Classics of Public Administration (8th Edition)

Table of contents

Table of contents :
Chronological Contents
Topical Contents
Preface
Part One: Early Voices and the First Quarter Century: Ancient Times to 1920s
1: The Analects of Confucius
2: On Duties
3: Of the Principle of Utility
4: On War
5: The Study of Administration
6: Politics and Administration
7: Problems of Municipal Administration
8: Scientific Management
9: The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States
10: Bureaucracy
11: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
12: The Giving of Orders
Part Two: The New Deal to Mid-Century: 1930s to 1950s
13: Bureaucracy and the Public Interest
14: Notes on the Theory of Organization
15: Report of the President’s Committee on Administrative Management
16: Bureaucratic Structure and Personality
17: A Theory of Human Motivation
18: The Proverbs of Administration
19: The Administrative State Revisited
20: Theory Y: The Integration of Individual and Organizational Goals
21: The Science of “Muddling Through”
Part Three: From JFK to Civil Service Reform: The 1960s and 1970s
22: The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform
23: Organizations of the Future
24: Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service
25: The Life Cycle of Bureaus
26: Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS
27: Administrative Decentralization and Political Power
28: The End of Liberalism: The Indictment
29: Toward a New Public Administration
30: Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning
31: Systematic Thinking for Social Action
32: The Implementation Game
33: Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government
34: Representative Bureaucracy
35: Intergovernmental Relations: An Analytical Overview
Part Four: From Reagan to Reinvention: The 1980s and 1990s
36: Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects?
37: Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats
38: Public Budgeting Amidst Uncertainty and Instability
39: Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers
40: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies
41: The Possibility of Administrative Ethics
42: American Federalism: Madison’s Middle Ground in the 1980s
43: The Organizational Culture Perspective
44: From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity
45: Toward a Feminist Perspective in Public Administration Theory
46: The Motivational Bases of Public Service
47: Managing State Government Operations: Changing Visions of Staff Agencies
48: From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less
49: Using Performance Measures in the Federal Budgeting Process
Part Five: Public Administration in the Twenty-First Century
50: Information Technology and Democratic Governance
51: Unmasking Administrative Evil
52: The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla Government
53: Inside Collaborative Networks: Ten Lessons for Public Managers
54: Public Value: Theory and Practice: Conclusions
A Chronology of U.S. Public Administration: 1776 to the Present