Jeffrey L Brudney
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 335223 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey L Brudney |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey L |
| APELLIDO | Brudney |
| FIRMA | BRUDNEY J L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1367-0866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 701 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Preliminary Workforce Outcomes of an Urban Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
Exploring the Relationship Between Privatization in Public Service Delivery and Coproduction
Since the New Public Management Movement, privatization has become a popular approach for delivering public services. However, few studies empirically assess the relationship between privatization of public service delivery and citizen participation in coproduction. Taking advantage of a national survey of U.S. local government chief administrators, this study aims to contribute to the literature by exploring the link between these two important …
Defining and Measuring Coproduction
Following a lapse in scholarly attention, coproduction, the joint production of services by government officials and citizens, has re‐emerged as an important topic. However, the field lacks information on broad parameters of coproduction implementation and how public managers view coproduction. To address the lacuna, this study examines patterns of implementation of coproduction in a national sample of municipalities and counties in the U.S. Acco…
You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering
This article is intended as the leading article in a Special Issue of Voluntas devoted to episodic volunteering from a cross-cultural perspective. This article focuses on summarizing and distilling knowledge about episodic volunteering. Based on a thorough literature review, the authors present state-of-the-art knowledge about episodic volunteering divided into key subsections that include: (1) is episodic volunteering a new area or a new era in …
You Shall (Not) Pass
Volunteering appears to be a mechanism that can contribute to societal inclusion. As nonprofit organizations continuously seek more volunteers, opportunities for volunteer inclusion seem limitless. We argue that, in reality, it is not that simple. Volunteer exclusion derives from the failure to seek, recruit, and place potential volunteers with antecedents predicting non-volunteering. This article focuses on the “sending-organization” in dual vol…
Young, Fun, and Free
As scholarship on episodic volunteering expands, researchers question if episodic volunteering is similar to, and/or different from, long-term, membership-based volunteering. This article examines the motivations of Ghanaians, South Africans, and Tanzanians to engage in event-based, episodic volunteering. Based on surveys collected from over 1000 participants in 2018, we use logistic regression models to distinguish differences in motivations bet…
Don’t You Want My Help? Volunteer Involvement and Management in Local Government
The global COVID-19 health pandemic has put extraordinary pressure on already fiscally strapped local governments. As local jurisdictions search for strategies to meet rising service expectations with declining resources, use of volunteers would seem to offer significant advantages. This study examines the involvement of volunteers to deliver services in all county governments in one U.S. state, as well as the factors that explain the extent of u…
At Your Service
This article examines the role played by nonprofit infrastructure organizations in assisting service-delivery nonprofits as they confronted the COVID-19 crisis. These organizations are differentiated by their service focus, but are united by a common mission to offer support to other nonprofits. The service areas of nonprofit infrastructure organizations can be divided into three categories: those that support the nonprofit sector as a whole, tho…
Local Government Volunteer Use
Volunteer use in the United States constitutes a service delivery alternative in which public agencies involve citizens to assist in delivering public services. This article provides a resource dependence and transaction costs explanation for why local governments in the United States may involve volunteers in service delivery. Using a survey of local government service delivery arrangements, we analyze a repeated cross‐sectional dataset derived …
Do Advanced Information Technologies Produce Equitable Government Responses in Coproduction
This article seeks to answer the following primary research question: Do governments respond differently to citizen service requests depending on where those requests originate in the city? This study is particularly salient in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in response to police violence or the gross neglect of infrastructure in Flint, MI. Although numerous studies have been able to demonstrate bias in policing, few (if any) have lo…
Conceptualizing the Collaborative Toolbox
This study explores the circumstances under which certain collaborative tools are adopted, and whether some tools are typically used in combination with others. We share the view of other scholars that collaboration practice is ahead of scholarship. Accordingly, we ground our analysis and conclusions on the observations provided by a sample of public managers who participate actively in collaborations. Findings from interviews with managers about…
Rethinking coproduction
This article reviews the origin and development of research on coproduction and proposes a new Coproduction Amplification Model to guide research and practice. The article shows that coproduction research began and flowered in the USA in the 1980s but lagged in the 1990s. The study suggests and explores reasons for the lapse, including the introduction of New Public Management; emerging research on volunteer involvement in government service deli…
Partnerships the Nonprofit Way
Citizen Representation in City Government-Driven Crowdsourcing
A New Tool for New Times? Using Geographic Information Systems in Foundations and Other Nonprofit Organizations
The literature on nonprofit organizations exhorts them to understand and develop their communities’ strengths and capacities. Yet, identifying those communities, appreciating the conditions that affect them, and integrating organizational stakeholders can pose difficulties for any nonprofit, including foundations. This article examines how a tool relatively new to nonprofits — geographic information systems — can be used to support community buil…
The Limits and Possibilities of Volunteering
Despite popular rhetoric concerning the benefits of volunteerism for public and nonprofit organizations, the use and management of volunteers to assist in the delivery of services is uneven: some organizations rely heavily on volunteer labor for this purpose, while others circumscribe volunteer contributions or eschew volunteer involvement altogether. This article introduces eight dimensions of volunteer involvement—four involving organizational …
Nonprofit Lobbying Strategy
Research on nonprofit lobbying conceives of strategy in various ways. This article presents a more comprehensive view encompassing four components: lobbying motivation (lobbying for organizational or self-interest as well as for societal benefit), concentration (lobbying in a narrow versus wide range of policy domains), type (lobbying policymakers directly or indirectly), and target (lobbying different levels of government). Based on the analysis…
When Good Intentions Go Wrong
The Volunteer Protection Act (VPA) was enacted in 1997 to encourage volunteerism by protecting individuals from liability for their negligent actions while volunteering. Proponents intended to provide legal safeguards for volunteers, whom they claimed were deterred from volunteering by fears of liability. Little attention has been paid to this legislation since its enactment, however. This article examines the implementation and interpretation of…
Our Common Commons
Brudney and Meijs (2009) conceive of volunteer energy as a social resource that constitutes the basis for (organizationally based) volunteering. They show that volunteer energy can be compared to a human-made, renewable resource that can be grown and recycled – but likewise one that is subject to misuse and misappropriation that can imperil the vitality of the resource. They explain that to a certain extent, volunteer energy is a common pool reso…
Coproduction of Government Services and the New Information Technology
This article investigates how communications advances affect citizens’ ability to participate in coproduction of government services. The authors analyze service requests made to the City of Boston during a one‐year period from 2010 to 2011 and, using geospatial analysis and negative binomial regression, investigate possible disparities by race, education, and income in making service requests. The findings reveal little concern that 311 systems …
Participation in formal and informal volunteering
This study examines factors influencing “formal” volunteering (that is, to an organization) and “informal” volunteering (that is, volunteering carried out individually outside of an organizational context) and the relationship between these two activities. We hypothesize that formal and informal volunteering activities are positively interrelated but that they are shaped by different types of personal resources: involvement in social networks inc…
Making Policy Without Parameters
This study began with an effort to obtain data on the economic contribution of the nonprofit sector in a large, metropolitan community to inform policy-makers. Despite the growing interest of policy-makers in the nonprofit sector, and the importance of accurate, reliable, and timely data to make sound public policy decisions and to evaluate their effects, we encountered considerable difficulty and gaps in assembling the necessary information. Bas…
Volontiranje studenata u Zagrebu u komparativnom kontekstu
The paper presents an analysis of the results of the research of volunteering of students of the University of Zagreb and Technical and Social Sciences Polytechnics in Zagreb conducted between 2006-2007 within the international comparative research of students in 14 countries of the world. The aim of the research was to collect the data on various aspects of volunteering (experience, basic forms, motivations and benefits of volunteering, values c…
Cultural Values and Volunteering
What gives? Cross-national differences in students’ giving behavior
This study is targeted to understanding the giving of time and money among a specific cohort – university students across 13 countries. It explores predictors of different combinations of giving behaviors: only volunteering, only donating, neither, as compared to doing both. Among the predictors of these four types of giving behavior, we also account for cross-national differences across models of civil society. The findings show that students pr…
Bureaucracy as a Representative Institution
Theory: Scholars have long debated the question of what assurance the populace can have that government bureaucracies, operating on the basis of specialized knowledge and exercising considerable discretionary authority, will act in a manner consistent with the public interest. One approach to this problem involves the representation of certain groups, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, in the public work force. This research systematicall…
Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out
Although a vast literature explores government contracting out for the delivery of publicly financed services, comparatively little of this analysis, whether descriptive or explanatory, focuses on the American states. Accordingly, the present research has two primary goals. It first examines the extent of contracting out by state agencies and the perceived effects of this activity on the quality and costs of service delivery. The second aim is to…
State Agencies and Their Environments
Research on the federal bureaucracy has long recognized the importance of organization environment for differentiating among agencies and affecting their political support as well as policy outputs. Although the environment has been considered an element in the behavior of state agencies as well, research at this level has been less sensitive to important differences across agency environments. This article identifies four major actors in the pol…
Public Perception of “Who is a Volunteer”
Our aim is to enhance the knowledge regarding how the public assess and rate volunteerism. We begin by first developing the model for understanding the potential use of the net-cost concept in eliciting the public’s subjective perceptions on the extent to which certain activities are perceived as volunteerism. Four hypotheses relevant to the use of the net-cost concept are developed. We developed a questionnaire consisting of 50 case scenarios an…
From Organizational Values to Organizational Roles
Over the past four decades, nonwhites and women have made slow but important progress toward expanding their numbers in the higher reaches of state administration, although they are not yet proportionately represented in top-level policy-making positions in the American states. A question that prior research has not addressed is whether such passive representation-numerical employment in state bureaucracy-is linked to more active representation-e…
Reconciling Competing Values in Public Administration
This article reports research on the administrative role concept. The authors use the inductive research technique Q-methodology to probe the belief systems of 69 public administrators about their administrative roles and responsibilities. Results show that these administrators perceive five distinct roles. The authors labeled these roles stewards of the public interest, adapted realists, businesslike utilitarians, resigned custodians, and practi…
The Adoption of Innovation by Smaller Local Governments
Most research on the adoption of computer technology centers on municipalities with populations exceeding 50,000. This article explores the degree to which findings from these large local governments apply to the adoption of computers in smaller municipalities. Based on a panel study of local governments at two points in time, the analysis provides support for hypothesized relationships derived from studies of larger cities linking environmental …
Exploring Variations in Contracting for Services Among American Local Governments
During the previous two decades, researchers have conducted an array of empirical studies of local government contracting for services. Some of the more recent findings have suggested that this form of privatization has become less politically controversial and more accepted as a service delivery approach. Do politics still matter when it comes to explaining patterns in local government contracting? The findings from this study indicate that the …
Do Advanced Information Technologies Produce Equitable Government Responses in Coproduction
This article seeks to answer the following primary research question: Do governments respond differently to citizen service requests depending on where those requests originate in the city? This study is particularly salient in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in response to police violence or the gross neglect of infrastructure in Flint, MI. Although numerous studies have been able to demonstrate bias in policing, few (if any) have lo…
The Role of City Managers
This study uses a survey of 1,135 city managers to evaluate the contemporary city manager role and to evaluate its consistency with principal-agent theory. The findings are mixed. It appears that city councils can control city managers as principal-agent theory suggests, but that most city councils opt for less complex solutions involving trust and role sharing with the city manager. In other words, principal-agent theory does not fully explain t…
Implementing Information Technology in Government
As managers have turned to advanced technologies to promote service delivery, partnership arrangements have attracted great attention. Given the struggle between limited fiscal capacities and rising public expectations, the use of partnerships has emerged as a strategy of government leaders who wish to benefit from advanced technologies. Despite the importance and use of these arrangements, little empirical research has appeared on the characteri…
Rethinking coproduction
This article reviews the origin and development of research on coproduction and proposes a new Coproduction Amplification Model to guide research and practice. The article shows that coproduction research began and flowered in the USA in the 1980s but lagged in the 1990s. The study suggests and explores reasons for the lapse, including the introduction of New Public Management; emerging research on volunteer involvement in government service deli…
Social and Cultural Origins of Motivations to Volunteer
Although participation in volunteering and motivations to volunteer (MTV) have received substantial attention on the national level, particularly in the US, few studies have compared and explained these issues across cultural and political contexts. This study compares how two theoretical perspectives, social origins theory and signalling theory, explain variations in MTV across different countries. The study analyses responses from a sample of 5…
Motivations and Benefits of Student Volunteering
Programmes targeting student volunteering and service learning are part of encouraging civic behaviour amongst young people. This article reports on a large scale international survey comparing volunteering amongst tertiary students at universities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The data revealed high rates of student volunteering and the popularity of occasional or episodic volunteering. …
Rational volunteering
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how the perceived benefits and costs of volunteering affect participation. Based on this rational choice approach, the research tests a multivariate model of the determinants of volunteering. Design/methodology/approach The database for the empirical analysis is the 2005 Americans' Time Use Survey. To estimate the model of participation in volunteer activity, this research uses the complementary log…
Conceptualizing the Collaborative Toolbox
This study explores the circumstances under which certain collaborative tools are adopted, and whether some tools are typically used in combination with others. We share the view of other scholars that collaboration practice is ahead of scholarship. Accordingly, we ground our analysis and conclusions on the observations provided by a sample of public managers who participate actively in collaborations. Findings from interviews with managers about…
The Evaluation of Coproduction Programs
This article evaluates the benefits and costs of local coproduction of services. Coproduction is understood as active participation beyond the normal requirements of citizenship by individuals or groups in the delivery of municipal services intended to raise the quality and/or amount of their provision. The benefits and costs of coproduction programs are examined in six areas: tax savings, service effectiveness, citizen participation, motivating …
Students’ Vocational Choices and Voluntary Action
Previous research on student involvement suggested that business and engineering students manifest lowest rates of voluntary action. Similarly, it was thought that social science students are the most involved in voluntary action, with students of natural sciences and humanities in the middle. However, there were very few studies that empirically compared these assertions. Furthermore, these assertions were not investigated from cross-cultural pe…
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) has been heralded as the most comprehensive piece of federal legislation since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To date, research on the ADA has been largely speculative and anecdotal. The present research helps to fill this gap by analyzing and reporting results from a survey of municipal governments encompassing all cities in the United States with a population of 50,000 or greater. The study asses…
An Economic Evaluation of Paid, Volunteer, and Mixed Staffing Options for Public Services
Defining and Measuring Coproduction
Following a lapse in scholarly attention, coproduction, the joint production of services by government officials and citizens, has re‐emerged as an important topic. However, the field lacks information on broad parameters of coproduction implementation and how public managers view coproduction. To address the lacuna, this study examines patterns of implementation of coproduction in a national sample of municipalities and counties in the U.S. Acco…
Cultural Values and Volunteering
You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering
This article is intended as the leading article in a Special Issue of Voluntas devoted to episodic volunteering from a cross-cultural perspective. This article focuses on summarizing and distilling knowledge about episodic volunteering. Based on a thorough literature review, the authors present state-of-the-art knowledge about episodic volunteering divided into key subsections that include: (1) is episodic volunteering a new area or a new era in …
Performance-Based Managerial Pay in the Federal Government
Do factors unique to particular agencies affect the design, implementation, and results of performance-based compensation systems? The research presented addresses this question, using the federal Performance Management and Recognition System (PMRS) as the focus of analysis. The findings show that agency does impact the design, implementation, and perceived outcomes of an expectancy-based compensation system. The research suggests that agency-bas…
Coproduction
Research on coproduction—the involvement of citizens in the provision o municipal services-has been decidedly positive, emphasizing the considerable advantages of this model for both urban governments and the citizenry. This article accepts these conclusions but examines several issues in the implementation of coproduction that may jeopardize its vitality. Coproduction succeeds as a result of the increased investment of citizens in service delive…
Analyzing Citizen Evaluations of Municipal Services
Urban Policy Making and Subjective Service Evaluations
1978). 15. The approach is spelled out in some detail in Bahl, Schroeder and Zorn, Government Revenue and Expenditure Forecasting: Dallas, Texas. 16. Note that there is no attempt to forecast future policy changes; this hesitancy to predict future political actions is, in general, the approach used in each of the major cities currently forecasting expenditures. See Bahl and Schroeder, Forecasting Local Government Budgets. 17. For an interesting d…
An Elite View of the Polls
This research note examines the views of election polls of a sample of political activists: delegates elected to the 1980 state conventions of the Oklahoma Democratic and Republican parties. Findings show that although just l3 percent of the delegates overall place high levels of trust in the results of major national polls, nearly a majority (45 percent) feel that poll results affect voter behavior. Both trust in election polls and perception of…
Toward a Definition of the Coproduction Concept
In a recent essay in The New Republic, Kirk Cheyfitz laments the rise of the Self-Serve City in Detroit. Sparked by double-digit inflation and unemployment rates, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young in his annual budget message to the city council announced that: It may very well be that for the near future we will have to get used to doing for our city that we have come to expect our city to do for us.' To what types of things was Mayor Young referring
The Evaluation of Coproduction Programs
This article evaluates the benefits and costs of local coproduction of services. Coproduction is understood as active participation beyond the normal requirements of citizenship by individuals or groups in the delivery of municipal services intended to raise the quality and/or amount of their provision. The benefits and costs of coproduction programs are examined in six areas: tax savings, service effectiveness, citizen participation, motivating …
Local Coproduction of Services and the Analysis of Municipal Productivity
This article examines local coproduction of services as an approach to enhancement of municipal productivity. Coproduction programs are analyzed with respect to three models of productivity: (1) cost efficiency, the effect of changes in service inputs on the outputs of service delivery; (2) cost effectiveness, comparison of alternative service delivery arrangements with respect to cost and quality and/or quantity of outputs achieved; and (3) prog…
Public versus Private in the Delivery of Services
Coproduction
Research on coproduction—the involvement of citizens in the provision o municipal services-has been decidedly positive, emphasizing the considerable advantages of this model for both urban governments and the citizenry. This article accepts these conclusions but examines several issues in the implementation of coproduction that may jeopardize its vitality. Coproduction succeeds as a result of the increased investment of citizens in service delive…
Coproduction and Privatization
The use of privatization and coproduction are among the most frequently proposed methods of responding to fiscal stress in local government as well as to dissatisfac tion with the performance of the public sector. Conservatives offer reduction in the role of government and more reliance on the private sector as a means of increasing efficiency and an ideological end in itself. Liberals look to the use of citizens as coproducers of public goods an…
State Agencies and Their Environments
Research on the federal bureaucracy has long recognized the importance of organization environment for differentiating among agencies and affecting their political support as well as policy outputs. Although the environment has been considered an element in the behavior of state agencies as well, research at this level has been less sensitive to important differences across agency environments. This article identifies four major actors in the pol…
Controlling Administrative Agencies in a Changing Federal System
Gubernatorial control over state agencies has become a topic of great concern as state governments have undergone reorganization and as financial and programmatic responsibilities have shifted from Washington to the states. Avenues and instruments of gubernatorial influence are identified from survey responses of state agency directors. The importance of each of these is then assessed using statistical analysis, with reported gubernatorial influe…
The Availability of Volunteers
Estimates from survey research place the number of volunteers at nearly half the American populace. This article finds, in contrast, that the percentage of volunteers who satisfy the needs of public organizations for delivering services is far smaller and decreasing. Moreover, local governments ma)' well be at a competitive disadvantage to nonprofit agencies in attracting and sustaining their contributions. The article concludes with a discussion…
Moving beyond Privatization
Art, evolution, and arts education
Volunteers in the Delivery of Public Services
The literature on volunteers in public service tends to focus on efficiency and quality of performance. The case reported here illustrates additional benefits and costs of this approach. In 1988 and 1990 the State of Alabama used biracial teams of volunteer trainers to teach the requirements of a federal court order to poll workers in each of its counties. The benefits were a much larger work force than could have been assembled from paid employe…
Fostering Volunteer Programs
Computing in Graduate Education in Public Administration
This article addresses current practices and future needs in education in computing in graduate-level programs in public administration and affairs. Based on a survey of MPA-granting institutions, it shows that most public administration programs have incorporated computing applications into curricula beyond conventional courses in statistics and research methodology. To meet the needs of future public managers for computing skills, however, furt…
An Economic Evaluation of Paid, Volunteer, and Mixed Staffing Options for Public Services
Performance-Based Managerial Pay in the Federal Government
Do factors unique to particular agencies affect the design, implementation, and results of performance-based compensation systems? The research presented addresses this question, using the federal Performance Management and Recognition System (PMRS) as the focus of analysis. The findings show that agency does impact the design, implementation, and perceived outcomes of an expectancy-based compensation system. The research suggests that agency-bas…
Building Microcomputing Skills in Public Administration Graduate Education
Practitioners and academics alike acknowledge the very rapid diffusion of microcomputers in government agencies, yet the implications of this trend for graduate education in public administration are a matter of controversy. This article assesses the response of MPA programs to the demands of the public sector workplace for skills in microcomputing. Based on a national survey of these programs conducted in 1989, the study finds that about 90%o of…
The Adoption of Innovation by Smaller Local Governments
Most research on the adoption of computer technology centers on municipalities with populations exceeding 50,000. This article explores the degree to which findings from these large local governments apply to the adoption of computers in smaller municipalities. Based on a panel study of local governments at two points in time, the analysis provides support for hypothesized relationships derived from studies of larger cities linking environmental …
Building Trust in Government
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) has been heralded as the most comprehensive piece of federal legislation since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To date, research on the ADA has been largely speculative and anecdotal. The present research helps to fill this gap by analyzing and reporting results from a survey of municipal governments encompassing all cities in the United States with a population of 50,000 or greater. The study asses…
Public Sector Information Technology Initiatives
On the 10th anniversary of the recommendations published by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) on information system instruction in schools and departments of public administration, sweeping information management reforms were instituted throughout the federal sector by the passage of the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996. This research examines the extent to which these programs prepare students for t…
A "Smarter, Better, Faster, and Cheaper" Government
With a fervent aspiration to government work better and cost less, the Clinton-Gore National Performance Review offers numerous suggestions to push governments to do everything smarter, better, faster, and cheaper (Gore, 1993, 66). While the report contains more than 100 specific recommendations, two postulates underlie many of the prescriptions: (1) Governments should seek market, rather than administrative, solutions to facilitate the delivery …
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