Fred Thompson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594237 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fred Thompson |
| NOMBRES | Fred |
| APELLIDO | Thompson |
| FIRMA | THOMPSON F |
| AFILIACIONES | Willamette University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Do what we did last year, but do not stray too far from the pack
We leverage a national panel of US municipalities to show that behavioral finance helps explain the number of months of expenses that municipalities save in cash and investment reserves. We hypothesize that municipal managers may be using numerical anchoring based on historical values to target the number of months of savings to hold and that they may also be engaged in social learning to target months of savings based on the behavior of neighbor…
How you buy affects what you get
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is a wonder almost without precedent: a serious work of comparative policy analysis that is also a runaway best seller. Further, Capital in the 21st Cen
Finding Institutional Purpose
What do Louis D. Brandeis and the Making
Sustainable Development for Public Administration – By Denise Zeynep Leuenberger and John R. Bartle
How to Privatize Public Enterprises
Back to the Future
A better budget rule
Debt limits, interest coverage ratios, one‐off balanced budget requirements, pay‐as‐you‐go rules, and tax and expenditure limits are among the most important fiscal rules for constraining intertemporal transfers. There is considerable evidence that the least costly and most effective of such rules are those that focus directly on the rate of spending growth, even with their seemingly ad hoc nature and possibilities for circumvention. In this pape…
From Bureaucracy to Hyperarchy in Netcentric and Quick Learning Organizations
This book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations. We agree with Evans and Wurster and others who have argued that, in the future, knowledge-based productive relationships will be designed around fluid, teambased collaborative communities, either within organizations (i.e., deconstructed …
Betting on the Future with a Cloudy Crystal Ball? How Financial Theory Can Improve Revenue Forecasting and Budgets in the States
Accurately predicting revenue growth is nearly impossible. Predicting the peaks and valleys of the business cycle is even more hopeless. This matters because tax revenues are largely driven by economic growth. Volatile, unpredictable revenue growth causes all sorts of unpleasant responses on the part of governments, most commonly manic‐depressive patterns of spending and taxing. Fortunately, modern financial economics gives us a set of tools that…
Responsibility Budgeting at the Air Force Materiel Command
Th e case study reported here challenges conventional wisdom about the feasibility of implementing responsibil-ity budgeting and accounting practices in U.S. govern-ment. A variant of this practice took root and operated eff ectively in a large federal agency — the Air Force Materiel Command — during the period of study. Contrary to conventional wisdom, implementing a meaningful form of responsibility budgeting and ac-counting does not require ch…
"Netcentric" Organization
There is an inherent contradiction between the basic building block of most nonmarket productive relationships—hierarchy—and the netcentric vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology, especially the World Wide Web. This contradiction is explored by David Alberts and Richard Hayes in their book Power to the Edge: Command ... Control ... in the Information Age. The question has not yet been resolved
The Oxford handbook of public management
Introduction to a symposium on regulatory budgeting
Budgeting for results
The state of public management
Culture and the Environment in the Pacific Northwest
Douglas and Wildavsky argue that environmental activism is rooted in an egalitarian cultural bias. Others, like Paehlke, counter that environmental commitments and concerns are autonomous from redistributive concerns. Students of the "New Politics" agree that environmentalism is autonomous from conventional left-right distributive concerns but also argue that environmental attitudes and beliefs are embedded in "postmaterial" values, such as citiz…
Reforming the federal budgetary process
The Information Revolution and the New Public Management
There can be no single theory of public management—whether positive or normative—that is good for all time or all circumstances. Any institutional arrangement has the potential to improve upon another. Conclusions about the utility of institutional arrangements depend on a comparison of information costs under each of the alternatives. The information revolution has dramatically transformed information costs, the relative efficacy of various inst…
Toward a Political Economy of Government Waste
According to Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review, latest blue-ribbon commission report on economy and efficiency in federal government, the average American believes we 48 cents of every tax dollar (Gore, 1993; 1). Not surprisingly, Rush Limbaugh's favorite source, Martin Gross, alleges that waste of enormous proportions is built into federal system, though most of it is expertly hidden; [it] is more prevalent than efficiency, mo…
Reinventing the Pentagon
Reinventing the Pentagon
As the Cold War winds to an end, cuts in the military budget are a certainty. This new fiscal reality presents a difficult, long-term, highly complex managerial challenge. It calls for solving serious problems of organization and control, managing relationships with suppliers, and choosing between alternative institutional designs. If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the wa…
Managing Coprovision
The production of public services does not depend only on the behavior of public officials. Time, effort, and skills contributed by citizens are often critical to the provision, production, and delivery of public services. Indeed some public services can be produced only when citizens and public officials jointly contribute to their production. This article shows how to design and organize the delivery of public services to promote the kinds of c…
Reinventing the Pentagon
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains
Culture and the Environment in the Pacific Northwest
Douglas and Wildavsky argue that environmental activism is rooted in an egalitarian cultural bias. Others, like Paehlke, counter that environmental commitments and concerns are autonomous from redistributive concerns. Students of the "New Politics" agree that environmentalism is autonomous from conventional left-right distributive concerns but also argue that environmental attitudes and beliefs are embedded in "postmaterial" values, such as citiz…
The Information Revolution and the New Public Management
There can be no single theory of public management—whether positive or normative—that is good for all time or all circumstances. Any institutional arrangement has the potential to improve upon another. Conclusions about the utility of institutional arrangements depend on a comparison of information costs under each of the alternatives. The information revolution has dramatically transformed information costs, the relative efficacy of various inst…
Managing Coprovision
The production of public services does not depend only on the behavior of public officials. Time, effort, and skills contributed by citizens are often critical to the provision, production, and delivery of public services. Indeed some public services can be produced only when citizens and public officials jointly contribute to their production. This article shows how to design and organize the delivery of public services to promote the kinds of c…
Social Regulation in Canada
The Logic of Bureaucratic Conduct
Toward a Political Economy of Government Waste
According to Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review, latest blue-ribbon commission report on economy and efficiency in federal government, the average American believes we 48 cents of every tax dollar (Gore, 1993; 1). Not surprisingly, Rush Limbaugh's favorite source, Martin Gross, alleges that waste of enormous proportions is built into federal system, though most of it is expertly hidden; [it] is more prevalent than efficiency, mo…
Burden Sharing among America and Its Allies
The boom times of the early 1980s are over as far as American spending on defense is concerned. The armed forces will not receive increases in funding and may experience declines. The lack of money means that hard choices will have to be made. It will not be possible for the U.S. to modernize its strategic forces, acquire the array of new weapons system, conventional and nuclear, needed to implement NATO's deterrence/war-fighting strategy, and at…
Lumpy Goods and Cheap Riders
Mancur Olson and Richard Zeckhauser's ‘An Economic Theory of Alliances’ has been described as ‘the best known application of the theory’ of collective (or public) goods. In that article, Olson and Zeckhauser advanced the claim that America's Western European Allies (and by implication, Japan as well) are all, more or less, ‘free riders.’ Yet, more than twenty years later, the meaning of this claim remains very much in doubt. This article outlines…
American Legislative Decision Making and the Size Principle
This article explains why previous empirical tests of the size principle have failed to produce conclusive results. Particular stress is given to seldom considered aspects of constitutional choice; their implications are explored by means of a simple simulation. Then I propose a test of the size principle and report some initial empirical findings based upon this test
Reforming the federal budgetary process
Taking Full Advantage of State Investment Pools
You wouldn't keep a third of your income sitting idle, and neither should your state or local government-but it probably does. At the end of the 1985 fiscal year, state and local governments held 25 percent of their total financial assets, nearly $170 billion, in bank deposits and cash-an amount equal to 33 percent of their general revenues.' That state and local governments hold excess, idle, or underproductive liquid-asset balances is at least …
Controllership in the public sector
Ineffective or incompetent controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy--often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control system designs depends upon the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But control strategies are seldom cons…
Managing Public Enterprises
Assessing faculty research productivity in graduate public policy programs
Control and controls
The Political Economy of Interest Groups in the Legislative Process in Canada
A better budget rule
Debt limits, interest coverage ratios, one‐off balanced budget requirements, pay‐as‐you‐go rules, and tax and expenditure limits are among the most important fiscal rules for constraining intertemporal transfers. There is considerable evidence that the least costly and most effective of such rules are those that focus directly on the rate of spending growth, even with their seemingly ad hoc nature and possibilities for circumvention. In this pape…
Reinventing the Pentagon
As the Cold War winds to an end, cuts in the military budget are a certainty. This new fiscal reality presents a difficult, long-term, highly complex managerial challenge. It calls for solving serious problems of organization and control, managing relationships with suppliers, and choosing between alternative institutional designs. If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the wa…
Deregulating Defense Acquisition
What we really need is a careful program of experimentation to determine how acquisition life-cycle costs vary with alternative acquisition-process designs and whether short lines of communication, clear responsibility, accelerated schedules, and a modicum of congressional neglect will produce the benefits touted by the experts. Not only is this information needed by program managers, it is also needed to help persuade Congress to back away from …
Matsuri
Controllership in the Public Sector
Ineffective controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy - often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management-control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control-system designs depends upon technology - the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But public-sector control strategies ar…
Zero‐base budgeting
This paper describes the consequences of an experiment conducted with four governmental programs intended to evaluate the utility of ZBB for improving public sector decision‐making. The results of this experiment were mixed. On the one hand, we clearly observed greater participation by operating managers in the formulation of budgets. This, we were frequently told, had positive consequences for staff development and program planning. The zbb expe…
Communications
A horse race around a M bius strip
Zero‐base budgeting
This paper describes the consequences of an experiment conducted with four governmental programs intended to evaluate the utility of ZBB for improving public sector decision‐making. The results of this experiment were mixed. On the one hand, we clearly observed greater participation by operating managers in the formulation of budgets. This, we were frequently told, had positive consequences for staff development and program planning. The zbb expe…
American Legislative Decision Making and the Size Principle
This article explains why previous empirical tests of the size principle have failed to produce conclusive results. Particular stress is given to seldom considered aspects of constitutional choice; their implications are explored by means of a simple simulation. Then I propose a test of the size principle and report some initial empirical findings based upon this test
The Political Economy of Interest Groups in the Legislative Process in Canada
Utility-maximizing behavior in organized anarchies
Control and controls
Closeness counts in horseshoes and dancing … and elections
The Logic of Bureaucratic Conduct
Managing Public Enterprises
Looking out for No. 1
How to stay within the budget using per‐unit subsidies
How to Stay within the Budget Using Per-Unit Subsidies
Environmental Diplomacy
Journal Article Environmental Diplomacy: An Examination and a Prospective of Canadian-U. S. Transboundary Environmental Relations, by John E. Carroll Get access Environmental Diplomacy: An Examination and a Prospective of Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Environmental Relations by John E. Carroll.Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1983. 382 pp. $22.50. Fred Thompson Fred Thompson Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Assessing faculty research productivity in graduate public policy programs
Controllership in the Public Sector
Ineffective controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy - often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management-control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control-system designs depends upon technology - the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But public-sector control strategies ar…
Controllership in the public sector
Ineffective or incompetent controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy--often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control system designs depends upon the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But control strategies are seldom cons…
Social Regulation in Canada
Lumpy Goods and Cheap Riders
Mancur Olson and Richard Zeckhauser's ‘An Economic Theory of Alliances’ has been described as ‘the best known application of the theory’ of collective (or public) goods. In that article, Olson and Zeckhauser advanced the claim that America's Western European Allies (and by implication, Japan as well) are all, more or less, ‘free riders.’ Yet, more than twenty years later, the meaning of this claim remains very much in doubt. This article outlines…
Matsuri
Taking Full Advantage of State Investment Pools
You wouldn't keep a third of your income sitting idle, and neither should your state or local government-but it probably does. At the end of the 1985 fiscal year, state and local governments held 25 percent of their total financial assets, nearly $170 billion, in bank deposits and cash-an amount equal to 33 percent of their general revenues.' That state and local governments hold excess, idle, or underproductive liquid-asset balances is at least …
Budget makers as agents
The New Unionism
Journal Article The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation, by Charles C. Heckscher Get access The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation by Charles C. Heckscher. New York, Basic Books, Inc., 1988. 302 pp. $24.95. Fred Thompson Fred Thompson Willamette University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 103, Issue 4, Winter 1988, Pa…
Why America's Military Base Structure Cannot Be Reduced
The U.S. military base structure comprises 5,600 bases and installations around the world and occupies 24 million acres in the United States alone. ' It was established during World War II, and its retention was justified after the war by the possibility of a similar conflict. Today, however, it is both too large and inappropriate to military realities. Nevertheless, despite the improbability of another world war fought by conventional forces, th…
State Investment Pools Defended
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