Publications

Books

Working With Culture: How the Job Gets Done in Public Programs. Washington , DC : CQ Press (2002).

Review by Roberto Maranto

Checking on Banks: Autonomy and Accountability in Three Federal Agencies. Washington , DC : The Brookings Institution (1996).

Review by Jean Reith Schroedel

The SEC and Capital Market Regulation: The Politics of Expertise . Pittsburgh , PA : University of Pittsburgh Press (1992).

Review by Marc Eisner

 

Journal Articles

With Edward Weber. "Wicked Problems, Knowledge Challenges, and Collaborative Capacity Builders in Network Settings." Public Administration Review . Forthcoming.

"The Securities and Exchange Commission: A Small Regulatory Agency with a Gargantuan Challenge." Public Administration Review 62 (5): 515-526 (2002).

With Martha Feldman, "To Manage is to Govern." Public Administration Review 62 (5): 541-554 (2002).

With Martha Feldman, "Principles for Public Management Practice: From Dichotomies to Interdependence." Governance 14 (3): 339-362 (2001).

With Martha Feldman, "Management for Inclusion: Balancing Control with Participation." International Public Management Journal 3 (2): 149-68 (2000).

With Martha Feldman, "The Class as Case: Reinventing the Classroom." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 18 (3 ): 482-503 (1999).

With Edward Weber, "From Agitation to Collaboration: Clearing the Air through Negotiation." Public Administration Review 57 (5): 396-410 (1997).

With Kenneth Mayer, "Bringing Politics Back In: Defense Policy and the Theoretical Study of Institutions and Processes." Public Administration Review 56 (2): 180-190 (1996).

"When Missions Matter: Professional Priorities and the 'Step-Child' of Supervision." Governance 8 (1): 26-57 (1995).

"Reinventing a Government Corporation: Professional Priorities and a Clear Bottom-Line." Public Administration Review 55 (1): 17-28 (1995).

"The New Dynamics of Legislating and the Implications for Delegating: What's to be Expected on the Receiving End?" Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 5 (1): 19-44 (1995).

 

Book Chapters

"The Politics of Homeland Security." In David Kamien ( ed.) The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Homeland Security . McGraw-Hill (2005).

"Homeland (In)Security." In Robert Moranto (ed.), The Second Term of George W. Bush: Prospects and Perils . (Forthcoming with Palgrave).

"Strengthening State and Local Government Terrorism Prevention and Response." In Donald F. Kettl (ed.) The Department of Homeland Security's First Year: A Report Card . New York : The Century Foundation (2004).

With Martha Feldman, "Empowerment and Cascading Vitality." In Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn (eds.) Positive Organizational Scholarship . San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2003).

"Is Silly Putty Manageable? Looking for the Links Between Culture, Management and Context." In Jeffrey Brudney, Laurence O'Toole, Jr., and Hal Rainey (eds.) Advancing Public Management: New Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice . Georgetown University Press (2000).

Review by William Eric Davis

"Securities Market Regulation and Investor Protection," in Kenneth Meier and Thomas Garman (eds.) Regulation and Consumer Protection , 3rd ed. Dame Publications (1998).

"The SEC" and "The FDIC", in The Historical Guide to American Government . Oxford University Press (1998).

"Building Better Bridges: Developing Effective Relations with Legislatures." In James Perry's (ed.), Handbook of Public Administration , 2nd ed., Jossey Bass (1996).

Review by Laurence E. Lynn

 

Book Reviews

Perspectives on Politics. (Forthcoming). Book review of Why Government Succeeds and Why it Fails. By Amihai Glazer and Lawrence S. Rothenberg ( Harvard University Press).

Public Administration Review (vol. 58, 3): 269-273 (1998). "What Do We Want Public Managers to Be? Comparing Reforms."

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (vol. 16, 3): 492-97 (1997). Book review of Communication in Congress: Members, Staff and the Search for Information, by David Whiteman ( University of Kansas Press ) and The Politics Of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment , by Bruce Bimber (SUNY Press).

Congress and the Presidency (Fall): 190-92 (1996). Book review of Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability , by Paul Light ( Washington , DC : The Brookings Institution), and Controlling the Bureaucracy, Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice , by William West ( Armonk , NY : M. E. Sharpe).

American Political Science Review (December): 1011-12 (1994). Book review of Regulation in the White House: The Johnson Presidency , by David Welborn, Austin , Texas : The University of Texas Press.

American Journal of Sociology (March): 1187-89 (1993). Book review of Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate , by Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite, New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

 

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