of the bureaucracy to agenda disruption.(Report)
October 1, 2008... One of the hallmarks of public bureaucracies is their ability to digest routine requests from policymakers to "do more" or to "do better." Yet, on occasion the demands are novel because the problem has changed or there is a greater sense of...

Collaborative governance in theory and practice.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Over the last two decades, a new strategy of governing called "collaborative governance" has developed. This mode of governance brings multiple stakeholders together in common forums with public agencies to engage in consensus-oriented decision...

Employee turnover and organizational performance: testing a hypothesis from classical public administration.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Employee turnover is a neglected topic in public administration (Selden and Moynihan 2000, 74). One of the leading public personnel texts devotes only a single brief mention to turnover in reference to the Volcker Commission Report (Nigro,...

An empirical evaluation of innovation types and organizational and environmental characteristics: towards a configuration framework.(Report)
October 1, 2008... Evidence clearly demonstrates that innovation is within the grasp of managers in public organizations (Borins 1998; Light 1998; Moore 1995; Osborne 1998; Walker et al. 2001). A growing number of research studies have sought to place this...

Network management reconsidered: an inquiry into management of network structures in public sector service provision.(Report)
October 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION For at least 40 years, political and policy scientists have sought a conceptualization of policy and political processes that can frankly acknowledge the role of public agencies and private organizations in policymaking,...

Exit, voice, loyalty, and pay: evidence from the public workforce.(Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... INTRODUCTION Albert O. Hirschman argued in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States that individuals respond to a decline in the quality of an organization by choosing from three possible...

Local policy networks and agricultural watershed management.(Survey)
October 1, 2008... The main goal of this article is to analyze the role of local policy networks for the implementation of agricultural watershed management. Policy networks consist of interconnected actors in a policy subsystem who communicate information about...

Representative bureaucracy: exploring the potential for active representation in local government.(Survey)
October 1, 2008... As is widely understood, the theory of representative bureaucracy suggests that diversity within the public workforce, especially in terms of characteristics such as race and ethnicity, will help to ensure that the interests of diverse groups...