Janet A Weiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5379178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet A Weiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet A |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiss |
| SIGNATURE | WEISS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
Down from bureaucracy: The ambiguity of privatization and empowerment
No abstract
Public Information Campaigns as Policy Instruments
Considerable controversy surrounds public information campaigns: government-directed and sponsored efforts to communicate to large numbers of citizens in order to achieve a policy result, or what might be called government propaganda. We analyze the use of campaigns as policy instruments in three ways: (1) effectiveness in achieving substantive outcomes; (2) political benefits for public officials; and (3) consequences for democratic processes. O…
Ideas and Inducements in Mental Health Policy
Between 1946 and 1963, federal officials sought to change the national practice of providing mental health care, away from state-run mental institutions and toward outpatient care based in local communities. These policy makers relied on two policy instruments, ideas and inducements. Both instruments contributed to unexpectedly significant changes in federal, state, and local policy. I conclude that a policy instrument framework helps to disentan…
Two Cheers for Paperwork: The Value and Burden of Federal Reporting
In principle, reporting by state and local governments to the federal government is essential to the design and implementation of national policy. In practice, reporting often engenders resentment of federal intrusion and is often dismissed as a waste of state and local resources. Is reporting useless? Does it strengthen the federal government at the expense of state and local governments? We asked federal, state, local, and site officials about …
The powers of problem definition: The case of government paperwork
Pathways to Cooperation among Public Agencies
This study explores forces that push public agencies to overcome barriers to cooperation. Case studies of nine groups of local school districts examined the pressures that shaped local participation in cooperative programs. The literature on relationships among organizations suggests six possible reasons to bear the costs of cooperation: to get more resources, to satisfy norms and values, to obtain political advantage, to solve problems, to reduc…
Reflections on Value: Policy Makers Evaluate Federal Information Systems
Using knowledge for control in fragmented policy arenas
Analysts and researchers typically value knowledge for its contributions to the wisdom of policy action. Policymakers, however, typically value knowledge for its contributions to the exercise of political control. Our research on flows of knowledge among federal, state, and local education agencies documents how knowledge may increase the effectiveness of various control strategies. In these cases, knowledge is not intended to enhance rationality…
Using Knowledge for Control in Fragmented Policy Arenas
Coping with Complexity: An Experimental Study of Public Policy Decision-Making
Empirical studies of decision-making invariably conclude with profound skepticism about the human capacity to process complex problems. The skepticism bodes ill for public policy makers, for they confront decisions of formidable complexity. This research examines the impact of systematic variation in the complexity of public policy decisions on the quality of decisions made by experienced public and private sector managers. Results show that incr…
Social scientists and decision makers look at the usefulness of mental health research
Social scientists and decision makers look at the usefulness of mental health research
Dilemmas of Evaluating a Balancing Act: Policies for Prevention of Child Abuse
Access to Influence: Some Effects of Policy Sector on the Use of Social Science
In Lieu of Rationality: Psychological Perspectives on Foreign Policy Decision Making
For a generation, the social science literature on decision making has been divided into two camps: work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained attack on the possibility of fully rational decision making has a distinguished history (for example, Barnard, 1938; Simon, 1946, 1959; Lindblom, 1959, 1965; Cyert and March, 1963; Allison, 1971; Slovic, 1972; Tversky and Kahneman, 1974) and a consi…
Using Social Science for Social Policy1
The powers of problem definition: The case of government paperwork
Public Information Campaigns as Policy Instruments
Considerable controversy surrounds public information campaigns: government-directed and sponsored efforts to communicate to large numbers of citizens in order to achieve a policy result, or what might be called government propaganda. We analyze the use of campaigns as policy instruments in three ways: (1) effectiveness in achieving substantive outcomes; (2) political benefits for public officials; and (3) consequences for democratic processes. O…
Pathways to Cooperation among Public Agencies
This study explores forces that push public agencies to overcome barriers to cooperation. Case studies of nine groups of local school districts examined the pressures that shaped local participation in cooperative programs. The literature on relationships among organizations suggests six possible reasons to bear the costs of cooperation: to get more resources, to satisfy norms and values, to obtain political advantage, to solve problems, to reduc…
Using Knowledge for Control in Fragmented Policy Arenas
In Lieu of Rationality: Psychological Perspectives on Foreign Policy Decision Making
For a generation, the social science literature on decision making has been divided into two camps: work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained attack on the possibility of fully rational decision making has a distinguished history (for example, Barnard, 1938; Simon, 1946, 1959; Lindblom, 1959, 1965; Cyert and March, 1963; Allison, 1971; Slovic, 1972; Tversky and Kahneman, 1974) and a consi…
Using knowledge for control in fragmented policy arenas
Analysts and researchers typically value knowledge for its contributions to the wisdom of policy action. Policymakers, however, typically value knowledge for its contributions to the exercise of political control. Our research on flows of knowledge among federal, state, and local education agencies documents how knowledge may increase the effectiveness of various control strategies. In these cases, knowledge is not intended to enhance rationality…
Coping with Complexity: An Experimental Study of Public Policy Decision-Making
Empirical studies of decision-making invariably conclude with profound skepticism about the human capacity to process complex problems. The skepticism bodes ill for public policy makers, for they confront decisions of formidable complexity. This research examines the impact of systematic variation in the complexity of public policy decisions on the quality of decisions made by experienced public and private sector managers. Results show that incr…
Ideas and Inducements in Mental Health Policy
Between 1946 and 1963, federal officials sought to change the national practice of providing mental health care, away from state-run mental institutions and toward outpatient care based in local communities. These policy makers relied on two policy instruments, ideas and inducements. Both instruments contributed to unexpectedly significant changes in federal, state, and local policy. I conclude that a policy instrument framework helps to disentan…
Reflections on Value: Policy Makers Evaluate Federal Information Systems
Access to Influence: Some Effects of Policy Sector on the Use of Social Science
Using Social Science for Social Policy1
Dilemmas of Evaluating a Balancing Act: Policies for Prevention of Child Abuse
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
Using Social Science for Social Policy1
In Lieu of Rationality: Psychological Perspectives on Foreign Policy Decision Making
For a generation, the social science literature on decision making has been divided into two camps: work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained attack on the possibility of fully rational decision making has a distinguished history (for example, Barnard, 1938; Simon, 1946, 1959; Lindblom, 1959, 1965; Cyert and March, 1963; Allison, 1971; Slovic, 1972; Tversky and Kahneman, 1974) and a consi…
Access to Influence: Some Effects of Policy Sector on the Use of Social Science
Dilemmas of Evaluating a Balancing Act: Policies for Prevention of Child Abuse
Social scientists and decision makers look at the usefulness of mental health research
Social scientists and decision makers look at the usefulness of mental health research
Coping with Complexity: An Experimental Study of Public Policy Decision-Making
Empirical studies of decision-making invariably conclude with profound skepticism about the human capacity to process complex problems. The skepticism bodes ill for public policy makers, for they confront decisions of formidable complexity. This research examines the impact of systematic variation in the complexity of public policy decisions on the quality of decisions made by experienced public and private sector managers. Results show that incr…
Using knowledge for control in fragmented policy arenas
Analysts and researchers typically value knowledge for its contributions to the wisdom of policy action. Policymakers, however, typically value knowledge for its contributions to the exercise of political control. Our research on flows of knowledge among federal, state, and local education agencies documents how knowledge may increase the effectiveness of various control strategies. In these cases, knowledge is not intended to enhance rationality…
Using Knowledge for Control in Fragmented Policy Arenas
Reflections on Value: Policy Makers Evaluate Federal Information Systems
Pathways to Cooperation among Public Agencies
This study explores forces that push public agencies to overcome barriers to cooperation. Case studies of nine groups of local school districts examined the pressures that shaped local participation in cooperative programs. The literature on relationships among organizations suggests six possible reasons to bear the costs of cooperation: to get more resources, to satisfy norms and values, to obtain political advantage, to solve problems, to reduc…
Two Cheers for Paperwork: The Value and Burden of Federal Reporting
In principle, reporting by state and local governments to the federal government is essential to the design and implementation of national policy. In practice, reporting often engenders resentment of federal intrusion and is often dismissed as a waste of state and local resources. Is reporting useless? Does it strengthen the federal government at the expense of state and local governments? We asked federal, state, local, and site officials about …
The powers of problem definition: The case of government paperwork
Ideas and Inducements in Mental Health Policy
Between 1946 and 1963, federal officials sought to change the national practice of providing mental health care, away from state-run mental institutions and toward outpatient care based in local communities. These policy makers relied on two policy instruments, ideas and inducements. Both instruments contributed to unexpectedly significant changes in federal, state, and local policy. I conclude that a policy instrument framework helps to disentan…
Public Information Campaigns as Policy Instruments
Considerable controversy surrounds public information campaigns: government-directed and sponsored efforts to communicate to large numbers of citizens in order to achieve a policy result, or what might be called government propaganda. We analyze the use of campaigns as policy instruments in three ways: (1) effectiveness in achieving substantive outcomes; (2) political benefits for public officials; and (3) consequences for democratic processes. O…
Down from bureaucracy: The ambiguity of privatization and empowerment
No abstract
Data to Support Scholarship on Nonprofit Organizations: An Introduction
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