A Large Sample Investigation of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition: Eval…

Objective: The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate differences in demographic and psychological variables between treatment completers and dropouts among abusive men entering a court-mandated treatment program and (b) evaluate the goodness of fit of a logistic regression model for predicting attrition developed on a 16-week program by applying that model to the 26-week program. Method:…

Estimating Effect Sizes From Pretest-Posttest-Control Group Designs

Previous research has recommended several measures of effect size for studies with repeated measurements in both treatment and control groups. Three alternate effect size estimates were compared in terms of bias, precision, and robustness to heterogeneity of variance. The results favored an effect size based on the mean pre-post change in the treatment group minus the mean pre-post change in th…

Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law …

For the past 50 years or so, the media and intellectual discourses on African politics have general portrayed the continent as being in perpetual turmoil. The causes of such conflicts have been related, but not limited, to the outcome of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 in which some of the European powers carved up the region in a zigzag fashion with little or no concern for the ethnic complex…

The Empiricist Goose Has Not Been Cooked!

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Vol. 40, No. 1, Page 104-109

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On Value Differences Experienced by Sector Switchers

This article examines experienced differences in values between employees in the public and private sector. To elucidate them, the authors interviewed 30 employees of the public sector previously employed in the private sector and 30 employees of the private sector previously employed in the public sector, all of them in the Netherlands. The major conclusion is that the values of profitability,…

A Bottom-Up Perspective on Innovations: Mobilizing Knowledge and Social Capit…

The article focuses on a kind of innovation trajectory, based on the reemployment of assets that belong to the legacy of the past. Thus, it argues for the importance of utilizing know-how and social capital accumulated over the years in organizations' efforts to launch a new course. The concept of bricolage appears especially clarifying in throwing light on innovations emerging through bottom-u…

The Scholarship of Elegance and Significance: Expressive and Aesthetic Truth …

In this article, the authors examine the importance of expressive and aesthetic truth claims to public administration scholars, and present a model to aid them in making and evaluating such claims. Sincere expression adds credibility to an argument, and quality of expression can lend elegance to a truth claim. Expressive or aesthetic truth claims are not merely used to heighten emotions or enha…

Reconstructing Empirical Public Administration: Lutonism or Scientific Realism?

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Vol. 40, No. 3 Page 324-330

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Implementing Interagency Collaborations: Exploring Variation in Collaborative…

Collaborative mechanisms are increasingly being used to deliver public services in the United States, with many scholars seeking to understand the operation and impact of these ventures. This article contributes to this research by breaking apart interagency collaborations used to deliver services, demonstrating the variations that can occur within a single form of collaborative service deliver…

The Development of Public Institutions: Reconsidering the Role of Leadership

Some public organizations take on the qualities and characteristics of an institution. They become vessels for societal ambition, combining reliable performance with high levels of legitimacy. The functioning and effects of these highly institutionalized organizations are well researched. How these public institutions come about remains somewhat of a mystery, however. Empirical accounts of publ…

John Locke and Public Administration

John Locke, whose thought greatly influenced the American founding, makes an important contribution to contemporary public administration theory and to our understanding of the history of American public administration. Locke's theory gives an account of why it is legitimate for public administrators to sometimes perform functions that are legislative or judicial in nature and encourages public…

Beyond Empiricists Versus Postmodernists

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Vol. 40, No. 2, Page 211-219

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Decision Making in a Time of Significant Reform

This article utilizes three empirical studies to examine the organizational and policy context within which health managers find themselves today, asking three questions of extreme relevance for the area of health organizational reform in a period in which the pace and scope of change are intense: What strategies do public service managers employ to make sure they stay up to date with what is r…

Social Welfare Contracts as Networks : The Impact of Network Stability on Man…

This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They …

Researching "Back Home": International Management Research as Autoethnography

The challenges facing international management researchers conducting research in foreign contexts are increasingly well understood. However, for a growing group of researchers, the problem is very different: Rather than being foreign researchers researching in an unfamiliar context, they are insiders conducting research in their own cultural context for publication in international journals. I…

Persuasion through insult: the `f' word in Israeli media

This article is concerned with the rampant use of a particular cultural frame - freier (roughly "sucker") - in Israeli media. In this culture, the term is an unmitigated personal insult, and indeed has come to represent a threat to national identity. Nonetheless, it is widely used as a persuasive tactic in commercial, social and political rhetoric. The analysis of several hundred persuasive mes…

DAB: the future of radio? The development of digital radio in four European c…

In common with most media and consumer technologies, radio is migrating from analogue to digital operation. Europe was the first region of the world to develop a digital replacement for traditional analogue broadcast radio. The Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) project began in 1987 and the first domestic DAB broadcasts began in 1995. However, DAB has made less progress than originally anticipat…

Global citizenship as show business: the cultural politics of Make Poverty Hi…

What does global citizenship mean to citizens of a liberal democratic capitalist state? As part of an historically unprecedented, globally coordinated, NGO-led campaign against poverty in the underdeveloped south, "Make Poverty History" attempted to give this question an answer. Cultural politics was integral to the campaign. Make Poverty History was not only mediated (as all campaign must ber)…

"It kind of gives you that vintage feel": vinyl records and the trope of death

Vinyl records continue to be coveted and collected by loyal fans, despite the success of new technologies such as compact discs and MP#s. This article evaluates the evolution of records' cultural meanings, explaining the value these artifacts hold record collectors. Using archival analysis and in-depth interviews to analyse both historical and contemporary discourses surrounding records, we fin…

Character, audience agency and transmedia drama

Changes in the television industry with regards to the development of new media technologies are having a significant impact on audiences' engagement with television drama. This article explore how games can be used to extend audience engagement with audio-visual fiction onto a range of technological platforms to the point where "television" drama should increasingly be considered as "transmedi…