Norma M Riccucci
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1180810 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Norma M Riccucci |
| NOMBRES | Norma M |
| APELLIDO | Riccucci |
| FIRMA | RICCUCCI N M |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9229-7408 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 818 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Where power and scholarship collide
Publishing is a source of capital and power in academia, and coauthoring is a common way to publish. However, studies in public administration have not yet examined the structure of coauthorship patterns, how these patterns have evolved over time, or the extent to which these patterns are gendered. We use bibliometric data to examine coauthorship in public administration scholarship over four decades with a particular focus on gendered patterns. …
The relevance of CRT to public administrative practice
Public administration is poised to recognize that race is constitutive of bureaucratic hierarchies, processes, and outcomes and, as such, to ground our work in a more critical and progressive conceptual framework. In this exploratory analysis, we center Critical Race Theory (CRT) around practice, or praxis, a process that is self-reflexive and race-conscious to address root causes of racism, on the role of public sector leaders. This paper applie…
The (Missing?) Role of Institutions in Behavioral Public Administration
Editor’s note. In this roundtable, the contributors discuss the role of institutions (or lack thereof) in behavioral public administration (BPA). In a multidisciplinary discourse, the contributors touch on the many tensions that exist between institutional and behavioral perspectives of public administration. This roundtable is intended to spark additional discourse on the role of institutions in how they parameterize behaviors within or how indi…
Herbert Kaufman
Melvin J. Dubnick Donald F. Kettl In accepting American Society for Public Administration’s Dwight Waldo Award in 1996, Herbert Kaufman reflected on his relationships with both the award’s namesake and its previous awardee, Herbert Simon. On one hand, Kaufman throughout his career emphasized the strong influence Simon’s work on process and efficiency had on his approach to public administration. On the other hand, he deeply appreciated Waldo’s ef…
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy
Promoting race‐aware and gender‐aware scholarship is essential for giving substance to social equity research. This review and introduction provides an account of one such initiative to promote race and gender scholarship through collaboration between Public Administration Review (PAR), and the Consortium of Race and Gender Scholars (CORGES), and introduces the PAR Race and Gender Symposium. CORGES is an informal group of scholars motivated by th…
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis
Research in public administration examining the effects of diversity on public organizational performance has produced mixed results. However, the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework has failed to provide an explanation for the mixed diversity effects. This study introduces a systematic analytical model, Categorization‐Elaboration Model (CEM), to help identify the contextual constructs which can promote the positive effects of diversity…
Citizens’ perceptions of closing the gender pay gap
The issue of pay equity has been a topic of interest in our society. One area that has been understudied is the perceptions of the citizenry toward pay disparities between women and men. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of the citizenry in efforts to close the pay gap. We rely on an online experimental design, where we ask survey respondents their views on efforts by a local government to promote pay equity. We find that, r…
Applying Critical Race Theory to Public Administration Scholarship
This essay addresses how critical race theory (CRT) can be applied to the field of public administration. It proposes specific areas within the field that could benefit from the application of a CRT framework. This requires a paradigmatic shift in the field, which is desirable given the high priority that the field places on social equity, the third pillar of public administration. If there is a desire to achieve social equity and justice, racism…
Preparing Blacks and Latinx for Workforce 2000
In the mid-1980s, economists made predictions about what the workforce would look like in the 21st century and the implications for employees and employers. For example, it was predicted that due to demographic shifts in the overall population, blacks and Latinx would represent a large share of the new entrants into the workforce. The primary purpose of this article is to examine whether the economic forecasts for workforce 2000 were accurate. Th…
How Bureaucratic Representation Affects Public Organizational Performance
The impact of representative bureaucracy on public organizational performance has received a good deal of attention in public management. However, the literature provides little systematic rationalization about the effects of the individual constructs of representative bureaucracy on organizational performance. This meta‐analysis of 648 effect sizes from 80 quantitative studies, closely examines the conditions under which bureaucratic representat…
The Disenfranchisement of Voters of Color
This article unpacks how voters of color continue to be disenfranchised by policy and administrative action. In 2013, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This ruling sets the stage for states to change their election laws which have perpetuated voter suppression and the disenfranchisement of people of color and low-income whites. The article examines…
Policy Drift
Policy Drift: Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy is a seminal book that closely examines the role of shared powers on shifts or drifts in three critical areas of domestic public policy: privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy. Most books focus on the politics of implementation, but here the author shows how existing policy can drift in unanticipated directions due to punctuated social, political, or economic forces.
The value of alumni networks in responding to the public administration theory and practice
There has been a good deal of research on the role of nongovernmental organizations in addressing public concerns and issues. However, alumni networks, mainly regarded as a platform for in-group benefits between alumni and their alma maters, have attracted little attention in terms of their potential utility to the broader public. But the unexpected vital role of alumni networks in addressing the recent novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in China provi…
What Is Behavioral Public Administration Good for
Public administration has seen an influx of work addressing something that has been called “behavioral public administration (BPA)”; A hallmark of BPA is the examination of public administration from a micro‐level perspective with attention to the psychological aspects of human behavior. However, scholars of public administration have long applied a micro‐level lens to their research, even from a psychological standpoint. We argue here that the c…
Social Equity in Public Administration
This article presents a “Call to Action” Social Equity Manifesto developed at the Minnowbrook at 50 conference. The Social Equity Manifesto identifies several critical areas of emphasis that can help move toward the achievement of social equity in the research, teaching, and practice of public administration. Regarding research, we discuss the presence of social equity manuscripts in PAR, JPART, and ATP. Interestingly, the coverage of class inequ…
Equality
This country was built on the doctrine of inequality. Indeed, as Donald E. Klingner accurately points out in his essay, the U.S. Constitution ensured that enslaved Blacks would count as three-fifth
On Our Journey to Achieving Social Equity
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What prevents public and private workers in Japan from recognizing gender inequality
Although the percentage of women in Japan’s workforce has increased substantially over the last 30 years, gender inequality in terms of income and position has persisted. A major problem is the lack of consciousness around gender inequality in society. Our study aims to explore the factors, particularly the Japanese style of management and cultural norms, that prevent workers in the public and private sectors from recognizing gender inequality. T…
Representative Bureaucracy, Race, and Policing
Employing a theoretical framework of symbolic representation, our study examines whether varying the representation of black police officers in local agencies influences how black and white citizens judge the agency's performance, trustworthiness, and fairness in terms of civilian complaints of police misconduct. We use an online survey experiment in which we vary the representation of black officers in a hypothetical police department and also v…
Representative bureaucracy and its symbolic effect on citizens
Representative bureaucracy has been a topic of research for over half a century, but only recently studied experimentally. Initial empirical findings from two prior experiments – one involving policing, the other recycling – showed gender representation effects on citizens’ trust and cooperation. In this conceptual replication, we examine gender representation effects in another policy domain: emergency preparedness. However, despite using a simi…
Antecedents of Public Service Motivation
A good deal of research has been conducted in the area of public service motivation (PSM) over the past several decades. PSM maintains that people are predisposed to values or motives that encourage them to act on behalf of the public interest. Despite the plethora of research, there has been no systematic study on how gender interacts with PSM, or how it may antecede the values that comprise PSM and its underlying motives. This essay adds to the…
Intersectionality and Family-Friendly Policies in the Federal Government
This is an exploratory study that examines federal employee’s satisfaction with work–life balance or family-friendly policies. We rely on intersectionality as a theoretical framework to examine how gender, race, and class interact in the formation of their views. Drawing from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, we examine how minority women compare with non-minority women regarding their perception of fairness of programs and policies aim…
Representative Bureaucracy
Scholars and practitioners have long questioned whether the race, ethnicity, and gender of public bureaucrats matter to the efficacy and legitimacy of public services. Representative bureaucracy theory and research provide a growing body of empirical evidence that it does. This article examines some of the rich scholarly work that has been generated on representative bureaucracy and its implications for practice. A significant aspect of recent re…
Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce
Relying on the theory of representative bureaucracy—specifically, the notion of symbolic representation—this article examines whether varying the number of female public officials overseeing a local recycling program influences citizens’ (especially women's) willingness to cooperate with the government by recycling, thus coproducing important policy outcomes. Using a survey experiment in which the first names of public officials are manipulated, …
Fisher v. University of Texas
The eminent scholar John Rohr in one of his many treatises argued that as we progress through time, the U.S. Supreme Court becomes more socially adaptable in terms of its interpretation of race issues under the U.S. Constitution. He also pointed out that the courts should be working with policy makers responding to the demands of the day, to promote vital goals such as diversity in higher education. This article illustrates the evolution of affir…
Representative Bureaucracy in Policing
Drawing on the theory of representative bureaucracy, specifically the theory of symbolic representation, we examine whether or not gender representativeness in a police department’s domestic violence unit influences how citizens judge the agency’s performance, trustworthiness, and fairness. To examine this question, we use an online survey experiment in which we vary the representation of female police officers in a hypothetical domestic violence…
Representative Bureaucracy, Race, and Policing
Employing a theoretical framework of symbolic representation, our study examines whether varying the representation of black police officers in local agencies influences how black and white citizens judge the agency's performance, trustworthiness, and fairness in terms of civilian complaints of police misconduct. We use an online survey experiment in which we vary the representation of black officers in a hypothetical police department and also v…
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Intrastate Variation in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Policies
This article examines the impact of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families policies in the State of Michigan. Michigan's welfare programs are highly centralized, leaving counties very little formal discretion to run their programs. The formal signals sent by Michigan officials around welfare reform revolve around work first—immediate job placement over human capital investment. In a two-step anal…
How Management Matters
Achieving Goal Congruencein Complex Environments
Public management and implementation scholars suggest that congruence between the formal goals of policy officials and the operative goals of implementing agencies may be a prerequisite for the achievement of policy objectives. Substantial research also suggests that the achievement of goal congruence can be difficult in complex implementation contexts. In this article, we compare aspects of the government and management of organizations deliveri…
Linking Passive and Active Representation
This research tests the theory of active representation in welfare offices. Relying on a model developed by Saltzstein, the research examines the linkage between social origins and attitudes or values, which are critical antecedents to actions and, ultimately, to policy outcomes. Survey data from eleven welfare offices across four states are relied upon to test for this linkage
Reinventing Government
This review offers a synthesis and critical assessment of the reinvention movement in the United States. Focusing on the work of David Osborne, the National Performance Review, and the Winter Commission, it describes the key themes that define this movement and then assesses them from two major perspectives. The first perspective probes whether reinvention ideology provides a plausible prescription for improving the efficiency and effectiveness o…
Reckoning With Race and Gender in Public Administration and Public Policy
Promoting race‐aware and gender‐aware scholarship is essential for giving substance to social equity research. This review and introduction provides an account of one such initiative to promote race and gender scholarship through collaboration between Public Administration Review (PAR), and the Consortium of Race and Gender Scholars (CORGES), and introduces the PAR Race and Gender Symposium. CORGES is an informal group of scholars motivated by th…
How Bureaucratic Representation Affects Public Organizational Performance
The impact of representative bureaucracy on public organizational performance has received a good deal of attention in public management. However, the literature provides little systematic rationalization about the effects of the individual constructs of representative bureaucracy on organizational performance. This meta‐analysis of 648 effect sizes from 80 quantitative studies, closely examines the conditions under which bureaucratic representat…
Women in City Hall
This study examines gender dimensions of managerial values at the local level of government. We test for alternative explanations, in particular whether the organization and profession are socializing forces with similar or larger influence on managerial values. The data for this study come from Phase IV of the National Administrative Studies Project (NASP IV). The dataset includes the U.S. senior local government managers in communities with pop…
Why Do Agencies Work Together? The Determinants of Network Formation at the Subnational Level of Government in Thailand
There is a small, although well-established body of literature examining network performance and accountability. In addition, there are relatively few studies which examine potential factors for determining network formation. The current study provides a systematic analysis of network formation determinants. A logistic regression model is constructed to explain the probability of network formation; five major groups of explanatory variables are i…
Female and Minority Employment in City Government
Exploring the Determinants of Decisions to Privatize State Prisons
This study examines the potential determinants of state governments to privatize their prisons. Based on prison privatization data across the 50 states, the study finds that political factors such as the political culture of a state and the party controlling the legislature are more likely to influence decisions to privatize than those typically offered by advocates of prison privatization—fiscal or economic concerns, such as cost savings. The in…
The Demographics of Gubernatorial Appointees
This study examines the various factors that could potentially predict or explain demographic diversity in high‐level gubernatorial appointments in state government. In particular, it identifies and analyzes a set of variables that could help answer the question: Under what conditions are governors more likely to appoint higher proportions of women and people of color to top‐ranking executive branch positions? This question, not yet addressed by …
Employment Discrimination in State and Local Government
In recent years, a number of state, county, and municipal governments have been confronted with demands to add the category "sexual orientation" to their employment discrimination ordinances and policies. This paper focuses on the experience of state and local governments in responding to these demands in both the legal and political arenas. The paper discusses the legal arguments that have been used to resist and advance equal employment opportu…
Changing The “Culture” Of Welfare Offices
This article examines whether the 1996 welfare reform has led to the culture change in welfare offices advocated by welfare leaders and administrators. Examining a sample of state and local welfare systems, it asks whether and how welfare organizations are seeking to change their culture or, if not their culture, at least some of the structures and processes of their welfare systems. After unpacking the concept of culture in the context of welfar…
How does diversity affect public organizational performance? A meta‐analysis
Research in public administration examining the effects of diversity on public organizational performance has produced mixed results. However, the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework has failed to provide an explanation for the mixed diversity effects. This study introduces a systematic analytical model, Categorization‐Elaboration Model (CEM), to help identify the contextual constructs which can promote the positive effects of diversity…
Intersectionality and Family-Friendly Policies in the Federal Government
This is an exploratory study that examines federal employee’s satisfaction with work–life balance or family-friendly policies. We rely on intersectionality as a theoretical framework to examine how gender, race, and class interact in the formation of their views. Drawing from the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, we examine how minority women compare with non-minority women regarding their perception of fairness of programs and policies aim…
Public Personnel Management
The Disenfranchisement of Voters of Color
This article unpacks how voters of color continue to be disenfranchised by policy and administrative action. In 2013, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This ruling sets the stage for states to change their election laws which have perpetuated voter suppression and the disenfranchisement of people of color and low-income whites. The article examines…
On Our Journey to Achieving Social Equity
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Larry D. Terry
One cannot read a book or scholarly article on leadership in public bureaucracies without seeing the work of the preeminent Larry Terry cited. His contributions to the field have been significant, defining and enduring. But it is not only his work, but Terry himself that embodied, indeed emboldened the ethos of the field of public administration. This short essay represents a tribute to Larry Terry, a leader who bought great honor and integrity t…
The Ethical Responsibilities of Street-Level Bureaucrats Under Welfare Reform
The enactment of welfare reform in 1996 brought drastic changes to welfare policy in this nation, leading to the complete dismantling of the safety net for poor and needy persons and families. Among a host of other challenges, it has raised questions as to whether social workers can meet their ethical obligations to "enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people," as called for by the National Association of Social Wo…
Preparing Blacks and Latinx for Workforce 2000
In the mid-1980s, economists made predictions about what the workforce would look like in the 21st century and the implications for employees and employers. For example, it was predicted that due to demographic shifts in the overall population, blacks and Latinx would represent a large share of the new entrants into the workforce. The primary purpose of this article is to examine whether the economic forecasts for workforce 2000 were accurate. Th…
Equality
This country was built on the doctrine of inequality. Indeed, as Donald E. Klingner accurately points out in his essay, the U.S. Constitution ensured that enslaved Blacks would count as three-fifth
Female and Minority Employment in City Government
Merit Systems and Social Inequality
Drug Testing in the Public Sector
A priority in American domestic policy over the past few years has been to win the battle against drug use in our society. The frenzy surrounding this country's war on drugs, however, inevitably begs the question, Is the government, either as an employer or regulator of private sector employment, within legal and constitutional bounds when it requires employees to undergo drug testing? This question is examined through an analysis of the case law…
Merit, Equity, and Test Validity
The U.S. Supreme Court's Johnson v. Transportation Agency ruling in 1987 has rekindled the merit versus equity debate. In particular, it has encouraged reassessment of some of the debate's underlying assumptions which led many to argue that equity compromises merit. This article critically examines one of those assumptions, namely, that test validation produces good indicators of merit. In effect; many argue that if a woman or minority scores low…
Managing Labor Relations
Drug Testing in the Federal Workplace
How effective is thefederal government's employee drug-testing program? Frank Thompson, Norma Riccucci, and Carolyn Ban offer an assessment thatfocuses on both the instrumental and symbolic rationales for the program. They find little evidence to support contentions that drug testing improves workplace efficiency, nor do theyfind supportfor arguments that it promotes public health or reduces crime
Public Personnel Management
Women, Minorities and Unions in the Public Sector
Women, Minorities, and Unions in the Public Sector
Men and Women Managers
"Execucrats," Politics, and Public Policy
Ever since the emergence of the politics-administration dichotomy, public administrationists and political scientists have grappled with the question of whether career servants participate, or ought to participate, in high-level decision and policy making in government. Although it is, by now, widely established that that is career executives/bureaucrats, are indeed enmeshed in the public policy-making process, very little work has examined what …
Employment Discrimination in State and Local Government
In recent years, a number of state, county, and municipal governments have been confronted with demands to add the category "sexual orientation" to their employment discrimination ordinances and policies. This paper focuses on the experience of state and local governments in responding to these demands in both the legal and political arenas. The paper discusses the legal arguments that have been used to resist and advance equal employment opportu…
The Representativeness of State-Level Bureaucratic Leaders
A long tradition of research in public administration revolves around the concept of representative bureaucracy (e.g., Krislov, 1974; Grabosky and Rosenbloom, 1975; Thompson, 1976; Cayer and Sigelman, 1980; Dometrius, 1984; Meier, 1993a; see also Meier, 1993b, for a comprehensive review of representative bureaucracy theory and research). According to the theory of representative bureaucracy, the demographic composition of the bureaucracy should m…
Reinventing Government
This review offers a synthesis and critical assessment of the reinvention movement in the United States. Focusing on the work of David Osborne, the National Performance Review, and the Winter Commission, it describes the key themes that define this movement and then assesses them from two major perspectives. The first perspective probes whether reinvention ideology provides a plausible prescription for improving the efficiency and effectiveness o…
"A Response to James F. Guyot's "Representative Bureaucracy Recast
The Demographics of Gubernatorial Appointees
This study examines the various factors that could potentially predict or explain demographic diversity in high‐level gubernatorial appointments in state government. In particular, it identifies and analyzes a set of variables that could help answer the question: Under what conditions are governors more likely to appoint higher proportions of women and people of color to top‐ranking executive branch positions? This question, not yet addressed by …
Drug Testing in the Public Sector
In the last few decades, drug testing has become a major policy issue in the workplace, with a host of actors competing to promote their own needs and interests. Employers, for example, seek ways to combat the use and abuse of illegal substances by employees. At the same time, unions and their employees legitimately seek to limit overly intrusive or unfair methods of testing. The courts have also been major players in the policy arena of drug tes…
The “Old” Public Management Versus the “New” Public Management
Achieving Goal Congruencein Complex Environments
Public management and implementation scholars suggest that congruence between the formal goals of policy officials and the operative goals of implementing agencies may be a prerequisite for the achievement of policy objectives. Substantial research also suggests that the achievement of goal congruence can be difficult in complex implementation contexts. In this article, we compare aspects of the government and management of organizations deliveri…
Implementing Welfare Reform in Michigan
This study examines the implementation of welfare reform policies enacted by the state of Michigan. In particular, it focuses on how welfare policy is altered as it devolves from state policy makers to street-level bureaucrats in three local welfare agencies in Michigan. The analysis reveals that street-level bureaucrats in local welfare offices are in a position to interpret broadly stated goals handed down from officials, and, in some cases, to…
Changing The “Culture” Of Welfare Offices
This article examines whether the 1996 welfare reform has led to the culture change in welfare offices advocated by welfare leaders and administrators. Examining a sample of state and local welfare systems, it asks whether and how welfare organizations are seeking to change their culture or, if not their culture, at least some of the structures and processes of their welfare systems. After unpacking the concept of culture in the context of welfar…
The Implementation of Welfare Reform Policy
This study examines the extent to which staff in local welfare systems have embraced new welfare reform goals and, if so, the extent to which local management practices contribute to the alignment of staff priorities with policy objectives. It looks at agency structure and several aspects of public management from a microperspective that prior research has linked to agency performance including training, performance monitoring, staff resources, l…
Linking Passive and Active Representation
This research tests the theory of active representation in welfare offices. Relying on a model developed by Saltzstein, the research examines the linkage between social origins and attitudes or values, which are critical antecedents to actions and, ultimately, to policy outcomes. Survey data from eleven welfare offices across four states are relied upon to test for this linkage
How Management Matters
Exploring the Determinants of Decisions to Privatize State Prisons
This study examines the potential determinants of state governments to privatize their prisons. Based on prison privatization data across the 50 states, the study finds that political factors such as the political culture of a state and the party controlling the legislature are more likely to influence decisions to privatize than those typically offered by advocates of prison privatization—fiscal or economic concerns, such as cost savings. The in…
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