James L Perry
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 281353 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James L Perry |
| PRENOMES | James L |
| SOBRENOME | Perry |
| ASSINATURA | PERRY J L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0137-7208 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 101 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 888 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct
Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in street‐level bureaucrats along two main dimensions: discretion and frontline‐ness. We also identify sub‐…
Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration
This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience. In addition to sharing pedagogical practices that have been used successfully in diverse countries, the article touches on overarching issues rela…
Letters from the Front
One day in the summer of 1918, Latter-day Saint George Greatorex was resting in a dugout near the Western Front in north-east France. He and other men of the 87th Canadian Infantry Battalion were recovering after spending time engaged in brutal trench warfare with the German army.1 While recovering, he began writing a letter for The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (hereafter Star), a periodical published by the British Mission of the Church of…
Are Competitive Public Service Exams Counter‐Productive? A Survey Experiment From Two East Asian States
Public service exams are extremely competitive in East Asia. Does a high entry bar impede people with high public service motivation (PSM) from taking the exam? If so, what kinds of people are interested in taking a difficult public service exam? We employ a randomized control trial (RCT) to manipulate perceptions of exam competitiveness, using 1804 survey responses from online advertisements targeting individuals interested in public service car…
“Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way”
William F. Bromley, a native of American Fork, Utah, visited the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair in Portland, Oregon, during the summer and fall of 1905. He was one of two and a half million visitors who saw Americana unleashed.1 Exhibits from across the world celebrated the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The fair's deeper purpose, however, was to facilitate further American commercial expansion in the Pa…
Measuring Reputational Signals Regarding Public Sector Professions
Public administration scholars are devoting increasing attention to the concept of reputation. The emphasis reflects a long-standing concern in the field with the sources of power and influence on administrative processes. This study extends the investigation of reputation from organizational reputation to reputational signals regarding public sector professions. We begin with a definition of reputational signals. We then develop a survey instrum…
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance
In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil servants to at‐will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule F, has stimulated a partisan debate about dismantling the merit system in the US federal government. A substantial international body of evidence has developed during the last three decades about the effects of administrative practices associated with meritocracy and the like…
Building global public administration knowledge
Public administration has been seeking to develop a global knowledge base, dating back to the early days of the field. Despite expressed interest in building such a knowledge base, scholars continue to criticize overly narrowly public administration knowledge, which tends to favor developed countries and the Global North. This article applies principles from collaboration theory, which was developed for solving complex problems, to set a course f…
The Challenges of Global Church History for Those outside the United States of America
On April 6, 1830, the same day The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was formally organized, Joseph Smith received a revelation that “a record [shall be] kept among you” (Doctrine and Covenants 21:1). Since then, through the calling of John Whitmer and subsequent expansions and developments, the church developed the Church History Department.1 Because the department headquarters are in North America, international scholars of the Latter…
Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Expert analysis of American governance challenges and recommendations for reform Two big ideas serve as the catalyst for the essays collected in this book. The first is the state of governance in the United States, which Americans variously perceive as broken, frustrating, and unresponsive. Editor James Perry observes in his Introduction that this perception is rooted in three simultaneous developments: government's failure to perform basic tasks…
Influencing Public Transportation Policy Through Community Engagement and Coalition Building
Partnerships between community-based organizations are crucial to identifying and addressing the needs of a community. The Transportation Coalition will continue its work in local public transportation policy. A long-term policy objective is fare-free transit on the city bus system
Elevating the Case for Leadership Development Programs
Competent leadership is essential to helping achieve agency missions. While governments around the globe invest in leadership development, most struggle to calculate the return on their investment (ROI). The lack of ROI evaluations makes it difficult to maintain leadership development budgets during financial crises and political changes. In this article we outline three methods for assessing ROI for leadership development
Understanding evolving public motivational practices
New public management (NPM) has been the focus of research and reform practices in countries globally since the late 1970s. This article looks at NPM in historical perspective with particular attention to understanding the evolution of public motivational practices. Three different eras and motivational models common in OECD countries are discussed—the bureaucratic model, the NPM model, and the new public service model. This long‐linked historica…
Conceptual Bases of Employee Accountability
The external control of public organizations and their members, commonly referred to as accountability, is an enduring theme in public administration. This article shifts attention from a traditional focus on accountability as a macro-institutional matter to the psychology of accountability, that is, whether and how employees internalize accountability systems. The internalization of rules and expectations varies by individual, which, in turn, ha…
Democracy, Public Administration, and Public Values in an Era of Estrangement
This essay responds to the prevailing political environment of estrangement that can be seen in the growing distrust of public institutions, intensifying levels of political polarization, and rising support for populism, particularly in the United States. These trends have contributed to a diminished sense of publicness in public administration, including an erosion of public values and political legitimacy, and an increasingly cynical view of th…
The 2017 John Gaus Award Lecture
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Public Service Motivation Research
Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always inform management and leadership. This article purposefully reviews public service motivation research since 2008 to determine the extent to which researchers have identified lessons for practice. The results of the investigation support several lessons—among them usin…
Legacy and Stewardship
Where Have You Gone, Harold Seidman
Amplifying the Voices of Practitioners in PAR
Practicing What We Preach! Public Administration Review Promotes Transparency and Openness
Do Leadership Training and Development Make a Difference in the Public Sector? A Panel Study
Although significant progress has been made in developing leadership theory and understanding the traits, skills, behaviors, and styles that make a good leader, progress in bridging the gap between theory and practice using models of leadership training and development has been slow. This research attempts to answer the question of whether leadership training and development programs in the public sector improve leader and organizational performa…
Is Public Administration Vanishing
Public Administration Needs to Become a Player in the Ratings and Rankings Business
Know Your Values and Be Prepared
Collaboration Processes
Social science research contains a wealth of knowledge for people seeking to understand collaboration processes. The authors argue that public managers should look inside the “black box” of collaboration processes. Inside, they will find a complex construct of five variable dimensions: governance, administration, organizational autonomy, mutuality, and norms. Public managers must know these five dimensions and manage them intentionally in order t…
Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations
The growth in international research on public service motivation (PSM) raises a number of important questions about the degree to which the theory and research developed in one country can contribute to our understanding of PSM in other counties. To help address this issue, this study revisits the conceptual and operational definitions of PSM to address weaknesses previously noted in the literature. Although some important steps have been taken …
Back to the Future? Performance‐Related Pay, Empirical Research, and the Perils of Persistence
Research Methodology in the "Public Administration Review," 1975-1984
Public administration was in an early stage of development when Luther Gulick' called for a "science of administration."Gulick's exhortation became a source of heated and continuing controversy that centers around positivist versus alternative views of appropriate research methodology.2This paper examines the last ten years of Public Administration Review (PAR) methodology and suggests directions for its future development.Two general methods are…
Motivating Employees in a New Governance Era
Public Service Motivation Research
Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always inform management and leadership. This article purposefully reviews public service motivation research since 2008 to determine the extent to which researchers have identified lessons for practice. The results of the investigation support several lessons—among them usin…
Values Management
This article explores the process by which formal management systems foster the creation of shared organization values, addressing the basic question: Can workplace values be “managed?” Drawing upon interviews conducted at a Department of Defense installation with civilian employees and managers over a 5-year period, we use comparative case analysis to explore differences in the relationships between installation practices and social values acros…
Organizational Commitment
Two models of the factors leading to organizational commitment are compared: the member-based model, which holds that commitment originates in the actions and personal attributes of the organizational member, and the organization-based model, which is based on the premise that commitment reflects a member's reciprocation for the organization's having provided resources that satisfy important needs. Although the latter model received more support …
Democracy and the New Public Service
In 1968, Frederick Mosher published his influential book Democracy and the Public Service. This article revisits themes Mosher developed in the book to assess the status of our democracy in the context of a new public service. The author argues that the new public service poses significant challenges for democracy. One is that new public service is simultaneously more heterogeneous and more loosely tied to traditions of public service. Another at…
Returning to Our Roots
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance
In October 2020, President Donald Trump sought to convert many US federal civil servants to at‐will employees by executive order. Trump's initiative, referred to as Schedule F, has stimulated a partisan debate about dismantling the merit system in the US federal government. A substantial international body of evidence has developed during the last three decades about the effects of administrative practices associated with meritocracy and the like…
Egpa symposium on public service motivation and performance
status: Published
Do Campaign Web Sites Really Matter in Electoral Civic Engagement
This study explores the impact of campaign web sites on electoral civic engagement by examining 2004 Internet Tracking Survey data. Propensity score matching and the recursive bivariate probit model are employed to deal with endogeneity and the missing data problem, which are often ignored in existing literature. Findings show that effects of campaign web sites vary across individual engagements and generally support reinforcement theory rather t…
Does Service Affect Citizenship
The idea of citizen service has been given increasing attention as a remedy for problems of civic disengagement. This study reviews 37 empirical studies about the relationship between service and citizenship. A formal model of change is used to guide the review. Six types of citizenship outcomes are discussed: citizenship-related cognitive understanding, citizenship attitudes, citizenship skills, institutional change, philanthropic and civic beha…
Making Policy by Trial and Error
Public Management
Practicing What We Preach! Public Administration Review Promotes Transparency and Openness
Innovation attributes, policy intervention, and the diffusion of computer applications among local governments
Are Computers Boosting Productivity? A Test of the Paradox in State Governments
An issue that has long nagged scholars who study the effects of information technology (IT) investments is the so-called productivity paradox. Investments in IT have promised productivity improvements, but the benefits often have not materialized. This research explicitly studies many of the explanations for null findings in previous research in a rarely studied context, state governments. This research employs several novel features-including in…
An Interorganizational Analysis of Power, Conflict, and Settlements in Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Despite increased interest in public sector collective bargaining, a survey of recent attempts to build theory about the dynamics and outcomes of union-management negotiations in public organizations reveals that little progress has been made. One approach that appears fruitful is interorganizational analysis. In an interorganizational context, organizations interact with other autonomous organizations to make joint decisions that have implicatio…
Understanding evolving public motivational practices
New public management (NPM) has been the focus of research and reform practices in countries globally since the late 1970s. This article looks at NPM in historical perspective with particular attention to understanding the evolution of public motivational practices. Three different eras and motivational models common in OECD countries are discussed—the bureaucratic model, the NPM model, and the new public service model. This long‐linked historica…
The Transformation of Governance
The latter 20th and beginning of the 21st century have ushered in new forms of governance, opening the gates to what has been variously described as a “new public service,” a “multisectored public service,” and a “state of agents.” As government authority is dispersed, we increasingly rely on these new public servants for service delivery and policy implementation. But who are now the agents of the state? How might the changed makeup of a new pub…
The Role of the Nonprofit Sector in Hong Kong’s Development
The recent handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) brought Hong Kong worldwide attention and scrutiny. In the run up to the handover, the international media prominently featured stories about Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalism and the stability created by its administrative institutions. Lost in the media attention was the role of nonprofit organizations and the voluntary sector in Hong Kong’s political and economic develo…
Bureaucratic and Strategic Human Resource Management
Journal Article Bureaucratic and Strategic Human Resource Management: An Empirical Comparison in the Federal Government Get access Debra J. Mesch, Debra J. Mesch Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James L. Perry, James L. Perry Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lois Recascino Wise Lois Recascino Wise Indiana University Search for oth…
An Interorganizational Analysis of Power, Conflict, and Settlements in Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Despite increased interest in public sector collective bargaining, a survey of recent attempts to build theory about the dynamics and outcomes of union-management negotiations in public organizations reveals that little progress has been made. One approach that appears fruitful is interorganizational analysis. In an interorganizational context, organizations interact with other autonomous organizations to make joint decisions that have implicatio…
Predicting Local Government Strike Activity
Predicting Local Government Strike Activity
Innovation attributes, policy intervention, and the diffusion of computer applications among local governments
Evaluating the Union-Management Relationship in Government
Collective bargaining and public employee unionism now pose preeminent challenges in government at all levels. Public managers' and legislators' attentions are, at this stage of the development of public sector bargaining, cast around pragmatic concerns such as the legalization of bargaining and the administration of day-to-day union-management relations. An area of particular neglect, suggests Newland, is the relationship of bargaining to social…
Collective Bargaining-The Search for Solutions
The Federal Push to Bring Computer Applications to Local Governments
Federal officials concerned with science and technology policy have advocated the diffusion of technological innovations as means for improving the payoffs from R&D investments.' Both federal and local officials view the local government sector as an area for major payoffs from technological innovations aimed at improving productivity.2 Since local government is highly labor-intensive, they hope that significant productivity improvements can be a…
The Impacts of Collective Bargaining on Local Government Services
7IShe past decade's huge growth in local government expenditures, the near bankruptcy of major American cities, and the rising swell of taxpayer discontent are leading indicators of a continuing urban fiscal crisis. A belief of many local government officials, citizens, and scholars is that collective bargaining is partly, and perhaps substantially, to blame for this fiscal crisis.' The specific impacts of local government employee unionization a…
Chief Executive Support and Innovation adoption
This article tests a model of the influence of chief executive support on innovation outcomes in local government organizations. Propositions taken from the literature are causally ordered and tested using path analysis. The model is weakly supported by the analysis. Several explanations are offered for the results
The Adoptability of Inno Va Tions
Adoptability is the probability that an innovation will be incorprated by an organization. This study explores the question of the adoptability of an innovation for a particular class of technological innovations, computer applications, within the context of American local governments. Four conceptual dimensions are explored to determine their likely independent and interactive influences upon the adoptability of an innovation
Public Management
Reforming the Upper Levels of the Bureaucracy
The Senior Executive Service (SES) was considered the cornerstone of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 by its framers. A longitudinal investigation of the SES, among employees in grade levels 13 and above in five federal agencies, reveals that after the first two years virtually none of the major objectives of the architects of the SES are perceived as having been met. The theoretical underpinnings of the SES are reviewed and provide a basis f…
Federal Merit Pay
Pay for performance has long been a goal of federal personnel policy, but in practice few civil
Organizational Commitment
Two models of the factors leading to organizational commitment are compared: the member-based model, which holds that commitment originates in the actions and personal attributes of the organizational member, and the organization-based model, which is based on the premise that commitment reflects a member's reciprocation for the organization's having provided resources that satisfy important needs. Although the latter model received more support …
Public Management
Capital Corruption
This work is quality analysis of the problems posed by Action Committees in American life. As the author notes in his new introduction: Political corruption, as measured by campaign contributions of special interests to elected officials, increased significantly in the few years since the first publication of Capital Corruption. The number of PACs rose from 2,551 in 1980 to 4,175 by The percentage of PAC contribution of total campaign costs incre…
The Higher Civil Service in Europe and Canada
Legislating Bureaucratic Change
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies
A Task Environment Approach to Organizational Assessment
In recent years, interest has grown in the comprehensive and systematic measurement of organizational behavior. One reflection of this interest is the increased use of organizational assessment which is the process of measuring the effectiveness of an organization from a social systems perspective.' An organizational assessment is grounded in conceptual models of organizations and is typically holistic, i.e., focused on the task-performance capab…
Research Methodology in the "Public Administration Review," 1975-1984
Public administration was in an early stage of development when Luther Gulick' called for a "science of administration."Gulick's exhortation became a source of heated and continuing controversy that centers around positivist versus alternative views of appropriate research methodology.2This paper examines the last ten years of Public Administration Review (PAR) methodology and suggests directions for its future development.Two general methods are…
Comparative Performance in Urban Bus Transit
The recent surge of interest in privatization reflects citizen and politician desires for reducing costs and improving quality of public services. This study assessed the costs and benefits of privatization in the context of urban bus transit. Five ownership-management structures were compared on a series of performance indicators. The results indicate that privately owned and operated systems produced more output per dollar and generated revenue…
The Public-Private Distinction in Organization Theory
Making Policy by Trial and Error
Federal Merit Pay, Round II
A decade ago, Congress passed the U.S. Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA). The merit pay provisions of the 1978 reforms were hailed as a means for making federal managers and their organizations more responsive, efficient, and effective. Merit pay proved instead to be demoralizing and counterproductive. Among its shortcomings were inadequate funding, pay inequities between managers and nonmanagers, and invalid performance appraisals.1 Congre…
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