| Preface / J.D. White |
| Implementation of technical-rational solutions to public problems: a dangerous social construction of public policy / D.L. Balfour ; G.B. Adams |
| An analysis of management perspectives and criteria for innovation adoption decisions in public administration / P.P. Eck |
| Assessing public administration practice: the case of revenue forecasting / G.A. Gianakis ; H.A. Frank |
| Do states respond to economic incentives? Federal-state child support financing policies / A. Tat-kei Ho ; M.A. Pirog |
| Widening the yellow brick road: answering the call for improved and relevant research in public administration / J.F. Orosz |
| Toward a theory of intergovernmental policy interactions between local governmetns adn metropolitan areas / K. Park |
| Applying a learning organization paradigm to government / G.B. Reschenthaler ; F. Thompson |
| Training: the missing ingredient in the new information technology / B. Rocheleau ; Liangu Wu |
| Bureaucratic responsibility and its underlying values: an exploratory analysis / P.G. Scott |
| Pragmatism as philosophy of science: a tool for public administration / P.M. Shields |
| Citizen participation in an era of reinventing government / D. Swindell et al. |
| A theory of political influence of the bureaucracy / J. Worsham et al. |
| On the problem of truth (with apologies to Horkheimer): challenging what's critical about public administration / L.A. Zanetti |
| List of contributors |
| From the Series Editor |
| Editorial statement / J.L. Perry |
| Studying the development and transformation of civil service systems: processes of de-institutionalization / H.A.J.G.M. Bekke |
| Leading the horse to water: transnational inducements to administrative reform / B. Nunberg |
| Public sector reform for building and recasting the welfare state: experiences in western Europe / J.C.N. Raadschelders ; T.A.J. Toonen |
| The quest for a leaner, not a meaner government / G.C. Maas ; Jr ; F.K.M. Van Nispen |
| Performance-oriented public sector modernization in developing countries: meeting the implementation challenge / G.J. Reid |
| Job evaluation: white elephant on the path to public management reform? / L. Recascino Wise |
| Flexible federalism: the new trajectory of European integration? / L. Metcalfe |
| A laggard's tale: civil service and administrative reform in the United States / P.W. Ingraham |
| Development and reform of post-Sandinista Nicaraguan public administration / B.J. Perlman |
| The Egyptian civil service and the continuing challenge of reform / E.H. Valsan |
| The Argentine civil service: an unfinished search for identity / O. Oszlak |
| Preface / J.D. White |
| Implementation of technical-rational solutions to public problems: a dangerous social construction of public policy / D.L. Balfour ; G.B. Adams |
| An analysis of management perspectives and criteria for innovation adoption decisions in public administration / P.P. Eck |
| Assessing public administration practice: the case of revenue forecasting / G.A. Gianakis ; H.A. Frank |
| Do states respond to economic incentives? Federal-state child support financing policies / A. Tat-kei Ho ; M.A. Pirog |
| Widening the yellow brick road: answering the call for improved and relevant research in public administration / J.F. Orosz |
