Steve J Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve J Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve J |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS S J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Putting the Citizen at the Centre? Assembling Local Government Policy in Wales
Since devolution in 1999, the Welsh Government has developed a distinctive approach to the management of local government policy. Alongside an emphasis on welfarism and partnership, local authorities have been exhorted to put the citizen at the centre of public service delivery. Drawing on the notion of assemblage, developed in the governmentality literature, this paper identifies two different rationalities running through Welsh Government polic…
Public service improvement
Leadership and service improvement
Effective local leadership is at the heart of the Government's ‘modernisation agenda’. Official pronouncements suggest a fairly straightforward division of roles between elected members who, it is argued, are responsible for community leadership, and officers who should provide corporate leadership of the local authority organisation. In practice, however, executive members frequently find themselves involved in decisions relating to the manageme…
Texas Prisons
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Texas Prisons
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
We present a detailed case study of administrative responses to litigated reform efforts directed at the Texas Department of Corrections over a two-decade period. We found that administrators attempted to maintain their organizational boundaries by: (1) controlling information; (2) using political connections in the broader community; (3) launching a judicial counterattack; and (4) exercising administrative prerogatives. Defiance of demands from …
Leadership and service improvement
Effective local leadership is at the heart of the Government's ‘modernisation agenda’. Official pronouncements suggest a fairly straightforward division of roles between elected members who, it is argued, are responsible for community leadership, and officers who should provide corporate leadership of the local authority organisation. In practice, however, executive members frequently find themselves involved in decisions relating to the manageme…
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
We present a detailed case study of administrative responses to litigated reform efforts directed at the Texas Department of Corrections over a two-decade period. We found that administrators attempted to maintain their organizational boundaries by: (1) controlling information; (2) using political connections in the broader community; (3) launching a judicial counterattack; and (4) exercising administrative prerogatives. Defiance of demands from …
Putting the Citizen at the Centre? Assembling Local Government Policy in Wales
Since devolution in 1999, the Welsh Government has developed a distinctive approach to the management of local government policy. Alongside an emphasis on welfarism and partnership, local authorities have been exhorted to put the citizen at the centre of public service delivery. Drawing on the notion of assemblage, developed in the governmentality literature, this paper identifies two different rationalities running through Welsh Government polic…
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
We present a detailed case study of administrative responses to litigated reform efforts directed at the Texas Department of Corrections over a two-decade period. We found that administrators attempted to maintain their organizational boundaries by: (1) controlling information; (2) using political connections in the broader community; (3) launching a judicial counterattack; and (4) exercising administrative prerogatives. Defiance of demands from …
Texas Prisons
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Texas Prisons
Public service improvement
Leadership and service improvement
Effective local leadership is at the heart of the Government's ‘modernisation agenda’. Official pronouncements suggest a fairly straightforward division of roles between elected members who, it is argued, are responsible for community leadership, and officers who should provide corporate leadership of the local authority organisation. In practice, however, executive members frequently find themselves involved in decisions relating to the manageme…
Putting the Citizen at the Centre? Assembling Local Government Policy in Wales
Since devolution in 1999, the Welsh Government has developed a distinctive approach to the management of local government policy. Alongside an emphasis on welfarism and partnership, local authorities have been exhorted to put the citizen at the centre of public service delivery. Drawing on the notion of assemblage, developed in the governmentality literature, this paper identifies two different rationalities running through Welsh Government polic…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Management (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)