John J Kirlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John J Kirlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | John J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirlin |
| SIGNATURE | KIRLIN J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Covid-19 Upends Pandemic Plan
COVID-19 quickly spread worldwide, with over 113,000 deaths in the United States by June 2020. Governments at all levels in this nation responded. This analysis starts with a basic question: How did prior planning for pandemics shape responses? A second question emerges: why were data systems inadequate? Expectations, policies, and procedures focused on addressing influenza pandemics shaped responses to COVID-19. Crippled by inadequate data, fede…
Regional Investment as a Theme in Public Works Policy Making and Management
Policy decisions regarding investment in public works such as water systems, highways, or public buildings are important decisions for local public officials. The management of these investments over time is equally important. However, information about public works investments across a region is often inadequate. Individual jurisdictions and authorities often have good information about the public works for which they are directly responsible bu…
Strengthening Effective Government–Citizen Connections through Greater Civic Engagement
Citizens are more trusting of government since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but their civic behaviors are little changed. One reason is that they mostly have been asked for monetary gifts to fund disaster relief and to serve others through existing nonprofit organizations. Available theoretical and empirical analyses suggest the three factors of motivation, skills, and network connections contribute to increased civic engagement, …
Big Questions for a Significant Public Administration
During the 1999 “Building Bridges Tour” (see Stivers 2000), PAR readers encouraged the editors to focus more attention on the so‐called “Big Questions/Big Issues” of the field of public administration. In response to this suggestion, we created a new forum for scholarly discourse simply called “Big Questions/Big Issues.” This inaugural forum begins with a context setting essay by John Kirlin,a leading proponent of the Big Questions/Big Issues per…
Dialogue: Knowledge and Research
In September 1999 I presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meetings that drew both the attention and ire of my colleagues (I believe it was Curt Ventriss who said reading it was a vein-popping experience). It was explicitly a contentious paper, and in hindsight the argument took too many liberties with the literature I was critiquing. Were I revising the paper for publication today, several of my interpretations would be …
The U.S. Common Market
The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy advocates a new "regional economies" perspective for economic growth, metropolitan regionalism, and other policies.The authors are more polemicists than dispassionate analysts, marshaling selective evidence and arguments in support of their thesis.This book should be of use to those interested in how theoretical approaches to economic and intergovernmental questions affect …
The Big Questions of Public Administration in a Democracy
What are the big questions which should concern practitioners and students of public administration? Behn recently offered three big questions of public management, involving micromanagement, motivation, and measurement. Kirlin argues that the big questions of public administration in a democracy are different from those of public management and develops four criteria by which to judge big questions. Seven big questions of public administration i…
What Government Must Do Well: Creating Value for Society
This article is stimulated by a deep dissatisfaction with conceptualizations of government that emphasize service delivery, management of the economy, welfare, and regulation of undesired actions affirms and individuals and with reform efforts seeking only to improve government services to customers and/or to reduce the impacts of government upon individuals and firms. These approaches undervalue the large roles governments must successfully perf…
Confronting Public Sector Complexity
State and Local Taxation: Review of Current State of Art
The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
Public Choice: Methodological Individualism in Politics
Electoral Conflict and Democracy in Cities
The Impact of Increasing Lower-Status Clientele Upon City Governmental Structures: A Model from Organization Theory
The Study of City Governance and Public Policy Making: A Critical Appraisal
M unicipalities have traditionally been assigned a large role in our federal system by politicians, administrators, and citizens alike.Today, however, the very worth of cities as appropriate governmental structures is severely challenged.Banfield, in The Unbeavenly City, argues that urban citizens are better off than they realize and that "do-gooder" efforts, including most current urban-oriented programs, often only serve to make matters worse; …
What Government Must Do Well: Creating Value for Society
This article is stimulated by a deep dissatisfaction with conceptualizations of government that emphasize service delivery, management of the economy, welfare, and regulation of undesired actions affirms and individuals and with reform efforts seeking only to improve government services to customers and/or to reduce the impacts of government upon individuals and firms. These approaches undervalue the large roles governments must successfully perf…
Strengthening Effective Government–Citizen Connections through Greater Civic Engagement
Citizens are more trusting of government since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but their civic behaviors are little changed. One reason is that they mostly have been asked for monetary gifts to fund disaster relief and to serve others through existing nonprofit organizations. Available theoretical and empirical analyses suggest the three factors of motivation, skills, and network connections contribute to increased civic engagement, …
Covid-19 Upends Pandemic Plan
COVID-19 quickly spread worldwide, with over 113,000 deaths in the United States by June 2020. Governments at all levels in this nation responded. This analysis starts with a basic question: How did prior planning for pandemics shape responses? A second question emerges: why were data systems inadequate? Expectations, policies, and procedures focused on addressing influenza pandemics shaped responses to COVID-19. Crippled by inadequate data, fede…
Electoral Conflict and Democracy in Cities
Dialogue: Knowledge and Research
In September 1999 I presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meetings that drew both the attention and ire of my colleagues (I believe it was Curt Ventriss who said reading it was a vein-popping experience). It was explicitly a contentious paper, and in hindsight the argument took too many liberties with the literature I was critiquing. Were I revising the paper for publication today, several of my interpretations would be …
The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
The Study of City Governance and Public Policy Making: A Critical Appraisal
M unicipalities have traditionally been assigned a large role in our federal system by politicians, administrators, and citizens alike.Today, however, the very worth of cities as appropriate governmental structures is severely challenged.Banfield, in The Unbeavenly City, argues that urban citizens are better off than they realize and that "do-gooder" efforts, including most current urban-oriented programs, often only serve to make matters worse; …
The Impact of Increasing Lower-Status Clientele Upon City Governmental Structures: A Model from Organization Theory
Electoral Conflict and Democracy in Cities
The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
Public Choice: Methodological Individualism in Politics
State and Local Taxation: Review of Current State of Art
Confronting Public Sector Complexity
The Big Questions of Public Administration in a Democracy
What are the big questions which should concern practitioners and students of public administration? Behn recently offered three big questions of public management, involving micromanagement, motivation, and measurement. Kirlin argues that the big questions of public administration in a democracy are different from those of public management and develops four criteria by which to judge big questions. Seven big questions of public administration i…
What Government Must Do Well: Creating Value for Society
This article is stimulated by a deep dissatisfaction with conceptualizations of government that emphasize service delivery, management of the economy, welfare, and regulation of undesired actions affirms and individuals and with reform efforts seeking only to improve government services to customers and/or to reduce the impacts of government upon individuals and firms. These approaches undervalue the large roles governments must successfully perf…
The U.S. Common Market
The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy advocates a new "regional economies" perspective for economic growth, metropolitan regionalism, and other policies.The authors are more polemicists than dispassionate analysts, marshaling selective evidence and arguments in support of their thesis.This book should be of use to those interested in how theoretical approaches to economic and intergovernmental questions affect …
Dialogue: Knowledge and Research
In September 1999 I presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meetings that drew both the attention and ire of my colleagues (I believe it was Curt Ventriss who said reading it was a vein-popping experience). It was explicitly a contentious paper, and in hindsight the argument took too many liberties with the literature I was critiquing. Were I revising the paper for publication today, several of my interpretations would be …
Big Questions for a Significant Public Administration
During the 1999 “Building Bridges Tour” (see Stivers 2000), PAR readers encouraged the editors to focus more attention on the so‐called “Big Questions/Big Issues” of the field of public administration. In response to this suggestion, we created a new forum for scholarly discourse simply called “Big Questions/Big Issues.” This inaugural forum begins with a context setting essay by John Kirlin,a leading proponent of the Big Questions/Big Issues per…
Strengthening Effective Government–Citizen Connections through Greater Civic Engagement
Citizens are more trusting of government since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but their civic behaviors are little changed. One reason is that they mostly have been asked for monetary gifts to fund disaster relief and to serve others through existing nonprofit organizations. Available theoretical and empirical analyses suggest the three factors of motivation, skills, and network connections contribute to increased civic engagement, …
Regional Investment as a Theme in Public Works Policy Making and Management
Policy decisions regarding investment in public works such as water systems, highways, or public buildings are important decisions for local public officials. The management of these investments over time is equally important. However, information about public works investments across a region is often inadequate. Individual jurisdictions and authorities often have good information about the public works for which they are directly responsible bu…
Covid-19 Upends Pandemic Plan
COVID-19 quickly spread worldwide, with over 113,000 deaths in the United States by June 2020. Governments at all levels in this nation responded. This analysis starts with a basic question: How did prior planning for pandemics shape responses? A second question emerges: why were data systems inadequate? Expectations, policies, and procedures focused on addressing influenza pandemics shaped responses to COVID-19. Crippled by inadequate data, fede…
Political science (15 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Democracy (3 works)