Jocelyn M Johnston
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4384796 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jocelyn M Johnston |
| PRENOMES | Jocelyn M |
| SOBRENOME | Johnston |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSTON J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Focusing on the individual in cross‐sectoral collaboration
Research focuses on various macro and meso aspects of collaboration and less on the individuals who make decisions about their organizations' collaborations. Organizational leaders make these decisions based on their interpretations, influenced by their personal characteristics. Existing studies examining organizational outcomes such as a decision to collaborate typically consider these characteristics separately and independently, ignoring the r…
Contracting for Social Programs
Government contracting for social programs typically entails complex multiparty networks of providers, subcontractors, and shared clientele. The fundamental challenges for government contracting in this area include identifying (1) social programs as appropriate candidates for contracting, (2) competitive markets of providers, and (3) accurate transaction costs. Once the decision to contract is made, the government principal’s challenge is to dev…
Does Service Category Matter for Cross-Sectoral Collaboration
Scholarly literature on cross-sectoral collaboration is rich, but incomplete as most studies tend to overlook nuances across different service categories. Though many studies confirm that collaboration may vary by specific service type, very few ask how and why? This study contributes to this area of inquiry by exploring these questions in the context of nonprofit-local government collaboration in a developing country in which nonprofit organizat…
A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration
This article addresses whether perceived goal agreement matters for cross‐sectoral collaboration outcomes. Using original survey data from Lebanon that compares the perceptions of local governcment and nonprofit leaders, the findings indicate perceived goal agreement is salient and linked to judgments that collaboration meets its objectives. The article also examines perceptions of goal agreement as it relates to social (trust) and process (power…
Cross-sector collaboration formality
This research examines collaboration formality as a function of institutional characteristics of organizations as well as personal characteristics of their leaders, in a non-Western context. Using a dataset of local governments and non-profits in Lebanon, we find organizations characterized by resource insufficiency and large staff size, and whose leaders have experience in the other sector to be motivated to use formal arrangements in cross-sect…
Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance
This article examines whether and how the capacity of a street-level organization moderates its ability to perform effectively in the context of a public program reform. We use the case of California probation departments during the phased implementation of the state’s Low-Income Health Program, a major Medicaid reform that offered critical new services for many probation citizens/clients, namely, mental health and substance abuse treatment. We e…
Examining the Influence of Representative Bureaucracy in Public and Private Prisons
Representative bureaucracy theory suggests that demographic representation among street‐level bureaucrats will improve outcomes for minority citizens receiving a given public service. Scholars of representation in public bureaucracies argue that the effect of bureaucrats' demographic profile on outcomes for minority citizens becomes particularly salient in contexts where bureaucrats exercise relatively high amounts of discretion. Empirical eviden…
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…
Who Does It Better? Comparing Immigration Detention Facility Performance in an Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Context
Contracting for prison services has been a topic of discussion for decades. Absent from this discussion is the relationship between contracting for immigration detention and confinement quality, a topic that has gained relevance as the detained immigrant population recently surpassed 440,000 per year. Detaining immigrants presents unique challenges because of detainee characteristics, the performance standards governing facilities, and the inters…
Collaboration, Venus, and Mars
Scholarship across disciplines offers evidence that gender plays a significant role in organizational dynamics. Gender differences in preferences, attitudes, and behaviors affect employee behavior and organizational outcomes. This article extends the gender factor into the realm of interorganizational and intersectoral collaboration to examine not just whether, but also how gender affects the management of these relationships. We analyze these di…
Government Contracts and “Managing the Market”
Theory tells us that competition is the chief driver of improved efficiency and effectiveness in government contracting, yet contract provider markets are often noncompetitive. This study offers a detailed, contextualized examination of public administrative responses to thin contract markets. Following an inductive approach with data from semistructured interviews with contract administrators, the authors offer a preliminary typology of the cond…
Outsourcing Public Service Delivery
Capturing the benefits of competition is a key argument for outsourcing public services, yet public service markets often lack sufficient competition. The authors use survey and interview data from U.S. local governments to explore the responses of public managers to noncompetitive markets. This research indicates that competition is weak in most local government markets (fewer than two alternative providers on average across 67 services measured…
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks
This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that …
State Social Services Contracting
Contracting and Accountability in State Medicaid Reform
Introduction Privatization and contracting out have enjoyed widespread popularity in the current climate of government reform. Frequently, privatization and contracting initiatives are pursued because they are consistent with popular political positions. Among the political benefits of privatization is credit claimed by elected officials--including governors for--reforming and shrinking government, thereby reducing taxpayer burdens (Wallin, 1997;…
Balancing Conflicting Policy Objectives
Public policy decisions frequently require the establishment of a balance between conflicting objectives. This is especially true for many current state policy efforts, particularly with regard to funding for public education. This policy area, which dominates state-local fiscal relationships, has been subjected to substantial challenges in recent years. While local governments have traditionally exercised significant control over public educatio…
Government Contracts and “Managing the Market”
Theory tells us that competition is the chief driver of improved efficiency and effectiveness in government contracting, yet contract provider markets are often noncompetitive. This study offers a detailed, contextualized examination of public administrative responses to thin contract markets. Following an inductive approach with data from semistructured interviews with contract administrators, the authors offer a preliminary typology of the cond…
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks
This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that …
Collaboration, Venus, and Mars
Scholarship across disciplines offers evidence that gender plays a significant role in organizational dynamics. Gender differences in preferences, attitudes, and behaviors affect employee behavior and organizational outcomes. This article extends the gender factor into the realm of interorganizational and intersectoral collaboration to examine not just whether, but also how gender affects the management of these relationships. We analyze these di…
Focusing on the individual in cross‐sectoral collaboration
Research focuses on various macro and meso aspects of collaboration and less on the individuals who make decisions about their organizations' collaborations. Organizational leaders make these decisions based on their interpretations, influenced by their personal characteristics. Existing studies examining organizational outcomes such as a decision to collaborate typically consider these characteristics separately and independently, ignoring the r…
Examining the Influence of Representative Bureaucracy in Public and Private Prisons
Representative bureaucracy theory suggests that demographic representation among street‐level bureaucrats will improve outcomes for minority citizens receiving a given public service. Scholars of representation in public bureaucracies argue that the effect of bureaucrats' demographic profile on outcomes for minority citizens becomes particularly salient in contexts where bureaucrats exercise relatively high amounts of discretion. Empirical eviden…
A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration
This article addresses whether perceived goal agreement matters for cross‐sectoral collaboration outcomes. Using original survey data from Lebanon that compares the perceptions of local governcment and nonprofit leaders, the findings indicate perceived goal agreement is salient and linked to judgments that collaboration meets its objectives. The article also examines perceptions of goal agreement as it relates to social (trust) and process (power…
Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance
This article examines whether and how the capacity of a street-level organization moderates its ability to perform effectively in the context of a public program reform. We use the case of California probation departments during the phased implementation of the state’s Low-Income Health Program, a major Medicaid reform that offered critical new services for many probation citizens/clients, namely, mental health and substance abuse treatment. We e…
Balancing Conflicting Policy Objectives
Public policy decisions frequently require the establishment of a balance between conflicting objectives. This is especially true for many current state policy efforts, particularly with regard to funding for public education. This policy area, which dominates state-local fiscal relationships, has been subjected to substantial challenges in recent years. While local governments have traditionally exercised significant control over public educatio…
Contracting and Accountability in State Medicaid Reform
Introduction Privatization and contracting out have enjoyed widespread popularity in the current climate of government reform. Frequently, privatization and contracting initiatives are pursued because they are consistent with popular political positions. Among the political benefits of privatization is credit claimed by elected officials--including governors for--reforming and shrinking government, thereby reducing taxpayer burdens (Wallin, 1997;…
State Social Services Contracting
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks
This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that …
Government Contracts and “Managing the Market”
Theory tells us that competition is the chief driver of improved efficiency and effectiveness in government contracting, yet contract provider markets are often noncompetitive. This study offers a detailed, contextualized examination of public administrative responses to thin contract markets. Following an inductive approach with data from semistructured interviews with contract administrators, the authors offer a preliminary typology of the cond…
Outsourcing Public Service Delivery
Capturing the benefits of competition is a key argument for outsourcing public services, yet public service markets often lack sufficient competition. The authors use survey and interview data from U.S. local governments to explore the responses of public managers to noncompetitive markets. This research indicates that competition is weak in most local government markets (fewer than two alternative providers on average across 67 services measured…
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…
Who Does It Better? Comparing Immigration Detention Facility Performance in an Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Context
Contracting for prison services has been a topic of discussion for decades. Absent from this discussion is the relationship between contracting for immigration detention and confinement quality, a topic that has gained relevance as the detained immigrant population recently surpassed 440,000 per year. Detaining immigrants presents unique challenges because of detainee characteristics, the performance standards governing facilities, and the inters…
Collaboration, Venus, and Mars
Scholarship across disciplines offers evidence that gender plays a significant role in organizational dynamics. Gender differences in preferences, attitudes, and behaviors affect employee behavior and organizational outcomes. This article extends the gender factor into the realm of interorganizational and intersectoral collaboration to examine not just whether, but also how gender affects the management of these relationships. We analyze these di…
Examining the Influence of Representative Bureaucracy in Public and Private Prisons
Representative bureaucracy theory suggests that demographic representation among street‐level bureaucrats will improve outcomes for minority citizens receiving a given public service. Scholars of representation in public bureaucracies argue that the effect of bureaucrats' demographic profile on outcomes for minority citizens becomes particularly salient in contexts where bureaucrats exercise relatively high amounts of discretion. Empirical eviden…
Cross-sector collaboration formality
This research examines collaboration formality as a function of institutional characteristics of organizations as well as personal characteristics of their leaders, in a non-Western context. Using a dataset of local governments and non-profits in Lebanon, we find organizations characterized by resource insufficiency and large staff size, and whose leaders have experience in the other sector to be motivated to use formal arrangements in cross-sect…
Linking Organizational Capacity and Performance
This article examines whether and how the capacity of a street-level organization moderates its ability to perform effectively in the context of a public program reform. We use the case of California probation departments during the phased implementation of the state’s Low-Income Health Program, a major Medicaid reform that offered critical new services for many probation citizens/clients, namely, mental health and substance abuse treatment. We e…
Contracting for Social Programs
Government contracting for social programs typically entails complex multiparty networks of providers, subcontractors, and shared clientele. The fundamental challenges for government contracting in this area include identifying (1) social programs as appropriate candidates for contracting, (2) competitive markets of providers, and (3) accurate transaction costs. Once the decision to contract is made, the government principal’s challenge is to dev…
Does Service Category Matter for Cross-Sectoral Collaboration
Scholarly literature on cross-sectoral collaboration is rich, but incomplete as most studies tend to overlook nuances across different service categories. Though many studies confirm that collaboration may vary by specific service type, very few ask how and why? This study contributes to this area of inquiry by exploring these questions in the context of nonprofit-local government collaboration in a developing country in which nonprofit organizat…
A recipe for success? The importance of perceptions of goal agreement in cross‐sector collaboration
This article addresses whether perceived goal agreement matters for cross‐sectoral collaboration outcomes. Using original survey data from Lebanon that compares the perceptions of local governcment and nonprofit leaders, the findings indicate perceived goal agreement is salient and linked to judgments that collaboration meets its objectives. The article also examines perceptions of goal agreement as it relates to social (trust) and process (power…
Focusing on the individual in cross‐sectoral collaboration
Research focuses on various macro and meso aspects of collaboration and less on the individuals who make decisions about their organizations' collaborations. Organizational leaders make these decisions based on their interpretations, influenced by their personal characteristics. Existing studies examining organizational outcomes such as a decision to collaborate typically consider these characteristics separately and independently, ignoring the r…
Political science (13 obras) · Business (12 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (10 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Public relations (8 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Context (archaeology (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (6 obras)