Frances Stokes Berry
Biographic Data
| ID | 309215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Stokes Berry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances Stokes |
| FAMILY NAME | Berry |
| SIGNATURE | BERRY F S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1,335 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption
Urban sustainability policy provides opportunities for expanding global efforts for climate change mitigation. Yet local governments may not commit to make such policy efforts. It is well recognized that internal and external factors in state and local governments can be potential drivers. Less recognized is that green energy policy adoption can also be impacted by competitive federalism, under which state laws might influence the likelihood of l…
Introducing research insights into the third sector, social enterprise and public service delivery
The growth of research studies on social enterprise over the past ten years has been on a steep positive trend. Social enterprise is commonly defined as the organizational pursuit of blending socia
The Individual Health Insurance Mandate and Veterans Health Coverage
In December 2017, Congress repealed the individual insurance mandate penalty. Given the poor health status of veterans, their higher demands for health insurance, and the substantial number of uninsured veterans, the repeal of the individual mandate should have a significant impact on the veterans. This article investigates how the repeal of the individual mandate effective in January 2019 is likely to affect the number of uninsured veterans and …
Do State‐Customized Tanf Work Policies Actually Reduce Unemployment
Objectives This study seeks to test the impact of states’ worker supplement programs on the unemployment rates of low‐income females. Worker supplement programs were implemented to cover more needy people and to meet tougher work requirements in response to the enactment of Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Methods We utilize a difference‐in‐differences method using panel data for 50 states over a nine‐year period (2005–2013). Results Our empirical …
Policy Design and Achieving Social Outcomes
This article compares American, British, and Korean social enterprise policies to explore how government policy design shapes social enterprises and how “social benefit” and “public value” are defined. A social enterprise is defined as the legally structured organizational pursuit of blending social purpose and economic profit through business activities, and examples from each country are presented. Applying Bozeman ' s publicness theory, the au…
Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research
This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain innovative behavior by individuals: teachers using a new method of instruction, farmers adopting hybrid seeds and fertilizers, and consumers purchasing new products. The chapter explores that theories of government innovation share many commonalities with models that seek…
Management Innovation and Policy Diffusion through Leadership Transfer Networks
Commentary
Related Content: Ni, Sugimoto, and Robbin (PAR July/August 2017) Related Content: Moynihan (PAR July/August 2017)
A Theoretical Framework on the Determinants of Strategic Cities
Strategic planning is a commonly used management technique, but most state and city studies on strategic planning are descriptive and have not developed a clear theory as to why cities use strategic planning. In this paper, we develop a framework for measuring cities’ use of strategic planning, that includes factors related to form of government, community wealth, and other community attributes as well as the more commonly examined factors relate…
Testing the Development and Diffusion of E‐Government and E‐Democracy
E‐government uses information and communication technology to provide citizens with information about public services. Less pervasive, e‐democracy offers greater electronic community access to political processes and policy choices. Few studies have examined these twin applications separately, although they are widely discussed in the literature as distinct. The authors, Chung‐pin Lee of Tamkang University and Kaiju Chang and Frances Stokes Berry…
Understanding the Role of the Manager in Organizational Performance and Community Engagement
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them . —Albert Einstein
Understanding the Adoption and Timing of Economic Development Strategies in US Cities Using Innovation and Institutional Analysis
Local governments in the United States have adopted a variety of economic development tools and strategies to revitalize and compete. This research considers two questions. First, what factors influenced early and late adopters of strategic economic development policy tools, and second, how are the factors that influence policy adoption in the latter period of time different from the factors that influence early adoption? The article develops a f…
Public entrepreneurs in the policy process
How do entrepreneurs in the public sector effect major policy changes? Are the same entrepreneurs likely to be involved from the idea initiation stage through design, adoption, implementation and institutionalnation, or are there different prominent entrepreneurs in each of the policy stages? What does the pattern of entrepreneurial participation mean for the success of the policy? Utilizing a case study of Performance-Based Program Budgeting (PB…
The Determinants of Success in Implementing an Expert System in State Government
There are few tasks that managers dread as much as employee discipline. Except for cases in which the offense is severe enough to warrant termination, a manager must continue to interact daily with the employee after a punishment has been imposed. When the employee must be fired, the manager often fears that a lawsuit may not be far behind. Thus, when faced with the need to discipline an employee, supervisors might welcome help in figuring out wh…
State Agencies' Experience with Strategic Planning
Since the early 1980s, strategic planning has been one of the hot innovations in public administration, promising public agencies the benefits of a rational and highly structured, future-oriented management technique borrowed from the best run private sector companies. Despite some critical assessments (e.g., Bryson & Roering, 1987; Halachmi, 1986; Mintzberg, (1994),[1] an outpouring of books and articles advocate strategic planning as an effecti…
Innovation in Public Management
State governments have undergone tremendous changes in the last 15 years. Reagan's New Federalism devolved more program responsibilities upon the states through new unfunded federal mandates, leading to large increases in required state revenues (Fix and Kenyon, 1990). The economic recessions of 1981-1983 and 1991-1992 sent many state budgets into the red. State governments responded by cutting services, enacting lotteries, and even raising taxes…
Sizing Up State Policy Innovation Research
In the literature on state policy innovation, there are three major explanations for what causes a government to adopt a new policy. One is the internal determinants model, which posits that the main factors leading a state to innovate are internal political, social and economic characteristics of the stale. The other two are diffusion models—the regional diffusion model, and the national interaction model—which see slate policy adoptions as emul…
The Politics of Tax Increases in the States
This paper updates a recent study of the factors prompting states to adopt new tax instruments by testing the explanation supported in the original work over a longer time period and broadening the pooled cross-sectional time series analysis to include increases in the rates of existing tax instruments. Our results are consistent with the original study's support for a political opportunity explanation that suggests that politicians are most like…
Tax Innovation in the States
This paper assesses the factors that prompt states to adopt taxes during the twentieth century. We test five explanations of state tax innovation derived from the literature-economic development, fiscal health, election cycle, party control, and regional diffusion-using event history analysis, a pooled cross-sectional time-series technique. While little support is found for the economic development and party control explanations, our empirical re…
Specifying a Model of State Policy Innovation
How should policy innovations undertaken by states be modeled? Frances Stokes Berry and William D. Berry presented an event history analysis of the determinants of lottery adoptions by state governments in the June 1990 issue of this Review. Howard Front argues that the way Berry and Berry tested for interaction among variables is invalid on the grounds that what they take to be empirical results are only artifacts of the model specification. In …
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
Two types of explanations of state government innovation have been proposed:internal determinantsmodels (which posit that the factors causing a state government to innovate are political, economic, and social characteristics of a state) andregional diffusionmodels (which point toward the role of policy adoptions by neighboring states in prompting a state to adopt). We show that the two are conceptually compatible, relying on Mohr's theory of orga…
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
Two types of explanations of state government innovation have been proposed:internal determinantsmodels (which posit that the factors causing a state government to innovate are political, economic, and social characteristics of a state) andregional diffusionmodels (which point toward the role of policy adoptions by neighboring states in prompting a state to adopt). We show that the two are conceptually compatible, relying on Mohr's theory of orga…
Tax Innovation in the States
This paper assesses the factors that prompt states to adopt taxes during the twentieth century. We test five explanations of state tax innovation derived from the literature-economic development, fiscal health, election cycle, party control, and regional diffusion-using event history analysis, a pooled cross-sectional time-series technique. While little support is found for the economic development and party control explanations, our empirical re…
Innovation in Public Management
State governments have undergone tremendous changes in the last 15 years. Reagan's New Federalism devolved more program responsibilities upon the states through new unfunded federal mandates, leading to large increases in required state revenues (Fix and Kenyon, 1990). The economic recessions of 1981-1983 and 1991-1992 sent many state budgets into the red. State governments responded by cutting services, enacting lotteries, and even raising taxes…
Sizing Up State Policy Innovation Research
In the literature on state policy innovation, there are three major explanations for what causes a government to adopt a new policy. One is the internal determinants model, which posits that the main factors leading a state to innovate are internal political, social and economic characteristics of the stale. The other two are diffusion models—the regional diffusion model, and the national interaction model—which see slate policy adoptions as emul…
Testing the Development and Diffusion of E‐Government and E‐Democracy
E‐government uses information and communication technology to provide citizens with information about public services. Less pervasive, e‐democracy offers greater electronic community access to political processes and policy choices. Few studies have examined these twin applications separately, although they are widely discussed in the literature as distinct. The authors, Chung‐pin Lee of Tamkang University and Kaiju Chang and Frances Stokes Berry…
Management Innovation and Policy Diffusion through Leadership Transfer Networks
State Agencies' Experience with Strategic Planning
Since the early 1980s, strategic planning has been one of the hot innovations in public administration, promising public agencies the benefits of a rational and highly structured, future-oriented management technique borrowed from the best run private sector companies. Despite some critical assessments (e.g., Bryson & Roering, 1987; Halachmi, 1986; Mintzberg, (1994),[1] an outpouring of books and articles advocate strategic planning as an effecti…
Understanding the Adoption and Timing of Economic Development Strategies in US Cities Using Innovation and Institutional Analysis
Local governments in the United States have adopted a variety of economic development tools and strategies to revitalize and compete. This research considers two questions. First, what factors influenced early and late adopters of strategic economic development policy tools, and second, how are the factors that influence policy adoption in the latter period of time different from the factors that influence early adoption? The article develops a f…
The Politics of Tax Increases in the States
This paper updates a recent study of the factors prompting states to adopt new tax instruments by testing the explanation supported in the original work over a longer time period and broadening the pooled cross-sectional time series analysis to include increases in the rates of existing tax instruments. Our results are consistent with the original study's support for a political opportunity explanation that suggests that politicians are most like…
The Determinants of Success in Implementing an Expert System in State Government
There are few tasks that managers dread as much as employee discipline. Except for cases in which the offense is severe enough to warrant termination, a manager must continue to interact daily with the employee after a punishment has been imposed. When the employee must be fired, the manager often fears that a lawsuit may not be far behind. Thus, when faced with the need to discipline an employee, supervisors might welcome help in figuring out wh…
Policy Design and Achieving Social Outcomes
This article compares American, British, and Korean social enterprise policies to explore how government policy design shapes social enterprises and how “social benefit” and “public value” are defined. A social enterprise is defined as the legally structured organizational pursuit of blending social purpose and economic profit through business activities, and examples from each country are presented. Applying Bozeman ' s publicness theory, the au…
Specifying a Model of State Policy Innovation
How should policy innovations undertaken by states be modeled? Frances Stokes Berry and William D. Berry presented an event history analysis of the determinants of lottery adoptions by state governments in the June 1990 issue of this Review. Howard Front argues that the way Berry and Berry tested for interaction among variables is invalid on the grounds that what they take to be empirical results are only artifacts of the model specification. In …
A Theoretical Framework on the Determinants of Strategic Cities
Strategic planning is a commonly used management technique, but most state and city studies on strategic planning are descriptive and have not developed a clear theory as to why cities use strategic planning. In this paper, we develop a framework for measuring cities’ use of strategic planning, that includes factors related to form of government, community wealth, and other community attributes as well as the more commonly examined factors relate…
The Individual Health Insurance Mandate and Veterans Health Coverage
In December 2017, Congress repealed the individual insurance mandate penalty. Given the poor health status of veterans, their higher demands for health insurance, and the substantial number of uninsured veterans, the repeal of the individual mandate should have a significant impact on the veterans. This article investigates how the repeal of the individual mandate effective in January 2019 is likely to affect the number of uninsured veterans and …
Understanding the Role of the Manager in Organizational Performance and Community Engagement
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them . —Albert Einstein
Do State‐Customized Tanf Work Policies Actually Reduce Unemployment
Objectives This study seeks to test the impact of states’ worker supplement programs on the unemployment rates of low‐income females. Worker supplement programs were implemented to cover more needy people and to meet tougher work requirements in response to the enactment of Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Methods We utilize a difference‐in‐differences method using panel data for 50 states over a nine‐year period (2005–2013). Results Our empirical …
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
Two types of explanations of state government innovation have been proposed:internal determinantsmodels (which posit that the factors causing a state government to innovate are political, economic, and social characteristics of a state) andregional diffusionmodels (which point toward the role of policy adoptions by neighboring states in prompting a state to adopt). We show that the two are conceptually compatible, relying on Mohr's theory of orga…
Specifying a Model of State Policy Innovation
How should policy innovations undertaken by states be modeled? Frances Stokes Berry and William D. Berry presented an event history analysis of the determinants of lottery adoptions by state governments in the June 1990 issue of this Review. Howard Front argues that the way Berry and Berry tested for interaction among variables is invalid on the grounds that what they take to be empirical results are only artifacts of the model specification. In …
Tax Innovation in the States
This paper assesses the factors that prompt states to adopt taxes during the twentieth century. We test five explanations of state tax innovation derived from the literature-economic development, fiscal health, election cycle, party control, and regional diffusion-using event history analysis, a pooled cross-sectional time-series technique. While little support is found for the economic development and party control explanations, our empirical re…
Innovation in Public Management
State governments have undergone tremendous changes in the last 15 years. Reagan's New Federalism devolved more program responsibilities upon the states through new unfunded federal mandates, leading to large increases in required state revenues (Fix and Kenyon, 1990). The economic recessions of 1981-1983 and 1991-1992 sent many state budgets into the red. State governments responded by cutting services, enacting lotteries, and even raising taxes…
Sizing Up State Policy Innovation Research
In the literature on state policy innovation, there are three major explanations for what causes a government to adopt a new policy. One is the internal determinants model, which posits that the main factors leading a state to innovate are internal political, social and economic characteristics of the stale. The other two are diffusion models—the regional diffusion model, and the national interaction model—which see slate policy adoptions as emul…
The Politics of Tax Increases in the States
This paper updates a recent study of the factors prompting states to adopt new tax instruments by testing the explanation supported in the original work over a longer time period and broadening the pooled cross-sectional time series analysis to include increases in the rates of existing tax instruments. Our results are consistent with the original study's support for a political opportunity explanation that suggests that politicians are most like…
State Agencies' Experience with Strategic Planning
Since the early 1980s, strategic planning has been one of the hot innovations in public administration, promising public agencies the benefits of a rational and highly structured, future-oriented management technique borrowed from the best run private sector companies. Despite some critical assessments (e.g., Bryson & Roering, 1987; Halachmi, 1986; Mintzberg, (1994),[1] an outpouring of books and articles advocate strategic planning as an effecti…
The Determinants of Success in Implementing an Expert System in State Government
There are few tasks that managers dread as much as employee discipline. Except for cases in which the offense is severe enough to warrant termination, a manager must continue to interact daily with the employee after a punishment has been imposed. When the employee must be fired, the manager often fears that a lawsuit may not be far behind. Thus, when faced with the need to discipline an employee, supervisors might welcome help in figuring out wh…
Public entrepreneurs in the policy process
How do entrepreneurs in the public sector effect major policy changes? Are the same entrepreneurs likely to be involved from the idea initiation stage through design, adoption, implementation and institutionalnation, or are there different prominent entrepreneurs in each of the policy stages? What does the pattern of entrepreneurial participation mean for the success of the policy? Utilizing a case study of Performance-Based Program Budgeting (PB…
Understanding the Adoption and Timing of Economic Development Strategies in US Cities Using Innovation and Institutional Analysis
Local governments in the United States have adopted a variety of economic development tools and strategies to revitalize and compete. This research considers two questions. First, what factors influenced early and late adopters of strategic economic development policy tools, and second, how are the factors that influence policy adoption in the latter period of time different from the factors that influence early adoption? The article develops a f…
Understanding the Role of the Manager in Organizational Performance and Community Engagement
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them . —Albert Einstein
Testing the Development and Diffusion of E‐Government and E‐Democracy
E‐government uses information and communication technology to provide citizens with information about public services. Less pervasive, e‐democracy offers greater electronic community access to political processes and policy choices. Few studies have examined these twin applications separately, although they are widely discussed in the literature as distinct. The authors, Chung‐pin Lee of Tamkang University and Kaiju Chang and Frances Stokes Berry…
A Theoretical Framework on the Determinants of Strategic Cities
Strategic planning is a commonly used management technique, but most state and city studies on strategic planning are descriptive and have not developed a clear theory as to why cities use strategic planning. In this paper, we develop a framework for measuring cities’ use of strategic planning, that includes factors related to form of government, community wealth, and other community attributes as well as the more commonly examined factors relate…
Commentary
Related Content: Ni, Sugimoto, and Robbin (PAR July/August 2017) Related Content: Moynihan (PAR July/August 2017)
Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research
This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain innovative behavior by individuals: teachers using a new method of instruction, farmers adopting hybrid seeds and fertilizers, and consumers purchasing new products. The chapter explores that theories of government innovation share many commonalities with models that seek…
Management Innovation and Policy Diffusion through Leadership Transfer Networks
Do State‐Customized Tanf Work Policies Actually Reduce Unemployment
Objectives This study seeks to test the impact of states’ worker supplement programs on the unemployment rates of low‐income females. Worker supplement programs were implemented to cover more needy people and to meet tougher work requirements in response to the enactment of Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Methods We utilize a difference‐in‐differences method using panel data for 50 states over a nine‐year period (2005–2013). Results Our empirical …
Policy Design and Achieving Social Outcomes
This article compares American, British, and Korean social enterprise policies to explore how government policy design shapes social enterprises and how “social benefit” and “public value” are defined. A social enterprise is defined as the legally structured organizational pursuit of blending social purpose and economic profit through business activities, and examples from each country are presented. Applying Bozeman ' s publicness theory, the au…
Introducing research insights into the third sector, social enterprise and public service delivery
The growth of research studies on social enterprise over the past ten years has been on a steep positive trend. Social enterprise is commonly defined as the organizational pursuit of blending socia
The Individual Health Insurance Mandate and Veterans Health Coverage
In December 2017, Congress repealed the individual insurance mandate penalty. Given the poor health status of veterans, their higher demands for health insurance, and the substantial number of uninsured veterans, the repeal of the individual mandate should have a significant impact on the veterans. This article investigates how the repeal of the individual mandate effective in January 2019 is likely to affect the number of uninsured veterans and …
Intergovernmental Influence, Managerial Turnover, and City Energy Policy Adoption
Urban sustainability policy provides opportunities for expanding global efforts for climate change mitigation. Yet local governments may not commit to make such policy efforts. It is well recognized that internal and external factors in state and local governments can be potential drivers. Less recognized is that green energy policy adoption can also be impacted by competitive federalism, under which state laws might influence the likelihood of l…
Political science (19 works) · Business (16 works) · Economics (10 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Marketing (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Government (linguistics (7 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (7 works)