State Agencies and Their Environments: Examining the Influence of Important External Actors

Brudney, Jeffrey L.; Hebert, F. Ted

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“…These changes have been found to influence gubernatorial success in the administrative arena (see Brudney & Hebert, 1987). These powers are measured by dummy variables for sole gubernatorial control over the budget and unlimited tenure potential for the governorship.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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Governors in the Legislative Arena: The Importance of Personality in Shaping Success

Ferguson

Barth²

2002

Political Psychology

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Research on the leadership of executives in the United States typically follows one of two traditions, emphasizing either characteristics of the incumbent or features of the office. This article brings together these traditions. It draws upon the work of Winter to develop measures of three aspects of personality-the power, achievement, and affiliation drives-and hypothesizes that the power and achievement motives are exhibited in conjunction by successful chief executives. It then tests this hypothesis within the contexts of the American states, thus accounting for both the leaders as individuals and the features of the political and economic environments in which they lead. The primary hypothesis is affirmed. Governors who exhibit high levels of the power and achievement motives in tandem are substantially more likely to achieve their policy goals. In addition, governors who emphasize affiliation are less successful.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governors in the Legislative Arena: The Importance of Personality in Shaping Success

Ferguson

Barth²

2002

Political Psychology

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“…Given the volitional character of most descriptions and analyses of public decision-making, it is not surprising that ecological models have been applied relatively infrequently to public organizations (but see Peters and Hogwood, 1991;Casstevens, 1980;Kaufman, 1976Kaufman, , 1985Brudney and Herbert, 1987). Further, the tendency of ecological models to reify organizations, for example, to assume that they react to the availability of niches as would biological entities, also causes many scholars concerns about the utility and desirability of this approach in the public sector.…”

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Government Reorganization: A Theoretical Analysis

Peters

1992

International Political Science Review

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Reorganization is one of the most common activities of government, but it is not adequately understood, either by practitioners or by scholars. This article applies three broad approaches in administrative theory—purpo sive action, environmental determinism, and institutionalism—to the study of reform in industrialized democracies. Each of these three broad approaches is further divided into a number of more specific approaches. The article evaluates all the available approaches, and ends by arguing in favor of the institutional approach.

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“…Moreover, as Brudney and Hebert argue, the literature on organizations suggests that perceptual data are appropriate to this case, as it is the perceptions of administrators who create the "enacted environment" within which administrators function. [15] This approach has been widely used to examine the influence of a variety of external actors. [16][17][18][19][20] Studies of gubernatorial-bureaucratic relations have generally focused on the institutional powers of the governorship, either individually or combination with each other.…”

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“…[21][22][23][24] Several studies have found that greater gubernatorial formal powers lead to greater gubernatorial influence on bureaucratic agencies. [25][26][27][28] However, a significant relationship is not found in every case. In a recent study, Potoski and Woods find formal powers to be unrelated to the amount of gubernatorial influence reported by state clean air agency administrators.…”

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Governors and the Bureaucracy: Executive Resources as Sources of Administrative Influence

Woods

Baranowski

2007

International Journal of Public Administration

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Recent years have marked the advent of a variety of institutional mechanisms designed to enhance governors' capacity to oversee the bureaucracy. In many states, more traditional gubernatorial resources have also been bolstered. This study evaluates the effectiveness of these tools in influencing the policy activities of state agencies. We find that, in general, these resources significantly increase the amount of gubernatorial influence reported by state administrators. Our evidence suggests that institutional mechanisms specifically directed at bureaucratic influence may be taking the place of more general institutional powers as the primary mechanism for executive influence on state agencies.

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State Agencies and Their Environments: Examining the Influence of Important External Actors

Cited by 70 publications

References 10 publications

Governors in the Legislative Arena: The Importance of Personality in Shaping Success

Governors in the Legislative Arena: The Importance of Personality in Shaping Success

Government Reorganization: A Theoretical Analysis

Governors and the Bureaucracy: Executive Resources as Sources of Administrative Influence

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