Professor Kenneth Meier

Teams and roles for Kenneth Meier

Professor of Public Management
Cardiff Business School
Emeritus Professor
Cardiff Business School

Publications

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2007

Andrews, R. W. et al. 2007. Differences between archival and perceptual environmental measures in the public sector. Presented at: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2007 Philadelphia, PA, USA 3-8 August 2007.
Andrews, R. W. et al. 2007. Strategy, structure, process and environment in English local governments. Presented at: Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 65th Annual National Conference Chicago, IL, USA 12-15 April 2007.
Andrews, R. W. et al. 2007. Wake up call: network alarms, strategy and performance. Presented at: 11th IRSPM (International Research Symposium in Public Management) Potsdam, Germany 2-4 April 2007.
Boyne, G. A. et al. 2007. Public management and organizational performance: an Aaenda for research. In: Boyne, G. A. et al., Public Service Performance: Perspectives on Measurement and Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.295-311.
Meier, K. J. and Hill, G. C. 2007. Bureaucracy in the twenty-first century. Oxford University Press. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199226443.003.0004)
Meier, K. J. 2007. Regulation. In: Gray, V. and Hanson, R. L. eds. Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis (9th Edition). London: CQ Press. , pp.381-414.
Meier, K. J. 2007. What don't we know and why don't we know it: one research agenda in Latino politics. In: Espino, R. , Leal, D. L. and Meier, K. J. eds. Latino Politics: Identity, Mobilization, and Representation. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. , pp.280-290.
Meier, K. J. , O'Toole, L. and Hawes, D. 2007. Testing the theoretical determinants of political control over the bureaucracy: Taking Wood and Waterman seriously. Presented at: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Chicago IL, USA 30 Aug - 2 Sep 2007.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2007. Strategic management and the performance of public organizations: testing venerable ideas against recent theories. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 17 (3), pp.357-377. (10.1093/jopart/mul017)
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. J. 2007. Deconstructing Larry Luton: Or What Time Is the Next Train to Reality Junction?. Administration and Society 39 (6), pp.786-796. (10.1177/0095399707307043)
Meier, K. J. , O'Toole Jnr., L. J. and Lu, Y. 2007. All that glitters is not gold: disaggregating networks and the impact on performance. In: Boyne, G. A. et al., Public Service Performance: Perspectives on Measurement and Management. Cambridge University Press
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole Jr., L. J. 2007. Modeling public management: Empirical analysis of the management-performance nexus. Public Management Review 9 (4), pp.503-527. (10.1080/14719030701726630)
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2007. Public Management and the Administrative Conservator: Empirical Support for Larry Terry's Prescriptions. Administrative Theory and Praxis 29 (1), pp.148-156.
O'Toole, L. J. et al., 2007. Networking in comparative context. Public Management Review 9 (3), pp.401-420. (10.1080/14719030701425787)
O'Toole Jr., L. , Meier, K. J. and Nicholson-Crotty, S. 2007. Managing upward, downward and outward: networks, hierarchical relationships and performance. Public Management Review 7 (1), pp.45-68. (10.1080/1471903042000339419)
Robinson, S. E. et al., 2007. Explaining Policy Punctuations: Bureaucratization and Budget Change. American Journal of Political Science 51 (1), pp.140-150. (10.1111/j.1540-5907.2007.00242.x)
Walker, R. M. , O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2007. It's where you are that matters: the networking behaviour of English local government officers. Public Administration 85 (3), pp.739-756. (10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00667.x)

2006

Boyne, G. A. et al. 2006. Introduction. In: Boyne, G. A. et al., Public Service Performance: Perspectives on Measurement and Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.1-13. (10.1017/CBO9780511488511.001)
Geordel, H. , O'Toole, L. and Meier, K. J. 2006. Strategic public management and performance: A contingency approach. Presented at: Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Chicago, IL, USA 20-23 April 2006.
Meier, K. J. 2006. The public administration of politics, or what political science could learn from public administration. Political Science and Politics 40 (1), pp.3-9.
Meier, K. J. , Brudney, J. L. and Bohte, J. 2006. Applied statistics for public and nonprofit administration. 6th rev.ed.. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2006. The role of management and representation in improving performance of disadvantaged students: An application of Bum Phillips's "Don Shula Rule". Review of Policy Research 23 (5), pp.1095-1110. (10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00251.x)
Meier, K. J. and Hawes, D. P. 2006. Le lien entre représentativité passive et active de l'administration. Revue française d'administration publique 118 , pp.265-279. (10.3917/rfap.118.0265)
Meier, K. J. , Mastracci, S. H. and Wilson, K. 2006. Gender and emotional labor in public organizations: An empirical examination of the link to performance. Public Administration Review 66 (6), pp.899-910. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00657.x)
Meier, K. J. and Nicholson-Crotty, J. 2006. Gender, representative bureaucracy, and law enforcement: the case of sexual assault. Public Administration Review 66 (6), pp.850-860. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00653.x)
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. 2006. Political Control versus Bureaucratic Values: Reframing the Debate. Public Administration Review 66 (2), pp.177-192. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00571.x)
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. J. 2006. Bureaucracy in a democratic state: a governance perspective. Balitimore, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Meier, K. J. , O'Toole, L. J. J. and Goerdel, H. T. 2006. Management Activity and Program Performance: Gender as Management Capital. Public Administration Review 66 (1), pp.24-36. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00553.x)
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2006. Networking in the Penumbra: Public Management, Cooptative Links, and Distributional Consequences. International Public Management Journal 9 (3), pp.271-294. (10.1080/10967490600899580)
Robinson, S. E. and Meier, K. J. 2006. Path Dependence and Organizational Behavior: Bureaucracy and Social Promotion. American Review of Public Administration 36 (3), pp.241-260. (10.1177/0275074006288299)
Robinson, S. E. et al., 2006. Calming the storm: Collaborative public management, hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and disaster response. Presented at: Maxwell School Conference on Collaborative Public Management Washington, DC, USA 28-30 September 2006.
Rocha, R. and Meier, K. J. 2006. Latino politics and the States: how political culture interacts with electoral structure. Presented at: Western Political Science Association Denver, CO, USA 16-18 Mar 2006.

2005

Andrews, R. W. et al. 2005. Representative bureaucracy, organizational strategy, and public service performance: an empirical analysis of English local government. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15 (4), pp.489-504. (10.1093/jopart/mui032)
Boyne, G. A. et al. 2005. Where next? Research directions on performance in public organizations. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15 (4), pp.633-639. (10.1093/jopart/mui037)
Hawes, D. , Rocha, R. and Meier, K. J. 2005. Social capital and diversity: Evaluating the determinants of eEquality in the American states. Presented at: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Washington, DC, USA 01 - 04 September 2005.
Kaiser, L. et al., 2005. Gender, race and the theory of representative bureaucracy. Presented at: 63rd Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, IL, USA 7-10 Apr 2005.
Meier, K. 2005. Public Administration and the Myth of Positivism: The AntiChrist's View. Administrative Theory & Praxis 27 (4), pp.650-668.
Meier, K. J. 2005. School boards and the politics of education policy: downstream consequences of structure. In: Wolbrecht, C. and Hero, R. E. eds. The Politics of Democratic Inclusion. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. , pp.238-256.
Meier, K. J. and Hill, G. G. 2005. Bureaucracy in the 21st Century. In: Ferlie, E. , Lynn Jr., L. E. and Pollitt, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Public Management. Open University Press. , pp.51-72.
Meier, K. J. and Juenke, E. G. 2005. Electoral structure and the quality of representation: The policy consequences of school board elections. Presented at: Harvard University School Board Politics Conference Cambridge, MA, USA 15-17 October 2003. Published in: Howell, W. G. ed. Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics. Brookings Institution Press. , pp.199-227.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2005. Structural choices and representational biases: The post-election color of representation. American Journal of Political Science 49 (4), pp.758-768. (10.1111/j.1540-5907.2005.00153.x)
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. 2005. Political control versus democratic values: reframing the debate. Presented at: 8th National Public Management Research Conference Los Angeles, CA, USA 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2005.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2005. Strategic management and public organizations: Testing venerable ideas against recent theories. Presented at: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Washington, DC, USA 01 - 04 September 2005.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. J. 2005. Managerial Networking: Issues of Measurement and Research Design. Administration & Society 37 (5), pp.523-541. (10.1177/0095399705277142)
Meier, K. J. , Pennington, M. S. and Eller, W. S. 2005. Race, Sex, and Clarence Thomas: Representation Change in the EEOC. Public Administration Review 65 (2), pp.171-179. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2005.00442.x)
Meier, K. J. and Sabatier, H. S. 2005. Jesus Loves Me, But He Can't Stand You: A Reply to My Out-of-Tune Critics. Policy Studies Journal 33 (1), pp.121-124. (10.1111/j.1541-0072.2005.00096.x)
Nicholson Crotty, S. S. and Meier, K. J. 2005. From perception to public policy: translating social constructions into policy designs. In: Schneider, A. L. and Ingram, H. M. eds. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy. SUNY Series in Public Policy Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. , pp.223-242.
O 'Toole, L. and Meier, K. J. 2005. Networking in the Penumbra: Public management, cooperative links, and distributional consequences. Presented at: 21st European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium Berlin, Germany 30 June - 2 July 2005.

2004

Andrews, R. W. et al. 2004. Workforce diversity, organizational strategy and public service performance. Presented at: First Determinants of Performance in Public Organizations Conference Cardiff, UK 6-8 May 2004.
Meier, K. J. 2004. Get Your Tongue out of My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissin' You Goodbye: The Politics of Ideas. Policy Studies Journal 32 (2), pp.225-233. (10.1111/j.1541-0072.2004.00062.x)
Meier, K. J. 2004. Structure, politics, and policy: the logic of mayoral control. In: Henig, J. R. and Rich, W. C. eds. Mayors in the Middle: Politics, Race, and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools. Princeton: Princeton University Press. , pp.221-231.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2004. A Lingering Question of Priorities: Athletic Budgets and Academic Performance Revisited. Review of Policy Research 21 (6), pp.799-807. (10.1111/j.1541-1338.2004.00109.x)
Meier, K. J. et al. 2004. Political structure and representatives' effectiveness: The case of Latino school board members. Presented at: Western Political Science Association Portland, OR, USA 27-29 Mar 2004.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2004. Divided or Together? Conflict and Cooperation between African Americans and Latinos. Political Research Quarterly 57 (3), pp.399-409. (10.1177/106591290405700305)
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. 2004. Conceptual issues in modelling and measuring management and its impacts on performance. In: Ingraham, P. W. and Lynn Jr., L. E. eds. The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration. Georgetown University Press. , pp.195-223.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. 2004. Governance and performance: Identifying variables and explaining causality. Presented at: Conference on Governance and Performance,The University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK 15-16 March 2004.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. 2004. Unsung impossible jobs: The politics of public management. Presented at: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Chicago, IL, USA 2-5 September 2004.
Meier, K. J. , O'Toole, L. J. and Nicholson-Crotty, S. 2004. Multilevel governance and organizational performance: Investigating the political-bureaucratic labyrinth. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 23 (1), pp.31-47. (10.1002/pam.10177)
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2004. Public Management in Intergovernmental Networks: Matching Structural Networks and Managerial Networking. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14 (4), pp.469-494. (10.1093/jopart/muh032)
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2004. Desperately Seeking Selznick: Cooptation and the Dark Side of Public Management in Networks. Public Administration Review 64 (6), pp.681-693. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2004.00415.x)
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2004. Parkinson's law and the New Public Management? Contracting determinants and service-quality consequences in public education. Public Administration Review 64 (3), pp.342-352. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2004.00378.x)
Robinson, S. et al., 2004. Explaining policy punctuations: A multivariate model of the punctuated equilibrium model of public agency budgets. Presented at: Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, IL, USA 15-18 Apr 2004.
Waterman, R. W. and Meier, K. J. 2004. Principal-agent models: a theoretical cul-de-sac. In: Waterman, R. W. , Rouse, A. A. and Wright, R. L. eds. Bureaucrats, Politics, and the Environment. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. , pp.19-42.

2003

Haider-Markel, D. P. and Meier, K. J. 2003. Legislative Victory, Electoral Uncertainty: Explaining Outcomes in the Battles over Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights. Review of Policy Research 20 (4), pp.671-690. (10.1046/j.1541-1338.2003.00046.x)
Meier, K. J. 2003. Gender Images in PA: The Debate Is Joined. Camilla Stivers. 2002. Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State, second edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 184 pp. [Book Review]. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13 (2), pp.231-234. (10.1093/jpart/mug019)
Meier, K. J. and Bohte, J. 2003. Not With A Bang, But A Whimper: Explaining Organizational Failures. Administration & Society 35 (1), pp.104-121. (10.1177/0095399702250351)
Meier, K. J. and Bohte, J. 2003. Span of control and public organizations: Implementing Luther Gulick's research design. Public Administration Review 63 (1), pp.61-70. (10.1111/1540-6210.00264)
Meier, K. J. et al. 2003. Structural choices and representational biases: What you see may not be what you get. Presented at: Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting Chicago, IL, USA 3-6 April 2003.
Meier, K. J. and Krause, G. 2003. An agenda for the scientific study of bureaucracy: an overview. In: Meier, K. J. and Krause, G. eds. Politics, Policy and Organizations. University of Michigan Press. , pp.292-308.
Meier, K. J. and Krause, G. A. 2003. The scientific study of bureaucracy: an overview. In: Krause, G. A. and Meier, K. J. eds. Politics, Policy, and Organizations: Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Bureaucracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. , pp.1-22.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. 2003. Bureaucracy and uncertainty: everything but death and taxes. In: Burden, B. C. ed. Uncertainty in American Politics. Cambridge University Press. , pp.98-117.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. 2003. Public Management and Educational Performance: The Impact of Managerial Networking. Public Administration Review 63 (6), pp.689-699. (10.1111/1540-6210.00332)
Nicholson-Crotty, J. and Meier, K. J. 2003. Politics, structure, and public policy: The case of Higher Education. Educational Policy 17 (1), pp.80-97. (10.1177/0895904802239287)
Nicholson-Crotty, S. and Meier, K. J. 2003. Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Federal Criminal Justice Sanctions. Political Research Quarterly 56 (2), pp.119-126. (10.1177/106591290305600201)
O'Toole, L. and Meier, K. J. 2003. All that glitters is not gold: The benefits and costs of network management. Presented at: Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference 2003 Washington, DC, USA 6-9 November 2003.
O'Toole, L. and Meier, K. J. 2003. Delivering local government results in intergovernmental networks: Impacts of structural networks and managerial networking. Presented at: European Consortium for Political Research General Conference 2003 Marburg, Germany 18-21 September 2003.
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2003. Plus ça Change: Public Management, Personnel Stability, and Organizational Performance. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13 (1), pp.43-64. (10.1093/jpart/mug009)
O'Toole, L. J. and Meier, K. J. 2003. Desperately seeking Selznick: Cooptation and the dark side of managing networks. Presented at: 7th National Public Management Research Conference (NPMRC) Washington, DC, USA 10-11 October 2003.

2002

Keiser, L. R. et al., 2002. Lipstick and Logarithms: Gender, Institutional Context, and Representative Bureaucracy. American Political Science Review 96 (3), pp.553-564. (10.1017/S0003055402000321)
Meier, K. J. 2002. A Research Agenda on Elections and Education. Educational Policy 16 (1), pp.219-230. (10.1177/0895904802016001011)
Meier, K. J. and Brudney, J. L. 2002. Applied statistics for public administration. 5th ed.. Harcourt Press.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. 2002. Measuring the impact of network management on performance. Presented at: International Conference on the Empirical Study of Governance, Management, and Performance Barcelona, Spain 04-05 October 2002.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. 2002. Bureaucracy versus politics: An empirical test. Presented at: Texas A&M Conference on Political Control of the Bureaucracy College Station, TX, USA 1-2 March 2002.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. 2002. Public management and organizational performance: The effect of managerial quality. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 21 (4), pp.629-643. (10.1002/pam.10078)
Meier, K. J. and Wilkins, V. M. 2002. Gender Differences in Agency Head Salaries: The Case of Public Education. Public Administration Review 62 (4), pp.405-411. (10.1111/0033-3352.00194)
Nicholson-Crotty, J. and Meier, K. J. 2002. Benevolent dictator or queen of hearts: The experience of women managers in bureaucracies. Presented at: Midwest Political Science Association 60th Annual National Conference Chicago, IL, USA 25-28 April 2002.
Nicholson-Crotty, S. and Meier, K. J. 2002. Size doesn't matter: In defense of single-state studies. State Politics and Policy Quarterly 2 (4), pp.411-422. (10.1177/153244000200200405)
Schlesinger, T. J. and Meier, K. J. 2002. Variations in corruption among the states. In: Heidenheimer, A. J. and Johnston, M. eds. Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts (3rd ed.). Political Change in Development New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. , pp.627-644.

2001

Dolan, J. and Meier, K. J. 2001. Representative bureaucracy and environmental change: The creation of a gender gap. Presented at: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, USA Aug 30 – Sep 2 2001.
Gill, J. and Meier, K. J. 2001. Ralph's Pretty-Good Grocery versus Ralph's Super Market: Separating Excellent Agencies from the Good Ones. Public Administration Review 61 (1), pp.9-17. (10.1111/0033-3352.00002)
Meier, K. J. 2001. Drugs, sex, rock and roll: a theory of morality politics. In: Mooney, C. Z. ed. The Public Clash of Private Values. London: Chatham House. , pp.21-36.
Meier, K. J. and Bohte, J. 2001. Structure and discretion: Missing links in representative bureaucracy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 11 (4), pp.455-470.
Meier, K. J. and Bohte, J. 2001. Structure and the performance of public organizations: Task difficulty and span of control. Public Organization Review 1 (3), pp.341-354. (10.1023/A:1012284830077)
Meier, K. J. et al. 2001. Zen and the art of policy analysis: A response to Nielsen and Wolf. The Journal of Politics 63 (2), pp.616-629.
Meier, K. J. and McFarlane, D. R. 2001. The politics of fertility control: family planning and abortion policies in the American States. Sage: CQ Press.
Meier, K. J. and O' Toole, L. 2001. Measuring public management quality: validation of a market-based measure. Presented at: Sixth National Public Management Conference Bloomington, IN, USA 19-20 Oct 2001.
Meier, K. J. and O' Toole, L. 2001. Policy implementation and network management: the case of U.S. education policy. Presented at: Annual Meeting of the European Consortium for Political Research Kent, UK 6-8 Sep 2001.
Meier, K. J. and O'Toole, L. J. 2001. Managerial Strategies and Behavior in Networks: A Model with Evidence from U.S. Public Education. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 11 (3), pp.271-294.
Meier, K. J. , Pennington, M. and Eller, W. 2001. The effect of new goals and priorities on agency responsiveness to traditional clientele: An examination of the EEOC. Presented at: American Political Science Association September Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA, USA 30 August - 02 September 2001.
Meier, K. J. et al. 2001. Organizations and inputs: A path dependent analysis of minority student achievement. Presented at: 59th National Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, IL, USA 19-22 Apr 2001.

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