Recently added articles from Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory:
Politics versus professionalism: the effect of institutional structure on democratic decision making in a cContested policy arena.
Jul 01, 2008; Bourdeaux, Carolyn ... INTRODUCTION Scholars of public administration and public policy analysis have long been preoccupied with the problem of melding professional policy knowledge with democratic decision making (Bimber 1991; Shulock 1999). A policy area where this is particularly difficult is in ...
What determines how long political appointees serve?
Jul 01, 2008; Wood, B. Dan ... INTRODUCTION The US Constitution charges the president to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Enabling this charge, the president is empowered to "require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer of each of the executive Departments." Through time, the ...
Choosing public sector employment: the impact of wages on the representation of women and minorities in state bureaucracies.
Jul 01, 2008; Llorens, Jared J. ... The extent to which the public bureaucracy is representative of the society it serves has long been considered an important issue by scholars interested in the interplay between public administration and democracy. Concern has focused especially on the representation of women and racial ...
Political insulation, information exchange, and interest group access to the bureaucracy.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Reenock, Christopher M. ... When legislative coalitions face uncertain political futures, they have an incentive to use agency design (McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast [McNollgast] 1987, 1989) to protect their policies from future elected officials (De Figueiredo 2002; De Figueiredo and Vanden Bergh 2004; Moe 1989, ...
Nonprofit organizations in environmental management: a comparative analysis of government impacts.(Clinical report)
Jul 01, 2008; Nikolic, Sara J.S. ... Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have been part of the institutional fabric of the United States throughout its history. However, the government and nonprofit sectors have become increasingly intertwined and interdependent in recent years. Governments have come to depend on the nonprofit ...
Sector perceptions among state-level public managers.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Feeney, Mary K. ... INTRODUCTION In the face of widespread retirements, the reform or removal of civil service protections, increased outsourcing, reduction-in-force layoffs, and other efforts to do more with less, public agencies face the ever-growing challenge to attract and retain skilled ...
Transit contracting reexamined: determinants of cost efficiency and resource allocation.
Jul 01, 2008; Zullo, Roland ... During the Reagan Era, public transit was identified as a promising service for privatization (Lave 1985; Savas 1987; Waiters 1987), and definitive steps were taken to involve private firms in the delivery of transit services. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) issued ...