Laura S Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4385462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura S Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura S |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Habitual Path Dependence of Interorganizational Relationships—A Response to Sydow
In “Path Dependence and the Roots of Interorganizational Relationship Challenges,” recently published by PPMG, we suggested the utility of path dependency theory in unpacking the developmental dynamics that may feed into contemporary problems of management and governance. Professor Jörg Sydow was moved to submit commentary on our article; we respond to his thoughtful comments in this essay
Path Dependence and the Roots of Interorganizational Relationship Challenges
Governance today often requires concerted action by multiple organizations operating within and across sectors. Although scholars fruitfully have assayed many factors that facilitate or constrain interorganizational collaboration, the extant literature largely ignores the ways in which historical patterns of policy and organizational development may figure in present-day obstacles to collaboration. This is unfortunate, for such obstacles may resu…
Fiduciary responsibilities to whom? federal grant recipients' perceptions of the public interest
This article explores the implementation of infrastructure development projects funded by the Recovery Act’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) in a southeastern state to provide high-quality Internet connectivity in un- or under-served areas to alleviate the conditions contributing to rural areas’ fiscal crises. This context affords a unique opportunity to view fiscal federalism’s operational dynamics in times of economic crisis a…
The Twentieth-Century Administrative State and Networked Governance
Since its founding, the American state has relied both upon what we now call “traditional” administration—public, hierarchical, and bureaucratic—and upon more privatized approaches to governance involving state and non-state actors and institutions in contractual relationships and networks. Studying past public–private governance schemes affords new opportunities to understand why, how, and under what circumstances state actors eschew direct publ…
Is Public Management Neglecting the State
Public management is a domain of research that is now roughly three decades old. Researchers in this area have made important advances in understanding about the performance of public organizations. But questions have been raised about the scope and methods of public management research (PMR). Does it neglect important questions about the development of major institutions of the modern state? Has it focused unduly on problems of the advanced demo…
Adversity and the Ironies of Assistance
Government, the State, and Governance
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. By Lawrence M. Mead. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 368p. $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. One of the most challenging aspects of welfare reform was that it made policy evaluation more difficult, especially after the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 allowed states to shift from operating federal public assistance programs (or variants under waiver authority) to impl…
Dubious Sovereignty: Federal Conditions of Aid and the No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) represents the greatest extension to date of Federal authority over public school governance. In NCLB, Congress used its conditional spending power to push states and localities into enacting particular kinds of testing and accountability policies. This article places NCLB in the context of Congress's generally increasing willingness to exert itself via conditions attached to federal financial aid. It also anal…
Federalism, Individual Rights, and the Conditional Spending Conundrum
The conditional spending power, or the ability of Congress and the executive to attach conditions to grants in aid and entitlement programs, has become a vital source of authority to monitor and regulate the activites of both the states and individual citizens. If there were meaningful political or legal limits upon the conditional spending power, it would be no more problematic than any of the other policy mechanisms available for achieving Fede…
Federal Authority vs. State Autonomy: The Supreme Court's Role Revisited
Charles Wise's Judicial Federalism: The Resurgence of the Supreme Courts Role in the Protection of State Sovereignty (Public Administration Review, March/April 1998) provides an informative survey of recent cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court has considered assertions of national authority versus subnational claims of governmental autonomy and decided in of the latter. Wise is to be credited for bringing these cases to our attention, for they i…
Reinventing Government Accountability: "Public Functions, Privatization, and the Meaning of "State Action
Public sector privatization is typically viewed as a means of maximizing economic efficiency--reducing government costs while increasing the scope and quality of service delivery by transferring (or returning) government functions to the sector (e.g., Butler, 1985; Savas, 1982; Donahue, 1989). Some proponents even contend that privatization is synonymous with reducing the size and effects of government (see Peters, 1996, 21-46; Wallin, 1997, 12).…
The Early American Origins of Entitlements
There is perhaps no topic that has generated more sustained interest and controversy in the United States during the past three decades than the public policies called “entitlements.” From the Great Society innovations of the 1960s to the guaranteed income plan of the 1970s to the “health security” proposal of the early 1990s, debate over the issue of which U.S. citizens should be entitled to what kind of national-level benefits has been a consta…
Subsidies, Strings, and the Courts: Judicial Action and Conditional Federal Spending
The ability to attach conditions to federal financial aid has contributed significantly to the establishment of federal hegemony in policymaking, allowing Congress and the executive branch to exact from those dependent upon government largesse behavior which could not be compelled through direct legislation. While questions concerning the legitimacy of conditional spending in our federal system are properly directed to the courts, problems inhere…
Is Public Management Neglecting the State
Public management is a domain of research that is now roughly three decades old. Researchers in this area have made important advances in understanding about the performance of public organizations. But questions have been raised about the scope and methods of public management research (PMR). Does it neglect important questions about the development of major institutions of the modern state? Has it focused unduly on problems of the advanced demo…
Dubious Sovereignty: Federal Conditions of Aid and the No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) represents the greatest extension to date of Federal authority over public school governance. In NCLB, Congress used its conditional spending power to push states and localities into enacting particular kinds of testing and accountability policies. This article places NCLB in the context of Congress's generally increasing willingness to exert itself via conditions attached to federal financial aid. It also anal…
Federalism, Individual Rights, and the Conditional Spending Conundrum
The conditional spending power, or the ability of Congress and the executive to attach conditions to grants in aid and entitlement programs, has become a vital source of authority to monitor and regulate the activites of both the states and individual citizens. If there were meaningful political or legal limits upon the conditional spending power, it would be no more problematic than any of the other policy mechanisms available for achieving Fede…
The Twentieth-Century Administrative State and Networked Governance
Since its founding, the American state has relied both upon what we now call “traditional” administration—public, hierarchical, and bureaucratic—and upon more privatized approaches to governance involving state and non-state actors and institutions in contractual relationships and networks. Studying past public–private governance schemes affords new opportunities to understand why, how, and under what circumstances state actors eschew direct publ…
Government, the State, and Governance
Subsidies, Strings, and the Courts: Judicial Action and Conditional Federal Spending
The ability to attach conditions to federal financial aid has contributed significantly to the establishment of federal hegemony in policymaking, allowing Congress and the executive branch to exact from those dependent upon government largesse behavior which could not be compelled through direct legislation. While questions concerning the legitimacy of conditional spending in our federal system are properly directed to the courts, problems inhere…
The Early American Origins of Entitlements
There is perhaps no topic that has generated more sustained interest and controversy in the United States during the past three decades than the public policies called “entitlements.” From the Great Society innovations of the 1960s to the guaranteed income plan of the 1970s to the “health security” proposal of the early 1990s, debate over the issue of which U.S. citizens should be entitled to what kind of national-level benefits has been a consta…
Reinventing Government Accountability: "Public Functions, Privatization, and the Meaning of "State Action
Public sector privatization is typically viewed as a means of maximizing economic efficiency--reducing government costs while increasing the scope and quality of service delivery by transferring (or returning) government functions to the sector (e.g., Butler, 1985; Savas, 1982; Donahue, 1989). Some proponents even contend that privatization is synonymous with reducing the size and effects of government (see Peters, 1996, 21-46; Wallin, 1997, 12).…
Federal Authority vs. State Autonomy: The Supreme Court's Role Revisited
Charles Wise's Judicial Federalism: The Resurgence of the Supreme Courts Role in the Protection of State Sovereignty (Public Administration Review, March/April 1998) provides an informative survey of recent cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court has considered assertions of national authority versus subnational claims of governmental autonomy and decided in of the latter. Wise is to be credited for bringing these cases to our attention, for they i…
Federalism, Individual Rights, and the Conditional Spending Conundrum
The conditional spending power, or the ability of Congress and the executive to attach conditions to grants in aid and entitlement programs, has become a vital source of authority to monitor and regulate the activites of both the states and individual citizens. If there were meaningful political or legal limits upon the conditional spending power, it would be no more problematic than any of the other policy mechanisms available for achieving Fede…
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin. By Lawrence M. Mead. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 368p. $35.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. One of the most challenging aspects of welfare reform was that it made policy evaluation more difficult, especially after the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 allowed states to shift from operating federal public assistance programs (or variants under waiver authority) to impl…
Dubious Sovereignty: Federal Conditions of Aid and the No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) represents the greatest extension to date of Federal authority over public school governance. In NCLB, Congress used its conditional spending power to push states and localities into enacting particular kinds of testing and accountability policies. This article places NCLB in the context of Congress's generally increasing willingness to exert itself via conditions attached to federal financial aid. It also anal…
Government, the State, and Governance
Adversity and the Ironies of Assistance
Fiduciary responsibilities to whom? federal grant recipients' perceptions of the public interest
This article explores the implementation of infrastructure development projects funded by the Recovery Act’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) in a southeastern state to provide high-quality Internet connectivity in un- or under-served areas to alleviate the conditions contributing to rural areas’ fiscal crises. This context affords a unique opportunity to view fiscal federalism’s operational dynamics in times of economic crisis a…
The Twentieth-Century Administrative State and Networked Governance
Since its founding, the American state has relied both upon what we now call “traditional” administration—public, hierarchical, and bureaucratic—and upon more privatized approaches to governance involving state and non-state actors and institutions in contractual relationships and networks. Studying past public–private governance schemes affords new opportunities to understand why, how, and under what circumstances state actors eschew direct publ…
Is Public Management Neglecting the State
Public management is a domain of research that is now roughly three decades old. Researchers in this area have made important advances in understanding about the performance of public organizations. But questions have been raised about the scope and methods of public management research (PMR). Does it neglect important questions about the development of major institutions of the modern state? Has it focused unduly on problems of the advanced demo…
Path Dependence and the Roots of Interorganizational Relationship Challenges
Governance today often requires concerted action by multiple organizations operating within and across sectors. Although scholars fruitfully have assayed many factors that facilitate or constrain interorganizational collaboration, the extant literature largely ignores the ways in which historical patterns of policy and organizational development may figure in present-day obstacles to collaboration. This is unfortunate, for such obstacles may resu…
Habitual Path Dependence of Interorganizational Relationships—A Response to Sydow
In “Path Dependence and the Roots of Interorganizational Relationship Challenges,” recently published by PPMG, we suggested the utility of path dependency theory in unpacking the developmental dynamics that may feed into contemporary problems of management and governance. Professor Jörg Sydow was moved to submit commentary on our article; we respond to his thoughtful comments in this essay
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