James A Stever
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Stever |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Stever |
| SIGNATURE | STEVER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The New Policy World of Cybersecurity
As government agencies, private sector corporations, the military, and even retail shoppers shift their activities to the Internet, cybersecurity becomes increasingly important. Past presidential administrations recognized that cybersecurity necessitates a comprehensive national policy to protect electronically transmitted and stored information from intrusion. But so far, development of a coherent cybersecurity policy has proven to be a daunting…
The Struggle to Reform Intelligence after 9/11
Two years after the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. This act aspired to replace a sprawling agency‐oriented intelligence apparatus with an integrated, networked intelligence community. The act envisioned a director of national intelligence who would accomplish sweeping structural reforms, while at the same time maintaining and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of intell…
A Security Preface to 21st-Century Public Administration
The use of lethal technologies by global terror networks has elevated domestic security policy to a central concern of 21st-century public administration. Twentieth-century public administration scholars, influenced by Progressivism, Pluralism, and Public Choice, led the field to believe that it could both develop and administer domestic security policy without a coherent state theory to guide this policy. This scission between security policy an…
Cutting Edge or Reversion
Adapting Intergovernmental Management to the New Age of Terrorism
Twentieth century progressivism produced intergovernmental models that do not work in this era of terrorism. Their shortcomings surfaced during the Gulf War, with efforts to involve the National Guard in disaster relief, and are now quite apparent. Four assumptions should guide the adaptation of existing intergovernmental models: (a) recognizing the new linkage between intergovernmental relations and the military; (b) mastering new proactive meth…
Predicting Self-Reported Exposure to Nerve Agents by Reserve Component Personnel during the First Persian Gulf War
Approximately 13% of 654 Reserve Component Gulf War veterans (18% women, 65% ground forces, between 24 and 61 years of age, average 40.2 yr.) surveyed in the Ohio Desert Storm Research Project reported that they had probably been exposed to nerve or mustard gas agents, while another 32% thought such exposures were possible. Reports of exposure were found, through ordinary least squares regression analysis, to be associated with membership in grou…
The Parallel Universes: Pragmatism and Public Administration
The new scholarship on pragmatism and public administration bears properties reminis cent of speculative philosophy. It proposes that pragmatism and public administration have historically existed in parallel universes. The articles written by Keith F. Snider and Karen G. Evans outline how pragmatism and public administration developed along parallel courses with minimal interchange between these two bodies of thought. However, they differ on whe…
The Glass Firewall between Military and Civil Administration
There is a glass-like firewall between American military administration and civil administration forged during the Progressive era. Turn-of-the-century public administration theory was quite ecumenical. However, under the spell of Progressive state theory, post-war public administration theory assumed that civil administrators could ignore military matters. The separation of military and civil administration is now beginning to adversely affect t…
Attitudes of Reserve Component Servicemembers regarding the Consequences of Frequent Overseas Deployments
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it will use Reserve component units more frequently for overseas deployments, for humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. Approximately one thousand Reserve component veterans, most from Ohio, were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the effects of increased overseas deployment requirements for Reserve servicemembers. Approximately half of those surveyed reported that the new requirements woul…
The veteran and the neo-progressive campus
A Nonmodern Way to Think About Leadership of Public Agencies
Reviewsareas of social science, particularly organizational theory and political economy.It is likely that accountants, financial auditors, engineers, and others who tend to be trained in highly specific professional areas will respond to current trends and become even more involved in performance measurement and program evaluation in the public and not-for-profit sectors.Given this, Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector…
After All This, Here Come the Conservatives
Technology Organization, Freedom: The Organizational Theory of John Dewey
John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy merits consideration from an administrative point of view. Within this philosophy is a compelling organization theory. The theory is based on the argument that modern organizations are essential for the regulation of technology and the reform of traditional liberal culture. Dewey believed that a pragmatic organizational culture could promote and protect freedom better than the 19th-century community based on indi…
The Growth and Decline of Executive-Centered Intergovernmental Management
The idea that the president should manage intergovernmental relationships gained credence and became more feasible as the Executive Office of the President developed managerial capacities. Executive-centered intergovernmental management gained considerable support in the Kestnbaum Commission's deliberations, developed rapidly in response to Great Society coordination problems, and culminated during the Nixon administration. This perspective relie…
Intergovernmental Management in a Revolutionary Era
Intergovernmental Management in a Revolutionary Era Get access Robert W. Gage and Myrna P. Mandell. Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. 208 pp., $42.95 cloth. James A. Stever James A. Stever University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 347–35…
The Dual Image of the Administrator in Progressive Administrative Theory
This article analyzes how Progressive-era theorists thought systematically about how to make administrators legitimate actors within liberal society and government. Organic idealism and pragmatism were the philosophical foundations on which Progressive legitimacy theory rested. The former stressed respect for tradition: the latter emphasized analysis and science as means to legitimacy. Post-Progressive legitimacy theories resemble the Progressive…
Marshall Dimock: An Intellectual Portrait
One way to assess the magnitude of Marshall Dimock's contribution is to consider his career. He was educated at Johns Hopkins University, 1925-1928. Intensely individual, the curriculum stressed the fundamentals of administration: e.g., constitutional law, classical philosophy, and economics. Among his professors were W. W. Willoughby, Arthur 0. Lovejoy, Frank J. Goodnow, W. F. Willoughby, and Jacob Hollander. In 1937, while on the faculty at the…
The End of Public Administration
Community Development Blocks Grants in Urban Counties: The Case of Hamilton County, Ohio
Urban counties must struggle with metropolitan expansion in order to deliver vital urban services. With the passage of the Housing and Community Development Act, urban counties throughout the nation found it necessary to develop the administrative capacity and the intergovernmental network sufficient to implement the Act. Hamilton County, Ohio, offers a typical example of how an urban county implemented CDBG. The result was a small county communi…
Mary Parker Follett and the Quest for Pragmatic Administration
Beyond simply accepting Mary Parker Follett `s reputation as an innovative administrative theorist, this article scrutinizes both her administrative theories and her supporting ideation for these theories. It finds that she constructed her administrative theory on a mixture of idealism and pragmatism. She vacillated between the two. In her idealist mode she claimed that administration fulfilled the individual. In her pragmatic mode, she stressed …
Citizen Participation in Negotiated Investment Strategy
Public administrators exercise professional discretion. Citizen participation is affected by this discretion in two ways. Public administrators often design programs with citizen participaiton processes, and they also implement these processes. In both cases, citizen participation may be increased or decreased depending on how programs are designed and implemented. Negotiated Investment Strategy is presented as a specific case illustrating how su…
Contemporary Neighborhood Theories: Integration versus Romance and Reaction
Theories of neighborhood government can be divided into three categories. Integrative theories grant neighborhoods a significant role in the metropolitan political process. Romantic theories outline nonattainable goals for the neighborhood. Reactive theories juxtapose neighborhood against metropolis by assuming that the neighborhood can be an instrument of social change. This article endorses integrative theories and criticizes theories which are…
Mary Parker Follett and the Quest for Pragmatic Administration
Beyond simply accepting Mary Parker Follett `s reputation as an innovative administrative theorist, this article scrutinizes both her administrative theories and her supporting ideation for these theories. It finds that she constructed her administrative theory on a mixture of idealism and pragmatism. She vacillated between the two. In her idealist mode she claimed that administration fulfilled the individual. In her pragmatic mode, she stressed …
Technology Organization, Freedom: The Organizational Theory of John Dewey
John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy merits consideration from an administrative point of view. Within this philosophy is a compelling organization theory. The theory is based on the argument that modern organizations are essential for the regulation of technology and the reform of traditional liberal culture. Dewey believed that a pragmatic organizational culture could promote and protect freedom better than the 19th-century community based on indi…
The Dual Image of the Administrator in Progressive Administrative Theory
This article analyzes how Progressive-era theorists thought systematically about how to make administrators legitimate actors within liberal society and government. Organic idealism and pragmatism were the philosophical foundations on which Progressive legitimacy theory rested. The former stressed respect for tradition: the latter emphasized analysis and science as means to legitimacy. Post-Progressive legitimacy theories resemble the Progressive…
The Parallel Universes: Pragmatism and Public Administration
The new scholarship on pragmatism and public administration bears properties reminis cent of speculative philosophy. It proposes that pragmatism and public administration have historically existed in parallel universes. The articles written by Keith F. Snider and Karen G. Evans outline how pragmatism and public administration developed along parallel courses with minimal interchange between these two bodies of thought. However, they differ on whe…
The Glass Firewall between Military and Civil Administration
There is a glass-like firewall between American military administration and civil administration forged during the Progressive era. Turn-of-the-century public administration theory was quite ecumenical. However, under the spell of Progressive state theory, post-war public administration theory assumed that civil administrators could ignore military matters. The separation of military and civil administration is now beginning to adversely affect t…
The Growth and Decline of Executive-Centered Intergovernmental Management
The idea that the president should manage intergovernmental relationships gained credence and became more feasible as the Executive Office of the President developed managerial capacities. Executive-centered intergovernmental management gained considerable support in the Kestnbaum Commission's deliberations, developed rapidly in response to Great Society coordination problems, and culminated during the Nixon administration. This perspective relie…
A Security Preface to 21st-Century Public Administration
The use of lethal technologies by global terror networks has elevated domestic security policy to a central concern of 21st-century public administration. Twentieth-century public administration scholars, influenced by Progressivism, Pluralism, and Public Choice, led the field to believe that it could both develop and administer domestic security policy without a coherent state theory to guide this policy. This scission between security policy an…
Community Development Blocks Grants in Urban Counties: The Case of Hamilton County, Ohio
Urban counties must struggle with metropolitan expansion in order to deliver vital urban services. With the passage of the Housing and Community Development Act, urban counties throughout the nation found it necessary to develop the administrative capacity and the intergovernmental network sufficient to implement the Act. Hamilton County, Ohio, offers a typical example of how an urban county implemented CDBG. The result was a small county communi…
Cutting Edge or Reversion
Adapting Intergovernmental Management to the New Age of Terrorism
Twentieth century progressivism produced intergovernmental models that do not work in this era of terrorism. Their shortcomings surfaced during the Gulf War, with efforts to involve the National Guard in disaster relief, and are now quite apparent. Four assumptions should guide the adaptation of existing intergovernmental models: (a) recognizing the new linkage between intergovernmental relations and the military; (b) mastering new proactive meth…
Intergovernmental Management in a Revolutionary Era
Intergovernmental Management in a Revolutionary Era Get access Robert W. Gage and Myrna P. Mandell. Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. 208 pp., $42.95 cloth. James A. Stever James A. Stever University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 347–35…
Contemporary Neighborhood Theories: Integration versus Romance and Reaction
Theories of neighborhood government can be divided into three categories. Integrative theories grant neighborhoods a significant role in the metropolitan political process. Romantic theories outline nonattainable goals for the neighborhood. Reactive theories juxtapose neighborhood against metropolis by assuming that the neighborhood can be an instrument of social change. This article endorses integrative theories and criticizes theories which are…
Citizen Participation in Negotiated Investment Strategy
Public administrators exercise professional discretion. Citizen participation is affected by this discretion in two ways. Public administrators often design programs with citizen participaiton processes, and they also implement these processes. In both cases, citizen participation may be increased or decreased depending on how programs are designed and implemented. Negotiated Investment Strategy is presented as a specific case illustrating how su…
Community Development Blocks Grants in Urban Counties: The Case of Hamilton County, Ohio
Urban counties must struggle with metropolitan expansion in order to deliver vital urban services. With the passage of the Housing and Community Development Act, urban counties throughout the nation found it necessary to develop the administrative capacity and the intergovernmental network sufficient to implement the Act. Hamilton County, Ohio, offers a typical example of how an urban county implemented CDBG. The result was a small county communi…
Mary Parker Follett and the Quest for Pragmatic Administration
Beyond simply accepting Mary Parker Follett `s reputation as an innovative administrative theorist, this article scrutinizes both her administrative theories and her supporting ideation for these theories. It finds that she constructed her administrative theory on a mixture of idealism and pragmatism. She vacillated between the two. In her idealist mode she claimed that administration fulfilled the individual. In her pragmatic mode, she stressed …
The End of Public Administration
The Dual Image of the Administrator in Progressive Administrative Theory
This article analyzes how Progressive-era theorists thought systematically about how to make administrators legitimate actors within liberal society and government. Organic idealism and pragmatism were the philosophical foundations on which Progressive legitimacy theory rested. The former stressed respect for tradition: the latter emphasized analysis and science as means to legitimacy. Post-Progressive legitimacy theories resemble the Progressive…
Marshall Dimock: An Intellectual Portrait
One way to assess the magnitude of Marshall Dimock's contribution is to consider his career. He was educated at Johns Hopkins University, 1925-1928. Intensely individual, the curriculum stressed the fundamentals of administration: e.g., constitutional law, classical philosophy, and economics. Among his professors were W. W. Willoughby, Arthur 0. Lovejoy, Frank J. Goodnow, W. F. Willoughby, and Jacob Hollander. In 1937, while on the faculty at the…
Intergovernmental Management in a Revolutionary Era
Intergovernmental Management in a Revolutionary Era Get access Robert W. Gage and Myrna P. Mandell. Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. 208 pp., $42.95 cloth. James A. Stever James A. Stever University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 2, Issue 3, July 1992, Pages 347–35…
Technology Organization, Freedom: The Organizational Theory of John Dewey
John Dewey's pragmatic philosophy merits consideration from an administrative point of view. Within this philosophy is a compelling organization theory. The theory is based on the argument that modern organizations are essential for the regulation of technology and the reform of traditional liberal culture. Dewey believed that a pragmatic organizational culture could promote and protect freedom better than the 19th-century community based on indi…
The Growth and Decline of Executive-Centered Intergovernmental Management
The idea that the president should manage intergovernmental relationships gained credence and became more feasible as the Executive Office of the President developed managerial capacities. Executive-centered intergovernmental management gained considerable support in the Kestnbaum Commission's deliberations, developed rapidly in response to Great Society coordination problems, and culminated during the Nixon administration. This perspective relie…
After All This, Here Come the Conservatives
The veteran and the neo-progressive campus
A Nonmodern Way to Think About Leadership of Public Agencies
Reviewsareas of social science, particularly organizational theory and political economy.It is likely that accountants, financial auditors, engineers, and others who tend to be trained in highly specific professional areas will respond to current trends and become even more involved in performance measurement and program evaluation in the public and not-for-profit sectors.Given this, Organizational Performance and Measurement in the Public Sector…
Attitudes of Reserve Component Servicemembers regarding the Consequences of Frequent Overseas Deployments
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that it will use Reserve component units more frequently for overseas deployments, for humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. Approximately one thousand Reserve component veterans, most from Ohio, were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the effects of increased overseas deployment requirements for Reserve servicemembers. Approximately half of those surveyed reported that the new requirements woul…
The Glass Firewall between Military and Civil Administration
There is a glass-like firewall between American military administration and civil administration forged during the Progressive era. Turn-of-the-century public administration theory was quite ecumenical. However, under the spell of Progressive state theory, post-war public administration theory assumed that civil administrators could ignore military matters. The separation of military and civil administration is now beginning to adversely affect t…
The Parallel Universes: Pragmatism and Public Administration
The new scholarship on pragmatism and public administration bears properties reminis cent of speculative philosophy. It proposes that pragmatism and public administration have historically existed in parallel universes. The articles written by Keith F. Snider and Karen G. Evans outline how pragmatism and public administration developed along parallel courses with minimal interchange between these two bodies of thought. However, they differ on whe…
Predicting Self-Reported Exposure to Nerve Agents by Reserve Component Personnel during the First Persian Gulf War
Approximately 13% of 654 Reserve Component Gulf War veterans (18% women, 65% ground forces, between 24 and 61 years of age, average 40.2 yr.) surveyed in the Ohio Desert Storm Research Project reported that they had probably been exposed to nerve or mustard gas agents, while another 32% thought such exposures were possible. Reports of exposure were found, through ordinary least squares regression analysis, to be associated with membership in grou…
Adapting Intergovernmental Management to the New Age of Terrorism
Twentieth century progressivism produced intergovernmental models that do not work in this era of terrorism. Their shortcomings surfaced during the Gulf War, with efforts to involve the National Guard in disaster relief, and are now quite apparent. Four assumptions should guide the adaptation of existing intergovernmental models: (a) recognizing the new linkage between intergovernmental relations and the military; (b) mastering new proactive meth…
A Security Preface to 21st-Century Public Administration
The use of lethal technologies by global terror networks has elevated domestic security policy to a central concern of 21st-century public administration. Twentieth-century public administration scholars, influenced by Progressivism, Pluralism, and Public Choice, led the field to believe that it could both develop and administer domestic security policy without a coherent state theory to guide this policy. This scission between security policy an…
Cutting Edge or Reversion
The New Policy World of Cybersecurity
As government agencies, private sector corporations, the military, and even retail shoppers shift their activities to the Internet, cybersecurity becomes increasingly important. Past presidential administrations recognized that cybersecurity necessitates a comprehensive national policy to protect electronically transmitted and stored information from intrusion. But so far, development of a coherent cybersecurity policy has proven to be a daunting…
The Struggle to Reform Intelligence after 9/11
Two years after the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. This act aspired to replace a sprawling agency‐oriented intelligence apparatus with an integrated, networked intelligence community. The act envisioned a director of national intelligence who would accomplish sweeping structural reforms, while at the same time maintaining and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of intell…
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