Delmer D Dunn

Biographic Data

ID3611046
NAMEDelmer D Dunn
GIVEN NAMESDelmer D
FAMILY NAMEDunn
SIGNATUREDUNN D D
AFFILIATIONSApple (Israel)
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Democracy, Accountability, and Representation

    Open AccessSusan C Stoke, James D Fearon et al.BOOKDemocracy, Accountability, and…2012

    This book examines whether the mechanisms of accountability characteristic of democratic systems are sufficient to induce the representatives to act in the best interest of the represented. The first part of the volume focuses on the role of elections, distinguishing different ways in which they may cause representation. The second part is devoted to the role of checks and balances, between the government and the parliament as well as between the…

  • Accountability, Democratic Theory, and Higher Education

    Open AccessDelmer D DunnARTICLEEducational Policy2003

    Accountability defines the appropriate relationship between elected and nonelected officials. Herman Finer emphasized elected officials’, and Carl Friedrich emphasized nonelected officials’, professional values and knowledge to determine the actions of nonelected officials. The Higher Education Amendments of 1972 and more recent state-imposed requirements on higher education comply with classical definitions of accountability and responsibility. …

  • U.S. Local Government Managers and the Complexity of Responsibility and Accountability in Democratic Governance

    Delmer D Dunn, Jerome S LeggeARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2001Cited by: 25References: 7

    This study examines accountability and responsibility as they apply to local government managers in the United States. The Friedrich-Finer debate defined contrasting views of accountability and responsibility, with Finer advancing elected officials and Friedrich advancing the profession and public sentiment for establishing responsibility and accountability for nonelected officials. More recent scholars also include the courts, media, and more pr…

  • Section News

    Open AccessPaul Allen, Beck Henry et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2000Cited by: 1References: 1

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  • Ministerial Staff in Australian Commonwealth Government

    Open AccessDelmer D DunnARTICLEAustralian Journal of Public…1995References: 5

    This study examines the ministerial staff in Australian commonwealth government to discover what they do and how they assist ministers in achieving political control of departments. The data consist of interviews with ministers, departmental secretaries and ministerial staff. The study finds that ministerial staff offer policy advice in much the same way as found by James Walter in his study almost a decade before this one. But there does appear …

  • Public Affairs, Administrative Faculty and the Winter Commission Report

    Delmer D DunnARTICLEPublic Administration Review1994

    The following is a summary of a larger report prepared by the National Association of Schools and Public Affairs and Administration Task Force on Education for the State and Local Public Service. This summation reflects written contributions to the larger report made by task force members, including Glen Cope, Chet Haskell, Janet Patton, James Perry, Barbara Romzek, Frank Sherwood, and David Carnevale.[1] The Winter Commission recommendations pro…

  • Frank K. Gibson

    Open AccessDelmer D DunnARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1990

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  • The Culture of University Public Service

    Joseph W Whorton, Frank K Gibson et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1986References: 2

    From the early days of the study of public administration, an effort has been made to bring knowledge of the field to the arena of practice. The initial stirrings of scholars were closely related to the reform movements which gained strength in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wilson's article, which continues to receive much attention, was designed largely as a defense of merit system reform of the civil service.' This reform era spawned …

  • University Commitment to Public Service for State and Local Governments

    Delmer D Dunn, Frank K Gibson et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1985

    The view of public administration as both an academic field and a profession inevitably leads to a basic tension stemming from divergent, and often competing, value structures, processes, goals, and objectives. Practitioners view the university as a source of highly trained personnel and problem-solving research on difficult public sector management and policy problems. Public administration academicians focus on defining and understanding admini…

  • Congress

    Delmer D DunnARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1975

  • Transmitting Information to the Press

    Delmer D Dunn, Delmer DunnARTICLEPublic Administration Review1968Cited by: 2

    H ow DO PUBLIC OFFICIALS ISSUE messages about their positions and activities to others in their political environment? Policy makers depend on the press to disseminate many of these messages. A large part of the press-government relationship consists of officials and reporters interacting as one seeks to make news, the other to gather it. A number of previous studies have sought to examine the techniques officials use in this interaction. However…