Index 301
Th e Common Defense (Huntington), 48
Common pool resources (CPRs), 220
Communication theory, 107–108
Comparative administration, 142
Computer simulations, 72, 87
Congressional co-management, eff ects of,
32–35
Consolidated systems theory, 84
Consolini, Paula, 81, 172
Context and task, contingent eff ects of, 30
Contracting out, 118–123, 128
Cooper, Terry L., 116
Corbin, Juliet, 163
Council-manager government
in American cities, 80
corporate, or board of directors, model,
21, 22 (fi g. a)
council-dominant model, 21–22,
22 (fi g. b)
council-incursion model, 22–23,
22 (fi g. c)
council-manager standoff model,
22 (fi g. d), 23
growth of, 90
leadership in, 23–24, 23 (fi g.)
Coupling
decision theory and, 186, 187
garbage can theory and, 188
high-reliability organizations and,
180–181
importance of, 69
institutional theory and, 70, 81
loose, 81, 180, 186–188
in organizational economy, 192
patterns of interdependence and, 76
tight, 81, 192, 238
type of agreements and, 238
universities as example of, 187
CPRs (common pool resources), 220
Creating Public Value: Strategic
Management in Government
(Moore), 106, 117
Critical theory, 132, 134–135
Crosby, Barbara, 106
Cuban missile crisis, 48
Cyclical change, theory of, 5Dahl, Robert, 18
Davis, James H., 124
De fi ne Licht, Jenny, 194
Decentralization, 44, 98, 223, 256
Decision theory
action theory, comparison to, 132–133
ambiguity, 183, 184–187, 192–193,
261–262
anchoring, 175
anomalies, 175
assessment of, 262
biases, 175, 194
bounded rationality, 171, 173–174, 176,
261, 262
bounded rationality, testing of, 181–182
coupling, 186, 187
decision discretion, models of, 190–191
defi ned, 260
incremental decisionmaking, 171, 177,
261
irrationality/nonrationality, 174–176, 262
loss aversion, 175
modern infl uence of, 109, 125
organizational economy and, 192–193
origins of, 167–168
purposes and characteristics, 97
rational conserving effi ciency concept,
170–171
rationality, 172–173
System 1 and System 2, 175
Waldo-Simon debate, 169–170
See also Logic of appropriateness; Logic
of consequences
DeHart-Davis, Leisha, 260
DeHoog, Ruth Hoogland, 209, 210
Democracy, administration and, 15, 37–38,
43, 45–47, 62, 169, 215–216, 219, 254,
264, 266
Denhardt, Robert, 132