Source: Supplement, Public Administration Review, Vol. 68 no. S1, December 2008
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From the introduction:
The featured authors cast considerable light on developments since the release of the National Commission on the State and Local Public Service’s report “Hard Truths/Tough Choices: An Agenda for State and Local Reform.” They note which of the various recommendations embedded in the report have taken root and which have not. They address the implications of Katrina and other new developments that the commission did not anticipate when we drafted our report. In sum, they provide a knowledge base that, in the spirit of the original commission, can help inform those committed to a new reform agenda.
Articles include:
• State and Local Governance Fifteen Years Later: Enduring and New Challenges – Frank J. Thompson
• Executive Orders and Administrative Control – Margaret R. Ferguson, Cynthia J. Bowling
• Continuity and Change in Executive Leadership: Insights from the Perspectives of State Administrators – Brendan F. Burke, Chung-Lae Cho, Deil S. Wright
• Strengthening Local Government Leadership and Performance: Reexamining and Updating the Winter Commission Goals – James H. Svara
• Personnel Reform in the States: A Look at Progress Fifteen Years after the Winter Commission – Lloyd G. Nigro, J. Edward Kellough
• State and Local Government Procurement and the Winter Commission – Matthew Potoski
• From Measurement to Management: Breaking through the Barriers to State and Local Performance – Mary Bryna Sanger
• The Evolution and Continuing Challenges of E-Governance – Sharon S. Dawes
• Electronic Funds and Benefits Transfers, E-Government, and the Winter Commission – Maureen A. Pirog, Craig L. Johnson
• State and Local Fiscal Sustainability: The Challenges – Jeffrey I. Chapman
• The Challenge of Strengthening Nonprofits and Civil Society – Steven Rathgeb Smith
• Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Challenges in Managing Philanthropic Support for Public Services – Charles Brecher, Oliver Wise
• Learning from the States? Federalism and National Health Policy – Carol S. Weissert, Daniel Scheller
• Federalism Revised: The Promise and Challenge of the No Child Left Behind Act -Kenneth K. Wong
• Mega-Disasters and Federalism – Marc Landy