The U.S. Congress created the small disadvantaged business (SDB) and women-owned small business (WOSB) programs to promote fairness in government contracting. In this study, we examine whether increases in racial and gender representation in federal agencies correlates with the proportion of...

Organizational change and innovation has been a central theme in public management research for some time. In an age of government reinvention, downsizing, and contracting out, it is all the more relevant for the field to understand how organizations can successfully approach large-scale,...

Social equity and social justice have been a fundamental concern for public administration scholars and practitioners. So far the literature is largely normative in nature and centered on John Rawls’ theory of justice, paying less attention to how public administrators actually think about...

This paper examines the nature of learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. I take Koppenjan and Klijn’s (2004) framework for understanding network uncertainty and apply it to an extreme example of uncertainty, an interorganizational crisis taskforce dealing with an...

Performance-based budgeting has long been a recommended reform in both industrial and developing countries. Yet considerable ambiguity remains on how to define and implement this approach. A relatively strict definition is that performance-based budgeting allocates resources based on the...

A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the...