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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 9, No. 2: 225-250 (1999)
© 1999 Public Management Research Association

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Inside a Swiss Army Knife: An Assessment of AmeriCorps

James L. Perry, Ann Marie Thomson, Mary Tschirhart, Debra Mesch and Geunjoo Lee

Indiana University
Indiana University-Purdue University
Indiana University

This study reviews the goals and achievements of AmeriCorps, the national service program championed by President Clinton and approved by Congress in 1993. We identify five AmeriCorps goals: satisfying unmet social needs, developing corps members, enhancing the civic ethic, reinvigorating lethargic bureaucracies, and bridging race and class. The evidence of AmeriCorps' effectiveness is not definitive. Self-reports from recipient programs, selective cost-benefit analyses, and some survey evidence indicate some positive results. More fine-grained survey and field research raise questions about AmeriCorps' overall effects. Much more research is needed before policy makers and citizens can determine AmeriCorps' productivity.


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