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• Published date: 01 March 2003
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00284
• Date: 01 March 2003

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Abramson, Mark A., and Therese

L. Morin, eds. 2003. E-Government

2003. New York: Rowman and

Littlefield. ISBN: 0-7425-2796-4.

This edited book is a collection

of nine e-government studies on

federal Web sites, state e-service

delivery, federal Intranet work

sites, e-diplomacy, state e-pro-

curement, e-voting, e-service fi-

nancing, information security,

and mobile technology applica-

tions. Contributors include: Ge-

nie Stowers, Diana Gant and Jon

Gant, Julianne Mahler and

Pricilla Regan, Barry Fulton, Jae

Moon, Robert Done, Craig

Johnson, Don Heiman, and Ai-

Mei Chang and P. Kannan.

Ackerman, Mark, Volkmar Pipek,

and Volker Wulf, eds. 2003. Sharing

Expertise: Beyond Knowledge Man-

agement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

ISBN: 0-262-01195-6.

This book describes a new ap-

proach to knowledge manage-

ment called “expertise sharing”

that focuses on the self-orga-

nized activities of organizational

members and human aspects of

knowledge management (cogni-

tive, social, cultural, and organi-

zational), in addition to informa-

tion storage and retrieval. This

book includes three major sec-

tions: (1) overview and back-

ground; (2) studies of expertise

sharing in organizations; and (3)

technology for sharing expertise.

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Berg, John, ed. 2003. Teamsters

and Turtles? U.S. Progressive Politi-

cal Movements in the 21st Century.

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield

Publishing Group. ISBN: 0-7425-

0192-2.

Promoting progressive move-

ments for political, economic,

and social changes, this book

pursues the prospects for pro-

gressive political movements in

the twenty-first century based on

case studies of 10 representative

movements, including the anti-

globalization forces, environ-

mental interest groups, peace

movement, antimilitarism, anti-

AIDS movement, human rights

movement, etc.

Birenbaum, Arnold. 2002. Wound-

ed Profession: American Medicine

Enters the Age of Managed Care.

Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN: 0-275-

97389-1.

Exploring how American health

care evolved in the 1990s, as well

as the change in public support

and policy, this book offers a

thoughtful discussion of several

critical issues such as public dis-

satisfaction with costs and real

or potential lack of access to

care, change in the doctor–pa-

tient relationship, and the impact

of high health insurance costs.

This book also presents the fu-

ture of American health care sys-

tem with some suggestions for

better and cost-effective health

care system.

Bruijn, Hans de. 2002. Managing

Performance in the Public Sector.

New York: Routledge. ISBN: 0-415-

30037-X.

With a comprehensive analysis

of performance-measurement

systems, this book argues that

these systems often just create

bureaucracy, stem innovation,

and damage professionalism, in-

stead of maximizing perfor-

mance benefits. Taking a bold

stance in a contentious debate

about the use of performance

measurement and evaluation,

this book presents several strat-

egies for turning performance

measurement into a useful instru-

ment that can benefit both stu-

dents and professionals.

Carnevale, David G. 2003. Orga-

nizational Development in the Pub-

lic Sector. Boulder, CO: Westview

Press. ISBN: 0-8133-9839-8.

Providing a comprehensive re-

view of assumptions, values, and

history of the organizational de-

velopment (OD) literature in

public administration, this book

offers many of the standard OD

topics like issues of change, ac-

tion research (the core problem-

solving technology), and group

dynamics. This book also ex-

plores conflict resolution and

many other related OD issues

such as trust, hierarchy, leader-

ship, and labor relations.

Cayer, N. Joseph, and Louis F.

Weschler. 2003. Public Administra-

tion: Social Change and Adaptive

Management. 2nd ed. San Diego, CA:

Birkdale Publishers. ISBN: 0-

9724419-0-5.

This book provides a concise but

comprehensive overview of the

field of public administration by

examining the context, major ac-

tors, activities, and issues that

surround the field. This book

consists of seven chapters includ-

ing an introduction to public ad-

ministration, the American po-

litical context, bureaucracy,

administrative life, allocating

resources, managerial work in

the swamp, and a new and im-

proved public administration.