Public Reporting in the American States

Graves, W. Brooke

doi:10.1086/265176

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“…According to the theory of public reporting that gradually evolved in public administration, the more the public knew about the activities of the public sector, the better the citizenry could exercise its civic and electoral responsibilities (Cooke, 1919;Kilpatrick, 1928;Ridley, 1937;Graves, 1938;Simon, 1947;Pimlott, 1951). Thus, public reporting was viewed as a major element of public accountability for government.…”

Section: Public Reporting In Public Administrationmentioning

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Public reporting: A neglected aspect of nonprofit accountability

Lee

2004

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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Nonprofit organizations have a compulsory external accountability (largely involving financial reporting) to government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and state regulators. They also have a pragmatic “must‐do” accountability to their funders, clients, and other obvious stakeholders. But are nonprofits also accountable to the public at large? If so, how can such accountability be implemented, given the diffuseness and breadth of the public as an audience? This article suggests that nonprofits should consider the citizenry as a stakeholder, if only due to the substantial taxpayer subsidy of the sector. The theory of public reporting that emerged in public administration literature beginning in the 1920s and 1930s can be helpful. Using principles, templates, and examples from public administration, nonprofit organizations can pursue more vigorous public reporting as one method to increase citizen confidence in their activities and in the sector as a whole.

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Section: Public Reporting In Public Administrationmentioning

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Public reporting: A neglected aspect of nonprofit accountability

Lee

2004

Nonprofit Mgmnt & Ldrshp

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“…The increasing presence of nonagricultural exhibits by government agencies at state and local fairs is a trend that we suggest is an outgrowth of the municipal budget exhibit rather than of the farmer-oriented educational exhibit. For example, Graves (1938) viewed the increasing frequency of exhibits from nonagricultural state agencies at state fairs as an indication that those nonfarm departments were beginning to view state fairs as opportunities for public reporting (p. 223). This was qualitatively different from the traditional role of state agricultural departments' exhibits at state fairs to provide training, useful information, and education to farmers.…”

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Déjà Vu All Over Again

Williams

Lee

2008

The American Review of Public Administration

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For a brief period in the 1910s, the municipal budget exhibit was viewed by good-government reformers at the trailblazing New York Bureau of Municipal Research as a key outlet for cleaning up corrupt local governments and educating the masses to play their proper role in the new administrative state. For a time, the budget exhibit spread to other cities adopting municipal research bureaus. However, the municipal budget exhibit quickly fell out of favor with reformers and disappeared from public administration's reform agenda. Did it vanish completely? The authors suggest that modern-day exhibits by government agencies at state fairs and similar events are the metamorphosis of the municipal budget exhibit. Although the goal of reaching the masses for purposes of democratic accountability has been preserved, the venues and packaging of such exhibitions have significantly changed from the original conception of municipal budget exhibits.

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An Overview of Public Reporting

Lee¹

2007

Government Public Relations

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Public Reporting in the American States

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Public reporting: A neglected aspect of nonprofit accountability

Public reporting: A neglected aspect of nonprofit accountability

Déjà Vu All Over Again

An Overview of Public Reporting

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