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Melvin J. Dubnick, PhD
2006: Are we ready for the nomads? (Remarks)
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1973: The Inflexible “Planning Image”: A Study in the Impact of Professional Bias on Development Policy
1976: The Fragmentation of Public Policy Analysis: The Example of U.S. Regulatory Policy
1980: Let’s Not Sentence Amtrak System to a Summary Execution
1981: Agencies, Functions and Actions: The Conceptual Quagmire in Regulatory Policy Theory and Practice
1981: Interorganizational Arrangements in Regulatory Policy Delivery
1981: The Federal Tool Box: Administrative Craftsmanship in Intergovernmental Regulation
1982: Administrative Efficiency and Responsibility Under Juridical Democracy
1982: Coordinating Environmental Regulation: Program Responses to a Multifaceted Problem
1983: Industrial Policy in American States: The Invisible Side of the Debate
1985: Accountability in Public Administration: A Manifestation of the Janus Myth
1985: Intergovernmental Strategies for National Industrial Policy
1985: The Role of Subnational Governments in the American Economy
1986: Accountability and the Management of Expectations: The Challenger Tragedy and Costs of Democracy
1991: Accountability and the Centrality of Expectations in American Public Administration
1992: Rethinking Accountability
1993: Public Administrative Behavior and Complexity: A Preliminary Model with Applications
1996: Clarifying Accountability: An Ethical Theory Framework
1996: Public Service Ethics And The Cultures Of Blame
1997: POLITICSNOW Classroom: Epilogue And Prologue
1998: Educating Nomads: Narratives and the Future of Civic Education
1999: Demons, Spirits, and Elephants: Reflections on the Failure of Public Administration Theory
2002: But Can You Count on Them to be Ethical?
2002: Seeking Salvation for Accountability
2002: Some Brief Comments on Global Trends Impacting on American Public Administration
2002: The Rhetoric and Promises of Accountability (Lecture)
2003: Accountability Through Thick and Thin: Preliminary Explorations
2003/2004: Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
2004: Accountability Matters (Lecture)
2004: Accounting for Accountability
2004: Conceptual Promiscuity and Credible Research on Accountable Governance (Outline of Remarks)
2004: Exploring the Relationship Between Accountability and Performance in UK’s Private Finance Initiative
2004: Integrative Governance in Northern Ireland
2004: Prosecuting Corruption: The Case of Pakistan
2004: Separated by a Common Subject (Lecture)
2004: The Evil of Administrative Ethics
2005: Taking Tough Choices Seriously: Public Administration and Individual Moral Agency
2005: The False Promises of Accountability (Remarks)
2006: Orders of Accountability
2006: Pathologies of Governance Reform: Promises, Pervasions and Perversions in the Age of Accountability (Lecture)
2006: Performance as a False Promise of Accountability: The Case of American Schools
2006: Performance as a False Promise of Accountability”; “False Promises of Performance Accountability” (Korea Seminar Presentations)
2007: Sarbanes-Oxley and the Search For Accountable Corporate Governance
2007: Situating Accountability: Seeking Salvation for the Core Concept of Modern Governance (ms)
2008: Accountability as a Meta-Problem
2008: Accountability, Adam Smith and Policy Choice In World Financial Markets
2009: Retrieving the Meaning of Accountability in Financial Market Regulation
2010: ‘A moral being is an accountable being’: Adam Smith and the Ethical Foundations
2010: Fixing Financial Markets: The Role of Accountability Regimes
2010: The Promise of Accountable Performance (Presentation)
Publications
1974: The Planner’s Image: The Impact of Expertise On Development Planning and Policymaking (PhD Dissertation)
1976: Blaming the Planner: An Alternative Explanation of Development Program Failure
1977/1978: Comparing Policy Alternatives
1978: Three Approaches to Health Care
1979: Problems in U.S. Standard-Setting: The Implications of the Shift to Control Functions
1979: The Why and How of Policy Analysis
1981: [Review of] Promise and Performance: Choosing and Implementing Environmental Policy
1981: Government Regulation: Advice and Analysis
1981: Nationalizing State Policies
1982: Decentralization of Agriculture
1982: Regulatory Policy Analysis: Working in a Quagmire
1985: Industrial policy and the states
1987: Accountability in the public sector: lessons from the Challenger tragedy
1998: Clarifying Accountability: An Ethical Theory Framework
2005: Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
2006: Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
2018: Demons, Spirits, and Elephants
2020: Dissecting the Semantics of Accountability and Its Misuse
2021: A Tribute to H. George Frederickson
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