Index of Reviews
2006
Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level
Edited by J. Edward Kellough and Lloyd G. Nigro, eds. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006)
Reviewed by Richard Blake
2005
High-Performance Government
Edited by Robert Klitgaard & Paul Light (Rand Corporation, 2005)
Reviewed by A.C. Hyde
Cities and the Creative Class
Richard Florida (New York: Routledge, 2005)
Reviewed by Deniz Z. Leuenberger
2004
Attack on the Federal
Government Workplace— Views from Within
Oman, Ray C. (International Journal of Public Administration, 2003)
Review by Sandra F. Mobley
Balancing the Federal
Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn?
Irene S. Rubin ( Chatham House Publishers, January 2003)
Review by David Allen Hines
Governing by Network:
The New Shape of the Public Sector
Steven Goldsmith and William D. Eggers (Brookings Institution Press,
2004)
Review by Kenneth D. Mitchell
Restoring Fiscal Sanity—How
to Balance the Budget
Alice M. Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill (Brookings Institution Press, 2004)
Review by A.C. Hyde
The Innovators Solution
Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
Business School Press, 2003)
Review by Kenneth D, Mitchell
The Price
of Government, Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent
Fiscal Crisis
David Osborne and Peter Hutchinson (Basic Books, 2004)
Review by Brian Cox
2003
False Prophets: The
Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas are Bad for
Business
James Hoopes (Persus Publishing, 2003)
Review by Ken Mitchell
For the People: Can
We Fix Public Service
John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye (Brookings Institution Press, 2003)
Review by Hyong Yi
Jennifer Government
Max Barry (Doubleday, New York, 2003)
Reviewed by Hyong Yi
May the Best Team Win:
Baseball Economics and Public Policy
Andrew Zimbalist (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003)
Reviewed by James Spaulding
The
Company of the Future
Francis Cairncross (Harvard Business School Press, 2002)
Reviewed by A. C. Hyde
The Public Administration
Theory Primer
H. George Frederickson and Kevin B. Smith (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,
2003)
Review by Frank E. Scott
Urgent Business for America: Revitalizing the Federal
Government for the 21st Century
National Commission on the Public Service (January 2003)
Reviewed by Marissa Kuhn
What Management Is
Joan Magretta and Nan Stone (Free Press, May 2002)
Reviewed by John Parham Jr.
2002
Quicker, Better, Cheaper? Managing Performance in
American Government
Edited by Dull Forsythe (Rockefeller Institute Press: Albany)
Reviewed by Hyong Yi
Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance
in an Age of Complexity
Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe (Jossey Bass, 2002)
Reviewed by A. C. Hyde
The Heart of Change, Real-Life Stories of How People
Change Their Organizations
John P Kottev and Dan S. Cohen (Harvard Business School Press: Boston
MA, 2002)
Reviewed by Elishia Krauss
The Free Market Innovation Machine
Bauntol, Willianz L. Bauntol (Princeton University Press: 2002)
Reviewed by A. C. Hyde
Governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age
Elaine Ciulla Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye (The Brookings Institution
Press, 2002)
Reviewed by A. C. Hyde