David H Rosenbloom
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 297801 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David H Rosenbloom |
| NOMBRES | David H |
| APELLIDO | Rosenbloom |
| FIRMA | ROSENBLOOM D H |
| AFILIACIONES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0049-5624 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 263 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Inclusive Performance Management
The five-decade public administrative performance management movement has coincided with declining public trust in government, public perception of greater government wastefulness, and considerable public dissatisfaction with administrative services. Drawing on a substantial literature on inclusiveness, this article contends that performance management could contribute more to positive public perceptions of government by reconceptualizing perform…
Polycentric Governance and Inclusive Policies
This study analyzes the implementation of Egypt’s targeted fiscal stimulus to the irregular workforce in response to the COVID-19-induced partial shutdown in 2020. We utilize theoretical insights from the literature on administrative campaigns and the interagency coordination literature, as well as insights from the polycentric governance literature, to identify the approach to coordinating the work of the multiple agencies that participated in i…
Administrative states as moral hazards
This article explores four fundamental dimensions of how administrative states present moral hazards that reach deeply into the distortion of governmental structures, institutions and processes. These dimensions are (1) the undermining of governmental structural integrity, (2) displacement of political and regime values, (3) the promotion of amoral administrative thought, and (4) bureaucratic dysfunction and ossification. Although these dimension…
Deficits Pro forma and Substantive
Policy implementation deficits tend to emerge and expand as implementation moves downward through multilevel administration. This article uses China as an example and examines its policy implementation at both its provincial and prefectural levels under the administrative intermediaries reform policy. By analyzing data from 225 prefectures in China and their component provinces, we identify two types of implementation deficits: deficits pro forma…
Okayama, Hiroshi. Judicializing the Administrative State
Okayama, Hiroshi. Judicializing the Administrative State: The Rise of the Independent Regulatory Commissions in the United States, 1883-1937 London and New York: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy, 2019. 187 pages. - Volume 21 Issue 2
Response to James Svara and James Brunet Regarding Social Equity
Creating Space for Public Administration in International Organization Studies
The emergent global administrative order includes more than 800 international and regional organizations. Just as the rise of the modern state placed greater importance on the study of public administration, the growth of multistate organizations, their agendas, and personnel require research that draws upon contemporary and classical public administrative thought. This article employs multiple lenses to explore the utility of public administrati…
Public administration and the erosion of the rule of law in the United States
The failure of public administration theorists, researchers, reformers, and practitioners to make the rule of law the foundation of U.S. public administration has contributed to an erosion of constitutionality and legality in the national administration. Prominent contemporary threats to the rule of law include standardless delegations of legislative authority to administrative agencies, theChevrondoctrine and related judicial deference, the use …
Multi‐Level Policy Implementation
Policy output and outcome shortfalls are often attributable to deficits in implementation. Drawing on data collected from multi‐level governmental documents and in‐depth interviews regarding the ongoing reforms of the use of ‘administrative approval intermediaries’ in China, we identified a genre of policy implementation in which the policy implementers themselves are targets of reform. These implementers swing between fulfilling tasks and deviat…
Levels of Value Integration in Federal Agencies' Mission and Value Statements
The Barack Obama administration advanced open government initiatives to make federal administration more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Yet a question remains whether federal administrators took notice. This article examines changes in the extent to which U.S. federal agencies have integrated the three core principles of open government—transparency, public participation, and collaboration—into their performance planning. By analy…
Madison’s Ratchet
In Federalist 47 and 51, James Madison contended that the accumulation of legislative, executive, and judicial powers in the hands of one body or person would produce tyranny. He explained that one defense against such tyranny was to make “ambition . . . counteract ambition” by giving each of the three constitutional branches of the federal government the “means,” “motives,” and wherewithal to “resist encroachments” on their powers by another. Ho…
The Burgeoning but Still Experimental Practice of Deliberative Governance in South Korean Local Policy Making
Research on deliberative governance does not include many case studies on South Korea. We analyze deliberative governance in the Seoul and Gwangju Metropolitan Governments, drawing comparisons and lessons for operating effective deliberative governance to promote consensus building, citizen empowerment, and legitimation of policy choices through collective decision making. The two cases incorporate the characteristics of deliberative governance t…
The Hollowing of American Public Administration
Effectively linking public administration theory to practical relevance has proven a difficult task. We argue, however, that the theory-practice conundrum is but a symptom of a more fundamental problem in public administration: the hollowing out of the field. Despite research advances, hollowing occurs because of the field's conceptually muddled and decontextualized normative pillars, problematic macrodynamic foundations, and imbalanced scaffoldi…
A Reasonable Public Servant: Constitutional Foundations of Administrative Conduct in the United States
An essential text for PA courses on Human Resource Management as well as Public Management and Law, this book illuminates the role of the reasonable public servant, who strives to perform authorized functions efficiently, yet in a manner that aligns with constitutional values embodied in the Bill of Rights. "A Reasonable Public Servant" provides a comprehensive review of Supreme Court opinions in explaining the reasonable conduct of a public serv…
A New Case for Bureaucracy
Mission-Extrinsic Public Values as an Extension of Regime Values
The academic fields of public administration and public management are diverging. Public management focuses primarily on the orthodox values of efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and value for money. It views accountability from the perspective of obtaining results (outcomes) defined in terms of core mission objectives and the operations that are ancillary to their achievement, such as deploying financial, human, and other resources cost-effectively…
Celebrating the Ideas and Contributions of John A. Rohr
Reflections on “Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers”
Published 30 years ago, my article on “Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers” introduced what is often called the “three perspectives” approach or framework for understanding public administration at a macro-level by viewing it through the lenses of management, politics, and law. Each of these perspectives is anchored in a function of government—execution, legislation, and adjudication respectively—which at the U.S. federal le…
Conceptual Maps for a Complex Field
The Unwieldy American State
The United States was founded in the period 1787–1789, refounded in the post–Civil War years through the adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and refounded yet again, beginning in 1946, in response to the rise of the administrative state. Joanna L. Grisinger details this latest period through her political history of administrative law in the post–New Deal era, which emphasizes the enactment of the Administrative Proc…
How Can a ‘Real American’ Love Osha
Federalist No. 10
Federalist No. 10 arguably is the most frequently read of the Federalist Papers, in no small measure because it offers a distinct and often negative image of the polity as a source of conflict. It argues that factions cannot be tamed, but they can be controlled. This essay argues that factions have weakened effective public administration and offers a detailed discussion of the proliferation of interest groups and their role in undermining the sy…
Reconsidering Abortion, Capital Punishment, and Public Morality
Public Administration and Law, Third Edition
Since the first edition of Public Administration and Law was published in 1983, it has retained its unique status of being the only book in the field of public administration that analyzes how constitutional law regulates and informs the way administrators interact with each other and the public. Examining First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as they pertain to these encounters, it explains how public administrators must …
Bureaucratic culture
Reinventing Administrative Prescriptions
The Politics–Administration Dichotomy in U.S. Historical Context
This article distinguishes the competing interpretations of the politics–administration dichotomy, noting that as, originally framed, it was intended to detach partisan politics and patronage from sound public management. Waldo, the author suggests, concerned himself with the later, more expansive conception of the dichotomy, which included the process of policy making
The Hollowing of American Public Administration
Effectively linking public administration theory to practical relevance has proven a difficult task. We argue, however, that the theory-practice conundrum is but a symptom of a more fundamental problem in public administration: the hollowing out of the field. Despite research advances, hollowing occurs because of the field's conceptually muddled and decontextualized normative pillars, problematic macrodynamic foundations, and imbalanced scaffoldi…
Outsourcing the Constitution and Administrative Law Norms
In the United States, the constitutional constraints and administrative law requirements imposed on government agencies generally have no applicability to private entities performing outsourced public administrative activities. In this article, the authors broadly explore the issues associated with outsourcing constitutional and administrative law norms along with government work by imposing them on private contractors. The authors seek to help f…
The New Public Personnel and the New Public Service
Patricia Wallace Ingraham, David H. Rosenbloom, Carol Edlund, The New Public Personnel and the New Public Service, Public Administration Review, Vol. 49, No. 2, Special Issue: Minnowbrook II. Changing Epochs of Public Administration (Mar. - Apr., 1989), pp. 116-126
Reflections on “Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers”
Published 30 years ago, my article on “Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers” introduced what is often called the “three perspectives” approach or framework for understanding public administration at a macro-level by viewing it through the lenses of management, politics, and law. Each of these perspectives is anchored in a function of government—execution, legislation, and adjudication respectively—which at the U.S. federal le…
Public administration and the erosion of the rule of law in the United States
The failure of public administration theorists, researchers, reformers, and practitioners to make the rule of law the foundation of U.S. public administration has contributed to an erosion of constitutionality and legality in the national administration. Prominent contemporary threats to the rule of law include standardless delegations of legislative authority to administrative agencies, theChevrondoctrine and related judicial deference, the use …
Four Challenges to Accountability in Contemporary Public Administration
Using the Romzek-Dubnick typology of accountability, the authors analyze challenges that reinvention and new public management reforms in the United States and China present with regard to maintaining legal controls, protecting non-mission-based administrative objectives, pursuing public values, and sustaining hierarchical authority. The authors show that reforms—especially outsourcing and results orientation—have very different consequences in t…
Levels of Value Integration in Federal Agencies' Mission and Value Statements
The Barack Obama administration advanced open government initiatives to make federal administration more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Yet a question remains whether federal administrators took notice. This article examines changes in the extent to which U.S. federal agencies have integrated the three core principles of open government—transparency, public participation, and collaboration—into their performance planning. By analy…
What Have Policy Studies Told Us About Affirmative Action and Where Can We Qofrom Here
Twenty years after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act o 9 4, politica moral, and legal debates continue over aspects of i t s implementation through the use of affirmative action. Members of the recently reconstituted U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have expressed skepticism over reliance on affirmative action in the future thereby adding new fuel to these discussions. Regrettably, when we turn our attention to policy studies of affirmative ac…
Creating Space for Public Administration in International Organization Studies
The emergent global administrative order includes more than 800 international and regional organizations. Just as the rise of the modern state placed greater importance on the study of public administration, the growth of multistate organizations, their agendas, and personnel require research that draws upon contemporary and classical public administrative thought. This article employs multiple lenses to explore the utility of public administrati…
Madison’s Ratchet
In Federalist 47 and 51, James Madison contended that the accumulation of legislative, executive, and judicial powers in the hands of one body or person would produce tyranny. He explained that one defense against such tyranny was to make “ambition . . . counteract ambition” by giving each of the three constitutional branches of the federal government the “means,” “motives,” and wherewithal to “resist encroachments” on their powers by another. Ho…
Creating New Public Management Reforms
The New Public Management (NPM) has been well studied in nations with previously reformed, modern administrative systems. Considerably less is known about the feasibility of adopting NPM reforms in countries such as Israel, in which national bureaucracies never gained a high degree of institutional identity, administrative, expertise, or autonomous power. What strategies and designs are appropriate for instituting such reforms and what barriers m…
The Future of Public Administration and Law in 2020
La bureaucratie représentative
Following J. D. Kingsley’s work in the 1940s, the authors trace the origins and development of the concept of representative bureaucracy in the United States. The concept suggests that a civil service which reflects the composition of society is conducive to increased practical efficiency and greater democratic legitimacy. There are two versions of this theory : one emphasises the civil service’s social make-up, and notably how this affects admin…
The Judicial Response to the Rise of the American Administrative State
The Public Personnel System
Multi‐Level Policy Implementation
Policy output and outcome shortfalls are often attributable to deficits in implementation. Drawing on data collected from multi‐level governmental documents and in‐depth interviews regarding the ongoing reforms of the use of ‘administrative approval intermediaries’ in China, we identified a genre of policy implementation in which the policy implementers themselves are targets of reform. These implementers swing between fulfilling tasks and deviat…
Public Administrative Theory, Performance, and Accountability
Whose Bureaucracy Is This, Anyway?” Congress' 1946 Answer
Nor should we omit in our study [of public administration] the problem of legislative-administrative relations, in view of the increasing role of the public servant in the determination of policy, through either the preparation of legislation or the making of rules under which general legislative policy is given meaning and application” (Gaus 1931, 123).In the title of his 1993 Gaus Award Lecture, Francis Rourke posed the deceptively simple quest…
Public Administration Handbooks
Public Administrative Liability for Constitutional Torts, the Rehnquist Court, and Public Administration
Under the Burger Supreme Court (1969-1986) public administrative liability for violation of individuals' constitutional rights increased dramatically. In consequence, public administrators were well advised to develop knowledge of the constitutional law pertaining to their jobs and to incorporate constitutional values and requirements into their official actions. An analysis of public-sector liability decisions by the Rehnquist Court from 1986 th…
How Can a ‘Real American’ Love Osha
Public Administrative Reform
(2002). Public Administrative Reform: Ten Major Questions. Journal of Comparative Asian Development: Vol. 1, Comparative Administrative Reform in the East and West, pp. 3-8
Administrative Reform in the New Global Millennium
Globalization promotes policy diffusion and convergence among nations. This reinforces the traditional assumption of American reformers that administrative practices are freely transferable among different jurisdictional levels and political systems. However, the "transferability assumption" promotes failure. It impedes diagnosis and promotes faulty prescription. Reformers should take note of research on comparative administration which indicates…
Some Political Implications of the Drift toward a Liberation of Federal Employees
Federal Service and the Constitution
A Note on the Social Class Composition of the Civil Service, 1789-1837
The Civil Service Commission's Decision To Authorize the Use of Goals and Timetables in the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Program
The Civil Service Commission's Decision to Authorize the Use of Goals and Timetables in the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Program
David H. Rosenbloom, The Civil Service Commission's Decision to Authorize the Use of Goals and Timetables in the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Program, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 236-251
Measuring Bureaucratic Representation and Integration
The Public Personnel System
Public Personnel Administration and the Constitution
D uring the past decade the courts have almost completely transformed the nature of the constitutional position of public employees in the United States. This transformation has largely resulted in an expansion of the constitutional rights and protections afforded public employees in their relationship with government in its role as employer. In the early stages of change, judicial decisions tended to destroy prevailing doctrines without replacin…
Antecedents of Public Bureaucracy
A theoretical framework for studying patterns of voluntary departure from public bureaucracies is developed and tested It was found that self-image, a sense of bureaucratic efficacy, and perceived politicization of the public bureaucracy determine the propensity to exit not independently of organizational attributes and social backgrounds
Public Personnel Examinations and the Constitution
Despite almost a century of effort to depoliticize public service in the United States, public personnel administration remains deeply entangled in the thicket. Today the major challenge to public personnel administration comes not from spoilsmen, political parties, or frustrated political executives, but rather from decisions of the federal judiciary. Indeed, in a series of cases receiving little national attention during the past few years, the…
Bureaucracy and Ethnicity
A theoretical controversy has developed over the impact of social background on the attitudes, values, and behavior of public bureaucrats. Empirical analysis of the attitudes of Israeli citizens and public bureaucrats toward their national bureaucracy indicates that becoming a bureaucrat and even achieving high rank within the bureaucracy does not overcome the effect of ethnicity upon attitudes in areas of high salience to specific groups
Federal Equal Employment Opportunity
Personnel Management in Government
THE HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT First Century of Civil Service Reform Prologue: President Garfield's Assassination and the Origins of the Merit System A Historical Perspective: Enter the Spoils System Motivation for Civil Service Reform Impetus for Reform Pendleton Act Development of the Central Personnel Agency Phase I: Policing Phase II: Scientific Management Phase III: Centralization Phase IV: Decentralization of Per…
Values, Truth, and Administration
Public Administrators' Official Immunity and the Supreme Court
T he decade of the 1970s witnessed many changes in public administration in the United States. At the forefront of these have been the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the emergence of Proposition 13 style taxpayer protests in the wake of public sector labor strife and depleted governmental resources, the rise of affirmative action, and the decline of the citizen participation movement. Consistent with the past, the core values of representative…
Public Personnel Policy in a Political Environment
Although frequently treated as apolitical by social scientists and practitioners, public personnel administration has always been infused with political considerations. Today, it is more widely recognized that personnel policy choices can have political ramifications of major consequence. However, this policy realm is characterized by a number of competing values espoused by different governmental institutions and private groups. The civil servic…
The Judicial Response to the Rise of the American Administrative State
Public Personnel Reforms
Weaknesses in Understanding
Emphasizing the Public in Public Personnel Administration
International Relations and Politics
Centenary Issues of the Pendleton Act of 1883
Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers
Public Administration and Law
Administrative Law and Public Administration
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