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Melvin J. Dubnick, PhD
About
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Papers, Remarks, etc.
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
1981/1982: Senate Testimony on State Implementation of Federal Standards
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: Are we ready for the nomads? (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)
2011: Dealing with Barnard’s Regret: Accountability and the Zone of Expectations
2012: Accountability as Cultural Keyword
2012: The Power Of Administrative Ethics: Moving Beyond Moralism And Instrumentalism
2013: Blameworthiness, Trustworthiness, and the Second-Personal Standpoint: Foundations for an Ethical Theory of Accountability
2014: Accountability and its Metaphors: From Forum to Agora and Bazaar
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
1987-2018: American Government: Myths and Realities.
1987: Accountability in the public sector: lessons from the Challenger tragedy
1991: American Public Administration: Politics and the Management of Expectations (textbook)
1991: Public Policy and Economic Institutions (edited volume)
1993: Accountability and the Centrality of Expectations in American Public Administration
1993: State economic development policies and national economic growth
1994: A Coup Against King Bureaucracy?
1994: Editing the Policy Studies Journal and Public Administration Review
1994: Issues of Accountability in Flexible Personnel Systems
1995: Oklahoma City (editorial)
1996: Challenges to American Public Administration: Complexity, Bureaucratization, and the Culture of Distrust.
1996: Farewell from the Catbird Seat (editorial)
1998: Army Corps of Engineers
1998: Clarifying Accountability: An Ethical Theory Framework
1998: Customs Service
1998: Forest Service
1998/2000: Accountability
2000: Dialogue: Knowledge and Research (critical exchange)
2000: Morals and Movies: Energizing Ethical Thinking Among Professionals
2000: Spirited Dialogue: The Case for Administrative Evil: A Critique
2000: The Challenges of Civic Education
2001: In Defense of the Electoral College
2002: Postscripts for a ‘State of War’: Public Administration and Civil Liberties After September 11
2002: The Implications for Federalism
2003: Accountability And Ethics: Reconsidering The Relationships
2003: Nurturing Civic Lives: Developmental Perspectives on Civic Education — Introduction
2004: A Framework for Examining Accountability and Value for Money in the UK’s Private Finance Initiative
2005: Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms
2005: Accountability Through Thick and Thin: Making Assessments and Making Cases
2006: Accountability and the Evil of Administrative Ethics
2006: Taking Tough Choices Seriously: Public Administration and Individual Moral Agency
2006: War Narratives: Framing Our Understanding of the War on Terror
2007: Pathologies of Governance Reform: Promises, Pervasions and Perversions in the Age of Accountability
2007: Sarbanes-Oxley And The Search For Accountable Corporate Governance
2007: Sowing and Reaping at the Big Dig: The Legacies of Neomanagerialism
2009: Aggressive Action: In Search of a Dominant Narrative
2009: All Mega-Projects are Local? Citizen Participation Lessons from the Big Dig
2010: Accountable Agents: Federal Performance Measurement and Third-Party Government
2010: Toward a ‘Responsible’ Future: Reframing and Reforming the Governance of Financial Markets
2011: Accountable Governance: Promises And Problems (edited volume)
2011: Conclusion: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
2011: Introduction: The Promises of Accountability Research
2011: Move Over Daniel: We Need Some ‘Accountability Space’
2011: Public Accountability: Performance Measurement, The Extended State, And The Search for Trust (Monograph)
2011: Rethinking the Obsession: Accountability and the Financial Crisis
2011: The Pursuit of Accountability: Promise, Problems, and Prospects
2012: Imagining and Managing Organizational Evil
2013: Power and the Ethics of Reform
2014: Accountability as Cultural Keyword
2014: Barnard’s Regret: Zones of Accountability and the Limits of Authority
2014: The Ontological Challenge
2015: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY, 3rd edition (5 volumes)
2018: “Policy Connections” in Gitelson, Dudley & Dubnick, 12th edition
2018: Chapters in Gitelson, Dudley & Dubnick, 12th edition
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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