Recently added articles from Public Administration Quarterly:
THE DEMOCRATIC PEACE PHENOMENON, INSTITUTIONAL CREDIBILITY, AND PATH DEPENDENCY
Oct 01, 2008; Bittick, R M ... ABSTRACT This article explains the "Democratic Peace" phenomenon as a manifestation of a complex adaptive system in the international realm. This study argues that the Democratic Peace, the proposition that democracies do not go to war with each other, emerges from the path dependent ...
COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND UNCONVENTIONAL PROGRESS FOR THE NATIONAL AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Oct 01, 2008; Emison, Gerald Andrews ... ABSTRACT Environmental statutes are among the most complicated national legislation. These laws seek to integrate scientific ambiguity, political competition, management performance and intergovernmental relations. The Clean Air Act has seen considerable changes in the conditions under ...
COMPLEXITY OF PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Oct 01, 2008; Morçöl, Göktug ... That public policy and administration processes are complex is well known. Societies are multifaceted and dynamic; so should be the policies that are meant to govern them. This intuitive understanding makes complexity theory and related theoretical perspectives appealing to public policy and ...
A COMPLEXITY SCIENCE VIEW OF MODERN POLICE ADMINISTRATION
Oct 01, 2008; Jones, Matthew ... ABSTRACT Police agencies are bureaucratic paramilitary organizations that have traditionally responded slowly to change. The emergence of the community policing concept and its related mandates for organizational change presented a host of challenges for public and police administrators ...
ADAPTIVE INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES AND LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY ADVANCES 1
Oct 01, 2008; Meek, Jack W ... ABSTRACT This article reflects on the growing recognition of local interdependencies and the inadequacies of the current administrative state in responding to cross-jurisdictional issues such as environmental management. The article reviews three kinds of locally derived approaches and ...
CONNECTING THE DOTS: APPLYING COMPLEXITY THEORY, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Oct 01, 2008; Mischen, Pamela A; Jackson, Stephen K ... ABSTRACT It has been more than 25 years since the publication of Lipsky's Street Level Bureaucracy (1980), and while his work is cited repeatedly in studies of policy implementation, little theoretical work has been done to deepen our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that lead ...
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM
Oct 01, 2008; Scott, Ronald J Jr ... ABSTRACT Understanding the international system as an emergent complex adaptive system (cas) and then pursuing an approach based on cooperation theory and a meliorist-centric orientation will improve, perhaps even accelerate, international development (ID). Cooperation theory, properly ...