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Summary
Update and expanded, and featuring three new readings, this book provides a unique approach for instructors who want to expose their students to the social, political, and historical context of the practice of public administration. While most introductory texts cover a wide range of topics and are oriented toward details of management technique, this innovative volume focuses instead on the broader society within which public service practitioners work. The author's own text is skillfully interwoven with a collection of seminal readings and documents that illuminate the key issues of past and present for public service professionals in a democratic society.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction to the Central Issues: Context, Change, and Democracy | |
| Scope and Content of Public Administration | |
| Instrumental and Contextual Public Administration | |
| The Unique Public Sector | |
| Coercion and Government | |
| Scope and Content of American Governments | |
| Time and Change: The Environment of Public Administration | |
| Predispositions and Freedom of Thought | |
| Recurring Themes | |
| A Picture of Change | |
| Historical Peculiarity | |
| Historical Similarity | |
| Change and Economics | |
| Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure | |
| Democratic Citizenship | |
| Precursors of American Democracy | |
| Toward a New American Government | |
| Contemporary Public Service Institutions | |
| Transition | |
| Debate and Decision in the Founding Era | |
| The Federalist Papers | |
| Federalist Papers 10, 17, and 51 | |
| The Anti-Federalist Response and Tocqueville's Concerns About Democracy | |
| The Ideas of the Founding Generation in the Present | |
| The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51 | |
| "Introduction to the Federalist Papers Reader," | |
| "Interpretative Essay," | |
| "What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear," | |
| "The Future of the American Bureaucratic System," | |
| Community and the Individual | |
| "The Public Realm," | |
| "Barn Raising," | |
| "The Nature of Community Governance," | |
| Social Equity and Economic Efficiency | |
| "Unequal America: Causes and Consequences of the Wide-and Growing-Gap Between Rich and Poor," | |
| "Introduction to New Public Administration," | |
| "Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice," | |
| The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society | |
| "Practitioners," | |
| "New Public Management and Substantive Democracy," | |
| "Citizens and Administrators: Roles and Relationships," | |
| "Transforming Citizenship and Governance," | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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