Review Of Public Administration Research Articles

State Legislative Developments

This section continues to encounter growing pains as this journal makes its transition to the American Review of Public Administration. Because of timing problems, this edition of State Legislative Developments reflects, in most cases, the developments of the 1981 and 1982 legislative sessions. The patience of the state reporters in helping with this combined approach is appreciated. Meanwhile, an expanded list of reporters is being recruited to develop a more widely national outlook. Editor.

Estimating Property Tax Capitalization: A Further Comment

Previous articleNext article No AccessConfirmations and ContradictionsEstimating Property Tax Capitalization: A Further CommentRaymond M. ReinhardRaymond M. Reinhard Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 89, Number 6Dec., 1981 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/261033 Views: 13Total views on this site Citations: 26Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1981 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Seth H. Giertz, Rasoul Ramezani, Kurt J. Beron Property tax capitalization, a case study of Dallas County, Regional Science and Urban Economics 89 (Jul 2021): 103680.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.103680Christian A. L. Hilber The Economic Implications of House Price Capitalization: A Synthesis, Real Estate Economics 45, no.22 (Dec 2015): 301–339.https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6229.12129Kimberly Key, Teresa Lightner, Bing Luo The Effects of Property Taxes and Public Service Benefits on Housing Values: A County-Level Analysis, (Dec 2016): 1–31.https://doi.org/10.1108/S1058-749720160000023007Kimberly G. Key, Teresa A. Lightner The Relation between Business Property Values and Local Property Taxes, Journal of the American Taxation Association 37, no.11 (Oct 2014): 103–128.https://doi.org/10.2308/atax-50951Jeremy Grant Moulton, Bennie D. Waller, Scott Wentland Capitalization of Targeted Property Tax Relief in Home Prices: Evidence from Virginia Elections, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2015).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2661002Frank Peck, Simon Parry, Gail Mulvey, Keith Jackson, Ignazio Cabras, Jacqui Jackson The Role and Significance of Rates Relief for Supporting Businesses in Wales, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 32, no.66 (Dec 2014): 982–999.https://doi.org/10.1068/c1224bShaun A. Bond, Ben Gardiner, Peter Tyler The impact of enterprise zone tax incentives on local property markets in England: who actually benefits?, Journal of Property Research 30, no.11 (Mar 2013): 67–85.https://doi.org/10.1080/09599916.2012.721381David Stadelmann, Steve Billon Capitalisation of Fiscal Variables and Land Scarcity, Urban Studies 49, no.77 (Aug 2011): 1571–1594.https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011415433Mustafa Öktem, Ju-Chin Huang Property tax shifting under imperfect competition, Applied Economics 43, no.22 (Jan 2011): 139–152.https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840802446614Christian A. L. Hilber The Economic Implications of House Price Capitalization: A Survey of an Emerging Literature, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2011).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2403043David Stadelmann Which factors capitalize into house prices? A Bayesian averaging approach, Journal of Housing Economics 19, no.33 (Sep 2010): 180–204.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2010.07.002Stacy Sirmans, Dean Gatzlaff, David Macpherson The History of Property Tax Capitalizationin Real Estate, Journal of Real Estate Literature 16, no.33 (Jun 2020): 327–344.https://doi.org/10.1080/10835547.2008.12090233David Stadelmann A Bayesian Averaging Approach to the Capitalization of Taxes, Public Goods and Location Specific Factors in the Price of Housing, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2008).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1017237David Stadelmann, Reiner Eichenberger The Ricardian Equivalence Versus Debt Capitalization in Local Public Finance, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2008).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1088261Deborah A. Carroll, Robert J. Eger Brownfields, Crime, and Tax Increment Financing, The American Review of Public Administration 36, no.44 (Jul 2016): 455–477.https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074006289645Theodore M. Crone Capitalization of the Quality of Local Public Schools: What Do Home Buyers Value?, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2006).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.928452 By Thomas S. Dee The Capitalization of Education Finance Reforms Dee, The Journal of Law and Economics 43, no.11 (Jul 2015): 185–214.https://doi.org/10.1086/467452William A. Fischel Municipal Corporations, Homeowners, and the Benefit View of the Property Tax, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2000).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.233210 Oded Palmon and Barton A. Smith New Evidence on Property Tax Capitalization Palmon & Smith, Journal of Political Economy 106, no.55 (Jul 2015): 1099–1111.https://doi.org/10.1086/250041Oded Palmon, Barton A Smith A New Approach for Identifying the Parameters of a Tax Capitalization Model, Journal of Urban Economics 44, no.22 (Sep 1998): 299–316.https://doi.org/10.1006/juec.1997.2072Keith Dowding, Peter John, Stephen Biggs Tiebout : A Survey of the Empirical Literature, Urban Studies 31, no.4-54-5 (May 1994): 767–797.https://doi.org/10.1080/00420989420080671Anwar M. Shah Empirical Tests for Allocative Efficiency in the Local Public Sector, Public Finance Quarterly 20, no.33 (Aug 2016): 359–377.https://doi.org/10.1177/109114219202000305Anwar Chaudry-Shah CAPITALIZATION AND THE THEORY OF LOCAL PUBLIC FINANCE: AN INTERPRETIVE ESSAY, Journal of Economic Surveys 2, no.33 (Sep 1988): 209–243.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.1988.tb00045.x References, (Jan 1988): 207–211.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-771060-0.50014-6Ferdinand P. Schoettle A three-sector model for real property tax incedence, Journal of Public Economics 27, no.33 (Aug 1985): 355–370.https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2727(85)90056-8G. Donald Jud Public Schools and Urban Development, Journal of the American Planning Association 51, no.11 (Nov 2007): 74–83.https://doi.org/10.1080/01944368508976803

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Southern Review of Public Administration

The Measurement of Federal and State Responsiveness to Urban Problems

Previous articleNext article No AccessArticlesThe Measurement of Federal and State Responsiveness to Urban ProblemsPeter D. WardPeter D. Ward Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 43, Number 1Feb., 1981 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2130238 Views: 5Total views on this site Citations: 12Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1981 Southern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Jill Nicholson-Crotty Politics, Capacity, and Pass-Through Decisions in the American States: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 45, no.33 (Apr 2015): 475–494.https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjv018David C. Nice The State Safety Participation Program, The American Review of Public Administration 23, no.11 (Jul 2016): 43–56.https://doi.org/10.1177/027507409302300104John P. Pelissero, David R. Morgan Targeting Intergovernmental Aid to Local Schools: an Analysis of Federal and State Efforts, Western Political Quarterly 45, no.44 (Sep 2016): 985–999.https://doi.org/10.1177/106591299204500410Keith Hoggart Responsiveness of Intergovernmental Aid to Urban Problems in New Jersey and New York, 1976-1984, Urban Affairs Quarterly 27, no.33 (Aug 2016): 396–419.https://doi.org/10.1177/004208169202700305John P. Pelissero Targeting State Highway Aid to Needy Cities, Journal of Urban Affairs 7, no.44 (Dec 2016): 29–36.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00092.xSusan A. MacMANUS Shifting to State Block Grants: The Priorities of Urban Minorities, Journal of Urban Affairs 7, no.22 (Dec 2016): 75–92.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.1985.tb00084.xR. Andrew Parker MATCHING FEDERAL SPENDING TO NEED: AN URBAN POLICY SCORECARD, 1977-1983, Policy Studies Journal 13, no.33 (Mar 1985): 625–633.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1985.tb01600.xJohn P. Pelissero STATE REVENUE SHARING WTTH LARGE CFTIES: A POLICY ANALYSES OVER TIME, Policy Studies Journal 13, no.33 (Mar 1985): 643–652.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1985.tb01602.x John P. Pelissero State Aid and City Needs: An Examination of Residual State Aid to Large Cities, The Journal of Politics 46, no.33 (Oct 2015): 916–935.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130862Gary W. Copeland, Kenneth J. Meier Pass the Biscuits, Pappy:, American Politics Quarterly 12, no.11 (Nov 2016): 3–21.https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X8401200101Samuel Long Abstracts of Documents in this Supplement, (Jan 1982): 1–576.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5214-1_1Robert M. Stein The Allocation of Federal Aid Monies: The Synthesis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Explanations, American Political Science Review 75, no.22 (Aug 2014): 334–343.https://doi.org/10.2307/1961368

Taxing, Spending, and Economic Growth in the American States

W HAT EFFECTS, if any, do state taxing and spending policies have on rates of economic development in the states? Do state individual or corporate tax rates or total tax burdens have any identifiable, independent effects on economic growth? Do patterns of state spending for education, highways, welfare and health, or even the redistributional effects of state taxing and spending, have any identifiable, independent effects on economic growth? Or are economic growth rates solely a product of climate, natural resources, geographic location, existing capital investment, and historical patterns of industrial development?

Some Trends in the Community Participation of Women in Their Neighborhoods

Previous articleNext article No AccessRevisions/Reports: Notes on ResearchSome Trends in the Community Participation of Women in Their NeighborhoodsSandra Perlman SchoenbergSandra Perlman Schoenberg Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 5, Number S3Spring, 1980Supplement. Women and the American City Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495728 Views: 6Total views on this site Citations: 6Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1980 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Young-Joo Lee, Doyeon Won Understanding International Volunteering: Who Is Most Likely to Participate?, Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing 30, no.11 (Jul 2017): 95–110.https://doi.org/10.1080/10495142.2017.1326343Young-joo Lee, Jeffrey L. Brudney Participation in formal and informal volunteering: Implications for volunteer recruitment, Nonprofit Management and Leadership 23, no.22 (Aug 2012): 159–180.https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21060Young-joo Lee Behavioral Implications of Public Service Motivation, The American Review of Public Administration 42, no.11 (Mar 2011): 104–121.https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074011398120John Wilson Volunteering, Annual Review of Sociology 26, no.11 (Aug 2000): 215–240.https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.215Sallie A. Marston, Michelle Saint-Germain Urban restructuring and the emergence of new political groupings: Women and neighborhood activism in Tucson, Arizona, Geoforum 22, no.22 (Jan 1991): 223–236.https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7185(91)90009-FStewart Macaulay Private Government, (Oct 2020): 153–227.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33930-2_8

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Uncertainty and National Nominating Coalitions

Previous articleNext article No AccessArticlesUncertainty and National Nominating CoalitionsEugene B. McGregor, Jr.Eugene B. McGregor, Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 40, Number 4Nov., 1978 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2129906 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 17Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1978 Southern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:BRADLEY STEWART CHILTON, DAVID C. NICE Triggering Federal Court Intervention in State Prison Reform, The Prison Journal 73, no.11 (Nov 2016): 30–45.https://doi.org/10.1177/0032855593073001003David C. Nice The State Safety Participation Program, The American Review of Public Administration 23, no.11 (Jul 2016): 43–56.https://doi.org/10.1177/027507409302300104David C. Nice State Regulation of Employee Drug Testing Laboratories, Review of Public Personnel Administration 11, no.33 (Jul 1991): 66–78.https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X9101100305Robert D. Plotnick, Richard F. Winters Party, Political Liberalism, and Redistribution, American Politics Quarterly 18, no.44 (Nov 2016): 430–458.https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X9001800403Beth Moncure Winn, Marcia Lynn Whicker INDICATORS OF STATE LOTTERY ADOPTIONS, Policy Studies Journal 18, no.22 (Dec 1989): 293–304.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1989.tb00834.xDavid C. Nice STATE PROGRAMS FOR CRIME VICTIMS, Policy Studies Journal 17, no.11 (Sep 1988): 25–41.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1988.tb01013.x David C. Nice The Item Veto and Expenditure Restraint, The Journal of Politics 50, no.22 (Oct 2015): 487–499.https://doi.org/10.2307/2131805Doh C. Shinn, Jack R. Slik THE PLURALITY OF FACTORS INFLUENCING POLICYMAKINC: SCHOOL REFORM LEGISLATION IN THE AMERICAN STATES, 1982-84, Review of Policy Research 7, no.33 (Mar 1988): 537–562.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.1988.tb00852.xArnold Fleischmann, David C. Nice States and PACs: The legacy of established decision rules, Political Behavior 10, no.44 (Jan 1988): 349–363.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00990808David C. Nice State regulation of railroads, Transportation Research Part A: General 21, no.66 (Nov 1987): 411–420.https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-2607(87)90030-6 David C. Nice Incremental & Nonincremental Policy Responses: The States & the Railroads, Polity 20, no.11 (Nov 2016): 145–156.https://doi.org/10.2307/3234941D. C. Nice State-Financed Property Tax Relief To Individuals: a Research Note, Political Research Quarterly 40, no.11 (Mar 1987): 179–185.https://doi.org/10.1177/106591298704000113T. Wayne Parent, Calvin C. Jillson, Ronald E. Weber Voting Outcomes in the 1984 Democratic Party Primaries and Caucuses, American Political Science Review 81, no.11 (Aug 2014): 67–84.https://doi.org/10.2307/1960779 David C. Nice State Support for Constitutional Balanced Budget Requirements, The Journal of Politics 48, no.11 (Oct 2015): 134–142.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130929David C. Nice STATE PARTY IDEOLOGY AND POLICY MAKING, Policy Studies Journal 13, no.44 (Jun 1985): 780–796.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1985.tb01618.xJeffrey E. Cohen, David C. Nice Changing Party Loyalty of State Delegations to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1953-1976, Western Political Quarterly 36, no.22 (Sep 2016): 312–325.https://doi.org/10.1177/106591298303600209 David Nice Ideological Stability and Change at the Presidential Nominating Conventions, The Journal of Politics 42, no.33 (Oct 2015): 847–853.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130556

A Test of the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm: Water Utilities in the United States

CONTROVERSY over the relative efficiency of public versus private enterprise has a long history in economic thought. Many of the same issues that concerned Chadwick and Mill in their debates in the 1850s over nationalizing certain British industries and von Mises and Hayek versus Lange and Lerner in their well-known exchanges about the efficacy of a centrally planned economy continue to come up in the literature.1 In fact the modern property rights theory of the firm, postulated by theorists such as Alchian, Becker, and Demsetz follows in the tradition of von Mises and Hayek in stressing the impact on economic efficiency of alternative ownership forms. Special emphasis is placed on cost-reward arrangements within private and public enterprises in this approach to the theory of the firm. Where a direct connection between productivity and reward is severed, as in public enterprises, production will be less economically efficient. While this is a very appealing approach to firm behavior, it is yet to be subjected to a rigorous test with respect to firm costs. De Alessi purports to examine the implication of the property rights theory for managerial tenure.2

Midwest Review of Public Administration

Midwest Review of Public Administration

Service Delivery Rules and the Distribution of Local Government Services: Three Detroit Bureaucracies

Previous articleNext article No AccessArticlesService Delivery Rules and the Distribution of Local Government Services: Three Detroit BureaucraciesBryan D. Jones, Saadia R. Greenberg, Clifford Kaufman, and Joseph DrewBryan D. Jones Search for more articles by this author , Saadia R. Greenberg Search for more articles by this author , Clifford Kaufman Search for more articles by this author , and Joseph Drew Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 40, Number 2May, 1978 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2130091 Views: 46Total views on this site Citations: 27Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1978 Southern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Corey Kewei Xu, Tian Tang Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Impacts of Technology‐Enabled Coproduction on Equity in Public Service Delivery, Public Administration Review 80, no.66 (Sep 2020): 962–975.https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13222 황소하 Effects of General Intergovernmental Grants on Fiscal Equalization and Fiscal Capacity Reversal, Journal of Budget and Policy 6, no.22 (Nov 2017): 83–118.https://doi.org/10.35525/nabo.2017.6.2.004 김흥주, In Ho Kang A Study on the Effects of Regional Fiscal Equity in the Special Grants for Regional Development: Focused on Municipality by City(si) and County(gun), Korean Public Management Review 31, no.22 (Jun 2017): 45–80.https://doi.org/10.24210/kapm.2017.31.2.003 김흥주, In Ho Kang The Effect of Tax Reduction and Exemption on Local Financial Equality: Focused on Municipalities by City(si) and County(gun), The Korean Governance Review 23, no.33 (Dec 2016): 353–382.https://doi.org/10.17089/kgr.2016.23.3.014Michael Javen Fortner Straight, No Chaser, Urban Affairs Review 52, no.44 (Oct 2015): 591–621.https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087415608007Dorothy M. Daley, Megan Mullin, Meghan E. Rubado State Agency Discretion in a Delegated Federal Program: Evidence from Drinking Water Investment, Publius: The Journal of Federalism 44, no.44 (Aug 2013): 564–586.https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjt033Kirstin Wells, Jean-Claude Thill Do Transit-Dependent Neighborhoods Receive Inferior Bus Access? A Neighborhood Analysis in Four U.S. Cities, Journal of Urban Affairs 34, no.11 (Nov 2016): 43–63.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00575.xDale E. Thomson Strategic Geographic Targeting in Community Development: Examining the Congruence of Political, Institutional, and Technical Factors, Urban Affairs Review 47, no.44 (Mar 2011): 564–594.https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087411400021J. B. Wenger, V. M. Wilkins At the Discretion of Rogue Agents: How Automation Improves Women's Outcomes in Unemployment Insurance, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19, no.22 (Feb 2008): 313–333.https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mum044Valentina A. Bali Implementing Popular Initiatives: What Matters for Compliance?, The Journal of Politics 65, no.44 (Jul 2015): 1130–1146.https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2508.t01-1-00129Heinz Eulau, Susan Zlomke HAROLD D. LASSWELL'S LEGACY TO MAINSTREAM POLITICAL SCIENCE: A Neglected Agenda, Annual Review of Political Science 2, no.11 (Jun 1999): 75–89.https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.75Seung Jong Lee Policy Type, Bureaucracy, and Urban Policies: Integrating Models of Urban Service Distribution, Policy Studies Journal 22, no.11 (Mar 1994): 87–108.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1994.tb02182.xRuth Hoogland DeHoog, David Lowery, William E. Lyons Metropolitan Fragmentation and Suburban Ghettos: Some Empirical Observations on Institutional Racism, Journal of Urban Affairs 13, no.44 (Dec 2016): 479–493.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.1991.tb00268.x Gerard S. Gryski The Influence of Committee Position on Federal Program Spending, Polity 23, no.33 (Nov 2016): 443–459.https://doi.org/10.2307/3235135 Ruth Hoogland DeHoog , David Lowery , and William E. Lyons Citizen Satisfaction with Local Governance: A Test of Individual, Jurisdictional, and City-Specific Explanations, The Journal of Politics 52, no.33 (Oct 2015): 807–837.https://doi.org/10.2307/2131828K. R. Mladenka The Distribution of an Urban Public Service: The Changing Role of Race and Politics, Urban Affairs Review 24, no.44 (Jun 1989): 556–583.https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168902400405Kenneth K. Wong POLICY-MAKING IN THE AMERICAN STATES: TYPOLOGY, PROCESS, AND INSTITUTIONS, Review of Policy Research 8, no.33 (Mar 1989): 527–548.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.1989.tb00978.xJohn Clayton Thomas The Personal Side of Street-Level Bureaucracy, Urban Affairs Quarterly 22, no.11 (Aug 2016): 84–100.https://doi.org/10.1177/004208168602200105 William C. Baer Just What Is an Urban Service, Anyway?, The Journal of Politics 47, no.33 (Oct 2015): 881–898.https://doi.org/10.2307/2131215Joseph Drew THE DYNAMICS OF HUMAN SERVICES SUBCONTRACTING: SERVICE DELIVERY IN CHICAGO, DETROIT, AND PHILADELPHIA, Policy Studies Journal 13, no.11 (Sep 1984): 67–89.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1984.tb01699.x Evelyn Brodkin , and Michael Lipsky Quality Control in AFDC as an Administrative Strategy, Social Service Review 57, no.11 (Oct 2015): 1–34.https://doi.org/10.1086/644069 Fredric N. Bolotin , and David L. Cingranelli Equity and Urban Policy: The Underclass Hypothesis Revisited, The Journal of Politics 45, no.11 (Oct 2015): 209–219.https://doi.org/10.2307/2130332Bryan D. Jones Party and Bureaucracy: The Influence of Intermediary Groups on Urban Public Service Delivery, American Political Science Review 75, no.33 (Aug 2014): 688–700.https://doi.org/10.2307/1960961Mary Bryna Sanger ARE ACADEMIC MODELS OF URBAN SERVICE DISTRIBUTIONS RELEVANT TO PUBLIC POLICY?: LESSONS FROM NEW YORK, Policy Studies Journal 9, no.77 (Jun 1981): 1011–1020.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.1981.tb01209.xMichael Brintnall Caseloads, Performance, and Street-Level Bureaucracy, Urban Affairs Quarterly 16, no.33 (Aug 2016): 281–298.https://doi.org/10.1177/107808748101600302Kenneth R. Mladenka The Urban Bureaucracy and the Chicago Political Machine: Who Gets What and the Limits to Political Control, American Political Science Review 74, no.44 (Aug 2014): 991–998.https://doi.org/10.2307/1954318Mitchell F. Rice, Woodrow Jones Municipal Service Suits, Local Public Services and Service Equality, Midwest Review of Public Administration 14, no.11 (Sep 2016): 29–39.https://doi.org/10.1177/027507408001400103

The Midwest Review of Public Administration After the First Ten Years

The first ten years of the Review are history. With the eleventh volume a new look became evident. At this particular phase of the journal's develop ment the Editorial Board decided to engage in a limited internal evaluation of these years.

Rudolf Gneist and the Prussian Rechtsstaat: 1862-78

The Prussian jurist Rudolf Gneist (1816-1895) is remembered today as a champion of liberal administrative reforms enacted during the 1870s. In his own time he was a popular law professor, an eminent scholar, parliamentarian, and high-court judge. In his scholarship he expressed many of the aspirations of middle class liberals in nineteenth-century Prussia and Germany, while his politics underscore the set-backs and compromises which liberals endured or accepted in the decades after 1848 as, by installments, history proved that they were not on the winning side. During the 1848 Revolution German constitutional liberals had learned to fear the masses and looked to the monarchs and their armies to uphold shared values: property, law, and order. Thereafter the liberals had few political options, as the Prussian constitutional conflict (1862-66) showed. In that conflict Gneist was, right from the beginning, an outspoken opponent of Bismarck. He helped to define the strategy of the liberals, who couched their political opposition in narrow, purely legal terms. After Bismarck's decisive victcry in 1866, Gneist sided with the national liberals and emerged in the 1870s as a dedicated supporter of Bismarck's illiberal Kulturkampf and anti-socialist legislation. Gneist was not, as this synopsis might suggest, merely a failed idealist turned opportunist. His scholarship and politics reflect some of the deep anti-democratic instincts of Prussian middle-class liberals that made it more easy for them to be allies of the traditional authoritarian landed elites, than champions of the masses uprooted through industrialization. His doctrinaire view of politics as a ceaseless struggle between state and society allowed him to conclude that political rights should be extended to the wealthy and educated, but not to the politically immature lower classes. After 1866 Gneist's unrelenting campaign for a Prussian Rechtsstaat--a system of juridical review of public administration--and for the modernization of Prussian local government, helped furnish Prussia's liberals with positive reform goals. Because these demands did not challenge Bismarck's authoritarian system, or entail the risk of reviving the radical forces of 1848. they were largely fulfilled--though not for all subjects at all times, as Catholics and social democrats discovered during the 1870s. An examination of Gneist's political theory and politics shows how Prussia's constitutional liberals came to accept their modest allotment of political power in Bismarck's pseudo-parliamentary monarchical system.

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Midwest Review of Public Administration

Midwest Review of Public Administration

Property Rights and Economic Efficiency--The Australian Airlines Revisited

Ownership rights to private property may be purchased and sold by individuals. The taxpayer-owner of public property, however, does not possess this option to exchange his share of public property. He is compelled to be a public owner and is an equal owner with all other citizens of the state. An important implication of the ability to transfer ownership in the private sector is that costs and rewards of economic activities accrue more directly to the individual responsible for them. In particular, private property facilitates capitalization of future consequences into current transfer prices. Accordingly there is a higher correlation between the reward-cost structure and the economic effort of the individual.2 A second important implication is that transferable ownership generates comparative advantage effects. Interpersonal differences with respect to abilities and knowledge among individuals can bring increased specialization in the ownership of business that will increase aggregate wealth in the case of privately-owned enterprises. The inability of individuals to purchase and sell claims to public property prevents specialization in ownership and inhibits inexpensive detection and rectification of poor management practices. As a result of the transferability of ownership, we would expect, ceteris paribus, private businesses to be more efficient than government firms.

Political Modernization in the Developing World: Contributions from American Experience

The collapse of Western imperial systems at the end of World War II may be seen a century later as a more important structural political change than the revolutions starting with England's in the seventeenth century. The American Revolution was a pioneer movement in decoloni zation. Over a 200-year span, American political experience has had an impact on the development of other countries. For the many new states formed after 1945, American pro cesses of integration and the shaping of a political consensus have been found useful, as have federalism, judicial review, and developmental forms of public administration. American principles of limiting governmental power, however, contrast with the new states' search for concentrated power. In many respects, institutions of political form and style made familiar and natural by centuries of imperial tutelage have been more readily adopted by the new states. The United States has assisted in the process of political modernization in the developing world, but the American system of govern ment grew under special conditions, and, for the most part, is not transferable.

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Midwest Review of Public Administration

The Irrelevance of the Inevitable

Previous articleNext article No AccessArticlesThe Irrelevance of the InevitableJohn FremstadJohn Fremstad Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 37, Number 2May, 1975 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381600041207 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1975 Southern Political Science AssociationPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Michael W. Spicer Determinism, Social Science, and Public Administration, The American Review of Public Administration 35, no.33 (Jul 2016): 256–269.https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074005275309

Policy Responsiveness to Protest-Group Demands

Policy Responsiveness to Protest-Group Demands