Jonathan B Justice
Biographic Data
| ID | 988688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan B Justice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Justice |
| SIGNATURE | JUSTICE J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2195-2329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship
The diffusion of civic technology and open government in the United States
Civic technology is a nascent force in the relationship between governments and communities. Elements of the civic technology ecosystem include open data, related information and communications technology (ICT) innovations and the organizational boundary-spanning practices of civic technology. This paper reports the results of an exploratory study of civic technology adoption by local governments in the United States. The research compares the 11…
Governing at arm’s length
This review article debates the democratic consequences of arm’s length governance challenging the prevailing view that its use is necessarily counter-democratic and a poor substitute for direct control by elected politicians. The article explores the roots of the dominant ‘democratic deficit’ perspective on arm’s length bodies in the agency problems generated by political delegation, but also addresses the potential for democratic enhancement po…
Majoritarian Cities
Journal Article Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics Get access Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics by Neil Kraus. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2013. 288 pp. $65.00. Jonathan B. Justice Jonathan B. Justice University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 2015, Pages 151–…
Barnard's Regret
Nearly two decades after his seminal Functions of the Executive was published, Chester Barnard came to believe that moral responsibility and accountability might be a more powerful principle for guiding individual actions within organizations than the executive authority it emphasized. This article elaborates one direction in which Barnard might have developed his insight, by adopting ethical acceptance rather than self-interested indifference as…
Social Capital, E-Government, and Fiscal Transparency in the States
Transparency is one requisite of democratic governance. Many American states have implemented online checkbooks and similar forms of fiscal e-transparency, but not universally or with uniformly high quality. This article seeks to explain why. Correlation and regression results support hypotheses that higher-quality implementation responds to lower state levels of social capital, more traditionalistic political cultures, greater perceptions of off…
Why Bother with Budget Work
Accountability and Debt Management
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) provides transportation infrastructure and services to nearly 15 million residents of two states. In 2002, the MTA violated a strong professional norm of debt management by refinancing $13 billion of long-term debt in a way that increased rather than decreased the cost of repayment. This behavior, heavily influenced by the informal advice of investment bankers, seemed to many observers to con…
Fiscal transparency and authentic citizen participation in public budgeting
Much of the current U.S. academic literature on participatory budgeting is preoccupied with direct citizen involvement in budget formulation, reflecting a particular normative theory of democracy. In this essay we suggest that U.S. academics can learn from a contemporary international community of practice concerned with “civil-society budget work”-a quasi-grassroots, quasi-pluralist movement with member organizations throughout the developing wo…
Public Places and Quasi‐Private Administration
Analysing Democracy in Third-Party Government
Institutional designs for third-party governance have proliferated in the US and Europe, but there has been little systematic analysis of their democratic performance. A comparative analysis of business improvement districts (BIDs) in the US and UK documents an approach to the democratic analysis of third-party public governance institutions and finds variation in institutional designs and democratic performance within - as well as between - coun…
E-Government as an Instrument of Fiscal Accountability and Responsiveness
Fiscal transparency and citizen participation in budgeting processes are widely promoted as means toward the ends of democratic accountability and responsiveness in the allocation and use of public funds. In the past decade, academics and practitioners enthusiastic about e-government have emphasized the potential for using information technology to enhance democratic governance. Putting these two streams of public administration theory and practi…
Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
Scholars of administrative ethics have recently been attentive to the problem of so-called administrative evil. The authors argue that evil can be understood as a socially constructed category of agents and acts specific to particular circumstances and moral communities, and the authors apply a framework of accountability to reflect the dynamics of that constructed reality. Selected examples of efforts to hold evil actors accountable or otherwise…
E-Government as an Instrument of Fiscal Accountability and Responsiveness
Fiscal transparency and citizen participation in budgeting processes are widely promoted as means toward the ends of democratic accountability and responsiveness in the allocation and use of public funds. In the past decade, academics and practitioners enthusiastic about e-government have emphasized the potential for using information technology to enhance democratic governance. Putting these two streams of public administration theory and practi…
The diffusion of civic technology and open government in the United States
Civic technology is a nascent force in the relationship between governments and communities. Elements of the civic technology ecosystem include open data, related information and communications technology (ICT) innovations and the organizational boundary-spanning practices of civic technology. This paper reports the results of an exploratory study of civic technology adoption by local governments in the United States. The research compares the 11…
Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
Scholars of administrative ethics have recently been attentive to the problem of so-called administrative evil. The authors argue that evil can be understood as a socially constructed category of agents and acts specific to particular circumstances and moral communities, and the authors apply a framework of accountability to reflect the dynamics of that constructed reality. Selected examples of efforts to hold evil actors accountable or otherwise…
Social Capital, E-Government, and Fiscal Transparency in the States
Transparency is one requisite of democratic governance. Many American states have implemented online checkbooks and similar forms of fiscal e-transparency, but not universally or with uniformly high quality. This article seeks to explain why. Correlation and regression results support hypotheses that higher-quality implementation responds to lower state levels of social capital, more traditionalistic political cultures, greater perceptions of off…
Analysing Democracy in Third-Party Government
Institutional designs for third-party governance have proliferated in the US and Europe, but there has been little systematic analysis of their democratic performance. A comparative analysis of business improvement districts (BIDs) in the US and UK documents an approach to the democratic analysis of third-party public governance institutions and finds variation in institutional designs and democratic performance within - as well as between - coun…
Barnard's Regret
Nearly two decades after his seminal Functions of the Executive was published, Chester Barnard came to believe that moral responsibility and accountability might be a more powerful principle for guiding individual actions within organizations than the executive authority it emphasized. This article elaborates one direction in which Barnard might have developed his insight, by adopting ethical acceptance rather than self-interested indifference as…
Accountability and Debt Management
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) provides transportation infrastructure and services to nearly 15 million residents of two states. In 2002, the MTA violated a strong professional norm of debt management by refinancing $13 billion of long-term debt in a way that increased rather than decreased the cost of repayment. This behavior, heavily influenced by the informal advice of investment bankers, seemed to many observers to con…
E-Government as an Instrument of Fiscal Accountability and Responsiveness
Fiscal transparency and citizen participation in budgeting processes are widely promoted as means toward the ends of democratic accountability and responsiveness in the allocation and use of public funds. In the past decade, academics and practitioners enthusiastic about e-government have emphasized the potential for using information technology to enhance democratic governance. Putting these two streams of public administration theory and practi…
Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
Scholars of administrative ethics have recently been attentive to the problem of so-called administrative evil. The authors argue that evil can be understood as a socially constructed category of agents and acts specific to particular circumstances and moral communities, and the authors apply a framework of accountability to reflect the dynamics of that constructed reality. Selected examples of efforts to hold evil actors accountable or otherwise…
Fiscal transparency and authentic citizen participation in public budgeting
Much of the current U.S. academic literature on participatory budgeting is preoccupied with direct citizen involvement in budget formulation, reflecting a particular normative theory of democracy. In this essay we suggest that U.S. academics can learn from a contemporary international community of practice concerned with “civil-society budget work”-a quasi-grassroots, quasi-pluralist movement with member organizations throughout the developing wo…
Public Places and Quasi‐Private Administration
Analysing Democracy in Third-Party Government
Institutional designs for third-party governance have proliferated in the US and Europe, but there has been little systematic analysis of their democratic performance. A comparative analysis of business improvement districts (BIDs) in the US and UK documents an approach to the democratic analysis of third-party public governance institutions and finds variation in institutional designs and democratic performance within - as well as between - coun…
Accountability and Debt Management
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) provides transportation infrastructure and services to nearly 15 million residents of two states. In 2002, the MTA violated a strong professional norm of debt management by refinancing $13 billion of long-term debt in a way that increased rather than decreased the cost of repayment. This behavior, heavily influenced by the informal advice of investment bankers, seemed to many observers to con…
Why Bother with Budget Work
Social Capital, E-Government, and Fiscal Transparency in the States
Transparency is one requisite of democratic governance. Many American states have implemented online checkbooks and similar forms of fiscal e-transparency, but not universally or with uniformly high quality. This article seeks to explain why. Correlation and regression results support hypotheses that higher-quality implementation responds to lower state levels of social capital, more traditionalistic political cultures, greater perceptions of off…
Barnard's Regret
Nearly two decades after his seminal Functions of the Executive was published, Chester Barnard came to believe that moral responsibility and accountability might be a more powerful principle for guiding individual actions within organizations than the executive authority it emphasized. This article elaborates one direction in which Barnard might have developed his insight, by adopting ethical acceptance rather than self-interested indifference as…
Governing at arm’s length
This review article debates the democratic consequences of arm’s length governance challenging the prevailing view that its use is necessarily counter-democratic and a poor substitute for direct control by elected politicians. The article explores the roots of the dominant ‘democratic deficit’ perspective on arm’s length bodies in the agency problems generated by political delegation, but also addresses the potential for democratic enhancement po…
Majoritarian Cities
Journal Article Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics Get access Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics by Neil Kraus. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2013. 288 pp. $65.00. Jonathan B. Justice Jonathan B. Justice University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 130, Issue 1, Spring 2015, Pages 151–…
The diffusion of civic technology and open government in the United States
Civic technology is a nascent force in the relationship between governments and communities. Elements of the civic technology ecosystem include open data, related information and communications technology (ICT) innovations and the organizational boundary-spanning practices of civic technology. This paper reports the results of an exploratory study of civic technology adoption by local governments in the United States. The research compares the 11…
Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
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