Carolyn Bourdeaux
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Bourdeaux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Bourdeaux |
| SIGNATURE | BOURDEAUX C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating the Power of the Purse—Fiscal Irresponsibility, Process Failures, and the New Constitutional Stress Test
The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if no changes are made. The appropriation process has completely broken down. Thirty years have passed sinc…
Legislative Influences on Performance Management Reform
The management literature argues that legislative involvement is important to the implementation of performance management reform, but it does not specify how legislatures should be engaged or how different legislative organizational arrangements affect reform. This article blends theories of management and legislative professionalism to better understand the influence of legislatures on the implementation of management reform. Drawing on data fr…
Reexamining the Claim of Public Authority Efficacy
Public authorities, a form of special purpose government, have often been associated with an effective, if authoritarian, implementation of public policy objectives. In the late 1980s, a group of counties in New York State made a choice about whether or not to create a public authority to site and develop an incinerator or landfill. Although the practitioners who created the public authorities expected them to perform well in a contentious politi…
Politics versus Professionalism
Public administrators have long wrestled with the problem of bringing professional policy knowledge or technical expertise to bear on decision making in a contentious policy arena. A common solution addresses political conflict by developing institutions that buffer decision making from the regular influence of elected official. This article compares the effects of politically buffered decision making relative to politically influenced decision m…
Conflict, Accommodation, and Bargaining
One type of new public management reform has been the devolution of services to quasi‐autonomous single purpose governments. This research examines the implications of using a particular type of single purpose government, known as a public authority, in a politically contentious policy setting. Public authorities are generally observed to be highly effective in accomplishing their desired ends in the face of political controversy. However, in exa…
A Question of Genesis
One of the central questions in the study of special purpose governments is how to explain their proliferation over the past fifty years. Of particular concern to scholars has been the rise of a hidden government that is not highly accountable through regular democratic processes. This article looks specifically at one form of special purpose government, known as a “public authority,” and amends the conventional explanation that local governments…
The Professional Researcher as Change Agent in the Government–Performance Movement
Although academic and professional publications give the impression that performance measurement is a growing government practice, in actuality the use of this technology is not as deep or as widespread as it may appear. Even when performance measures are used, governments rarely integrate them into planning, budget, personnel, and other management processes. Most professional researchers located primarily in academic institutions, but also in re…
Legislative Influences on Performance Management Reform
The management literature argues that legislative involvement is important to the implementation of performance management reform, but it does not specify how legislatures should be engaged or how different legislative organizational arrangements affect reform. This article blends theories of management and legislative professionalism to better understand the influence of legislatures on the implementation of management reform. Drawing on data fr…
Politics versus Professionalism
Public administrators have long wrestled with the problem of bringing professional policy knowledge or technical expertise to bear on decision making in a contentious policy arena. A common solution addresses political conflict by developing institutions that buffer decision making from the regular influence of elected official. This article compares the effects of politically buffered decision making relative to politically influenced decision m…
A Question of Genesis
One of the central questions in the study of special purpose governments is how to explain their proliferation over the past fifty years. Of particular concern to scholars has been the rise of a hidden government that is not highly accountable through regular democratic processes. This article looks specifically at one form of special purpose government, known as a “public authority,” and amends the conventional explanation that local governments…
Conflict, Accommodation, and Bargaining
One type of new public management reform has been the devolution of services to quasi‐autonomous single purpose governments. This research examines the implications of using a particular type of single purpose government, known as a public authority, in a politically contentious policy setting. Public authorities are generally observed to be highly effective in accomplishing their desired ends in the face of political controversy. However, in exa…
Reexamining the Claim of Public Authority Efficacy
Public authorities, a form of special purpose government, have often been associated with an effective, if authoritarian, implementation of public policy objectives. In the late 1980s, a group of counties in New York State made a choice about whether or not to create a public authority to site and develop an incinerator or landfill. Although the practitioners who created the public authorities expected them to perform well in a contentious politi…
The Professional Researcher as Change Agent in the Government–Performance Movement
Although academic and professional publications give the impression that performance measurement is a growing government practice, in actuality the use of this technology is not as deep or as widespread as it may appear. Even when performance measures are used, governments rarely integrate them into planning, budget, personnel, and other management processes. Most professional researchers located primarily in academic institutions, but also in re…
A Question of Genesis
One of the central questions in the study of special purpose governments is how to explain their proliferation over the past fifty years. Of particular concern to scholars has been the rise of a hidden government that is not highly accountable through regular democratic processes. This article looks specifically at one form of special purpose government, known as a “public authority,” and amends the conventional explanation that local governments…
Reexamining the Claim of Public Authority Efficacy
Public authorities, a form of special purpose government, have often been associated with an effective, if authoritarian, implementation of public policy objectives. In the late 1980s, a group of counties in New York State made a choice about whether or not to create a public authority to site and develop an incinerator or landfill. Although the practitioners who created the public authorities expected them to perform well in a contentious politi…
Politics versus Professionalism
Public administrators have long wrestled with the problem of bringing professional policy knowledge or technical expertise to bear on decision making in a contentious policy arena. A common solution addresses political conflict by developing institutions that buffer decision making from the regular influence of elected official. This article compares the effects of politically buffered decision making relative to politically influenced decision m…
Conflict, Accommodation, and Bargaining
One type of new public management reform has been the devolution of services to quasi‐autonomous single purpose governments. This research examines the implications of using a particular type of single purpose government, known as a public authority, in a politically contentious policy setting. Public authorities are generally observed to be highly effective in accomplishing their desired ends in the face of political controversy. However, in exa…
Legislative Influences on Performance Management Reform
The management literature argues that legislative involvement is important to the implementation of performance management reform, but it does not specify how legislatures should be engaged or how different legislative organizational arrangements affect reform. This article blends theories of management and legislative professionalism to better understand the influence of legislatures on the implementation of management reform. Drawing on data fr…
Navigating the Power of the Purse—Fiscal Irresponsibility, Process Failures, and the New Constitutional Stress Test
The federal government, and its budget process, are facing unprecedented challenges. The federal debt is at historic levels, the process is in disarray, and the constitutional balance of powers is being challenged as never before. The debt, driven by growth in entitlement spending, stands at $38 trillion and is projected to continue to grow if no changes are made. The appropriation process has completely broken down. Thirty years have passed sinc…
Political science (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · State (computer science (4 works)