Classics of public administration

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Classics of public administration / Jay M. Shafritz, Albert C. Hyde.

Shafritz, Jay M. (Added Author). Hyde, Albert C., 1946- (Added Author).

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"With this new seventh edition of Classics of Public Administration, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde aim to introduce students to the principles of public administration via the most significant scholarly writings on the topic. Straightforward and informative, this text begins its discussion with Woodrow Wilson and continues to today's political scientists. A new Section V, "Public Administration in a New Century," is dedicated to writing and thinking from the 21st century. This edition includes six new readings and addresses the key fields of public administration: bureaucracy, organization theory, human resources management, the budgetary process, public policy, implementation, evaluation, intergovernmental relations, and public service ethics."--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781111342746
ISBN: 1111342741
Physical Description: xii, 641 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Australia : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: pt. 1. Early voices and the first quarter century: 1880s to 1920s. The study of administration (1887) / Woodrow Wilson ; Politics and administration (1900) / Frank J. Goodnow ; Problems of municipal administration (1904) / Jane Addams ; Scientific management (1912) / Frederick W. Taylor ; The movement for budgetary reform in the states (1918) / William F. Willoughby ; Bureaucracy (1922) / Max Weber ; Introduction to the study of public administration (1926) / Leonard D. White ; The giving of orders (1926) / Mary Parker Follett.

pt. 2. The New Deal to mid-century: 1930s to 1950s. Notes on the theory of organization (1937) / Luther Gulick ; Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management (1937) / Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, & Luther Gulick ; Informal organizations and their relation to formal organizations (1938) / Chester I. Barnard ; Bureaucratic structure and personality (1940) / Robert K. Merton ; The lack of a budgetary theory (1940) / V.O. Key, Jr. ; A theory of human motivation (1943) / A.H. Maslow ; Government is different (1945) / Paul Appleby ; The proverbs of administration (1946) / Herbert A. Simon ; The administrative state: conclusion (1948) / Dwight Waldo ; The cooptative mechanism (1949) / Philip Selznick ; The human side of enterprise (1957) / Douglas Murray McGregor ; The science of "muddling through" (1959) / Charles E. Lindblom.

pt. 3. From JFK to civil service reform: the 1960s and 1970s. Organizations and the system concept (1966) / Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn ; The road to PPB: the stages of budget reform (1966) / Allen Schick ; The American system (1966) / Morton Grodzins ; Organizations of the future (1967) / Warren Bennis ; Policy analysts: a new professional role in government service (1967) / Yehezkel Dror ; The life cycle of bureaus (1967) / Anthony Downs ; Rescuing policy analysis from PPBS (1969) / Aaron Wildavsky ; Administrative decentralization and political power (1969) / Herbert Kaufman ; The end of liberalism: the indictment (1969) / Theodore J. Lowi ; Redundancy, rationality, and the problem of duplication and overlap (1969) / Martin Landau ; Toward a new public administration (1971) / H. George Frederickson ; Systematic thinking for social action (1971) / Alice M. Rivlin ; Implementation (1973) / Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky ; Watergate: implications for responsible government (1974) / Frederick C. Mosher & others ; Representative bureaucracy (1974) / Samuel Krislov ; Intergovernmental relations: an analytical overview (1974) / Deil S. Wright ; Organizational decline and cutback management (1978) / Charles H. Levine ; Ethics for bureaucrats: an essay on law and values (1979) / John A. Rohr.

pt. 4. From Reagan to reinvention: the 1980s to 1990s. Public and private management: are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects? (1980) / Graham T. Allison ; Street-level bureaucracy: the critical role of street-level bureaucrats (1980) / Michael Lipsky ; Public budgeting amidst uncertainty and instability (1981) / Naomi Caiden ; Democracy and the public service: the collective services (1982) / Frederick C. Mosher ; Public administrative theory and the separation of powers (1983) / David H. Rosenbloom ; How does an idea's time come? agendas, alternatives, and public policies (1984) / John W. Kingdon ; The possibility of administrative ethics (1985) / Dennis F. Thompson ; Exploring the limits of privatization (1987) / Ronald C. Moe ; American federalism: Madison's middle ground in the 1980's (1987) / Martha Derthick ; Understanding organizational culture (1989) / J. Steven Ott ; From affirmative action to affirming diversity (1990) / R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. ; Toward a feminist perspective in public administration theory (1990) / Camilla Stivers ; The ethics challenge in public service (1992) / Carol W. Lewis ; Breaking through bureaucracy (1992) / Michael Barzelay with Babak J. Armajani ; From red tape to results: creating a government that works better and costs less (1993) / The National Performance Review ; Creating public value: strategic management in government (1995) / Mark H. Moore.

pt. 5. Public administration in the twenty-first century. Information technology and democratic governance (2002) / Joseph S. Nye Jr. ; Perennial budget reform proposals: budget staff versus elected officials (2002) / Irene S. Rubin ; Policy paradox: the art of political decision making (2002) / Deborah Stone ; Unmasking administrative evil: searching for a basis for public ethics (2004) / Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour ; Inside collaborative networks: ten lessons for public managers (2006) / Robert Agranoff.