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Waste in the Sewer : The Collapse of Accountability and Transparency in Publi…
Following failed auctions for sewer debt in April 2008, major bond rating companies downgraded Jefferson County, Alabama’s bond rating to D (default) triggering massive mandatory payments by the county to its creditors. At the time of writing, the county teeters on the brink of actual default and bankruptcy, unable to pay service on its $3.3 billion sewer debt portfolio. If the county defaults,…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 232–242
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Aligning Ideologies and Institutions : Reorganization in the HIV/AIDS Service…
How effective was organizational reform implemented inside one critical New York City health agency? Specifically, we examine the extent to which the reorganization of the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) into the Medical Insurance Services Administration (MICSA) achieved three goals: (1) realizing synergies among the component MICSA programs; (2) cross-fertilizing ideas among MICSA agen…
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- Volume 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 243–25
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Enhancing the Legitimacy of Local Government Pandemic Influenza Planning thro…
Ethical issues in an influenza pandemic often require local government officials to make unprecedented, complex decisions. Effective planning with significant input from key community stakeholders is required well ahead of time in order to anticipate and mitigate a serious health crisis. The author evaluates the pandemic plans of 28 large cities across the United States using criteria derived f…
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- Vol 71, March/April 2011, Issue 2, pages 253–264
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Development of Purchasing Groups during Their Life Cycle: From Infancy to Mat…
Increasingly, public sector organizations collaborate to buy products and services. They collectively form purchasing groups to deliver more value for money. What is the progress of these small-scale developments of public sector purchasing groups to date, in the early phases of their life cycle? Although previous research provides general descriptions of life-cycle phases, little attention has…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 265–275
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American Indian Tribal Governance and Management : Public Administration Prom…
Research on tribal governance in the United States is scarce within modern public administration scholarship. Nonetheless, tribal governance is a pre-Columbian practice that predates the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Drawing from several disciplines, John C. Ronquillo of the University of Georgia demonstrates that interdisciplinary sources offer rich information for present-day public admi…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 285–292
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What is an ethnic party?
This article shows that even if we stipulate a single definition of both an ethnic group and an ethnic party, there are many reasonable indicators that can be used to classify parties as ethnic, which may generate different counts of ethnic parties. It then maps the range of indicators that can be used to classify parties as ethnic, shows how previous questions raised in the study of ethnic par…
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- Vol. 17 no. 2, March 2011.pp. 151-169
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- 13540688
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From the ground up : The challenge of indigenous party consolidation in Latin…
To predict the electoral fate of the new cohort of indigenous-based political parties in Latin America, and the impacts on their respective party systems, we need to understand their prospects for consolidation. The central task of this article is to determine whether indigenous peoples’ parties are developing solid party roots in society or if they are merely benefiting from a protest vote aga…
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- Vol. 17 no. 2, March 2011.pp. 171-188
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Demography in ethnic party fragmentation : Hungarian local voting in Romania
When and where might ethnic party outbidding occur? This article examines potential outbidding dynamics via a study of local elections in Romania, where the dominant Hungarian UDMR/RMDSz (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) was recently challenged by a rival party, the MPP (Hungarian Citizens’ Party). A comparison of election results is made across cities and counties that differ acco…
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- Vol. 17 no. 2, March 2011.pp. 189-204
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Parties in chains : Do ethnic party bans in Africa promote peace?
Since the sweeping (re)introduction of multiparty systems in the early 1990s, almost all sub-Saharan countries have introduced legal provisions to ban ethnic or other identity-based particularistic parties. Altogether, 12 countries have actually banned political parties on these grounds. In theoretical terms, such bans can exclude particularism from politics but — contrary to public discourse —…
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- Vol. 17 no. 2, March 2011.pp. 205-222
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What’s in a name? Ethnic party identity and democratic development in post-…
There has been surprisingly little literature differentiating between different kinds of ethnic parties. Most works tend to treat all ethnic parties as if they are basically the same. Although, to be sure, there have been some notable works attempting to differentiate types of ethnic parties, they tend to emphasize the territorial or political demands made by ethnic parties to distinguish the d…
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- Vol. 17 no. 2, March 2011.pp. 223-241
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Ethnic inclusion and economic growth
Is ethnic social diversity relevant to cross-national variation in economic development, or is the inclusion or exclusion of said groups in political decision-making the more salient factor? We argue that deleterious policy effects resulting in diminished economic growth are caused by exclusion of mobilized ethnic groups from the policy process and not just ethnic social diversity per se. Conve…
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- Vol. 17 no. 2, March 2011.pp. 243-260
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Thinking about Crime : Race and Lay Accounts of Lawbreaking Behavior
Lay or commonsense accounts of the origins of criminal behavior may play a key role in sustaining a strong public appetite for harsh criminal justice policies and undergird large black-white differences in opinion in this domain. Using data from the nationally representative Race, Crime, and Public Opinion project’s 2001 survey, the authors develop an explanatory mode typology for accounts of i…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 16-38
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Racial Discrimination, Interpretation, and Legitimation at Work
Research on race stratification and employment usually implies discrimination as a key mechanism in race stratification, although few if any analyses bring attitudes, employee-employer interpretations, and established discriminatory behavior into a singular analysis. In this article, the authors do so and offer a relational account of how discrimination operates, drawing on a large sample of ve…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 39-59
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Race, Religion, and Beliefs about Racial Inequality
This article focuses on stratification beliefs and racial policy opinions among white and black Americans who differ in religious preference. First, it summarizes earlier research on white conservative Protestants and outlines characterizations of Black Protestant church congregants. It then reports patterns of stratification beliefs and racial policy opinions among blacks and whites varying in…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011 .pp. 60-77
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Including Oneself and Including Others : Who Belongs in My Country?
To be a full member of a country, must one have citizenship, the same ethnic or racial background, or the same religion as most citizens? What do people of different statuses believe about the criteria for inclusion? To answer these questions, the authors analyze the 2003 International Social Survey Programme survey on national identity, focusing on ten wealthy, democratic countries. They find …
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 78-97
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On the Meaning, Measurement, and Implications of Racial Resentment
A new racism, it is claimed, has become a dominant feature of contemporary American politics. According to the theory’s originators, the new racism has largely replaced the old racism, which was based on the alleged biological inferiority of blacks. The new racism, referred to as “symbolic racism” or, more recently, “racial resentment,” by contrast, is defined as a conjunction of anti-black fee…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 98-116
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Reexamining Racial Resentment : Conceptualization and Content
There is an ongoing debate in the racial attitudes literature about the degree to which new racism measures actually tap negative racial beliefs. Racial resentment is one construct that has been criticized on such grounds. To date, Kinder and Sanders (1996) have proposed the most commonly utilized measure of racial resentment, which is largely based on a similar construct—symbolic racism. The a…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 117-133
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Whites’ Racial Policy Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century : The Continuin…
A topic of long-standing interest in racial attitudes research is whites’ support for principles of racial equality on one hand coupled with their intransigence on policies designed to redress that inequality on the other. Much has been written on possible explanations of this “principle-policy gap” and what the gap reveals about the state of contemporary American race relations. In this articl…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 134-152
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Racial Attitudes in City, Neighborhood, and Situational Contexts
Multiple social contexts have been shown to affect racial attitudes both positively and negatively when considered at different levels. In this article, context is simultaneously considered at three different levels: the metropolitan area, the census block group, and the interview situation (as measured by race of interviewer/race of respondent matching). Significant effects can be classified i…
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 153-173
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“Color Coding” and Support for Social Policy Spending : Assessing the Par…
This study uses data from the 1996 through 2002 General Social Survey to examine whether one variant of modern racial prejudice—“color coding”—explains support for several ostensibly nonracial government spending policies regarding crime, urban problems, and drug addiction (welfare and race spending are used as baseline measures). Findings indicate that color coding does not extend appreciably …
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- Vol. 634 no. 1, March 2011.pp. 174-189
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