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作者：Garnett, James L.; Marlowe, Justin; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Kansas
摘要：The role of communication in public administration has been emphasized over time in public administration theory. Nonetheless, communication-with the exception of political communication-has been neglected in scholarship. Garnett's performance predicament posits the difficulty of showing linkages between communication and performance. This paper explores the role that communication plays in achieving organizational performance through a review of research that bears on communication direct and...
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作者：Hird, John A.
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者：Trottier, Tracey; Van Wart, Montgomery; Wang, XiaoHu
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University South Bend; California State University System; California State University San Bernardino; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：Though the mainstream organizational literature has advanced in the last 20 years with the integration Of transformational and distributed leadership theories, as well as genuine attempts at comprehensive models, the public sector literature has lagged, especially in utilizing large-scale empirical studies. This study takes advantage of a very large government data set to test the utility of one of the best known theories, the full range leadership theory of Bernard Bass. It addresses three im...
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作者：Lambright, W. Henry
作者单位：Syracuse University
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作者：Hildebrand, David L.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：In the foregoing essay, Patricia M. Shields argues that public administration and administrators should support a much greater incorporation of classical pragmatism than has been the case to date. This paper supports that conclusion by focusing on classical pragmatism's central benefit to public administration: its ability to provide the field with a claim to objectivity that it badly needs, but which Shields barely mentions. It shows how objectivity is closely connected to a pragmatic concept...
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作者：Anagnoson, J. Theodore
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
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作者：Shields, Patricia M.
作者单位：Texas State University System; Texas State University San Marcos
摘要：The origins of the influential American philosophy classical pragmatism and of American public administration overlap. On the surface, it appears that classical pragmatism had no influence on the emerging field of American public administration. Why were the two never properly wed? This essay first traces the historical connections that link public administration and classical pragmatism. Second, using a framework that is simple to remember the tenets of classical pragmatism-practical, plurali...
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作者：Hall, Thad
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：After World War II, the U.S. Congress began a process of engaging in what David Rosenbloom refers to as Congress-centered public administration. In this article, the author argues that the use of short-term authorizations by Congress facilitates congressional oversight and co-management of public programs. Using data from three case studies, the author shows that Congress is able to systematically, on a regularized basis, shape the overall goals, structures, and decision rules that govern agen...
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作者：Anagnoson, J. Theodore
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
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作者：Anagnoson, J. Theodore
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles
