Alan Melchior
Biographic Data
| ID | 4407044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Melchior |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Melchior |
| SIGNATURE | MELCHIOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Case for Particularism in Public Administration
The recent entrepreneurial movement represents the latest in a series of attempts to define appropriate principles of public administration. Current entrepreneurial reforms, such as reinvention, aim explicitly to moderate the excesses of bureaucratic organization, but they also carry an implicit mandate to continue the assault on particularism begun by Progressive Era reformers. The authors contend that public administration theory should conside…
Does Changing Mayors Matter
In this article we examine the effect of leadership change on public policy at the urban level. We ask whether cities in which elections result in mayoral change experience changes in public policy that differ from those of cities in which incumbents are reelected. We employ change in real per capita operating expenditures and changes in expenditure shares (priorities) as measures of public policy (although they are only two among many) and inclu…
Windows of opportunity
Contrary to the popular view of mandates as rigid and dictatorial mechanisms, this article advances a view of mandates as mechanisms for cooperation and negotiation. The relationship between several state and local actors is investigated in Maryland, particularly within the context of the development of a "loosely" mandated public health program, the Targeted Funding Program (TFP). An analysis of the TFP and the actors involved in the program's d…
Assessing telecommunications technology as a tool for urban community building
(1995). Assessing telecommunications technology as a tool for urban community building. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 29-44
Are there Election-Driven Tax-and-Expenditure Cycles for Urban Governments
Do tax-and-expenditure cycles exist at the city level? Local politicians cannot manipulate the economy to improve their own or their party's electoral prospects and thereby produce apolitical business cycle. However, they can manipulate tax revenues and expenditures over the election cycle, with some constraints. Using data from medium-and large-sized U.S. cities from 1978 through 1985, the authors found evidence that tax-revenue cycles exist in …
Does Changing Mayors Matter
In this article we examine the effect of leadership change on public policy at the urban level. We ask whether cities in which elections result in mayoral change experience changes in public policy that differ from those of cities in which incumbents are reelected. We employ change in real per capita operating expenditures and changes in expenditure shares (priorities) as measures of public policy (although they are only two among many) and inclu…
A Case for Particularism in Public Administration
The recent entrepreneurial movement represents the latest in a series of attempts to define appropriate principles of public administration. Current entrepreneurial reforms, such as reinvention, aim explicitly to moderate the excesses of bureaucratic organization, but they also carry an implicit mandate to continue the assault on particularism begun by Progressive Era reformers. The authors contend that public administration theory should conside…
Are there Election-Driven Tax-and-Expenditure Cycles for Urban Governments
Do tax-and-expenditure cycles exist at the city level? Local politicians cannot manipulate the economy to improve their own or their party's electoral prospects and thereby produce apolitical business cycle. However, they can manipulate tax revenues and expenditures over the election cycle, with some constraints. Using data from medium-and large-sized U.S. cities from 1978 through 1985, the authors found evidence that tax-revenue cycles exist in …
Windows of opportunity
Contrary to the popular view of mandates as rigid and dictatorial mechanisms, this article advances a view of mandates as mechanisms for cooperation and negotiation. The relationship between several state and local actors is investigated in Maryland, particularly within the context of the development of a "loosely" mandated public health program, the Targeted Funding Program (TFP). An analysis of the TFP and the actors involved in the program's d…
Assessing telecommunications technology as a tool for urban community building
(1995). Assessing telecommunications technology as a tool for urban community building. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 29-44
Does Changing Mayors Matter
In this article we examine the effect of leadership change on public policy at the urban level. We ask whether cities in which elections result in mayoral change experience changes in public policy that differ from those of cities in which incumbents are reelected. We employ change in real per capita operating expenditures and changes in expenditure shares (priorities) as measures of public policy (although they are only two among many) and inclu…
A Case for Particularism in Public Administration
The recent entrepreneurial movement represents the latest in a series of attempts to define appropriate principles of public administration. Current entrepreneurial reforms, such as reinvention, aim explicitly to moderate the excesses of bureaucratic organization, but they also carry an implicit mandate to continue the assault on particularism begun by Progressive Era reformers. The authors contend that public administration theory should conside…
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (2 works)