作者:Lambright, WH
作者单位:Syracuse University
摘要:The 1990s have been an era of cutback management and down-sizing in government. How do agencies cope with sharply diminished resources? NASA's Big Science satellite program, until recently called Mission to Planet Earth, illuminates issues that can affect all agencies and programs in the current era. For comparison, the Space Station and the Department of Energy's Superconducting Supercollider are also addressed. Three strategies suitable for cutbacks eras ave discussed: resistance, mitigation...
作者:Lynn, LE
作者单位:University of Chicago
摘要:If its academic admirers can avoid the trap of becoming a cult of programmed believers, the New Public Management (NPM) can have three constructive legacies for the field of public administration: (1) a stronger emphasis on performance-motivated administration and inclusion in the administrative canon of performance-oriented institutional arrangements, structural forms, and managerial doctrines fitted to particular contexts, in other words, advances in the state of the public management art; (...