ABSTRACT
Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, Introducing Public Administration, Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy -- and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators -- in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration to life in an engaging, witty style.
Drawing on a unique assortment of literary, historic, and modern examples, Cases in Public Policy and Administration exposes students to public administration in practice by telling the tales of:
- How Thurgood Marshall led the legal fight for civil rights and made it possible for Barack Obama to become president
- How the ideas of an academic economist and a famous novelist led to the recession that started in 2008
- How Al Gore really deserves just a little bit of credit for inventing the Internet
- How the decision was made by President Harry Truman to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan in order to end World War II
- How the current American welfare state was inspired by a German chancellor
- How a Nazi war criminal inadvertently provided the world with a lesson in bureaucratic ethics
- How Napoleon Bonaparte encouraged the job of chief of staff to escape from the military and live in contemporary civilian offices
- How an obscure state department bureaucrat wrote the policy of containment that allowed the United States to win the Cold War with the Soviet Union
- How Dwight D. Eisenhower was started on the road to the presidency by a mentor he found in the Panamanian rain forest
- How Florence Nightingale gathered statistics during the Crimean War that helped lead to contemporary program evaluation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|10 pages
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Scientific Management
How the World's Most Famous Detective Was a Pivotal Influence on the Development of U.S. Public Administration
chapter 2|12 pages
Muckrakers and Reformers to the Rescue
How the Progressive Movement Created Modern Public Administration from the Muck of Corruption, Indifference, and Ignorance
chapter 13|12 pages
The Case for Understanding the Critical Role of Doctrine in Public Policy Making
“Seeing” Policy Evolve Through the Lenses of the Doctrinal Development Cycle
chapter 4|7 pages
Who Really Made the Decision to Drop the First Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima?
Was it President Harry S. Truman or his Advisors, the Chief Executive or His Team of Technical Experts?
chapter 6|15 pages
From German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to U.S. President Bill Clinton
How Political Leaders Created the Modern Welfare State Using Social Insurance as an Alternative to Socialism
chapter 7|10 pages
Gun Shows, Gun Laws, and Gun Totin'
Second Amendment Fanatics Versus All Levels of Government
chapter 8|7 pages
The Politics–Administration Dichotomy Negated Again
How the Rove Doctrine Subordinated State, Local, and National Environmental Policy to the Service of the Republican Party
chapter 10|10 pages
The Gas Chamber of Philadelphia
How A 1977 Incident at Independence Mall Illustrates the “Banality of Evil” Concept First Applied to Adolf Eichmann, The Nazi Holocaust Administrator
chapter 10|7 pages
The Red Ink of Orange County
When is it Ethical for Public Treasurers to Gamble with Public Money? Only When You Win!
chapter 12|10 pages
Using William Shakespeare's Plays to Prove That He Was an Instinctive and Early Organization Theorist
Whether in a Beehive or the Court of Elizabeth I, He Knew How Honey (Or Money) Got Things Done
chapter 13|8 pages
The Case of the Ubiquitous Chief of Staff
How a Job Invented by and Once Confined to the Military Escaped its Uniformed Existence and is Now Commonly Found in Government and Corporate Offices
chapter 14|7 pages
Organization Development in Hollywood War Movies
From John Wayne in the Sands of Iwo Jima to G.I. Jane and Beyond
chapter 15|7 pages
George Orwell's Big Brother Is Bigger and Better than Ever
Not Only is he Watching you, he is Counting the Number of Times you Visit his Website, Taking Your Picture, Converting it to a Series of Numbers, and Destroying your Anonymity!
chapter 18|12 pages
The RAND Corporation as an Exemplar
The Origins of and Increasingly Important Role of Strategic Think Tanks
chapter 19|11 pages
Implementing Strategy Through the Levels of Leadership and Strategic Optimism
How Strategic Leadership Invariably Devolves into Tactical Operations
chapter 21|11 pages
Why Advancement in Public Administration Has Always Been an Essay Contest
Proofs from the Presidency and the Bureaucracy
chapter 22|9 pages
The Case for Mentoring Junior Managers with Executive Potential
How General fox Conner Set a Young Dwight d. Eisenhower on the Path to the Presidency
chapter 23|6 pages
Brown Reverses the Plessy Doctrine
How Thurgood Marshall Convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that Separate is Inherently not Equal, Laid the Legal Foundations for the Modern Civil Rights Movement, and Earned Himself an Appointment as the First African American Justice on that Supreme Court
chapter 24|11 pages
Government Regulation of Sex
Toward Greater Social Equity At Work Through Remedial Legislation, Judicial Precedents, And Sexual Harassment Prohibitions Written Into Manuals Of Personnel Rules
chapter 25|5 pages
Take Me Out to the Ball Game and You Buy the Ticket
The Case for Public Stadium Financing
chapter 26|11 pages
The Fall of the House of California
How the Richest State in the Country Cratered Into Budgetary Chaos and a Fiscal Nightmare
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chapter 28|11 pages
The Often Ridiculous Nature of Public Policy and Its Analysis
Why it is So Important to Allow for Ridicule and to Consider the Ridiculous
