Frank J Thompson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3627344 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank J Thompson |
| NOMBRES | Frank J |
| APELLIDO | Thompson |
| FIRMA | THOMPSON F J |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 208 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Biden and the Affordable Care Act
Partisan, fractious federalism has strongly shaped the Biden administration’s efforts to reverse Trump’s undermining of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In June 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Democratic, rather than Republican, state attorneys general to uphold the ACA. This enabled Biden to proceed with legislative and executive initiatives to reinvigorate the program. Biden secured passage of the American Rescue Plan (ARP), which tempora…
Control Versus Administrative Discretion in Negotiating Voluntary P4P Networks
Government sponsored pay-for-performance systems (P4P) have emerged in many contexts, including those featuring third-party federalism such as Medicaid. In this vein, voluntary networks called Medicaid accountable care organizations (ACOs) seek to achieve health care savings while boosting the quality of care. Drawing on evidence from four states, this study probes how collaborative governance strategies that downplay formal democratic controls a…
Trump and the Affordable Care Act
This article assesses the politics and partial success of Congress in repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, with particular attention to lobbying by governors. Most Republican governors behaved as members of a vertical partisan coalition supporting the national party rather than defending insurance coverage in their states. But the activities of a significant minority of these governors impeded ACA retrenchment. We also exa…
Where Have You Gone, Terry Sanford? Governors and Federal Grants
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Financing Medicaid
In a well-written and insightful volume, Shanna Rose has joined a growing number of scholars in assessing the remarkable rise of Medicaid in the American health care system. Thought to be subject to erosion because of the forces of interstate economic competition and because a “program for the poor is a poor program,” Medicaid has instead expanded. The program now insures more than 70 million people and costs federal and state governments well ov…
States' Commitment to Medicaid before the Affordable Care Act
Medicaid insures more than 65 million low-income people, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 gives states the option to enroll millions more. Historical trends in state Medicaid effort possess important implications for health policy going forward. Nearly all states steadily ratcheted up their Medicaid effort in the period from 1992 to 2009, holding out promise that most will sustain their programs and ultimately participate in the expansion auth…
Health Reform, Polarization, and Public Administration
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 constituted an epic policy breakthrough, culminating a century of effort to ensure that nearly all Americans can obtain health insurance. The articles in this special issue seek to illuminate the challenges involved in implementing this law and other health reforms in a context marked by deep‐seated partisan polarization. This introductory essay provides a backdrop to frame the more spe…
The Rise of Executive Federalism
The ascendance of federal grants to states and localities as a major tool of government action has fueled scholarly interest in building a better theory of intergovernmental management (IGM). It has also spawned an enduring metaphor, “picket-fence federalism,” which has done much to shape thinking about the context and nature of IGM. More recently, however, a competing conceptual lens called “executive federalism” (EF) has emerged. Proponents of …
American Federalism and Intergovernmental Management
Timothy J. Conlan and Paul L. Posner, eds., Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008). 368 pp. $28.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780815715412. On February 4, 2009, President Barack Obama signed a law to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program. This measure promised states an additional $33 billion in federal funds over four and a half years to provide health insurance to 4 million more low-i…
State and Local Governance Fifteen Years Later
This article draws on the contributions to this issue and related evidence to assay the extent to which the states and larger local governments have moved in directions endorsed by the Winter Commission in 1993. The commission’s recommendations targeted (1) the political context of state and local governance, with a particular focus on executive leadership, campaign finance reform, and citizen engagement; (2) the specifics of public administratio…
The New Public Management, Homeland Security, and the Politics of Civil Service Reform
This article examines the George W. Bush administration’s efforts to apply New Public Management reforms to the Department of Homeland Security. The primary focus is the administration’s attempt to implement the law. The managerial strategy that Department of Homeland Security and Office of Personnel Management executives used to carry out the law in the massive new department receives attention, with a special focus on the approach used in deali…
Administrative Responsiveness to the Disadvantaged
Issues of administrative responsiveness to the disadvantaged (as distinct from formal policy responsiveness) possess important implications for American democracy. In this regard, the administrative practices that facilitate or impede enrollment, or take-up, in social programs deserve attention. This study focuses on two means-tested programs in the context of American federalism, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Based …
Reinvention in the States
The Shadow Welfare State
The Shadow Welfare State
Reinventing Government
This review offers a synthesis and critical assessment of the reinvention movement in the United States. Focusing on the work of David Osborne, the National Performance Review, and the Winter Commission, it describes the key themes that define this movement and then assesses them from two major perspectives. The first perspective probes whether reinvention ideology provides a plausible prescription for improving the efficiency and effectiveness o…
Administrative Reform-American Style
This Time... It's Personnel
Refounding Public Administration
Drug Testing in the Federal Workplace
How effective is thefederal government's employee drug-testing program? Frank Thompson, Norma Riccucci, and Carolyn Ban offer an assessment thatfocuses on both the instrumental and symbolic rationales for the program. They find little evidence to support contentions that drug testing improves workplace efficiency, nor do theyfind supportfor arguments that it promotes public health or reduces crime
Public Administration
Politics and the Bureaucracy
State Implementation and Federal Enforcement Priorities
Observers allege that federal regulatory programs often establish inappropriate enforcement priorities. Efforts to comprehend the establishment of priorities and attempts to change them need to acknowledge that the states of ten play pivotal roles in enforcing federal regulatory policies. This article draws on the experience gained under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to explore, first, the degree to which state programs have exacerbated …
State Implementation Effort and Federal Regulatory Policy
The states play pivotal roles in implementing the protective regulatory policies of the federal government. In this capacity they often profoundly shape who gets what from these programs. A well-rounded theory of the policy process requires precise specification of why some states try harder than others to implement Washington's regulatory policies. This article tests four important theories (wealth, partisan, group, and organizational search) in…
State Enforcement of Federal Regulatory Policy
Minority Groups in Public Bureaucracies
Do minority civil servants actively represent the minority community more than white officials do ? Many observers express doubts. Clearly, there are formidable barriers to nonwhite civil servants acting as representatives of their racial groups. Nonetheless, existing evidence suggests that nonwhite officials do serve in this capacity under certain circumstances. A major task for students of public administration is to specify what these circumst…
Reinventing Government
This review offers a synthesis and critical assessment of the reinvention movement in the United States. Focusing on the work of David Osborne, the National Performance Review, and the Winter Commission, it describes the key themes that define this movement and then assesses them from two major perspectives. The first perspective probes whether reinvention ideology provides a plausible prescription for improving the efficiency and effectiveness o…
Civil Servants and the Deprived
This essay focuses on the attitudes of public administrators toward one politically important issue, minority hiring. The central hypothesis is that the receptivity of civil servants to hiring minorities will be more a function of their occupational concerns and of certain of their socio-political characteristics than of their perceptions of public sentiment and external group pressure. The data provide some support for this hypothesis and thereb…
State Implementation Effort and Federal Regulatory Policy
The states play pivotal roles in implementing the protective regulatory policies of the federal government. In this capacity they often profoundly shape who gets what from these programs. A well-rounded theory of the policy process requires precise specification of why some states try harder than others to implement Washington's regulatory policies. This article tests four important theories (wealth, partisan, group, and organizational search) in…
Trump and the Affordable Care Act
This article assesses the politics and partial success of Congress in repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare, with particular attention to lobbying by governors. Most Republican governors behaved as members of a vertical partisan coalition supporting the national party rather than defending insurance coverage in their states. But the activities of a significant minority of these governors impeded ACA retrenchment. We also exa…
Administrative Responsiveness to the Disadvantaged
Issues of administrative responsiveness to the disadvantaged (as distinct from formal policy responsiveness) possess important implications for American democracy. In this regard, the administrative practices that facilitate or impede enrollment, or take-up, in social programs deserve attention. This study focuses on two means-tested programs in the context of American federalism, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Based …
The Rise of Executive Federalism
The ascendance of federal grants to states and localities as a major tool of government action has fueled scholarly interest in building a better theory of intergovernmental management (IGM). It has also spawned an enduring metaphor, “picket-fence federalism,” which has done much to shape thinking about the context and nature of IGM. More recently, however, a competing conceptual lens called “executive federalism” (EF) has emerged. Proponents of …
Refounding Public Administration
State Enforcement of Federal Regulatory Policy
Administrative Reform-American Style
Bureaucratic Discretion and the National Health Service Corps
Journal Article Bureaucratic Discretion and the National Health Service Corps Get access Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson FRANK J. THOMPSON is head of the department of political science at the University of Georgia. He has written several books and articles on public policy and administration including Personnel Policy in the City (an Oakland Project volume) and Health Policy and the Bureaucracy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
State Implementation and Federal Enforcement Priorities
Observers allege that federal regulatory programs often establish inappropriate enforcement priorities. Efforts to comprehend the establishment of priorities and attempts to change them need to acknowledge that the states of ten play pivotal roles in enforcing federal regulatory policies. This article draws on the experience gained under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to explore, first, the degree to which state programs have exacerbated …
The Substitution Approach To Intergovernmental Relations
Journal Article The Substitution Approach To Intergovernmental Relations: The Case Of OSHA Get access Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 13, Issue 4, Fall 1983, Pages 59–78, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037461 Published: 01 January 1983
Politics, Personnel and Public Policy
The Shadow Welfare State
The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy
Journal Article The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats, by Wilbur C. Rich Get access The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats by Wilbur C. Rich. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1982. 178 pp. $18.50. Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
Health Policy and the Bureaucracy
Bureaucratic Responsiveness in the Cities
Elites in the Policy Process. Robert Presthus
Minority Groups in Public Bureaucracies
Do minority civil servants actively represent the minority community more than white officials do ? Many observers express doubts. Clearly, there are formidable barriers to nonwhite civil servants acting as representatives of their racial groups. Nonetheless, existing evidence suggests that nonwhite officials do serve in this capacity under certain circumstances. A major task for students of public administration is to specify what these circumst…
Personnel Policy in the City
Commitment To the Disadvantaged Among Urban Administrators
This paper examines potential correlates of attitudinal commitment to minority hiring among urban personnel officials. The authors hypothesized that sociopolitical beliefs concerning equality would be particularly powerful predictors of attitudes toward recruit ing nonwhites, but that work-related beliefs, professional characteristics, community relationships, and personal attributes would explain additional variance in commitment to hiring minor…
Politics, Personnel and Public Policy
Is University Training "Practical"? Perspectives of Public Personnel Officials
Academics in public administration programs are often insecure about the practical relevance of what we teach. Many of us at least occasionally suspect that officials who work in government agencies find us to be quaint residents of the ivory tower dealing with issues and espousing practices which are bereft of much relevance to them. In part because of our insecurity, we often talk about bridging the gap between academics and practitioners. A co…
Civil Servants and the Deprived
This essay focuses on the attitudes of public administrators toward one politically important issue, minority hiring. The central hypothesis is that the receptivity of civil servants to hiring minorities will be more a function of their occupational concerns and of certain of their socio-political characteristics than of their perceptions of public sentiment and external group pressure. The data provide some support for this hypothesis and thereb…
The Quandaries of Health Policy
Organizing an Anarchy
Health Policy and the Bureaucracy
Bureaucratic Discretion and the National Health Service Corps
Journal Article Bureaucratic Discretion and the National Health Service Corps Get access Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson FRANK J. THOMPSON is head of the department of political science at the University of Georgia. He has written several books and articles on public policy and administration including Personnel Policy in the City (an Oakland Project volume) and Health Policy and the Bureaucracy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy
Journal Article The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats, by Wilbur C. Rich Get access The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats by Wilbur C. Rich. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1982. 178 pp. $18.50. Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
The Substitution Approach To Intergovernmental Relations
Journal Article The Substitution Approach To Intergovernmental Relations: The Case Of OSHA Get access Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 13, Issue 4, Fall 1983, Pages 59–78, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037461 Published: 01 January 1983
Politics and Health Care Organization
Journal Article Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy, by Lawrence D. Brown Get access Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy by Lawrence D. Brown. Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution, 1983. 540 pp. Cloth, $33.95; paper, $16.95. Frank J. Thompson Frank J. Thompson University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 99,…
State Implementation Effort and Federal Regulatory Policy
The states play pivotal roles in implementing the protective regulatory policies of the federal government. In this capacity they often profoundly shape who gets what from these programs. A well-rounded theory of the policy process requires precise specification of why some states try harder than others to implement Washington's regulatory policies. This article tests four important theories (wealth, partisan, group, and organizational search) in…
State Enforcement of Federal Regulatory Policy
State Implementation and Federal Enforcement Priorities
Observers allege that federal regulatory programs often establish inappropriate enforcement priorities. Efforts to comprehend the establishment of priorities and attempts to change them need to acknowledge that the states of ten play pivotal roles in enforcing federal regulatory policies. This article draws on the experience gained under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to explore, first, the degree to which state programs have exacerbated …
Politics and the Bureaucracy
Public Administration
Drug Testing in the Federal Workplace
How effective is thefederal government's employee drug-testing program? Frank Thompson, Norma Riccucci, and Carolyn Ban offer an assessment thatfocuses on both the instrumental and symbolic rationales for the program. They find little evidence to support contentions that drug testing improves workplace efficiency, nor do theyfind supportfor arguments that it promotes public health or reduces crime
Refounding Public Administration
This Time... It's Personnel
Administrative Reform-American Style
Reinventing Government
This review offers a synthesis and critical assessment of the reinvention movement in the United States. Focusing on the work of David Osborne, the National Performance Review, and the Winter Commission, it describes the key themes that define this movement and then assesses them from two major perspectives. The first perspective probes whether reinvention ideology provides a plausible prescription for improving the efficiency and effectiveness o…
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