Public Affairs and Administration, School of: Recent submissions
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The Evolution of Local Governance: A New Democracy
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 1987-06)Increasingly, I hear local government managers talk disparagingly and with frustration about the councilmembers they work for. I also observe elected officials thrusting managers into the policy lime-light – either in ... -
Preparing Councils for Their Work
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 2009-08)The legitimacy of an individual councilmember’s power comes directly from the electorate, but respect and influence cannot be presumed; they have to be earned through action. The manager’s position, however, comes ... -
Predicting the Future: Why Citizen Engagement No Longer Is Optional
(Public Management magazine published by ICMA – International City/County Management Association, 2008-12)For years, we who are involved in local government have treated citizen engagement as an option to enhance policymaking and community building in local government. I would argue that now engagement no longer is an option; ... -
THE FACE OF THE STATE: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL STATUS AND OFFICIAL POSITION IN THE MOBILIZATION OF AUTHORITY
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-08)Social status as a cultural institution has a remarkable degree of continuing power, even in bureaucratic settings that are formally committed to office, merit and professional norms. Social status originates outside of ... -
The Unbureaucratic Personality
(2007-06-11)After sixty years of scholarship on the rule-bound bureaucratic personality, this article turns attention to the unbureaucratic personality. Identified by a willingness to bend rules, the unbureaucratic personality is ... -
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Do Bills of rights matter? The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(AMER POLITICAL SCI ASSN, 1996-12)Although constitutional protection for rights is increasingly popular, there is little systematic research on the extent to which bills of rights affect the process of government. This article examines the effects a bill ... -
Employers as Mediating Institutions for Public Policy: The Case of Commute Options Programs
(Policy Studies Journal, 2005)Scholars have recently noted the role that employers can play -as "mediating institutions" for public policy. Mediating institutions connect the private lives of individuals with public policy concerns by communicating ... -
Managerial Perceptions of Privatization: Evidence from a State Department of Transportation
(State and Local Government Review, 2005)Mid-level managers have largely been ignored in studies of privatization’s stakeholders, despite their significant role in implementing privatization processes. This paper examines seeks to remedy that gap by examining ... -
Bureaucracy that Kills: Federal Sovereign Immunity and the Discretionary Function Exception
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-06)Political scientists normally discuss sovereign immunity in the context of international law and relations. The domestic effects of sovereign immunity are almost never examined, even though those effects are profound and ... -
Institutional Repositories: An Opportunity for CIO Campus Impact
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Reflections of Pracademic on the Logic of Politics and Administration
(AMER SOC PUBLIC ADMIN, 1994-11)What is different about politics and administration? The answer is found in the ways public officials experience and think about their work rather than in their behavior, according to John Nalbandian. Here, he differentiates ... -
Politics and Administration in Council-manager Government: Differences Between Newly Elected and Senior Council Members
(BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 2004-03)This study examines the different attitudes of newly elected officials and senior incumbents on variables that are considered to be the building blocks of the relationship between local elected officials and professional ...