Barbara S Romzek
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1184789 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barbara S Romzek |
| PRENOMES | Barbara S |
| SOBRENOME | Romzek |
| ASSINATURA | ROMZEK B S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kansas |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 436 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Contracting for Social Programs
Government contracting for social programs typically entails complex multiparty networks of providers, subcontractors, and shared clientele. The fundamental challenges for government contracting in this area include identifying (1) social programs as appropriate candidates for contracting, (2) competitive markets of providers, and (3) accurate transaction costs. Once the decision to contract is made, the government principal’s challenge is to dev…
Accountability in the Public Sector
This chapter offers an alternative explanation which addresses institutional factors contributing to the shuttle accident. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-flight and seven crew members lost their lives. The chapter provides types of accountability systems: Bureaucratic accountability systems, legal accountability, professional accountability and political accountability. In the American political system, all four…
Living Accountability
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Informal Accountability in Multisector Service Delivery Collaborations
Multiagency collaboration is widely used in contemporary service delivery systems. This article explores the interpersonal interactions within collaborative systems, among subsystems, and among organizations. Our focus is on illuminating the informal mechanisms that facilitate collaboration, joint production, coordination and integration of service delivery, and sustained effort. Such interactions generate unofficial expectations, discretionary b…
Public Management Research Association
A Preliminary Theory of Informal Accountability among Network Organizational Actors
Widespread government contracting for nonprofit social service delivery has resulted in extensive reliance on networks of service providers, which involve complicated accountability dynamics. The literature has tended to emphasize formal aspects of accountability in contract relationships, focusing on the specification of contract terms, performance measures, reporting relationships, and stipulated consequences. Far less attention has been focuse…
Public Management Research Association
Public Management Research Association
Public Management Research Association
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks
This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that …
State Social Services Contracting
The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability Across the Federal System
This article focuses on two questions related lo government contracting and accountability. How are key components of contracting similar or different for city, state, and federal governments in the United States? To what extent do the three levels of government share the widely recognized challenges of contract design and contract management? To address these questions, we compared and contrasted six contracting cases, two each for local, state,…
Politics, Administration, and Markets
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate w…
Effective Contract Implementation and Management
Using data derived from and initial case of state contracting for social services for the elderly, this article builds, a theoretical model to explain variations in the effectiveness of the implementation and management of state contracts. Contracts for complex social services often present unforeseen challenges and administrative consequences that make for difficult transitions for both the state agencies and their nongovernmental contractors. W…
Cross Pressures of Accountability
Contemporary political rhetoric and management reforms have highlighted accountability issues for government. A troubling feature associated with these management reforms is a gap between the expectations of management reform and the reality of the American culture of accountability. This culture gap is likely to be particularly evident in organizations that are structured around principles of command and control, such as the military. This artic…
Dynamics of Public Sector Accountability in an Era of Reform
Reform Administrative reform has enjoyed significant support in Europe, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand during the past decade (Campbell and Peters, 1988; Christoph, 1992; Stone, 1993; Campbell and Wilson, 1995; Kettl and DiIulio, 1995); it has also ‘permeated Latin America, entered Asia, and most recently penetrated Africa’ (Kearney and Hays, 1998). In contrast to this widespread support at the nation-state level, the adoption of r…
Accountability of Congressional Staff
While accountability is a popular topic among elected officials, accountability of congressional staff has received little systematic scrutiny, a gap this article seeks to fill. Congressional staff have substantial autonomy and opportunity to influence public policy, albeit in ways that are not very visible to the general public. This article explores the web of accountability relationships within which congressional legislative staff work. The d…
Contracting and Accountability in State Medicaid Reform
Introduction Privatization and contracting out have enjoyed widespread popularity in the current climate of government reform. Frequently, privatization and contracting initiatives are pursued because they are consistent with popular political positions. Among the political benefits of privatization is credit claimed by elected officials--including governors for--reforming and shrinking government, thereby reducing taxpayer burdens (Wallin, 1997;…
Reforming Medicaid through Contracting
This article investigates the administrative experience resulting from the intersection of two popular public management trends: social service reform and contracting out. In this case, the reform involved the state of Kansas contracting with nonprofit agencies to provide Medicaid case management services. Implementation of the reforms entailed substantial changes in the roles and scope of administrative activities for the agencies involved and s…
Congressional Legislative Staff
Theory: Wilensky's (1959) basic sociologic model of professions, which has been applied to federal employees (Mosher 1982) and modified by Brante (1990) and Raelin (1991) is applied to congressional legislative staff to ascertain whether they can be portrayed accurately as professionals. Brante's typology of professions includes a category for a political profession for individuals who have a special form of tacit knowledge and expertise in polit…
Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena
Journal Article Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena: The National Rural Development Partnership Get access Beryl A. Radin, Beryl A. Radin University at Albany-State UniversityNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara S. Romzek Barbara S. Romzek University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volum…
Career Dynamics of Congressional Legislative Staff
This article explores the work experiences of congressional staff and develops a preliminary profile of the career dynamics typical of legislative staffers. The findings are based on data gathered during forty intensive exploratory interviews conducted during the first half of 1995, the early days of the 104th Congress. The data suggest that legislative staff careers mirror those stages of professional careers in general but reflect adaptions to …
Management of Expectations
Employee Investment and Commitment
Government can no longer afford to be complacent about the recruitment and retention of high quality employees. Public service is at risk because it is losing some of its best people to alternative employment. Of course, many high quality and highly dedicated public employees remain. But recent patterns of turnover put government agencies at risk of dropping below a critical mass of dedicated, highly qualified employees
Accountability in the Public Sector
This chapter offers an alternative explanation which addresses institutional factors contributing to the shuttle accident. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-flight and seven crew members lost their lives. The chapter provides types of accountability systems: Bureaucratic accountability systems, legal accountability, professional accountability and political accountability. In the American political system, all four…
Effective Contract Implementation and Management
Using data derived from and initial case of state contracting for social services for the elderly, this article builds, a theoretical model to explain variations in the effectiveness of the implementation and management of state contracts. Contracts for complex social services often present unforeseen challenges and administrative consequences that make for difficult transitions for both the state agencies and their nongovernmental contractors. W…
Informal Accountability in Multisector Service Delivery Collaborations
Multiagency collaboration is widely used in contemporary service delivery systems. This article explores the interpersonal interactions within collaborative systems, among subsystems, and among organizations. Our focus is on illuminating the informal mechanisms that facilitate collaboration, joint production, coordination and integration of service delivery, and sustained effort. Such interactions generate unofficial expectations, discretionary b…
Cross Pressures of Accountability
Contemporary political rhetoric and management reforms have highlighted accountability issues for government. A troubling feature associated with these management reforms is a gap between the expectations of management reform and the reality of the American culture of accountability. This culture gap is likely to be particularly evident in organizations that are structured around principles of command and control, such as the military. This artic…
Congressional Legislative Staff
Theory: Wilensky's (1959) basic sociologic model of professions, which has been applied to federal employees (Mosher 1982) and modified by Brante (1990) and Raelin (1991) is applied to congressional legislative staff to ascertain whether they can be portrayed accurately as professionals. Brante's typology of professions includes a category for a political profession for individuals who have a special form of tacit knowledge and expertise in polit…
Dynamics of Public Sector Accountability in an Era of Reform
Reform Administrative reform has enjoyed significant support in Europe, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand during the past decade (Campbell and Peters, 1988; Christoph, 1992; Stone, 1993; Campbell and Wilson, 1995; Kettl and DiIulio, 1995); it has also ‘permeated Latin America, entered Asia, and most recently penetrated Africa’ (Kearney and Hays, 1998). In contrast to this widespread support at the nation-state level, the adoption of r…
Politics, Administration, and Markets
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate w…
Career Dynamics of Congressional Legislative Staff
This article explores the work experiences of congressional staff and develops a preliminary profile of the career dynamics typical of legislative staffers. The findings are based on data gathered during forty intensive exploratory interviews conducted during the first half of 1995, the early days of the 104th Congress. The data suggest that legislative staff careers mirror those stages of professional careers in general but reflect adaptions to …
Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena
Journal Article Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena: The National Rural Development Partnership Get access Beryl A. Radin, Beryl A. Radin University at Albany-State UniversityNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara S. Romzek Barbara S. Romzek University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volum…
Reforming Medicaid through Contracting
This article investigates the administrative experience resulting from the intersection of two popular public management trends: social service reform and contracting out. In this case, the reform involved the state of Kansas contracting with nonprofit agencies to provide Medicaid case management services. Implementation of the reforms entailed substantial changes in the roles and scope of administrative activities for the agencies involved and s…
Organizational Involvement and Representative Bureaucracy
This article addresses an important issue of democratic theory and administration: the potential conflict between bureaucrats' allegiance to their agencies and to specific publics' interests. Representative bureaucracy, which emphasizes substantive interest representation in the administrative arena, embodies this potential for conflict. Empirical survey results which probe integration of substantive representation and employee allegiance among f…
Accountability of Congressional Staff
While accountability is a popular topic among elected officials, accountability of congressional staff has received little systematic scrutiny, a gap this article seeks to fill. Congressional staff have substantial autonomy and opportunity to influence public policy, albeit in ways that are not very visible to the general public. This article explores the web of accountability relationships within which congressional legislative staff work. The d…
The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability Across the Federal System
This article focuses on two questions related lo government contracting and accountability. How are key components of contracting similar or different for city, state, and federal governments in the United States? To what extent do the three levels of government share the widely recognized challenges of contract design and contract management? To address these questions, we compared and contrasted six contracting cases, two each for local, state,…
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks
This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that …
Living Accountability
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Organizational Involvement and Representative Bureaucracy
This article addresses an important issue of democratic theory and administration: the potential conflict between bureaucrats' allegiance to their agencies and to specific publics' interests. Representative bureaucracy, which emphasizes substantive interest representation in the administrative arena, embodies this potential for conflict. Empirical survey results which probe integration of substantive representation and employee allegiance among f…
Work and Nonwork Psychological Involvements
This article explores relationships among employees' work and nonwork psychological involvements in an effort to uncover some of the complexity of employees as multidimensional human beings. The relationships found reflect a pattern of involvements consistent with Van Maanen and Schein `s (1977) three-dimensional interactional schema of work, family, and self-development. These findings suggest that models of employees' accommodation to work and …
The Effects of Public Service Recognition, Job Security and Staff Reductions on Organizational Involvement
Times have changed for public employees. Public servants now are faced with an economic and political climate has dramatically altered working conditions at all levels of government employment. Retrenchment and increasing anti-public employee political rhetoric present public sector organizations and employees with unaccustomed turmoil. Bernard Rosen notes that the last two administrations have engaged in derogatory criticism of the civil service…
Accountability in the Public Sector
This chapter offers an alternative explanation which addresses institutional factors contributing to the shuttle accident. On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-flight and seven crew members lost their lives. The chapter provides types of accountability systems: Bureaucratic accountability systems, legal accountability, professional accountability and political accountability. In the American political system, all four…
Management of Expectations
Employee Investment and Commitment
Government can no longer afford to be complacent about the recruitment and retention of high quality employees. Public service is at risk because it is losing some of its best people to alternative employment. Of course, many high quality and highly dedicated public employees remain. But recent patterns of turnover put government agencies at risk of dropping below a critical mass of dedicated, highly qualified employees
Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena
Journal Article Accountability Expectations in an Intergovernmental Arena: The National Rural Development Partnership Get access Beryl A. Radin, Beryl A. Radin University at Albany-State UniversityNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barbara S. Romzek Barbara S. Romzek University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volum…
Career Dynamics of Congressional Legislative Staff
This article explores the work experiences of congressional staff and develops a preliminary profile of the career dynamics typical of legislative staffers. The findings are based on data gathered during forty intensive exploratory interviews conducted during the first half of 1995, the early days of the 104th Congress. The data suggest that legislative staff careers mirror those stages of professional careers in general but reflect adaptions to …
Congressional Legislative Staff
Theory: Wilensky's (1959) basic sociologic model of professions, which has been applied to federal employees (Mosher 1982) and modified by Brante (1990) and Raelin (1991) is applied to congressional legislative staff to ascertain whether they can be portrayed accurately as professionals. Brante's typology of professions includes a category for a political profession for individuals who have a special form of tacit knowledge and expertise in polit…
Contracting and Accountability in State Medicaid Reform
Introduction Privatization and contracting out have enjoyed widespread popularity in the current climate of government reform. Frequently, privatization and contracting initiatives are pursued because they are consistent with popular political positions. Among the political benefits of privatization is credit claimed by elected officials--including governors for--reforming and shrinking government, thereby reducing taxpayer burdens (Wallin, 1997;…
Reforming Medicaid through Contracting
This article investigates the administrative experience resulting from the intersection of two popular public management trends: social service reform and contracting out. In this case, the reform involved the state of Kansas contracting with nonprofit agencies to provide Medicaid case management services. Implementation of the reforms entailed substantial changes in the roles and scope of administrative activities for the agencies involved and s…
Cross Pressures of Accountability
Contemporary political rhetoric and management reforms have highlighted accountability issues for government. A troubling feature associated with these management reforms is a gap between the expectations of management reform and the reality of the American culture of accountability. This culture gap is likely to be particularly evident in organizations that are structured around principles of command and control, such as the military. This artic…
Dynamics of Public Sector Accountability in an Era of Reform
Reform Administrative reform has enjoyed significant support in Europe, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand during the past decade (Campbell and Peters, 1988; Christoph, 1992; Stone, 1993; Campbell and Wilson, 1995; Kettl and DiIulio, 1995); it has also ‘permeated Latin America, entered Asia, and most recently penetrated Africa’ (Kearney and Hays, 1998). In contrast to this widespread support at the nation-state level, the adoption of r…
Accountability of Congressional Staff
While accountability is a popular topic among elected officials, accountability of congressional staff has received little systematic scrutiny, a gap this article seeks to fill. Congressional staff have substantial autonomy and opportunity to influence public policy, albeit in ways that are not very visible to the general public. This article explores the web of accountability relationships within which congressional legislative staff work. The d…
Politics, Administration, and Markets
Politics can be viewed as the search for consensus on underlying values to foster a sense of community. This search challenges contemporary political and administrative leadership because the policy process increasingly involves interactions among amorphous and unstable issue-oriented coalitions rather than a smaller number of actors with more stable and predictable roles. This article discusses politics, administration, and markets as separate w…
Effective Contract Implementation and Management
Using data derived from and initial case of state contracting for social services for the elderly, this article builds, a theoretical model to explain variations in the effectiveness of the implementation and management of state contracts. Contracts for complex social services often present unforeseen challenges and administrative consequences that make for difficult transitions for both the state agencies and their nongovernmental contractors. W…
The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability Across the Federal System
This article focuses on two questions related lo government contracting and accountability. How are key components of contracting similar or different for city, state, and federal governments in the United States? To what extent do the three levels of government share the widely recognized challenges of contract design and contract management? To address these questions, we compared and contrasted six contracting cases, two each for local, state,…
State Social Services Contracting
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks
This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that …
Public Management Research Association
Public Management Research Association
Public Management Research Association
A Preliminary Theory of Informal Accountability among Network Organizational Actors
Widespread government contracting for nonprofit social service delivery has resulted in extensive reliance on networks of service providers, which involve complicated accountability dynamics. The literature has tended to emphasize formal aspects of accountability in contract relationships, focusing on the specification of contract terms, performance measures, reporting relationships, and stipulated consequences. Far less attention has been focuse…
Public Management Research Association
Informal Accountability in Multisector Service Delivery Collaborations
Multiagency collaboration is widely used in contemporary service delivery systems. This article explores the interpersonal interactions within collaborative systems, among subsystems, and among organizations. Our focus is on illuminating the informal mechanisms that facilitate collaboration, joint production, coordination and integration of service delivery, and sustained effort. Such interactions generate unofficial expectations, discretionary b…
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