Leveraging Technologies in Public Agencies: The Case of the U.S. Census Bureau and the 2010 Census

Emerging technologies are transforming government agencies and the nature of governance and pose new challenges for public managers. Under the leadership of Steven J. Jost, associate director for communications, the U.S. Census Bureau leveraged emerging technologies during the 2010 Census to complete the project under budget while also engaging citizens through the design of viable participatory platforms. The 2010 Census campaign focused on increasing response rates and encouraging citizen participation through innovations in the communication process with citizens and through the infusion of technology. The Census Bureau also effectively managed risks associated with the use of emerging technologies. The authors examine the innovations, the risks, and the effort to manage those risks under Jost’s leadership.     

Civil liberties and the left

Mzwanele Mayekiso, Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa. Monthly Review Press: New York. 1996. pp. 288. (foreword by Mel King)

Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England, Edited by Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995)

Modernization and the Production of Power

Kevin A. Yelvington, Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 286 pp.

Milagros Pena, Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of Ideas in Social Movements (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 222 pp.

Partha Chatterjee (ed), Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 220 pp.

Carol A. Breckenridge (ed.), Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in South Asia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 261 pp.

Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion: Right‐Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States. (New York: The Guilford Press, 1995. pp. 445. $19.95.)     

Fruit at the Hands of Labor

Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Miriam J. Wells, Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.     

Queer zine inter/erupts the endurance of ideas

In the Wake of First Contact. The Eliza Fraser Stories Kay Schaffer Melbourne Cambridge University Press 1995

Youth Cultures: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective Vered Amit‐Talai and Helena Wulff eds London Routledge 1995

Debating Derrida Niall Lucy Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1995     

Are the social sciences really inferior?

Fritz Machlup, at the time of his death in 1983, was emeritus professor of economics at Princeton University and professor of economics at New York University. A former president of the American Economic Association and the International Economic Association, his many influential publications included A History of Thought on Economic Integration, Methodology of Economics and Other Social Sciences,and The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States.This article, which was a favorite of Machlup’s, is reprinted from The Southern Economic Journalof January 1961, with the permission of that journal.     

Water law and the American West(s)

Donald J. Pisani: To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848–1902. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

John Hart: Storm Over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Arthur L. Littleworth and Eric L. Garner: California Water. Point Arena, CA: Solano Press Books, 1995.     

Book reviews

Jill Steans, Gender and International Relations: An Introduction, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998, 224 pp.

José Trías Monge, Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, xii + 228 pp.

Mark Cowling (ed.), The Communist Manifesto: New Interpretations, New York: New York University Press, 1988, xii + 209 pp.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998, xi + 112 pp.

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition, London and New York: Verso, 1998, 84 pp.

Kevin Mattson, Creating A Democratic Public, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, 208 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTES

Book reviewed in this article: G. F. Sawer . Modern Federalism. C. A. Watts and Company Ltd, 1969 Raymond O'Dea . Industrial Relations in Australia. 2nd ed., Sydney, 1970 John Playford . Neo-Capitalism in Australia., Monograph Series, No. 1, Arena Publications Association, Victoria, 1969 Graham Little . The University Experience. Melbourne University Press, 1970 B. R. Davidson . Australia Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation A. D. Neale . The Antitrust Laws of the U.S.A.: A Study of Competition Enforced by Law. Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1970 Ronald F. Bunn . German Politics and the Spiegel Affair: A Case Study of the Bonn System. Louisiana State University Press, 1968 R. T. Appleyard , editor. Man and His Environment. Octagon Lectures 1969, University of Western Australia Press, 1970 G. A. Rennison . We Live Among Strangers: A Sociology of the Welfare Slate. Melbourne University Press, 1970     

Inside the Presidential Communications Machine: An Interview with Martha Joynt Kumar

Martha Joynt Kumar is a professor of political science at Towson University. Her book, Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), examines the media and communications operations of the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In March 2008, Professor Kumar was interviewed in the White House Press Briefing Room by Kevin R. Kosar on behalf of Public Administration Review. As this interview went to press, the American Political Science Association’s Presidency Research Group announced that it had awarded Managing the President’s Message the Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the U.S. presidency published in 2007.     

Reviews

The forgotten antisemites, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Destruction. A History of Austrian Anti‐Semitism. Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxx+426pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. $49.95.

Equating Bolshevism and Jews, Sharman Kadish, Bolsheviks and British Jews. The Anglo‐Jewish Community, Britain and the Russian Revolution. London: Frank Cass, 1992. xiv+298pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00.

A case of Jewish integration?, Michael Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair 1789–1945. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992 c1991. xvi+576pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. £20.00.

Anti‐Judaism vs. antisemitism, Gavin I. Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. x+417pp. Notes. Ind. £45.00.

Evaluating contemporary fascism, Luciano Cheles, Ronnie Ferguson and Michalina Vaughan (eds.), Neo‐Fasdsm in Europe. London: Longman, 1991. xii+299pp. Bibl. Ind. £11.99.

A portrait of Hitler, Ian Kershaw, Hitler. London: Longman, 1991. x+230pp. Notes. Bibl. Chronology. Ind. (Profiles in Power). £7.50.

Israeli society divided, Eliezer Ben‐Rafael and Stephen Sharot, Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x+287pp. Appends. Notes. Ind. Tables. £32.50.

Swiss Jewish history idealized, Aaron Kamis‐Müller, Antisemitismus in der Schweiz, 1900–1930. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 1990. 547+24pp. Ind.     

Resources: Left Listservs and Websites

Gerald Meyer, VITO MARCANTONIO: RADICAL POLITICIAN 1902–1954 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989)

Charney, George, A Long Journey (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968).

Gallagher, Dorothy. All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988).

Lader, Lawrence. Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1946 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1979).

Lagumina, Salvatore J. “Case Studies in Ethnicity and Italo‐American Politicians.” The Italian Experience in the United States, eds. Silvano H. Tomasi and Madeline H. Engel. (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1970), pp. 143–61.

Luthin, Reinhard H. American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Smith, 1954).

Mills, C. Wright; Senior, Clarence; and Goldsen, Rose Kohn. The Puerto Rican Journey: Newest Migrants (New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1950).

Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

Riesman, David. Faces in the Crowd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

Rolle, Andrew. The Italian Americans: Troubled Roots. (New York: The Free Press, 1980).

Sasuly, Richard. “Vito Marcantonio: The People's Politician,” in American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities, ed. Harvey Goldberg (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957), pp. 115–59.

Schaffer, Alan. Vito Marcantonio, Radical in Congress (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966).

Starobin, Joseph. American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Walzer, Kenneth. “The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party.” Radical History Review; 23 (Spring 1980), pp. 104–35.

Herbert G. Gutman, POWER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987)

Peter H. Rossi, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS (Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1989). Charles Hoch and Robert A. Slayton, NEW HOMELESS AND OLD: COMMUNITY AND THE SKID ROW HOTEL (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, John Ahrens eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1989), CAPITALISM and Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene eds. ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM‐STUDIES IN MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Michael Walzer, INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

Andrew Gamble, THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988)     

Keep Them in the Dark: Australian Government Strategy to Weaken Activism against Australia's new Nuclear Reactor

Martin O'Connor, editor: Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. New York: Guilford Publications, 1994.

Kate Soper: What is Nature? Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Jim Schwab: Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue‐Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Michael E. Zimmerman: Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Michael Hough: Cities and Natural Process. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum: GET A LIFE! How to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and Save the world while you're at it. Get A Life Publishing, Toronto, 1995.

Sara Berry: No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.     

Facing reality in the George Bush era

where he is Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor. He was Ronald Reagan’s first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He is author of the recently published Rendezvous with Reality: The American Economy After Reagan,and coauthor of Public Policy toward Corporate Takeovers.     

Looking for Meaning in the Alabama Lectures' Book Series: An Epitaph for an Old Friend of Public Administration after 57 Years

This essay analyzes and reviews the significance of the Alabama Public Administration Lecture Series, one of the most distinguished and long‐lasting platforms in public administration. Based on guest lectures that were delivered annually to University of Alabama graduate students in public administration, the series began in 1944 and concluded in 2000. During those 57 years, most of the lectures were published as books, usually by the University of Alabama Press. The last book of the series will be published in 2009. This article examines the series as a whole and asks, what does the series tell us about public administration? What does it tell us about how our field got to where it is now? These questions are important because the books present a running conversation on the important subjects of public administration. The article shows that the lecture series offers a history of the field, reflecting the topics that were considered important by leading thinkers in their times.     

Gore Vidal’s Anti-Jewish nationalism

Edward Alexander is professor of English at the University of Washington and at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is author of, among other works, Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill; The Resonance of Dust; Isaac Bashevis Singer;and, most recently. The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies.     

Against canons: Liberating the social sciences

She is author of The Origins American Social Science,a study of economics, sociology, political science, and history from their eighteenth-century roots to 1929.     

The Response of Chinese Intellectuals to the US War on Terror

Studying the Chinese intellectual response to the US War on Terror, and how the battle between the Chinese liberals and nonliberals fitted into the above debate, the article focuses on two cases, 9-11 and the war in Iraq. Each will be divided into the expressive response (i.e., how the intellectuals reacted physically); the ideological response (i.e., how they interpreted the incidents in ideologically); and the strategic response (i.e., how they proposed the right strategies for the party-state to manage global affairs). After studying the cases, we should discover how the Chinese intellectuals used nationalist rhetoric to disguise their real disagreements, i.e., their views on domestic politics as well as to advance their own national importance. Simon Shen is Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Dr. Shen is author or editor of Redefining Nationalism in Modern China: Sino–American Relations and the Emergence of Chinese Public Opinions in the 21st Century, Chinese Response to Anti-terrorism, Non-state Actors and Foreign Affairs of the Greater China Region (with Joseph Cheng). His articles have appeared in the East Asia, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, Pacific Review, Politics, Asian Perspective, and Journal of East Asian History. Research for this article was partially funded by a grant from the South China Program, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. The author thanks Dr. Rana Mitter of the University of Oxford and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on the earlier drafts of this article.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. Susan Rose–Ackerman. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN, Syracuse University Multi‐Level Governance. Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 237 pp. £47.50 (cloth).
Reviewed by JULIE M. SIMMONS, University of Guelph Players in the Public Policy Process: Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents. Herrington J. Bryce. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 288 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by ROBERT C. TURNER, Skidmore College Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality. David P. Varady, ed. New York: State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Reviewed by MARY PATTILLO, Northwestern University Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea. Joseph Wong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 222 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Reviewed by HUCK‐JU KWON, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea     

Books in review

Abraham Edel is research professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. The most recent of his many books are Interpreting Education; Aristotle and His Philosophy;and Morality, Philosophy, and Practice.     

MITI and the Japanese Miracle Revisited: Reevaluation of the Administrative‐Centered Government

Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–1975 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982). xvi, 393 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780804712064.