Public Administration Review

© American Society for Public Administration

Volume 72, Issue 4 Pages 479 - 632, July/August 2012

How Can We Improve Our Science to Generate More Usable Knowledge for Public Professionals? (pages 479–482)
James L. Perry
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02607.x

Retirement Security for Americans and the Role of Defined-Benefit Pension Plans (pages 483–484)
Thomas P. DiNapoli
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02603.x

James Q. Wilson: "The Legitimacy of Government Itself" (pages 485–486)
John J. DiIulio Jr.
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02602.x

Public Administration Scholarship and the Politics of Coproducing Academic–Practitioner Research (pages 487–495)
Kevin Orr and Mike Bennett
Article first published online: 12 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02522.x

Lowering Barriers to Research by Practitioners (pages 496–497)
David S. Reed
Article first published online: 9 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02599.x

Do Debt Levels Influence State Borrowing Costs? (pages 498–505)
Mark D. Robbins and Bill Simonsen
Article first published online: 12 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02548.x

Enhancing and Measuring Organizational Capacity: Assessing the Results of the U.S. Department of Justice Rural Pilot Program Evaluation (pages 506–515)
Mitchell Brown
Article first published online: 9 MAR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02528.x

Policy Alienation of Public Professionals: The Construct and Its Measurement (pages 516–525)
Lars Tummers
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02550.x

Understanding Shared Roles in Policy and Administration: An Empirical Study of Council-Manager Relations (pages 526–535)
Tansu Demir and Christopher G. Reddick
Article first published online: 1 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02551.x

A View from San Antonio: A City Manager's Perspective (pages 536–537)
Sheryl Sculley
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02606.x

A View from San Antonio: A City Council Member's Perspective (pages 537–538)
Ivy R. Taylor
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02605.x

Emergency Management Research and Practice in Public Administration: Emergence, Evolution, Expansion, and Future Directions (pages 539–547)
Louise K. Comfort, William L. Waugh and Beverly A. Cigler
Article first published online: 30 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02549.x

Resilience in Emergency Management Research (pages 548–549)
Christine Gibbs Springer
Article first published online: 30 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02567.x

Benefiting from Public Sector Innovation: The Moderating Role of Customer and Learning Orientation (pages 550–559)
Torsten Oliver Salge and Antonio Vera
Article first published online: 30 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02529.x

Can Innovation Flourish at a Time of Austerity and Service Reorganization? (pages 560–561)
Lawrence Ashelford
Article first published online: 30 APR 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02562.x

Developing and Testing a Theoretical Framework for Computer-Mediated Transparency of Local Governments (pages 562–571)
Stephan G. Grimmelikhuijsen and Eric W. Welch
Article first published online: 8 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02532.x

Public Service Motivation (PSM) and Support for Citizen Participation: A Test of Perry and Vandenabeele's Reformulation of PSM Theory (pages 572–582)
David Coursey, Kaifeng Yang and Sanjay K. Pandey
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02581.x

Socializer or Signal?, How Agency Accreditation Affects Organizational Culture (pages 583–591)
Manuel P. Teodoro and Adam G. Hughes
Article first published online: 5 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02531.x

Does Involvement in Performance Management Routines Encourage Performance Information Use? Evaluating GPRA and PART (pages 592–602)
Donald P. Moynihan and Stéphane Lavertu
Article first published online: 10 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02539.x

Is the Performance Glass Half Empty or Half Full? (pages 603–604)
John M. Kamensky
Article first published online: 9 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02597.x

Leveraging Technologies in Public Agencies: The Case of the U.S. Census Bureau and the 2010 Census (pages 605–614)
Kevin C. Desouza and Akshay Bhagwatwar
Article first published online: 5 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02592.x

Accountability Unbound (pages 615–622)
Patria de Lancer Julnes
Article first published online: 22 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02611.x

Rethinking the State (pages 622–624)
Rogan Kersh
Article first published online: 11 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02604.x

Kaufman's Forest Ranger, Still Serving (pages 624–626)
Jason Burton
Article first published online: 14 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02591.x

Belief Systems and the Endurance of Public Agencies (pages 626–628)
Maja Husar Holmes
Article first published online: 25 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02608.x

The Empowerment Project: Helpful but Incomplete (pages 629–630)
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Article first published online: 22 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02612.x

Professionalism in Public Administration and Public Service (pages 631–632)
Article first published online: 9 MAY 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02598.x