Lori Anderson

Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) | VT · Department of Management

An essential question for American public administration scholarship is to what degree does (and should) our constitutional heritage influence our approach to administering the public sphere, and has this changed over time. Much scholarship addresses these questions from a normative theoretical perspective. This study investigates whether the norma...

Just before she turns 50, Molly marries Daniel and moves from sunny Radford Virginia in the pristine Appalachian Mountains of Virginia on the Mid-Atlantic eastern seaboard of America to gray Lancaster in the northwest of England and finds herself in a very different culture. As Molly travels for work across England, she often takes a train through...

Embedded in US federal executive regulatory documents that direct public policy regarding the administration of governmentally-consumed commercially available products or services, the concept of inherently governmental activity addresses the relationship between the public and private sectors and is aligned with privatisation during the era of New...

Two recent books examine Nordic welfare and U.S. employment policies from a historical perspective, asking how these public policies have changedover time, assessing their current status, and considering their likely futures. In Changing Social Equality, The Nordic Welfare Model in the 21st Century, Kvist and others (2012) examine the ways equality...

Significant claims have been made that developments in Information Communication Technology (ICT) can lead to e-democracy. The league tables that are regularly published rating different governments' performance and the laudatory tones in which governments identify their own actions as more democratic in the field of e-government need to be treated...

The qualitative case study considers the essential features of leading a geographically dispersed, semi-virtual, autonomous team to deliver a bespoke MSc in Healthcare Leadership. The study takes place over 4 years and utilizes thematic analysis of an autoethnograhic approach to the role of Cohort Director and analysis of bespoke student evaluation...

Enlightenment thought emerged in a time of autocratic rule. Philosophes Voltaire and Diderot sought unsuccessfully to influence monarchs such as the Emperor Frederick and Catherine the Great. While the U.S. Constitution was influenced by Enlightenment ideas designed to curtail autocracy, such as Montesquieu’s doctrine of the separation of powers, t...

This paper reviews a project designed to challenge the rhetoric that midcareer students attending an urban professional school in an economically depressed area are too busy and face too many social and economic barriers to value a sense of community in the program. The project combines academic topics relevant to public affairs, primarily building...

The use of service-learning courses has evolved in the United States in the past three decades. While the most traditional approach to service learning focuses on what universities and colleges can do for the community (Speck and Hoppe 2004), a more contemporary approach has transformed service learning into a holistic experience that engages educa...

Abstract A Big Question for public administration scholarship is to what degree does (and should) our constitutional heritage influence our approach to administering the public sphere, and has this changed over time. Most scholarship addresses this from a normative theoretical perspective, with little empirical research to support its claims. I con...

Deliberative democracy falls into two broad schools, one that would see deliberation as an improvement to representative, pluralist, “polyarchy” and one that seeks to adapt deliberation to a more radical participatory model of democracy. We argue that deliberation of all kinds has an elite character and that this has particular ramifications for it...

There is a research deficit in public administration. We do not adequately ask how the essential concepts of governments that are expressed in political thought are operationalized through administrative mechanisms and then implemented into practice. The current study began addressing this deficit by investigating how the notion of governing approa...

Abstract Significant claims have been made that developments in e-government can lead to e-democracy. However, the ‘league tables’ that are regularly published rating different governments' performance and the laudatory tones in which governments identify their own actions as more democratic in the field of e-government need to be treated with some...

Abstract This paper presents a conceptual map of the contemporary federal American Public Administration from a Neo-Institutional Organizational Theory Perspective. This map is then used to argue that the American Public Administration is the unique steward of “inherently governmental values.” The paper concludes with a normative argument that the...

This is a summation and commentary on "E-government to E-democracy: High-tech 'solutions' to 'no-tech' problems?" to be presented at the Australian Electronic Governance Conference 2004.

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