Since publication of the fourth edition of Labor Relations in the Public Sector, public sector
unions have encountered strong headwinds in many parts of the US Membership is falling in …

The last twenty years have found state governments engaged in a con-geries of activities
aimed at improving institutional performance. Con-stitutional and statutory reforms of the …

With the aim of helping move research from rhetoric to empirical reality, this article reports
results of a national survey of city managers on attitudes towards and actions taken to …

The rise of professionalism in government has stirred some measure of fear and discomfort
in the souls of those who reflect upon the relationship between public administration and …

This article reports the results of a major survey that was distributed to the members of the
International Personnel Management Association and the Section on Personnel and Labor …

Reinventing government is a cross-national movement that has important, and potentially
negative, implications for the career civil service. This article examines the global development …

… Kearney is professor of political science and director of the Master of Public Affairs Program
and the Institute of Public and Urban Affairs at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). His …

This article examines the funding of two key components of state government total compensation:
pensions and other postemployment benefits (OPEB), the latter consisting primarily of …

This article takes an eclectic look at the National Performance Review phenomenon by
focusing on the various reform trends that are encompassed within the NPR agenda. After …

This article examines the state of federalism in the Bush Administration from the perspective
of the policy area of homeland security and disaster response. The article uses the …