Recently added articles from Public Administration Quarterly:
REEXAMINING DEVOLUTION
Dec 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION The focus of this investigation will reexamine the concept of devolution which has become the new framework for administering federal welfare policy based on the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Welfare programs are now ...
CRITICAL SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND SERVICE LEARNING METHODS: INVESTIGATING SOCIAL CLASS AND INEQUALITY THROUGH MPA COURSES
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In the fall of 2000 at their annual meeting the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) identified the need for Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs to better prepare managers for public sector careers by providing them with ...
REDRESSING INFORMATION INEQUALITY THROUGH SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH: THE CASE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Within the context of environmental justice, this essay will identify publicly available socio-economic data sets and suggest how they may be used for more effective empirical research (allowing for collaboration between scholars and practitioners). For analytical purposes, the ...
INCOME INEQUALITY AND INDUSTRIAL COMPOSITION
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This paper starts with a review of a few selected papers on the magnitude, and trends in income inequality in the United States as a nation, at the state level, and internationally. Some of the potential determinants of income inequality in the United Sates are identified and ...
POVERTY STATUS AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES
Dec 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This research investigates the relevance of poverty status to explaining residents. willingness to pay for local public services. Specifically, it inquires whether the poor are willing to pay for services and then compares the poor and their higher income counterparts with ...