Table of Contents
 

2004
 

Volume Nine, Number Four
 

Single Articles

1. CONCEPTUALIZING NONPROFIT COMMERCIALISM: A CASE STUDY
   Stefan Toepler

   In recent years, the American nonprofit sector has increasingly shifted towards using more market-based financing mechanisms, in what has been variably termed nonprofit commercialization or social entrepreneurship trends. While this development may either be seen as positive or negative, the growing consensus is that nonprofit organizations have come to adopt entrepreneurial or commercial activities for purposes of cross subsidizing mission-related activities and largely in reactions to shifts in the funding and institutional contexts beginning in the 1980s. Providing an overview of the current debate, this paper uses data from a museum case study to probe some of the underpinnings of the commercialization discussion.
    

2. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT:  A CASE STUDY OF BUDGETARY REFORM IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
   Jayesh D'Souza

   The 1990s have been associated with a reform movement in public administration known as New Public Management.  At the core of this movement have been changes in governmental budgetary processes.  Old budgetary systems have been re-constructed and new systems adopted in order to fulfill governments’ goals of process efficiency and enhancing the value of its services.  While budgetary reform in the United States has been paced, that in the United Kingdom has been radical. Through periodic spending reviews, a change in accounting system and a new way of measuring performance, the Government of the United Kingdom has moved closer towards its objective of enhancing fiscal responsibility.
    

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3. THE ENTERPRISE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: SCHOLARSHIP AS A LOOSELY COUPLED SYSTEM
   Robert Schuhmann and Larry Hubbell

   Particularly during the past 40 years, many public administration scholars have been concerned that the “field” lacks a unifying paradigm.  Engaging in what Berger and Luckman would probably refer to as “sense-making,” some public administration academics have even wondered whether public administration is, in fact, an academic field at all.  In this article, the authors review what has been written on this subject and speculate that the lack of a unifying canon is actually an advantage.  They also explore the idea that public administration is in actuality what they refer to as a loosely coupled discipline.

    

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