What are the big questions that scholars of public management should be attempting-
through their research-to answer? Robert D. Behn suggests three consciously prescriptive …

Research in public administration and public management has distinctive features that
influence the choices and application of research methods. Periods of change and upheaval …

T he passage of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act constitutes the first major overhaul of the
federal civil service since the system was created in 1883. Included in the reform act is the …

If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.
Confining ourselves to practice, we may lose sight of basic principles, and when these have …

Public Management Review (PMR) has just completed its eighteenth volume. It commenced
publication in 1999 with Blair as prime minister of the United Kingdom and Clinton as …

JONEL. PEARCE University of California, Irvine ow do governments matter in management
and organization? Certainly the power of governments is implicit in the great attention most …

Strategic management of public organizations has been one of the" hottest" topics of the
past decade both in academia and in public management practice (Bozeman, 1983; Bryson …

The purpose of this chapter is to review research which has focused upon public
bureaucracies and to present a summary of the state of the existing knowledge about such …

A merican public administration is awe-omely multidisciplinary and morecomplicatedly
multicultural-drawing on the expertise and insights, even the hopes and imaginations, of all …

Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review (NPR) set out in 1993 to transform
the basic culture of federal organizations to make them more performance based and …