Determinants of Collaborative Leadership: Civic Engagement, Gender or Organizational Norms?

This analysis attempts to unravel competing explanations of collaborative leadership styles of state legislative committee chairs. Specifically, the paper considers the influence of community or volunteer experience, gender, and institutional variables. The data show that women chairs are more likely than their male peers to cite as valuable the leadership skills and experiences that they gain through community and volunteer experience. Compared to their male colleagues, women committee chairs on average also report a greater reliance on collaborative strategies in the management of their committees. Prior community or volunteer experience has little or no direct effect on collaborative styles. In contrast, institutional factors have a much stronger and countervailing influence. Legislative professionalization produces a strong negative effect on collaborative style. Results suggest that conformity to institutional norms may be a more compelling influence than prior community experience. The analysis also points to the gendered nature of organizational leadership with men's and women's styles showing different associations to style depending on the number and power of women in a legislature.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Governance in Dark Times

Inspired by Hannah Arendt and several other philosophers, Governance in Dark Times is the first book to explore the philosophical and value underpinnings needed to guide public servants in these times. Featuring down-to-earth discussions of such issues as terrorism, torture, and homeland security, it suggests ways for people in government to think more deeply, judge more wisely, and act more meaningfully. Camilla Stivers argues that the most urgent requirement in dark times is re-kindling what Arendt called the light of the public, and offers practical steps for public servants to create spaces for citizen dialogue and engagement in public life. Ideas like governance of the common ground and public service as social hope will spark discussion and encourage renewed dedication to the work of governing.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1003/thumbnail.jp

An Impossible Job: Report on the Building Bridges Tour

Discusses a tour conducted by the editor-in-chief of \u27Public Administration Review,\u27 Larry Luton, and others around the United States to discuss the journal\u27s past performance, strengths, weaknesses and future. Four questions that were asked at every meeting; The editorial focus and content; How readers felt about the book reviews contained in the journal; The two biggest themes that ran through the discussions

Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era (Studies in Government & Public Policy)

During the first two decades of the twentieth century in cities across America, both men and women struggled for urban reform but in distinctively different ways. Adhering to gender roles of the time, men working for independent research bureaus sought to apply scientific and business practices to corrupt city governments, while women in the settlement house movement labored to improve the lives of the urban poor by testing new services and then getting governments to adopt them. Bureau Men, Settlement Women offers a rare look at the early intellectual history of public administration and is the only book to examine the subject from a gender perspective. It recovers the forgotten contributions of women-their engagement in public life, concern about the proper aims of government, and commitment to citizenship and community-to show that they were ultimately more successful than their male counterparts in enlarging the work and moral scope of government. Stivers\u27s study helps explain public administration\u27s longstanding identity crisis by showing why the separation of male and female roles restricted public administration to an unnecessary instrumentalism. It also provides the most detailed examination in half a century of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research and its role in the development of twentieth-century public administration. Her well-researched critique will help students and professionals better understand their calling and challenge them to reconsider how they think about, educate for, and perform government service.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1008/thumbnail.jp

Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State

Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women’s historical progress as public employees, their current status in federal, state, and local governments, the peculiar nature of the organizational reality they experience, and women’s place in society at large as it is shaped by government.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1006/thumbnail.jp

Obituary for Larry D. Terry

Larry D. Terry died in Atlanta, Georgia on June 17, 2006, of respiratory arrest due to an allergic reaction. At the time of his death, he was vice-president for business and professor of public administration at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). He was 52 years old

Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State

Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women’s historical progress as public employees, their current status in federal, state, and local governments, the peculiar nature of the organizational reality they experience, and women’s place in society at large as it is shaped by government.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1006/thumbnail.jp

An Impossible Job: Report on the Building Bridges Tour

Discusses a tour conducted by the editor-in-chief of \u27Public Administration Review,\u27 Larry Luton, and others around the United States to discuss the journal\u27s past performance, strengths, weaknesses and future. Four questions that were asked at every meeting; The editorial focus and content; How readers felt about the book reviews contained in the journal; The two biggest themes that ran through the discussions