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- Title
Board Involvement in Policy Making and Administration.
- Authors
Henry, Gary T.; Harms, Stephen W.
- Abstract
The role of different policy actors, including elected and appointed officials and professional administrators, in setting, administering, and implementing policies and programs has been the subject of much investigation. Most recently, an article by James Svara has developed the concept of the continuum of policy and administrative decisions and moved away from the notion of a sharp separation between the two. This article compares the involvement of state level boards using the continuum developed by Svara. Participation in four areas of policy-administrative involvement is empirically and systematically examined for the 68 boards in Virginia with agency wide purviews. Findings indicate that boards are more active in mission and policy areas than in administration and management. However, boards with higher levels of statutory authority are significantly more involved in all four areas.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; UNITED States; PUBLIC trustees; EXECUTORS &; administrators; GOVERNMENT agencies; STATE governments; PUBLIC administration; CIVIL service; GOVERNMENT policy; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1987, Vol 47, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/975589