Marc Holzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Holzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Holzer |
| SIGNATURE | HOLZER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Fruits of Diversity and Globalization
The growth of East-Asian scholars in the American public affairs and administration (PA) field is increasingly apparent in recent years. Their participation demonstrates the diversity of the academic community and the globalization of higher education. However, little attention has been paid in the literature to this minority. From the broader perspective, Asian minorities have been overlooked in the discourse on diversity, equity, and inclusion,…
The Future of Public Administration
Public Productivity and Performance Handbook
Constructing Social Equity in Theory and Practice
A Call for Action
Do Small Local Governments Fare Well? A Survey of Villages in New York
Public administration studies have not adequately discussed governance challenges for small local governments. Given that more than 10% of villages have, unprecedentedly, voted on dissolution in New York over the past 10 years, this article exclusively and comprehensively investigates how well villages are faring in New York. Using a representative survey of village governments, coupled with a rich secondary data set, it finds institutional and p…
A Classic Revisited
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The impact of government form on e-participation
Restating the Relevance of Comparative Public Administration
Mapping the terrain of public service quality improvement
The quality movement in the United States has been characterized as an impetus for organizational effectiveness and responsiveness since the late 1970s. ‘Quality’ can be a subjective term as each organization has its own definition and boundaries. Three emphases are evident in the field of quality improvement: quality circles, total quality management, and citizen satisfaction. Practices of quality improvement in the public sector have been drive…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Comparative Chinese/American Public Administration
In the field of public administration practice, China has a history of several thousand years, whereas the United States has a much shorter history of hundreds of years of governance. In terms of the scholarly development of public administration in China, the roots of those intellectual resources can be traced far back, to Confucius’s ideology of governance and the ancient development of a civil service system some 2,000 years ago. In terms of t…
Waldo’s Perspectives
The Performance-Trust Link
Although the link between government performance and citizen trust in government seems intuitive, the relationship is not supported in some of the literature. This article argues that the difficulty of empirically demonstrating this link is rooted in the difficulty of defining and measuring government performance meaningfully. Performance measurement can improve citizen trust in government directly through citizen participation in the evaluation …
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Bureaucracy is a significant element of American governance; yet, its role in democratic governance is all too often vilified, misunderstood, and reduced to stereotypical assumptions that fail to recognize the contributions of bureaucratic structures and actors in the design and implementation of public policy.These misguided assumptions and underestimations of public sector bureaucracy, therefore, require practical and empirical examples that ru…
China's fiscal reform
To adjust the fiscal relationship between the central government and the local government, especially to increase the two ratios of (1) central fiscal revenue over GDP and (2) central fiscal revenue over government revenue, China conducted a 1994 fiscal reform effort, the result of which is, at best, mixed. One of the failures to boost the first ratio is the existence of largescale extra budget funds (EBFs) and extra-extra budgetary funds (EEBFs)…
Performance Measurement and Improvement
This article attempts to show the frontier of government performance measurement. First, it introduces the sophisticated and effective strategies that public agencies have utilized for performance measurement within a comprehensive approach to productivity improvement. Multiple measures have been developed to improve a variety of management functions such as goal-setting and resource allocation. The article then outlines the cutting edge of perfo…
Promoting the Utilization of Performance Measures in Public Organizations
Despite its appeal for improving government, many state and local governments have not developed performance‐measurement systems, and even fewer use these systems to improve decision making. This study examines the factors that affect the utilization of performance measurement, based on the results of a national survey of state and local government officials. The goals of the study were to provide better information on the patterns of usage of pe…
Public Administration— on the Edge
The Doctorate in Public Administration
Introduction The traditional view of doctoral education, borrowed from the social sciences, is the reproduction of the professoriate to ensure continued knowledge development through research and the dissemination of knowledge through teaching. In other words, the traditional purpose of doctoral education is the creation of a new generation of scholars who will pursue careers in academe. This is clearly not the reality of doctoral education in pu…
Public Works Management in Transformation
Public Productivity Handbook
Towards a Competitive Public Administration
Public service
The concept of public service, which is too often approached simplistically, is worthy of both support and serioui reexamination. Contributors to this symposium provide four distinct perspectives which, taken as a whole, provide an optimistic view of possibilities for solving problems associated with this necessary and productive link in our social fabric
Minnowbrook II
Minnowbrook I was an intense effort to redefine public administration. In the intervening two decades, the optimism engendered by the vision of a new public administration has been dissipated, and the report card for public administration is not especially good. Bureaucrat bashing is up. Public confidence in public administration is down. Interest in privatization is increasing. Revenues are flat or decreasing. Managers are increasingly promoted …
Productivity in Public Organizations
Performance Measurement and Improvement
This article attempts to show the frontier of government performance measurement. First, it introduces the sophisticated and effective strategies that public agencies have utilized for performance measurement within a comprehensive approach to productivity improvement. Multiple measures have been developed to improve a variety of management functions such as goal-setting and resource allocation. The article then outlines the cutting edge of perfo…
The impact of government form on e-participation
Do Small Local Governments Fare Well? A Survey of Villages in New York
Public administration studies have not adequately discussed governance challenges for small local governments. Given that more than 10% of villages have, unprecedentedly, voted on dissolution in New York over the past 10 years, this article exclusively and comprehensively investigates how well villages are faring in New York. Using a representative survey of village governments, coupled with a rich secondary data set, it finds institutional and p…
Mapping the terrain of public service quality improvement
The quality movement in the United States has been characterized as an impetus for organizational effectiveness and responsiveness since the late 1970s. ‘Quality’ can be a subjective term as each organization has its own definition and boundaries. Three emphases are evident in the field of quality improvement: quality circles, total quality management, and citizen satisfaction. Practices of quality improvement in the public sector have been drive…
Towards a Competitive Public Administration
The Future of Public Administration
The Fruits of Diversity and Globalization
The growth of East-Asian scholars in the American public affairs and administration (PA) field is increasingly apparent in recent years. Their participation demonstrates the diversity of the academic community and the globalization of higher education. However, little attention has been paid in the literature to this minority. From the broader perspective, Asian minorities have been overlooked in the discourse on diversity, equity, and inclusion,…
Constructing Social Equity in Theory and Practice
A Call for Action
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Bureaucracy is a significant element of American governance; yet, its role in democratic governance is all too often vilified, misunderstood, and reduced to stereotypical assumptions that fail to recognize the contributions of bureaucratic structures and actors in the design and implementation of public policy.These misguided assumptions and underestimations of public sector bureaucracy, therefore, require practical and empirical examples that ru…
Minnowbrook II
Minnowbrook I was an intense effort to redefine public administration. In the intervening two decades, the optimism engendered by the vision of a new public administration has been dissipated, and the report card for public administration is not especially good. Bureaucrat bashing is up. Public confidence in public administration is down. Interest in privatization is increasing. Revenues are flat or decreasing. Managers are increasingly promoted …
Administrative Humor
Productivity Management
The Perceived Utility of MPA Degrees
Productivity in Public Organizations
The Demand for Productivity in the Municipal Civil Service
Public service
The concept of public service, which is too often approached simplistically, is worthy of both support and serioui reexamination. Contributors to this symposium provide four distinct perspectives which, taken as a whole, provide an optimistic view of possibilities for solving problems associated with this necessary and productive link in our social fabric
Minnowbrook II
Minnowbrook I was an intense effort to redefine public administration. In the intervening two decades, the optimism engendered by the vision of a new public administration has been dissipated, and the report card for public administration is not especially good. Bureaucrat bashing is up. Public confidence in public administration is down. Interest in privatization is increasing. Revenues are flat or decreasing. Managers are increasingly promoted …
Towards a Competitive Public Administration
Public Productivity Handbook
Public Works Management in Transformation
Public Administration— on the Edge
The Doctorate in Public Administration
Introduction The traditional view of doctoral education, borrowed from the social sciences, is the reproduction of the professoriate to ensure continued knowledge development through research and the dissemination of knowledge through teaching. In other words, the traditional purpose of doctoral education is the creation of a new generation of scholars who will pursue careers in academe. This is clearly not the reality of doctoral education in pu…
Promoting the Utilization of Performance Measures in Public Organizations
Despite its appeal for improving government, many state and local governments have not developed performance‐measurement systems, and even fewer use these systems to improve decision making. This study examines the factors that affect the utilization of performance measurement, based on the results of a national survey of state and local government officials. The goals of the study were to provide better information on the patterns of usage of pe…
China's fiscal reform
To adjust the fiscal relationship between the central government and the local government, especially to increase the two ratios of (1) central fiscal revenue over GDP and (2) central fiscal revenue over government revenue, China conducted a 1994 fiscal reform effort, the result of which is, at best, mixed. One of the failures to boost the first ratio is the existence of largescale extra budget funds (EBFs) and extra-extra budgetary funds (EEBFs)…
Performance Measurement and Improvement
This article attempts to show the frontier of government performance measurement. First, it introduces the sophisticated and effective strategies that public agencies have utilized for performance measurement within a comprehensive approach to productivity improvement. Multiple measures have been developed to improve a variety of management functions such as goal-setting and resource allocation. The article then outlines the cutting edge of perfo…
The Performance-Trust Link
Although the link between government performance and citizen trust in government seems intuitive, the relationship is not supported in some of the literature. This article argues that the difficulty of empirically demonstrating this link is rooted in the difficulty of defining and measuring government performance meaningfully. Performance measurement can improve citizen trust in government directly through citizen participation in the evaluation …
Bureaucracy and Democracy
Bureaucracy is a significant element of American governance; yet, its role in democratic governance is all too often vilified, misunderstood, and reduced to stereotypical assumptions that fail to recognize the contributions of bureaucratic structures and actors in the design and implementation of public policy.These misguided assumptions and underestimations of public sector bureaucracy, therefore, require practical and empirical examples that ru…
Waldo’s Perspectives
Mapping the terrain of public service quality improvement
The quality movement in the United States has been characterized as an impetus for organizational effectiveness and responsiveness since the late 1970s. ‘Quality’ can be a subjective term as each organization has its own definition and boundaries. Three emphases are evident in the field of quality improvement: quality circles, total quality management, and citizen satisfaction. Practices of quality improvement in the public sector have been drive…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Comparative Chinese/American Public Administration
In the field of public administration practice, China has a history of several thousand years, whereas the United States has a much shorter history of hundreds of years of governance. In terms of the scholarly development of public administration in China, the roots of those intellectual resources can be traced far back, to Confucius’s ideology of governance and the ancient development of a civil service system some 2,000 years ago. In terms of t…
Restating the Relevance of Comparative Public Administration
The impact of government form on e-participation
A Classic Revisited
Related Content: Balfour (PAR November/December 2017)Related Content: Nickels (PAR November/December 2017)Related Content: Zeemering (PAR November/December 2017)Related Content: Hamilton (PAR November/December 2017)Related Content: Ali (PAR November/December 2017)Related Content: Schachter (PAR November/December 2017
Do Small Local Governments Fare Well? A Survey of Villages in New York
Public administration studies have not adequately discussed governance challenges for small local governments. Given that more than 10% of villages have, unprecedentedly, voted on dissolution in New York over the past 10 years, this article exclusively and comprehensively investigates how well villages are faring in New York. Using a representative survey of village governments, coupled with a rich secondary data set, it finds institutional and p…
Constructing Social Equity in Theory and Practice
Political science (24 works) · Public Administration (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Public Administration (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Administration (probate law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)