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An ACIR Perspective on Intergovernmental Institutional Development
This article traces the creation and demise of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) and assesses the prospects for restoring an ACIR-like capability to the federal system. Recent initiatives by the National Academy of Public Administration, the Big 7 state and local government official associations, and Congress are summarized, and the facilitating and inhibiting f…
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- Vol. 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 169–176
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Reflections of a Member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental …
There is consensus on the need for a successor to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in Washington, D.C., but no agreement on how this entity should be organized and funded and what it should do. There are now many players, both organizations and individuals, in the intergovernmental field, and they need to be sorted out. A key distinction is that American federalism is…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 177–180
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The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations : Unique Artifact…
The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) befitted an era marked by low party polarization, bipartisanship, and cooperative federalism. Although the ACIRs work was valuable, the growth of federal power, rise of party polarization, and the decline of bipartisanship, along with many other political, governmental, and social changes during its 37-year life (195996), marg…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 181–189
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The Current Status and Roles of State Advisory Commissions on Intergovernment…
During the 1970s and 1980s, a number of states created entities commonly called advisory commissions on intergovernmental relations (ACIRs). Although as many as half the states at one time or another supported an ACIR, only about 10 do so today. Relying on face-to-face and telephone interviews, e-mail correspondence, website analysis, and mailed surveys of directors and other staff members of a…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 190–195
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“Big Questions” about Intergovernmental Relations and Management : Who Wi…
Fiscal, administrative, and political tensions among the partners in the federal system have not eased, and perhaps have grown, since the demise of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1996. Yet no governmental organizational capacity exists to address big intergovernmental questions in an ongoing manner through nonpartisan or bipartisan research, data collection, deli…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 196–202
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Public Sector Labor Relations Scholarship : Is There a “There,” There?
Public sector union membership is thriving compared to the private sector. Moreover, public employee unions play a significant role in policy making at every level of government. Yet research on public sector labor relations is sporadic and uneven, perhaps negligible. Why so? This article surveys the literature on public sector unionism and seeks to answer that question. Its conclusion points t…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011. pages 203–209
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Accountability in Governance Networks : An Assessment of Public, Private, and…
What is the most effective framework for analyzing complex accountability challenges within governing networks? Recognizing the multiscale and intersector (public, private, and nonprofit) characteristics of these networks, an accountability model is advanced organized around democratic (elected representatives, citizens, and the legal system), market (owners and consumers), as well as administr…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 210–220
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Strengthening Efforts to Engage the Hispanic Community in Citizen-Driven Gove…
How can the Hispanic community in Utah strengthen its active engagement in government? Interviews by the authors with key government and community-based organization representatives offer evidence on (1) who is being engaged in the Hispanic community, (2) what are the barriers to engagement, and (3) which modes of engagement are likely to be effective and under what conditions. Findings indicat…
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- Vol 71, Issue 2, March/April 2011, pages 221–231
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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, Alabamas 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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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 projects 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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- The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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