The Privatization of Public Policy: Elite Maneuvers in an Age of Institutionalized Ambiguity
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 71, Issue 6, p. 974-978
ISSN: 0033-3352
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In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 71, Issue 6, p. 974-978
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Administration & society, Volume 41, Issue 5, p. 527-550
ISSN: 1552-3039
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 usually complex and compartmentalized; investigations are often compromised by conflicts of interests; and powerful norms discourage speculation about corruption in high office. However, liberal democracies can reduce their vulnerability to state political criminality by identifying vulnerabilities proactively and instituting policies for SCAD detection and prevention.
In: Administration & society, Volume 41, Issue 5, p. 527-550
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: Administration & society, Volume 40, Issue 6, p. 547-585
ISSN: 1552-3039
No current policy paradigm, however interdisciplinary, provides an adequate and coherent account of post-9/11 security doctrine for "a war with no clear end or scope." Like the hologram, the image of the terrorist constructed by PATRIOT and kindred legislation appears vivid while defying a definitive grasp, just as the holographic image dematerializes on the hand reaching to touch it. This article sketches etiology for a new policy analytic paradigm that is coined here, the Holographic State, and explores its suitability for policy and administrative sense making under conditions where the epistemological and ontological foundations of policy inquiry have been made profoundly unstable.
In: Administration & society, Volume 40, Issue 6, p. 547-585
ISSN: 0095-3997
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 66, Issue 1, p. 64-76
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 66, Issue 1, p. 64-76
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 56, Issue 4, p. 367
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Public administration review: PAR, Volume 56, Issue 4, p. 367-371
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Policy studies journal: the journal of the Policy Studies Organization, Volume 12, Issue 4, p. 627-642
ISSN: 1541-0072
In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, p. 627-642
ISSN: 0190-292X
Although the subgovernment concept has proved useful in explaining activities & decisions in the formulation & legitimation of US public policy, recent empirical work & theorizing have challenged the assumptions of subgovernment consentaneity & hegemony. An attempt is made to modify & refine conceptions of subgovernments in the policy process in two ways: (1) conflict within subgovernments is not limited to the formulation stage of the process, but carries over into implementation; & (2) conflict exists not only within subgovernments, but also between them. These subgovernment conflicts have important implications that may help account for policies that are either flawed in their design or difficult to implement. A better understanding of the relationship between the formulation & implementation of public policy may be gained by examining the nature & consequences of subgovernment conflict. The empirical data were derived from a 2-year field study of a veterans' employment program conducted in 15 jurisdictions & in Washington, DC. 1 Table, 24 References. AA.
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 45, Issue 2, p. 449-472
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 45, Issue 2, p. 449
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Administrative theory & praxis: ATP ; a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 134-140
ISSN: 1949-0461
In: Administrative theory & praxis: ATP ; a quarterly journal of dialogue in public administration theory, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 134-140
ISSN: 1084-1806