Richard C Kearney
Biographic Data
| ID | 202955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard C Kearney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard C |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearney |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNEY R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 269 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Professionalism and Bureaucratic Responsiveness
The rise of professionalism in government has stirred some measure of fear and discomfort in the souls of those who reflect upon the relationship between public administration and American democracy. A useful starting point for analyzing the continuing evolution of professionalism and its relationship to bureaucratic responsiveness is Don K. Price&s;s model of the "four estates" and their position on the spectrum from truth to power. According to…
Are U.S. Cities Losing Power and Authority? Perceptions of Local Government Actors
Have the power and discretionary authority enjoyed by U.S. local governments changed over the past decade? The answer to the question is sought not through creating a metric that gauges the legal or structural power possessed by cities and counties but rather by surveying well-placed actors who are in a position to know. Their assessments, for the most part, suggest that local jurisdictions, especially cities, have experienced an erosion of autho…
Second-Order Devolution
In this article, we explore changes in state--local relations. Our interest is the degree to which states have devolved power and authority to their localities ... or not. From our empirical tests, we conclude that although centralization was the dominant trend from the mid-1950s until the mid-1980s, the pattern since then has been somewhat uneven and variable across states. A survey of city managers supports a finding of a loss of local power at…
Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Challenges of Policy Leadership in a Hostile Environment
Randi Weingarten is the president of the most vocal and influential teachers’ union, the American Federation of Teachers. Since rising through the ranks to AFT president in just two years, Weingarten is now a major, if not the most prominent, nongovernmental player in national education policy. She has earned deep respect from many educational policy actors. Likewise, Weingarten elicits withering criticism from others. This fascinating profile ex…
Who Watches the Watchmen
Scholars and human resource practitioners agree that effective performance appraisal systems have clear objectives, reliable and valid appraisal methodology, separation of personal judgments from job-based performance assessments, acceptance by employees, and leadership commitment. Using data from state reports, surveys, case histories, personal interviews, and judicial performance appraisal studies, this article juxtaposes judicial performance e…
Trouble Keeping Promises? An Analysis of Underfunding in State Retiree Benefits
This article examines the funding of two key components of state government total compensation: pensions and other postemployment benefits (OPEB), the latter consisting primarily of retiree health care. A brief overview of the economic, political, and legal environments of state pensions and OPEB is followed by an analysis of the unfunded liabilities for these respective benefits. Regression results suggest the importance of state management capa…
Anticipated Changes in Human Resource Management
This article reports the results of a major survey that was distributed to the members of the International Personnel Management Association and the Section on Personnel and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration. The intent of the survey was twofold: to gauge the respondents' perspectives on the relative importance of various personnel techniques, activities, and values, and to assess their projections concerning the c…
Labor relations in the public sector
Reinventing Government in Reformed Municipalities
The authors place reinventing government (REGO) efforts in the context of mayor-council municipalities. After briefly reviewing the emerging body of local government research on reinventing government, they address two principal research questions: First, what are the correlates and extent of REGO actions by managers, mayors, and city councils? Second, what is the nature of REGO interactions among managers, mayors, and councils? Employing two Int…
Reinventing Government
With the aim of helping move research from rhetoric to empirical reality, this article reports results of a national survey of city managers on attitudes towards and actions taken to implement principles of reinventing government. A large majority of managers support key principles of reinvention. A smaller proportion of managers has taken actions to recommend adoption of reinvention programs in their budget proposals to council. Managers' action…
Sex on the Docket
Women have fought many political and legal battles against bias in the United States, winning the right to vote, access to jobs and occupations formerly dominated by men, and legal prohibitions against sex-based discrimination. Remarkable progress has been made during the past 30 years on many fronts. But one of the most durable fortresses of patriarchy and bias against women is also perhaps the most important in terms of both symbol and substanc…
Labor-Management Relations and Participative Decision Making
The Low‐Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process in Connecticut
The national policy to manage low‐level radioactive waste (LLRW) from commercial nuclear power plants and other generators appears to be at a standstill with regard to siting new LLRW disposal facilities in the states. Regional compacts have been established and host stales designated in most compacts, but the NIMBY problem has proved insurmountable. Connecticut has been added to the growing list of states that have experienced siting setbacks an…
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management
This article examines state efforts to implement the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1960 and its 1985 amendments, and the significance of New York v. United States et al. for low-level waste (LLW) facility siting. Interstate compacting under the act has been successful for compact regions encompassing previously operating disposal facilities, but elsewhere the process is in gridlock. The principal cause of siting failures is the NIMBY …
State Personnel Directors and the Dilemmas of Workforce 2000
Supreme Court Decision Making
This article examines the participation and success rates of state and local governments before the U.S. Supreme Court during 1953-1989. We find that they have experienced greater access to the Court over time, and that they have been winning an increasingly higher proportion of cases when appearing as direct parties, with some interesting variations depending on the type of case and litigants. Time-series analysis indicates that the most importa…
Mauritius
The Demise of Nuclear Energy? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology. Joseph G. Morone , Edward J. Woodhouse
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
Sunset
The rise of Sunset in Colorado in 1976 was greeted with great hopes and expectations. State Sunset laws enjoyed the support of liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, across the United States. They were seen as anti-big government and pro-consumer. As a foot soldier in the tax revolt, Sunset promised to reduce the size and costs of government and to lower barriers to competition. Between 1976 and 1982 all 50 state legislatures and …
Professionalism and Bureaucratic Responsiveness
Dimensions of State Government Capability
POLITICAL system performance depends to a great extent on institutional capacity. As a result, institutions are the objects of continuous attempts at reform and modernization. These transformational efforts are undertaken to attain the somewhat nebulous goals of improvement and capacity building. The frequency, comprehensiveness, and impact of these exercises are likely a function of the larger political context. The last twenty years have found …
Spoils in the Caribbean
It has been suggested that greatest political contrivance of nineteenth century England was the invention of the nonpolitical civil service.' While this may constitute somewhat of an overstatement, the conventional wisdom in the field of public administration for the past 150 years has been that social, economic, and political development presuppose a politically neutral, career government service based upon the rule of merit. Today, the career c…
Interstate Compacts and the Management of Low Level Radioactive Wastes
The resurgence of the states as political actors within the context of American federalism has been a phenomenon attracting notice from myriad quarters over the past several years. Constitutional and statutory reforms have strengthened the powers of the governors, streamlined the executive branches, made state legislatures more effective, efficient, accountable, and responsive, and modernized judicial systems.' The education, experience, and prof…
Labor Relations in the Public Sector
Reinventing Government
With the aim of helping move research from rhetoric to empirical reality, this article reports results of a national survey of city managers on attitudes towards and actions taken to implement principles of reinventing government. A large majority of managers support key principles of reinvention. A smaller proportion of managers has taken actions to recommend adoption of reinvention programs in their budget proposals to council. Managers' action…
Dimensions of State Government Capability
POLITICAL system performance depends to a great extent on institutional capacity. As a result, institutions are the objects of continuous attempts at reform and modernization. These transformational efforts are undertaken to attain the somewhat nebulous goals of improvement and capacity building. The frequency, comprehensiveness, and impact of these exercises are likely a function of the larger political context. The last twenty years have found …
Supreme Court Decision Making
This article examines the participation and success rates of state and local governments before the U.S. Supreme Court during 1953-1989. We find that they have experienced greater access to the Court over time, and that they have been winning an increasingly higher proportion of cases when appearing as direct parties, with some interesting variations depending on the type of case and litigants. Time-series analysis indicates that the most importa…
Professionalism and Bureaucratic Responsiveness
Second-Order Devolution
In this article, we explore changes in state--local relations. Our interest is the degree to which states have devolved power and authority to their localities ... or not. From our empirical tests, we conclude that although centralization was the dominant trend from the mid-1950s until the mid-1980s, the pattern since then has been somewhat uneven and variable across states. A survey of city managers supports a finding of a loss of local power at…
Are U.S. Cities Losing Power and Authority? Perceptions of Local Government Actors
Have the power and discretionary authority enjoyed by U.S. local governments changed over the past decade? The answer to the question is sought not through creating a metric that gauges the legal or structural power possessed by cities and counties but rather by surveying well-placed actors who are in a position to know. Their assessments, for the most part, suggest that local jurisdictions, especially cities, have experienced an erosion of autho…
Reputation and Productivity among U. S. Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs
Anticipated Changes in Human Resource Management
This article reports the results of a major survey that was distributed to the members of the International Personnel Management Association and the Section on Personnel and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration. The intent of the survey was twofold: to gauge the respondents' perspectives on the relative importance of various personnel techniques, activities, and values, and to assess their projections concerning the c…
Reinventing Government in Reformed Municipalities
The authors place reinventing government (REGO) efforts in the context of mayor-council municipalities. After briefly reviewing the emerging body of local government research on reinventing government, they address two principal research questions: First, what are the correlates and extent of REGO actions by managers, mayors, and city councils? Second, what is the nature of REGO interactions among managers, mayors, and councils? Employing two Int…
Labor-Management Relations and Participative Decision Making
The Low‐Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process in Connecticut
The national policy to manage low‐level radioactive waste (LLRW) from commercial nuclear power plants and other generators appears to be at a standstill with regard to siting new LLRW disposal facilities in the states. Regional compacts have been established and host stales designated in most compacts, but the NIMBY problem has proved insurmountable. Connecticut has been added to the growing list of states that have experienced siting setbacks an…
Mauritius
Collective Bargaining and Faculty Compensation
Multiple regression is used to estimate faculty compensation levels and compensation change for 46 paired union and nonunion institutions of higher education for the year 1974-75. With the five other independent variables controlled, the union/nonunion dummy regression coefficient accounts for over $1,000 more in average annual compensation levels for unionized faculties than for their nonunion counterparts. In addition, the union/nonunion variab…
State Personnel Directors and the Dilemmas of Workforce 2000
Who Watches the Watchmen
Scholars and human resource practitioners agree that effective performance appraisal systems have clear objectives, reliable and valid appraisal methodology, separation of personal judgments from job-based performance assessments, acceptance by employees, and leadership commitment. Using data from state reports, surveys, case histories, personal interviews, and judicial performance appraisal studies, this article juxtaposes judicial performance e…
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management
This article examines state efforts to implement the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1960 and its 1985 amendments, and the significance of New York v. United States et al. for low-level waste (LLW) facility siting. Interstate compacting under the act has been successful for compact regions encompassing previously operating disposal facilities, but elsewhere the process is in gridlock. The principal cause of siting failures is the NIMBY …
Collective Bargaining and Faculty Compensation Revisited
Collective Bargaining and Faculty Compensation Revisited
Collective Bargaining and Faculty Compensation
Multiple regression is used to estimate faculty compensation levels and compensation change for 46 paired union and nonunion institutions of higher education for the year 1974-75. With the five other independent variables controlled, the union/nonunion dummy regression coefficient accounts for over $1,000 more in average annual compensation levels for unionized faculties than for their nonunion counterparts. In addition, the union/nonunion variab…
Diversity and Eclecticism in the Teaching of Organizational Theory
Reputation and Productivity among U. S. Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs
American Federalism and the Management of Radioactive Wastes
18. UMTA, Summary Report, p. 70. It is also interesting to note that although the accessible transit policy is focused primarily on wheelchair users, who constitute a 5.5 percent vocal minority of all transportation handicapped, surveys show that a majority claim to be unable to use it due to other barriers. 19. Elderly and Handicapped Transportation: Local Government Approaches. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Transportation. Urban Mass Tra…
The Debate Continues
Missing Points
Interstate Compacts and the Management of Low Level Radioactive Wastes
The resurgence of the states as political actors within the context of American federalism has been a phenomenon attracting notice from myriad quarters over the past several years. Constitutional and statutory reforms have strengthened the powers of the governors, streamlined the executive branches, made state legislatures more effective, efficient, accountable, and responsive, and modernized judicial systems.' The education, experience, and prof…
Labor Relations in the Public Sector
Spoils in the Caribbean
It has been suggested that greatest political contrivance of nineteenth century England was the invention of the nonpolitical civil service.' While this may constitute somewhat of an overstatement, the conventional wisdom in the field of public administration for the past 150 years has been that social, economic, and political development presuppose a politically neutral, career government service based upon the rule of merit. Today, the career c…
Professionalism and Bureaucratic Responsiveness
Dimensions of State Government Capability
POLITICAL system performance depends to a great extent on institutional capacity. As a result, institutions are the objects of continuous attempts at reform and modernization. These transformational efforts are undertaken to attain the somewhat nebulous goals of improvement and capacity building. The frequency, comprehensiveness, and impact of these exercises are likely a function of the larger political context. The last twenty years have found …
The Demise of Nuclear Energy? Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology. Joseph G. Morone , Edward J. Woodhouse
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
Sunset
The rise of Sunset in Colorado in 1976 was greeted with great hopes and expectations. State Sunset laws enjoyed the support of liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, across the United States. They were seen as anti-big government and pro-consumer. As a foot soldier in the tax revolt, Sunset promised to reduce the size and costs of government and to lower barriers to competition. Between 1976 and 1982 all 50 state legislatures and …
Mauritius
State Personnel Directors and the Dilemmas of Workforce 2000
Supreme Court Decision Making
This article examines the participation and success rates of state and local governments before the U.S. Supreme Court during 1953-1989. We find that they have experienced greater access to the Court over time, and that they have been winning an increasingly higher proportion of cases when appearing as direct parties, with some interesting variations depending on the type of case and litigants. Time-series analysis indicates that the most importa…
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management
This article examines state efforts to implement the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act of 1960 and its 1985 amendments, and the significance of New York v. United States et al. for low-level waste (LLW) facility siting. Interstate compacting under the act has been successful for compact regions encompassing previously operating disposal facilities, but elsewhere the process is in gridlock. The principal cause of siting failures is the NIMBY …
Labor-Management Relations and Participative Decision Making
The Low‐Level Radioactive Waste Siting Process in Connecticut
The national policy to manage low‐level radioactive waste (LLRW) from commercial nuclear power plants and other generators appears to be at a standstill with regard to siting new LLRW disposal facilities in the states. Regional compacts have been established and host stales designated in most compacts, but the NIMBY problem has proved insurmountable. Connecticut has been added to the growing list of states that have experienced siting setbacks an…
Sex on the Docket
Women have fought many political and legal battles against bias in the United States, winning the right to vote, access to jobs and occupations formerly dominated by men, and legal prohibitions against sex-based discrimination. Remarkable progress has been made during the past 30 years on many fronts. But one of the most durable fortresses of patriarchy and bias against women is also perhaps the most important in terms of both symbol and substanc…
Reinventing Government
With the aim of helping move research from rhetoric to empirical reality, this article reports results of a national survey of city managers on attitudes towards and actions taken to implement principles of reinventing government. A large majority of managers support key principles of reinvention. A smaller proportion of managers has taken actions to recommend adoption of reinvention programs in their budget proposals to council. Managers' action…
Anticipated Changes in Human Resource Management
This article reports the results of a major survey that was distributed to the members of the International Personnel Management Association and the Section on Personnel and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration. The intent of the survey was twofold: to gauge the respondents' perspectives on the relative importance of various personnel techniques, activities, and values, and to assess their projections concerning the c…
Labor relations in the public sector
Political science (27 works) · Law (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Business (12 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)