This detailed case study of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program in
Chicago highlights problems that arise when state agencies have discretion in administering …

During the first two decades of the twentieth century in cities across America, both men and
women struggled for urban reform but in distinctively different ways. Adhering to gender …

As originally proposed by Harold Lasswell, the policy sciences were dedicated to
democratic governance. But today they are far removed from the democratic process and do …

Since the appearance of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1970, Thomas Kuhn's
notion of a paradigm has been widely used in the social sciences even though its author …

Consensus conferences, also known as citizens' panels—a collection of lay citizens akin to
a jury but charged with deliberating on policy issues with a high technical content—are a …

There is a rich literature on the emergence of new public management in the 1980s yet
surprisingly little about the historical and social lineages of this movement. The scholarship …

Empowerment of public employees has been touted as an important mediating step in
improving public organizational outcomes, yet such a relationship depends on an …

The new public management includes a portfolio of prescriptions that involve reconfiguring
the boundaries of government agencies. One form of reconfiguration is corporatization …

Electric utility managers are accustomed to technology choices, both in day-to-day load
dispatching decisions and in the selection of new innovations to support utility operations …

The scholarly field of public administration (PA) was launched at a dangerous moment in
American and world history. This fact influenced early understandings about the aims of the …