ABSTRACT
This anthology addresses several of the most central ideas in the field of public administration. These ideas are as relevant to public budgeting as they are to performance measurement or human resource management. Collectively and individually the essays explore what Dwight Waldo referred to as the ?political theories? of public administration: issues that are ultimately unresolvable yet crucial to understanding the nature of public administrative practice. How can democracy and efficiency be balanced? Can there be a science of administration? How should we think about administrative accountability? What is the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? Is professionalism an adequate mechanism for ensuring accountability? How efficient can or should bureaucracy be? What is proper leadership by administrators hoping to address political democracy and managerial efficiency? This ASPA Classics Volumes serves to connect the practice of public policy and administration with the normative theory base that has accrued and the models for practice that may be deduced from this theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|31 pages
Politics and Administration
part Two|126 pages
The Study of Administration
part Three|76 pages
Responsibility, Accountability, Responsiveness
part Four|89 pages
Citizens and the Administrative State
part Five|67 pages
Professionalism in Public Administration
part Six|57 pages
Bureaucracy
part Seven|55 pages
Leadership