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From Partnerships to Networks: New Approaches for Measuring U.S. National Her…
National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are an alternative and increasingly popular form of protected area management in the United States. NHAs seek to integrate environmental objectives with community and economic objectives at regional or landscape scales. NHA designations have increased rapidly in the last 20 years, generating a substantial need for evaluative information about (a) how NHAs work; (b…
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- Vol. 34 no. 4 August 2010, pp. 271-298
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Contracting for Independent Evaluation: Approaches to an Inherent Tension
There has recently been discussion of whether independent contract evaluation is possible. This article acknowledges the inherent tension in contract evaluation and in response suggests a range of constructive approaches to improving the independence of contract evaluation. In particular, a clear separation between the official evaluation report and a contractor’s own publication of analysis fr…
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- Vol. 34 no. 4 August 2010, pp. 299-333
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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: What Does a Regression Estimate?
Regressions that control for confounding factors are the workhorse of evaluation research. When treatment effects are heterogeneous, however, the workhorse regression leads to estimated treatment effects that lack behavioral interpretations even when the selection on observables assumption holds. Regressions that use propensity scores as weights and regressions based on random coefficients or h…
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- Vol. 34 no. 4 August 2010, pp. 334-361
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The Organ of Experience: A Defense of the Primacy of Public Administrators in…
Building on Wilsonian foundations, this article present the normative case for a special, central role for public servants in the design and redesign of public law, including constitutions. Central to the author’s argument are Wilson’s characterization of public administration as “the State’s experiencing organ” and his contention that public administration is the primary institution engaged da…
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010. pp. 263-286
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A Security Preface to 21st-Century Public Administration
The use of lethal technologies by global terror networks has elevated domestic security policy to a central concern of 21st-century public administration. Twentieth-century public administration scholars, influenced by Progressivism, Pluralism, and Public Choice, led the field to believe that it could both develop and administer domestic security policy without a coherent state theory to guide …
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 287-314
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The Relationship Between Intervention by Central/Federal or Local Levels of G…
What impact do interventions by central/federal or local levels of government in local emergency preparedness training have on the focus of training, comprehensiveness, and quality control? An analysis of two cases of intervention by central/federal levels of government reveals that training is likely to be (a) skill oriented and competence framed, (b) comprehensive, and (c) quality controlled …
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010 pp. 315-342
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Interorganizational Collaboration and the Transition to the Department of Hom…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transition has shown problems between executive political leadership, management associations, and labor unions, despite “collaborative efforts,” resulting in bureaucratic inertia. This means slower incremental changes for proposed personnel reforms based on private business models advocated by presidential administrations in recent years. The author su…
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- Vol. 42 no. 3 May 2010. pp. 343-360
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An Update of a Classic: Applying Expectancy Theory to Understand Contracted P…
This study explores whether a classic motivation theory traditionally applied by public administration scholars in bureaucratic settings can also be used to understand relationships in intersectoral service delivery networks. It focuses on how well expectancy theory explains contracted provider motivation to properly use service-monitoring tools because of contract rewards and penalties. To exa…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 375-403
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Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when do…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 404-440
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Effects of Information Technology on Policy Decision-Making Processes: Some E…
This study examined the effects of information technology (IT) on policy decision-making processes, especially in the stages of goal setting and choosing among policy alternatives. It used survey data collected in 1998 and 2005 from the metropolitan areas of Seoul and Busan in Korea. The survey results showed that there has been a positive change in the perception of the effects of IT on policy…
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- Vol. 42 no. 4 July 2010 pp. 441-459
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Korean Social Concertation at the Crossroads: Consolidation or Deterioration?
Since South Korea made a historic social pact in 1998 amid the Asian financial crisis, a newly established presidential committee, the Korea Tripartite Commission, has become a center of social concertation. The Korean case signifies the need to complement the theory of social concertation with a new set of hypotheses concerning structural factors, with particular attention to industrial struct…
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 449–473
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The Limits of Foreign Aid in Strengthening Bangladesh's Parliament: Analysis …
This paper examines the multi-donor-funded project called Strengthening Parliamentary Democracy (SPD), designed to strengthen Bangladesh's Parliament. In particular, it focuses on attempted reforms in the parliamentary committee system and in its rules of procedure. The article argues that the SPD has only been marginally successful in meeting its objectives, and identifies reasons for this lim…
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 474–496
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Japan's New Regionalism: China Shock, Values, and the East Asian Community
Japan's new thinking on regionalism is a means of soft balancing that counters a rising Chinese influence. A "hard" balancing strategy through an alliance with the United States is insufficient because the Chinese economy is indispensable for Japan's prosperity and because China is rising through soft power. Japan's response uses the concept of community based on universal values.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 497–519
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The Great Recession and China's Policy Toward Asian Regionalism
The global recession has had seemingly conflicting impacts on China's policy toward Asian regionalism. But China has never viewed regionalism and globalism as mutually exclusive and has seen strategic value in pursuing both. A stronger China emerging from the crisis is playing both regional and global games with a stronger hand.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 520–538
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Sanctioning North Korea: The Political Economy of Denuclearization and Prolif…
Following North Korea's second nuclear test, the U.N. Security Council tightened sanctions. However, North Korea has tilted its relations toward partners uninterested in such measures. Since 2005, it has retreated from economic reform, most obviously in the 2009 confiscatory currency reform. These developments raise doubts about North Korea's interest in engagement.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 539–568
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Securitizing Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Accounting for the Varying Response…
This article explains the variable success after the September 11, 2001, attacks of the securitization of terrorism in two ASEAN member states, Singapore and Indonesia. The two countries are selected because of the differences in their government characteristics and their domestic politics. The article argues that differences in the nature of the domestic audience explain the divergence of secu…
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 569–590
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Framing Energy Security Between Russia and South Korea?: Progress, Problems, …
This article examines the progress, problems, and prospects of Russian-South Korean energy security cooperation. Several ongoing energy projects between Russia and South Korea are highly likely to enhance energy security needs for both countries. Nevertheless, the development of bilateral energy projects has been extremely slow.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 591–614
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China's Strategic Interests in Cambodia: Influence and Resources
Cambodia is pivotal to China's strategies to project greater influence in Southeast Asia, buffer longstanding rivals, and potentially tame America's hegemony. China's transformation from regional backwater into influential global actor raises concerns for many countries. As expected, the rise of a powerful regional player makes traditional hegemonic countries anxious.
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- Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, Pages 615–639
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Preventing State Crimes Against Democracy
This article analyzes U.S. vulnerabilities to state crimes against democracy (SCADs). SCADs are actions or inactions by government insiders intended to manipulate democratic processes and undermine popular sovereignty. Watergate and Iran–Contra are well?known examples of SCADs involving top officials. SCADs in high office are difficult to detect and successfully prosecute because they are usual…
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- Vol. 41 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 527-550
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The Role of Government in Managing Intercultural Relations: Multicultural Dis…
When intercultural tensions flare up, governments typically must engage the conflict one way or another. This article questions the possible role of government in transforming these difficult social–cultural–political conflicts into democratic moments. Three theoretical approaches to democracy compete for status in the realm of multicultural politics: majoritarian, consociational, and deliberat…
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- Vol. 41 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 551-575
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