Research Resources in Public Administration a Companion Guide to the Public Administration Gateway
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Research Resources in Public Administration A Companion Guide to the Public Administration Gateway Edited by: Marc Holzer Janice Flug Seth J. Meyer Chengxin Xu Leanne McAuliffe Research Resources in Public Administration A Companion Guide to The PA Gateway The PA Gateway, an initiative of the Institute for Public Service at Suffolk University and the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), has been launched as a comprehensive and accessible portal to the core resources in the field. Many of these resources can be accessed at no charge. They should enable public managers to deliver services to citizens as promised; allow students to find and build successful careers; and empower academics to utilize expanded sets of quantitative and qualitative data in their research. Citations in this volume correspond to the website for The PA Gateway that has been developed and maintained by the Institute for Public Service at Suffolk University—Boston. The PA Gateway is a free, open-access, resource portal that contains more than 2,000 sources in the field of public administration, public policy, and public affairs. http://www.aspanet.org/PAGateway Editors Marc Holzer, PhD Distinguished Professor, Institute for Public Service Suffolk University—Boston Janice Flug Emerita Librarian American University Seth J. Meyer School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark Chengxin Xu School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark Leanne McAuliffe Institute of Public Service Suffolk University—Boston ISBN: 978-0-942942-30-9 Public Administration Gateway Website http://www.aspanet.org/PAGateway Published by the American Society for Public Administration 1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20016 www.aspanet.org, [email protected] This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2017S1A3A2067636). Reproduction We hereby grant permission for users to copy wording from this book for their personal use. Faculty, staff and students may reproduce this book for personal and non-commercial use. Comments and Suggestions Please send comments, suggested additions, updates and corrections to: Karen Garrett, CAE, Chief of Communications, Marketing and Membership American Society for Public Administration [email protected] Table of Contents Chapter 1 ........................................................................................................................1 Introduction to A Companion Guide to the Public Adminsitration Gateway Marc Holzer and Chengxin Xu Chapter 2 ........................................................................................................................7 Journals Janice Flug, Eileen Burnash and Seth J. Meyer Chapter 3 ......................................................................................................................23 Magazines and Newspapers: Print and Online Stacey Marien, Anne Elguindi and Robert Labaree Chapter 4 ......................................................................................................................33 Indexing and Abstracting Services Kirsten Allen and Geraldine Foudy Chapter 5 ......................................................................................................................45 Handbooks, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries Byron Price, Lamar Bennett and Seth J. Meyer Chapter 6 ....................................................................................................................107 Government Documents and Reports Jonathan Potter and Susan Anderson Chapter 7 ....................................................................................................................119 Statistics and Numeric and Spatial Data Ann Elguindi and Kim Ricker Chapter 8 ....................................................................................................................127 Libaries and Archives Stephanie Carter, Meg Meiman and Patricia J. West Chapter 9 ....................................................................................................................161 Case Studies: Public Administration, Affairs and Management: Online and Print Byron Price, Lamar Bennett and Kim Tae Hee Chapter 10 ..................................................................................................................193 Bibliographies Janice Flug Chapter 11 ..................................................................................................................207 Websites and Web Searching Ray Schwartz and Marc Fudge Chapter 12 ..................................................................................................................211 Teaching Resources and Multimedia Ray Schwartz, Jaeduk Keum and Yuguo Liao Chapter 13 ..................................................................................................................223 Writing Aids Mary Mintz, Gwendolyn Reece and Terry Hall Chapter 14 ..................................................................................................................245 Grants from Governments and Foundations Jennifer Nason Davis, Neil De Haan and John Vadnais Chapter 1 Introduction to A Companion Guide to The PA Gateway Marc Holzer and Chengxin Xu he field of public administration in America, and beyond, is complex, dynamic, and evolving. From the time of a call for a science of public administration by Woodrow Wilson in 1887, the discussion of the scope and essence of this area has never Tstopped. Since the development of the field, scholars of public administration have established a large variety of perspectives to define this discipline. In Wilson’s book, The Study of Administration, he proposed scientific research on public administration, which should be separated from the proper scope of politics. A group of theories were developed based on this dichotomy between politics and administration. These theories established the orthodoxy of public administration in the early Twentieth Century. As stated in the first textbook of public administration by Leonard D. White, the study of public administration is built on four important assumptions that decide the nature of this subject. In White’s text, administration is assumed to be a “single process,” and it assumes that “the study of administration should start from the base of management rather than the foundation of law” (Storing, 1965). In addition, White suggested that there is a “significant tendency” to transform the artistry nature of public administration into science. Lastly, White presents the idea that the issue of public administration will become “the heart of the problem of modern government” (Storing, 1965). White’s perspective stands as an example of the orthodox definition of public administration, from which a group of managment theories were developed. Scholars started to incorporate Max Weber’s bureaucracy-based theory, as well as Frederick Taylor’s scientific management theory, into the study of public administration. Luther Gulick’s principles of administration, rules of work specialization, and role of the executive have largely defined the scope of public administrative research. The ultimate focus of classic public administration theory was effectiveness and efficiency. An opposing group suggested that administration and politics can never be separated and, therefore, the science of public administration is not simply research on executive process and management. For this group of researchers, the value of public administration is not only effectiveness and efficiency, but also social equity. Such a standpoint does not diminish the existence of classic theory in public administration, but adds more depth to the field. In “Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers,” David Rosenbloom presents three approaches to public administration: the managerial approach, the political approach, and the legal approach. According to Rosenbloom, each of these approaches have separate origins and different organizational structure and views of the individual, which reflects the constitutional separation of powers. All of these approaches are valuable both for academic studies and the practice of public administration, and “seeking to unify theory by allowing one approach to drive out the others would promote public bureaucracy in the most invidious sense of the term” (Rosenbloom, 1983). Figure 1 summarizes three approaches to public administration as proposed by Rosenbloom. Holzer and Gabrielian identified “five great ideas” in American public administration during its evolution (Holzer and Gabrielian, 1998). By reviewing previous taxonomies of public administration theories, the authors concluded that “it is important to discuss theories and ideals of public administration… from the viewpoint of their impact on the development of the field, the rhetoric that justified their embrace by the public, and the factors that shaped them” (Holzer and Gabrielian, 1998). The “five great ideas” Research Resources in Public Administration • 1 Chapter 1 summarized by the article are: 1) Honest, nonpartisan, and businesslike government, which act as the fundamental concepts for the establishment of the field; 2) Classic management models, which focus on the efficiency of the organization with a minimum of wasted energy, including Weber’s model of bureaucracy and Taylor’s scientific management; 3) Politics and policy-making,