Daniel W Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 4393137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel W Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel W |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The determinants of success in local earmarking
This paper examines the determinants of success in seeking local government earmarked funding. We compile data of the aggregate amounts of the New York City Council discretionary expense grants received or requested by each council district every year during 2011-2013. The statistical results show that the allocation of the expense grants are politically motivated with more earmark funds flowing to the districts council leaders and key committee …
Local government revenue forecasting methods
This study examines forecast accuracy associated with the forecast of 55 revenue data series of 18 local governments. The last 18 months (6 quarters; or 2 years) of the data are held-out for accuracy evaluation. Results show that forecast software, damped trend methods, and simple exponential smoothing methods perform best with monthly and quarterly data; and use of monthly or quarterly data is marginally better than annualized data. For monthly …
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Your Money or Your Life
Déjà Vu All Over Again
For a brief period in the 1910s, the municipal budget exhibit was viewed by good-government reformers at the trailblazing New York Bureau of Municipal Research as a key outlet for cleaning up corrupt local governments and educating the masses to play their proper role in the new administrative state. For a time, the budget exhibit spread to other cities adopting municipal research bureaus. However, the municipal budget exhibit quickly fell out of…
What’s the Matter with Political and Social Science
How Political Support Influences Red Tape through Developmental Culture
This study examines the interrelationship between external political support, internal organizational factors, and red tape, using a sample of information managers from state health and human service agencies. The study defines a red tape model and tests the model by structural equation modeling method. The study finds that political support has a direct effect on red tape. The higher the political support, the lower the level of red tape. The st…
In the Beginning
The Democratic Sex
Few have studied differences between how women and men lead, particularly at the local level. This article addresses this gap by reporting the results of a unique study of 192 female mayors and 192 male mayors in cities with populations of over 30,000 to consider whether the female mayors emphasized different policy issues and whether the women in local leadership created alternative decision-making processes in allocating resources. Overall, the…
Evolution of Performance Measurement Until 1930
Performance measurement originated at the early Bureau of Municipal Research. Over the next quarter century, it became more sophisticated through increased quantification and reliance on experts. However, its focus narrowed from government to government service. This narrowing is linked to reduced social activism among those who used thesemethods. The entire period saw combined interest in accomplishing results and containing costs. Leading advoc…
Measuring Government in the Early Twentieth Century
This article discusses the early history of performance and productivity measurement. It finds sophisticated development of these tools beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century, primarily at the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. These practices grew out of accounting, the social survey, work records, and municipal statistics. The bureau built government's capacity to measure. They advocated such basic empirical practices as mak…
Before Performance Measurement
This paper examines the conditions preceding and concurrent with the origin of performance measurement in the early 1900s. It links performance measurement to political reform and reassertion of executive governance. The nineteenth century saw significant advances in empiricism, the development of statistics and the differentiation of the social sciences, all of which contributed to a suitable environment for the innovation of performance measure…
Reinventing the Proverbs of Government
The field of public administration has a long history of popular reform movements. Many of these reforms have failed to deliver the improvements promised. The current “reinventing government” reforms, which follow largely from the writings of David Osborne and his coauthors, claim to establish a new governmental paradigm based on liberating employees and citizens to do their best and using new management methods to get the most out of what govern…
Measuring Government in the Early Twentieth Century
This article discusses the early history of performance and productivity measurement. It finds sophisticated development of these tools beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century, primarily at the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. These practices grew out of accounting, the social survey, work records, and municipal statistics. The bureau built government's capacity to measure. They advocated such basic empirical practices as mak…
The Democratic Sex
Few have studied differences between how women and men lead, particularly at the local level. This article addresses this gap by reporting the results of a unique study of 192 female mayors and 192 male mayors in cities with populations of over 30,000 to consider whether the female mayors emphasized different policy issues and whether the women in local leadership created alternative decision-making processes in allocating resources. Overall, the…
Reinventing the Proverbs of Government
The field of public administration has a long history of popular reform movements. Many of these reforms have failed to deliver the improvements promised. The current “reinventing government” reforms, which follow largely from the writings of David Osborne and his coauthors, claim to establish a new governmental paradigm based on liberating employees and citizens to do their best and using new management methods to get the most out of what govern…
Evolution of Performance Measurement Until 1930
Performance measurement originated at the early Bureau of Municipal Research. Over the next quarter century, it became more sophisticated through increased quantification and reliance on experts. However, its focus narrowed from government to government service. This narrowing is linked to reduced social activism among those who used thesemethods. The entire period saw combined interest in accomplishing results and containing costs. Leading advoc…
Before Performance Measurement
This paper examines the conditions preceding and concurrent with the origin of performance measurement in the early 1900s. It links performance measurement to political reform and reassertion of executive governance. The nineteenth century saw significant advances in empiricism, the development of statistics and the differentiation of the social sciences, all of which contributed to a suitable environment for the innovation of performance measure…
How Political Support Influences Red Tape through Developmental Culture
This study examines the interrelationship between external political support, internal organizational factors, and red tape, using a sample of information managers from state health and human service agencies. The study defines a red tape model and tests the model by structural equation modeling method. The study finds that political support has a direct effect on red tape. The higher the political support, the lower the level of red tape. The st…
Déjà Vu All Over Again
For a brief period in the 1910s, the municipal budget exhibit was viewed by good-government reformers at the trailblazing New York Bureau of Municipal Research as a key outlet for cleaning up corrupt local governments and educating the masses to play their proper role in the new administrative state. For a time, the budget exhibit spread to other cities adopting municipal research bureaus. However, the municipal budget exhibit quickly fell out of…
What’s the Matter with Political and Social Science
Reinventing the Proverbs of Government
The field of public administration has a long history of popular reform movements. Many of these reforms have failed to deliver the improvements promised. The current “reinventing government” reforms, which follow largely from the writings of David Osborne and his coauthors, claim to establish a new governmental paradigm based on liberating employees and citizens to do their best and using new management methods to get the most out of what govern…
Before Performance Measurement
This paper examines the conditions preceding and concurrent with the origin of performance measurement in the early 1900s. It links performance measurement to political reform and reassertion of executive governance. The nineteenth century saw significant advances in empiricism, the development of statistics and the differentiation of the social sciences, all of which contributed to a suitable environment for the innovation of performance measure…
Measuring Government in the Early Twentieth Century
This article discusses the early history of performance and productivity measurement. It finds sophisticated development of these tools beginning in the first decade of the twentieth century, primarily at the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. These practices grew out of accounting, the social survey, work records, and municipal statistics. The bureau built government's capacity to measure. They advocated such basic empirical practices as mak…
Evolution of Performance Measurement Until 1930
Performance measurement originated at the early Bureau of Municipal Research. Over the next quarter century, it became more sophisticated through increased quantification and reliance on experts. However, its focus narrowed from government to government service. This narrowing is linked to reduced social activism among those who used thesemethods. The entire period saw combined interest in accomplishing results and containing costs. Leading advoc…
In the Beginning
The Democratic Sex
Few have studied differences between how women and men lead, particularly at the local level. This article addresses this gap by reporting the results of a unique study of 192 female mayors and 192 male mayors in cities with populations of over 30,000 to consider whether the female mayors emphasized different policy issues and whether the women in local leadership created alternative decision-making processes in allocating resources. Overall, the…
How Political Support Influences Red Tape through Developmental Culture
This study examines the interrelationship between external political support, internal organizational factors, and red tape, using a sample of information managers from state health and human service agencies. The study defines a red tape model and tests the model by structural equation modeling method. The study finds that political support has a direct effect on red tape. The higher the political support, the lower the level of red tape. The st…
Déjà Vu All Over Again
For a brief period in the 1910s, the municipal budget exhibit was viewed by good-government reformers at the trailblazing New York Bureau of Municipal Research as a key outlet for cleaning up corrupt local governments and educating the masses to play their proper role in the new administrative state. For a time, the budget exhibit spread to other cities adopting municipal research bureaus. However, the municipal budget exhibit quickly fell out of…
What’s the Matter with Political and Social Science
Your Money or Your Life
Answers in Search of a Question
Local government revenue forecasting methods
This study examines forecast accuracy associated with the forecast of 55 revenue data series of 18 local governments. The last 18 months (6 quarters; or 2 years) of the data are held-out for accuracy evaluation. Results show that forecast software, damped trend methods, and simple exponential smoothing methods perform best with monthly and quarterly data; and use of monthly or quarterly data is marginally better than annualized data. For monthly …
The determinants of success in local earmarking
This paper examines the determinants of success in seeking local government earmarked funding. We compile data of the aggregate amounts of the New York City Council discretionary expense grants received or requested by each council district every year during 2011-2013. The statistical results show that the allocation of the expense grants are politically motivated with more earmark funds flowing to the districts council leaders and key committee …
Political science (12 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (9 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Management (6 works) · Politics (6 works)