Handbook of State Government Administration docx

[...]... Management in State Governments Paul C Nutt and Robert W Backoff 10 Administration of Innovations in State Government 127 155 177 221 289 Keon S Chi 11 Productivity Management in State Governments 307 Evan M Berman 12 Policy Research in State Government Peter J Haas 331 13 347 Measuring Performance in State Government Maria P Aristigueta Administering Policies of State Government 14 Administration of State. .. Context of State Government Administration 1 Introduction and Overview of State Government Administration John J Gargan 2 Management Consequences of the 1960-1990 "Modernization" of State Government James K Conant 3 4 State Administration and Intergovernmental Interdependency: Do National Impacts on State Agencies Contribute to Organizational Turbulence? Deil S Wright and Chung-Lae Cho State Administration. .. Keith Boeckelman 363 15 Administration of State Government Rural Development Policy Robert Agranoff and Michael McGuire 385 16 Administration of State Economic Development: Decision Making Under Uncertainty Karen Mossberger 421 Administration of Developmental-Disabilities Services in State Government Paul J Castellani 441 17 Contents 18 ix Administration and Management of State Human Service Agencies... sector growth guided public administration thinking of the 1930s, strategic management, postmodernism, and privatization shape public administration thinking at the outset of a new century The Handbook of State Government Administration is designed to meet the ongoing challenge of specifying the knowledge and skills necessary for building the governing capacity of state (and other) governments It is also... have enabled elected officials to use their states as laboratories State officials and professionals in government have engaged in policy experimentation, reconsidered functional assignment of program responsibilities between state and local governments, and diffused successful policy innovations to their counterparts in other states In very elemental ways, the performance of state governments defines... W Backoff Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio A Hunter Bacot Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina Evan M Berman Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida Curtis R Berry Associate Professor, Department of Political... John J Gargan Professor, Department of Political Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Peter J Haas Professor, Department of Political Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, California F Ted Hebert Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Edward T Jennings, Jr Professor, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science,... State University, Kent, Ohio State governments fill dynamic roles in the governing of American society, roles as autonomous political systems rather than administrative units of the national government The performance of the states as political systems over the past four decades is evidence of the vitality of the Constitution's 10th Amendment On the cusp of the 21st century, as in the past, state governments... management, essential and emergent management practices, and the administration of specific programs and policies I CONTEXTS OF STATE GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT The chapters of the first section relate to contextual influences on state government administration and management One of the most basic is the ideational— how state government should be organized to operate most effectively As... importance of federal law and federal court decisions and expanded federal government involvement in more domestic functions (or at least the funding of functions) is of obvious significance Yet it is state law, state court systems, and the provision of an array of public services by state and local governments that in most cases determine the contribution of the public sector to the quality of life that . Preface The Handbook of State Government Administration considers the range of admin- istrative and management practices employed by state governments . Gargan Contents Preface Conributors Factors Affecting the Context of State Government Administration 1. Introduction and Overview of State Government Administration 1 John J. Gargan 2.