L R Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L R Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | L R |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval Postgraduate School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9563-6612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Paterfamilias of Comparative Administration
Public Administration in Transition
Managing urban growth in Asia
This article provides perspectives on some key issues countries need to consider in rethinking their priorities to achieve greater social, environmental and economic sustainability from increasing urbanization in Asia. It discusses three areas where such new thinking is needed: improved governance requiring clearer assignment of responsibilities, more extensive use of information and communications technology, and performance and results manageme…
The Consummate Comparative Public Administrationist: A Tribute to Ferrel Heady, 1916–2006
Ferrel Heady died on August 16, 2006, at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Together with Fred Riggs, he is widely known and respected as one of the founders of comparative public administration. In this tribute to our friend and colleague, we touch on the highlights of his distinguished career as a scholar, an academic administrator, and a person who lived up to his own high standards of honesty and integrity in every aspect of his life. We as…
Strategic Planning for National Defense and the Impact of New Technology: Searching for Better Organizational Designs, Processes and Methods
Congressional Control over Defense and Delegation of Authority in the Case of the Defense Emergency Response Fund
Emerging theories of civil-military relations take a more nuanced look at the role of the actors involved, particularly noting the critical role of the legislature in modern democracies. An important tool of control for the legislature is the power of the purse, so circumstances of delegated spending authority by the legislature to the military are worthy of study. This study investigates a series of supplemental appropriations enacted by the U.S…
Strategies for Public Management Reform
This book is unique in that it explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is represented in the book examine seven strategies for public management reform: (1) increases in accountability, (2) decentralization and delegation of authority and responsibility for decision making and management, (3) application of information technology to improve management and responsiveness of governments to citiz…
Wildavsky on budget reform
Aaron Wildavsky: A Man and Scholar for All Seasons
The conventional wisdom in academia is that great scholars, once they have achieved international reputation for work in their fields and success in attracting research sponsorship, feel little motivation to spend time in the classroom explaining the mundane basics of their areas of expertise. After all, academic and professional incentive structures provide rewards for additional research and publication, writing winning proposals for large rese…
Reinventing the Pentagon
Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal
As the Cold War winds to an end, cuts in the military budget are a certainty. This new fiscal reality presents a difficult, long-term, highly complex managerial challenge. It calls for solving serious problems of organization and control, managing relationships with suppliers, and choosing between alternative institutional designs. If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the wa…
Management of Budgetary Decline in the Department of Defense in Response to the End of the Cold War
This study analyzes the decisions and actions of the President, Congress, and Pentagon leadership for 1989 to 1992 to reduce the defense budget for the period 1990 to 1997. The objective of this research is to indicate how the Department of Defense developed and began to execute plans for significant downsizing. Management of declining budgets by DoD is evaluated employing a framework for analysis of fiscal stress in public sector organizations. …
Strategic Misrepresentation in Budgeting
This article provides a definition of the term "strategic misrepresentation" and applies it to public budgeting. Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact—lying—in response to incentives in the budget process. Examples of strategic misrepresentation in budgeting illustrate that it is a contingent strategy responsive to a system of rewards in a highly competitive game where resource constraints are p…
Burden Sharing among America and Its Allies: Tests of Collective Choice and Their Significance
The boom times of the early 1980s are over as far as American spending on defense is concerned. The armed forces will not receive increases in funding and may experience declines. The lack of money means that hard choices will have to be made. It will not be possible for the U.S. to modernize its strategic forces, acquire the array of new weapons system, conventional and nuclear, needed to implement NATO's deterrence/war-fighting strategy, and at…
Budget Deficits and Restraint Management in Western Provincial Governments
Controllership in the Public Sector
Ineffective controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy - often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management-control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control-system designs depends upon technology - the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But public-sector control strategies ar…
Controllership in the public sector
Ineffective or incompetent controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy--often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control system designs depends upon the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But control strategies are seldom cons…
Coping with revenue and expenditure constraints in the provincial government context
Financial restraint management and budget control in Canadian provincial governments
This study compares and contrasts approaches to the management of financial stress and restraint in four Canadian provincial governments in the period from 1983 to 1985. It indicates that a number of different approaches to restraint management are utilized by Canadian provinces to cope with shortfalls in revenue and policy changes that influence resource allocation decision‐making. The four provinces reviewed ‐ British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ma…
Phases of recognition and management of financial crisis in public organizations
This article provides a model of the manner in which public organizations recognize and attempt to manage financial crises and prolonged financial stress. It presents some cutback management options and provides an approach for assessing the severity of financial crises. Issues and management approaches discussed include program reduction and termination costs and benefits, organizational planning, evaluation and decision participation, centraliz…
Incremental vs. Comprehensive Reform of Economic Regulation: Predictable Outcomes and Unintended Consequences
A bstract . Examination of the theory and politics of reform of government regulatory policy leads to the conclusion that comprehensive reform of economic regulation is desirable and possible, given that we understand how existing regulatory decision‐making processes operate and how reform efforts in the past have failed. Options exist along a dimension of magnitude of change: incremental versus comprehensive reform. Under certain conditions regu…
Regulatory Policy and Practices: Regulating Better and Regulating Less
Regulatory Review without Economists: Evaluating a Model for State Governments
Government regulatory policy has been criticized soundly over the past few years. Citizen support for the notion of getting government off the backs of people continues to be strong. The business community objects to the cost of complying with the myriad of federal, state and local regulation. State and local governments resent the degree to which the federal government influences local program and fiscal decision making. Economists cite the effi…
Strategic Misrepresentation in Budgeting
This article provides a definition of the term "strategic misrepresentation" and applies it to public budgeting. Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact—lying—in response to incentives in the budget process. Examples of strategic misrepresentation in budgeting illustrate that it is a contingent strategy responsive to a system of rewards in a highly competitive game where resource constraints are p…
Burden Sharing among America and Its Allies: Tests of Collective Choice and Their Significance
The boom times of the early 1980s are over as far as American spending on defense is concerned. The armed forces will not receive increases in funding and may experience declines. The lack of money means that hard choices will have to be made. It will not be possible for the U.S. to modernize its strategic forces, acquire the array of new weapons system, conventional and nuclear, needed to implement NATO's deterrence/war-fighting strategy, and at…
Financial restraint management and budget control in Canadian provincial governments
This study compares and contrasts approaches to the management of financial stress and restraint in four Canadian provincial governments in the period from 1983 to 1985. It indicates that a number of different approaches to restraint management are utilized by Canadian provinces to cope with shortfalls in revenue and policy changes that influence resource allocation decision‐making. The four provinces reviewed ‐ British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ma…
Phases of recognition and management of financial crisis in public organizations
This article provides a model of the manner in which public organizations recognize and attempt to manage financial crises and prolonged financial stress. It presents some cutback management options and provides an approach for assessing the severity of financial crises. Issues and management approaches discussed include program reduction and termination costs and benefits, organizational planning, evaluation and decision participation, centraliz…
Public Administration in Transition
Management of Budgetary Decline in the Department of Defense in Response to the End of the Cold War
This study analyzes the decisions and actions of the President, Congress, and Pentagon leadership for 1989 to 1992 to reduce the defense budget for the period 1990 to 1997. The objective of this research is to indicate how the Department of Defense developed and began to execute plans for significant downsizing. Management of declining budgets by DoD is evaluated employing a framework for analysis of fiscal stress in public sector organizations. …
Controllership in the public sector
Ineffective or incompetent controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy--often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control system designs depends upon the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But control strategies are seldom cons…
Incremental vs. Comprehensive Reform of Economic Regulation: Predictable Outcomes and Unintended Consequences
A bstract . Examination of the theory and politics of reform of government regulatory policy leads to the conclusion that comprehensive reform of economic regulation is desirable and possible, given that we understand how existing regulatory decision‐making processes operate and how reform efforts in the past have failed. Options exist along a dimension of magnitude of change: incremental versus comprehensive reform. Under certain conditions regu…
Managing urban growth in Asia
This article provides perspectives on some key issues countries need to consider in rethinking their priorities to achieve greater social, environmental and economic sustainability from increasing urbanization in Asia. It discusses three areas where such new thinking is needed: improved governance requiring clearer assignment of responsibilities, more extensive use of information and communications technology, and performance and results manageme…
Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal
As the Cold War winds to an end, cuts in the military budget are a certainty. This new fiscal reality presents a difficult, long-term, highly complex managerial challenge. It calls for solving serious problems of organization and control, managing relationships with suppliers, and choosing between alternative institutional designs. If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the wa…
Controllership in the Public Sector
Ineffective controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy - often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management-control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control-system designs depends upon technology - the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But public-sector control strategies ar…
Regulatory Policy and Practices: Regulating Better and Regulating Less
Regulatory Review without Economists: Evaluating a Model for State Governments
Government regulatory policy has been criticized soundly over the past few years. Citizen support for the notion of getting government off the backs of people continues to be strong. The business community objects to the cost of complying with the myriad of federal, state and local regulation. State and local governments resent the degree to which the federal government influences local program and fiscal decision making. Economists cite the effi…
Regulatory Review without Economists: Evaluating a Model for State Governments
Government regulatory policy has been criticized soundly over the past few years. Citizen support for the notion of getting government off the backs of people continues to be strong. The business community objects to the cost of complying with the myriad of federal, state and local regulation. State and local governments resent the degree to which the federal government influences local program and fiscal decision making. Economists cite the effi…
Regulatory Policy and Practices: Regulating Better and Regulating Less
Phases of recognition and management of financial crisis in public organizations
This article provides a model of the manner in which public organizations recognize and attempt to manage financial crises and prolonged financial stress. It presents some cutback management options and provides an approach for assessing the severity of financial crises. Issues and management approaches discussed include program reduction and termination costs and benefits, organizational planning, evaluation and decision participation, centraliz…
Incremental vs. Comprehensive Reform of Economic Regulation: Predictable Outcomes and Unintended Consequences
A bstract . Examination of the theory and politics of reform of government regulatory policy leads to the conclusion that comprehensive reform of economic regulation is desirable and possible, given that we understand how existing regulatory decision‐making processes operate and how reform efforts in the past have failed. Options exist along a dimension of magnitude of change: incremental versus comprehensive reform. Under certain conditions regu…
Budget Deficits and Restraint Management in Western Provincial Governments
Controllership in the Public Sector
Ineffective controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy - often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management-control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control-system designs depends upon technology - the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But public-sector control strategies ar…
Controllership in the public sector
Ineffective or incompetent controllership is, perhaps, the most common managerial failure found in the public sector. This failure affects outcomes and achievements in every area of public policy--often profoundly. Controllers design and operate management control systems. The effectiveness of alternative control system designs depends upon the cost and production behavior of the good or service in question. But control strategies are seldom cons…
Coping with revenue and expenditure constraints in the provincial government context
Financial restraint management and budget control in Canadian provincial governments
This study compares and contrasts approaches to the management of financial stress and restraint in four Canadian provincial governments in the period from 1983 to 1985. It indicates that a number of different approaches to restraint management are utilized by Canadian provinces to cope with shortfalls in revenue and policy changes that influence resource allocation decision‐making. The four provinces reviewed ‐ British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ma…
Burden Sharing among America and Its Allies: Tests of Collective Choice and Their Significance
The boom times of the early 1980s are over as far as American spending on defense is concerned. The armed forces will not receive increases in funding and may experience declines. The lack of money means that hard choices will have to be made. It will not be possible for the U.S. to modernize its strategic forces, acquire the array of new weapons system, conventional and nuclear, needed to implement NATO's deterrence/war-fighting strategy, and at…
Strategic Misrepresentation in Budgeting
This article provides a definition of the term "strategic misrepresentation" and applies it to public budgeting. Strategic misrepresentation is the planned, systematic distortion or misstatement of fact—lying—in response to incentives in the budget process. Examples of strategic misrepresentation in budgeting illustrate that it is a contingent strategy responsive to a system of rewards in a highly competitive game where resource constraints are p…
Management of Budgetary Decline in the Department of Defense in Response to the End of the Cold War
This study analyzes the decisions and actions of the President, Congress, and Pentagon leadership for 1989 to 1992 to reduce the defense budget for the period 1990 to 1997. The objective of this research is to indicate how the Department of Defense developed and began to execute plans for significant downsizing. Management of declining budgets by DoD is evaluated employing a framework for analysis of fiscal stress in public sector organizations. …
Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal
As the Cold War winds to an end, cuts in the military budget are a certainty. This new fiscal reality presents a difficult, long-term, highly complex managerial challenge. It calls for solving serious problems of organization and control, managing relationships with suppliers, and choosing between alternative institutional designs. If defense spending is to be reduced without enfeebling the military, the Pentagon must make major changes in the wa…
Aaron Wildavsky: A Man and Scholar for All Seasons
The conventional wisdom in academia is that great scholars, once they have achieved international reputation for work in their fields and success in attracting research sponsorship, feel little motivation to spend time in the classroom explaining the mundane basics of their areas of expertise. After all, academic and professional incentive structures provide rewards for additional research and publication, writing winning proposals for large rese…
Reinventing the Pentagon
Wildavsky on budget reform
Strategies for Public Management Reform
This book is unique in that it explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is represented in the book examine seven strategies for public management reform: (1) increases in accountability, (2) decentralization and delegation of authority and responsibility for decision making and management, (3) application of information technology to improve management and responsiveness of governments to citiz…
Congressional Control over Defense and Delegation of Authority in the Case of the Defense Emergency Response Fund
Emerging theories of civil-military relations take a more nuanced look at the role of the actors involved, particularly noting the critical role of the legislature in modern democracies. An important tool of control for the legislature is the power of the purse, so circumstances of delegated spending authority by the legislature to the military are worthy of study. This study investigates a series of supplemental appropriations enacted by the U.S…
Strategic Planning for National Defense and the Impact of New Technology: Searching for Better Organizational Designs, Processes and Methods
Managing urban growth in Asia
This article provides perspectives on some key issues countries need to consider in rethinking their priorities to achieve greater social, environmental and economic sustainability from increasing urbanization in Asia. It discusses three areas where such new thinking is needed: improved governance requiring clearer assignment of responsibilities, more extensive use of information and communications technology, and performance and results manageme…
The Consummate Comparative Public Administrationist: A Tribute to Ferrel Heady, 1916–2006
Ferrel Heady died on August 16, 2006, at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Together with Fred Riggs, he is widely known and respected as one of the founders of comparative public administration. In this tribute to our friend and colleague, we touch on the highlights of his distinguished career as a scholar, an academic administrator, and a person who lived up to his own high standards of honesty and integrity in every aspect of his life. We as…
The Paterfamilias of Comparative Administration
Public Administration in Transition
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