Reorganizing State Government

James L. Garnett is assistant professor of public administration in the School of Government and Public Administration at The American University. He has also taught in the Division of Business and Public Management at the West Virginia College of Graduate Studies and has been program assistant to the governor of New York and research associate for the New York State Study and Charter Commissions for New York City.

• Preface -- Introduction -- Why State Executive Reorganizations Occur: Competing and Complementary Theoretical Perspectives -- Toward a New Typology of State Executive Reorganization -- Reorganization Strategies: How Much Is Known? -- Methodologies for Studying Reorganization: A Next Step -- Findings on Reorganization Patterns, Perspectives, Strategies, and Structures -- Conclusions, Action Guidelines, and Directions for Further Research -- State by State Data on Executive Branch Reorganizations, 1914–75 -- Reorganization Outcomes: Tables Showing Time Period and Regional Comparisons -- State Track Records on Reorganization Adoption: A Comparison, 1900–75 -- Relationships Between Strategy Variables and Reorganization Outcomes Under Political and Socioeconomic Contingencies