Garth N Jones

Biographic Data

ID3597694
NAMEGarth N Jones
GIVEN NAMESGarth N
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES G N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1956
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX2

  • Fred W. Riggs

    Open AccessGarth N JonesARTICLEPublic Administration Review2008References: 3

  • Rise and Fall of a Professional Ideal

    Open AccessGarth N JonesARTICLEThe American Review of Public…1982Cited by: 2References: 22

  • Innovation and the Public Policy Predicaments

    Garth N Jones, Bruce A Jacobs et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1982

  • "Frontiersmen in Search for the "Lost Horizon

    Garth N Jones, Ralph Braibanti et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1976

  • Micronesia at the Crossroads

    Garth N Jones, Garth Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1975

    Covering an area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the continental United States, the more than 2,000 islands and atolls of Micronesia - a United Nations strategic trust territory under U.S. trusteeship - are emerging as a political entity. Their history since the Spanish discovery in the seventeenth century is a parade of colonial rule - Spanish, German, Japanese, and now American. Today, the many islands and their diverse peoples are confronting…

  • There Ain't No More Left

    Garth N JonesARTICLEPublic Administration Review1974

  • Planned Organizational Change

    Nicos P Mouzelis, N Mouzelis et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies1971

  • Planned Organizational Change

    Charles K Warriner, Garth N JonesARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1970

    Spanning the work of Durkheim, Hollowell and Levy, this set was published at the inception of Industrial Relations and Business Studies. Sociologists were interested in the effect of economic and business activity on social institutions, and sought empirically to investigate the social consequences of industry and commerce for the community

  • Strategies and Tactics of Planned Organizational Change

    Garth N Jones, Garth JonesARTICLEHuman Organization1965Cited by: 3

    Traditional societies are caught in a situation that demands wholesale changes in their organizational structures and social dynamics in order to deal with the new complex technological, economic, and political relationships. This being the case, little social science knowledge and technology is available to initiate and manage organizational change in a constructive fashion. Nevertheless, organizational change is an inevitable and universal phen…

  • Integration of Political Ethos and Local Government Systems; The Utah Experience with Council-Manager Government

    Garth N JonesARTICLEHuman Organization1964

    Council-manager government has not met with much success in Utah. This situation prevails in spite of persistent and concerted efforts—particularly since World War II—to integrate the council-manager system within the fabric of Utah municipal government. Nearly every major municipality has either adopted and/or abandoned the system or has experienced a major campaign to establish the system. At this time, only a small percentage of the total inco…

  • Decentralization in Indonesia as a Political Problem

    Garth N Jones, Gerald S MaryanovARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1960

  • J. Bracken Lee and the Public Service in Utah

    Open AccessFrank H Jonas, Garth N JonesARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1956Cited by: 1

    IN THE EARLIEST study of turnover of state personnell Professor Martin L. Faust of the University of Missouri summarized the arguments against the spoils system. The spoils system entails heavy turnover in personnel which periodically results in the scrapping of all or nearly all accumulated experience. It places inexperienced and incompetent persons in responsible administrative positions. Since it is predicated upon rewards and favors, it intro…