Gary L Wamsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 293668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary L Wamsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wamsley |
| SIGNATURE | WAMSLEY G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Old and New
John Rohr's Legacy
Academic Public Administration Flunks Final Exam
A Tribute to Larry D. Terry
Reflections on the Passing of Dwight Waldo
Refounding Democratic Public Administration
To Politicize is not to Control
One of the most significant problems of bureaucracy in a democratic polity is how to achieve a tolerable coexistence between political and managerial control. When these aspects of control get out of balance, certain pathologies occur. This paper seeks to draw lessons from a study of the Federal Emergency Management Agency that show that the politicization of the administrative mechanisms of government, in the name of controlling bureaucracy and …
Escalating in a Quagmire
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into southern Dade County, Florida. What followed was tragic, costly, and remarkable many respects. In this article, we focus on one multi-faceted aspect of Andrew's aftermath - the policy aspect, political and administrative. For this aspect was every bit as remarkable as all the others. The event threw a spotlight on a largely ignored policy subsystem - emergency management - and on the complicated a…
Commentary
Farewell to Norton
I hope this feature of Administration & Society will not become routine. The world of academia has lost three of its "greats" in a brief span: Bill Siffin, Aaron Wildavsky, and now Norton Long
In Memoriam
Reconstituting a Profession for American Public Administration
Refounding Public Administration
(Re)Founding the Field
Urban forestry administration in the Netherlands
The Political Economy of Public Organizations
On the Problems of Discovering what's Really New in Public Administration
This short essay is a rejoinder to the article by H. George Frederickson titled "The Lineage of the New Public Administration, " which appeared in the August 1976 issue of Administration and Society
From the New Editors
Action Research and Public Policy Analysis
Action Research and Public Policy Analysis
ACCORDING to Vernon Van Dyke, [p]olitical scientists pay relatively little attention to policy outputs designed to have consequences in environments external to the system.' This may be somewhat of an overstatement but if accurate it should be sufficient to disturb all of us. Not only does Political Science in general ignore the impacts, even those subfields which occasionally examine them fail to relate them back to the policy-making process. Th…
Reply to Lovell
The Political Economy of Public Organizations
The search for a theory of public administration often takes on aspects of a quest for Hold Grail or a hunt for mythical unicorn. Public administration theory has meant variously: a search for scientific principles; broad ruminations on what phenomena are included within the field; and general orientations of students of subject, both professional and academic.1 Seldom has theory referred to systematic, empirically based explanations of a phenome…
Television Network News
on television news that was apparently manifestation of calculated strategy on the part of the Nixon administration.' He referred to the TV news industry as a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men and added darkly that no medium has more powerful influence over public opinion. Nowhere in our system are there fewer checks on vast power. He implied that TV news generates marches and demonstrations, and in effect erodes the political system.2…
Contrasting Institutions of Air Force Socialization
Two institutions of military socialization, Officers Training School (OTS) and Aviation Cadet Pre-Flight Training School (Pre-Flight), are compared. Light is shed on existing studies which fail to use indicators demarcating basic military subculture. The ACPFTS used harsh techniques to inculcate heroic values and eliminate the "unfit." The OTS uses low-key techniques to presocialize managerial values. The air force is pleased with OTS. It is now …
Selective Service
Escalating in a Quagmire
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into southern Dade County, Florida. What followed was tragic, costly, and remarkable many respects. In this article, we focus on one multi-faceted aspect of Andrew's aftermath - the policy aspect, political and administrative. For this aspect was every bit as remarkable as all the others. The event threw a spotlight on a largely ignored policy subsystem - emergency management - and on the complicated a…
Refounding Public Administration
Television Network News
on television news that was apparently manifestation of calculated strategy on the part of the Nixon administration.' He referred to the TV news industry as a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men and added darkly that no medium has more powerful influence over public opinion. Nowhere in our system are there fewer checks on vast power. He implied that TV news generates marches and demonstrations, and in effect erodes the political system.2…
Contrasting Institutions of Air Force Socialization
Two institutions of military socialization, Officers Training School (OTS) and Aviation Cadet Pre-Flight Training School (Pre-Flight), are compared. Light is shed on existing studies which fail to use indicators demarcating basic military subculture. The ACPFTS used harsh techniques to inculcate heroic values and eliminate the "unfit." The OTS uses low-key techniques to presocialize managerial values. The air force is pleased with OTS. It is now …
To Politicize is not to Control
One of the most significant problems of bureaucracy in a democratic polity is how to achieve a tolerable coexistence between political and managerial control. When these aspects of control get out of balance, certain pathologies occur. This paper seeks to draw lessons from a study of the Federal Emergency Management Agency that show that the politicization of the administrative mechanisms of government, in the name of controlling bureaucracy and …
On the Problems of Discovering what's Really New in Public Administration
This short essay is a rejoinder to the article by H. George Frederickson titled "The Lineage of the New Public Administration, " which appeared in the August 1976 issue of Administration and Society
John Rohr's Legacy
Reflections on the Passing of Dwight Waldo
Farewell to Norton
I hope this feature of Administration & Society will not become routine. The world of academia has lost three of its "greats" in a brief span: Bill Siffin, Aaron Wildavsky, and now Norton Long
(Re)Founding the Field
Selective Service
Television Network News
on television news that was apparently manifestation of calculated strategy on the part of the Nixon administration.' He referred to the TV news industry as a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men and added darkly that no medium has more powerful influence over public opinion. Nowhere in our system are there fewer checks on vast power. He implied that TV news generates marches and demonstrations, and in effect erodes the political system.2…
Contrasting Institutions of Air Force Socialization
Two institutions of military socialization, Officers Training School (OTS) and Aviation Cadet Pre-Flight Training School (Pre-Flight), are compared. Light is shed on existing studies which fail to use indicators demarcating basic military subculture. The ACPFTS used harsh techniques to inculcate heroic values and eliminate the "unfit." The OTS uses low-key techniques to presocialize managerial values. The air force is pleased with OTS. It is now …
Reply to Lovell
The Political Economy of Public Organizations
The search for a theory of public administration often takes on aspects of a quest for Hold Grail or a hunt for mythical unicorn. Public administration theory has meant variously: a search for scientific principles; broad ruminations on what phenomena are included within the field; and general orientations of students of subject, both professional and academic.1 Seldom has theory referred to systematic, empirically based explanations of a phenome…
On the Problems of Discovering what's Really New in Public Administration
This short essay is a rejoinder to the article by H. George Frederickson titled "The Lineage of the New Public Administration, " which appeared in the August 1976 issue of Administration and Society
From the New Editors
Action Research and Public Policy Analysis
Action Research and Public Policy Analysis
ACCORDING to Vernon Van Dyke, [p]olitical scientists pay relatively little attention to policy outputs designed to have consequences in environments external to the system.' This may be somewhat of an overstatement but if accurate it should be sufficient to disturb all of us. Not only does Political Science in general ignore the impacts, even those subfields which occasionally examine them fail to relate them back to the policy-making process. Th…
The Political Economy of Public Organizations
Urban forestry administration in the Netherlands
(Re)Founding the Field
Refounding Public Administration
Reconstituting a Profession for American Public Administration
Farewell to Norton
I hope this feature of Administration & Society will not become routine. The world of academia has lost three of its "greats" in a brief span: Bill Siffin, Aaron Wildavsky, and now Norton Long
In Memoriam
Commentary
Refounding Democratic Public Administration
To Politicize is not to Control
One of the most significant problems of bureaucracy in a democratic polity is how to achieve a tolerable coexistence between political and managerial control. When these aspects of control get out of balance, certain pathologies occur. This paper seeks to draw lessons from a study of the Federal Emergency Management Agency that show that the politicization of the administrative mechanisms of government, in the name of controlling bureaucracy and …
Escalating in a Quagmire
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into southern Dade County, Florida. What followed was tragic, costly, and remarkable many respects. In this article, we focus on one multi-faceted aspect of Andrew's aftermath - the policy aspect, political and administrative. For this aspect was every bit as remarkable as all the others. The event threw a spotlight on a largely ignored policy subsystem - emergency management - and on the complicated a…
Reflections on the Passing of Dwight Waldo
A Tribute to Larry D. Terry
Academic Public Administration Flunks Final Exam
John Rohr's Legacy
Old and New
Political science (22 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Public Administration (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Administration (probate law (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works)