Recently added articles from Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory:
Reforming public management: analyzing the impact of public service reform on organizational and managerial trust.
Oct 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION The interest in reforming public sector human resource management (HRM) has been associated with politicians and management reformers seeking to implement aspects of new public management (NPM) and public choice theory. In an effort to enhance efficiency, public ...
Political orientations and behavior of public employees: a cross-national comparison.
Oct 01, 2009; ... In the Weberian view, bureaucrats are expected to rely on objectivity, expertise, and professionalism in carrying out their duties. However, they are also actors in an inherently, and irreducibly, political world and are entrusted with implementing decisions made through political ...
The political economy of service organization reform in China: an institutional choice analysis.
Oct 01, 2009; ... China is widely known for its economic growth in the past two and a half decades. Less well known, however, have been the numerous efforts undertaken, especially in the past decade, to reform its governance system. Many of these governance reform efforts have sprung from the realization ...
Leadership, service reform, and public-service networks: the case of cancer-genetics pilots in the English NHS.
Oct 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Across the economically developed world over the last 10-15 years, governments have pursued increasingly interlaced strategies aimed at reforming public-service provision. Transformative efforts to "Reinvent Government" (Osborne and Gaebler 1992) in the United ...
Exploring the influence of local policy networks on the implementation of drug policy reform: the case of California's Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act.
Oct 01, 2009; ... The network theme has emerged as an important component in the study of policy implementation and public management (Hall and O'toole 2004). (1) As social problems become more complex and policy makers seek more local flexibility and greater choice in delivery of services, public policies ...