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Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Part One: Paradigms of Public Administration 1

Chapter I Big Democracy, Big Bureaicracy 4

  Constraint: The Context and Tradition of Public Administration in the United States

  Attenuations: The Legacy of Limited Public Administration 7

  Government, Public Leaders, and Public Trust 11

  Bureaucrats: Image and Reality 13

  Revolt and Resistance: Americans and Governmental Growth 14

  Why Bureaucracy? 15

  Explaining Things 16

  Power: The Gray Eminence of the Public Administrator 17

Chapter 2 Public Administration's Century in~ Quandary 29

  The Beginning 29

  Paradigm 1: The Politics/Administration Dichotomy, 1900-1926 30

  Paradigm 2: The Principles of Administration, 1927-1937 32

  The Challenge, 1938-1950 34

  Reaction to the Challenge, 1947-1950 36

  Paradigm 3: Public Administration as Political Science, 1950-1970 37

  The Impact of Political Science: Bureaucracy in the Service of Democracy 40

  Paradigm 4: Public Administration as Management, 1956-1970 41

  The Impact of Management: Understanding the "Public" in Public Administration 42

  The Forces of Separatism, 1965-1970 45

  Public Administration as Neither Management Nor Political Science 46

  Paradigm 5: Public Administration as Public Administration: 1970-? 48

  Governance: Toward a New Paradigm? 49

Part Two: Public Organizations 57

Chapter 3 The Threads of Organizations: Thebries 58

  Models, Definitions, and Organizations 58

  The Closed Model of Organizations 59

  The Open Model of Organizations 62

The Political Executive System: Politics in Administration 270

The Professional Career System: The Person over the Position 273

The Professional Public Administration System: Embracing the Professions of Politics

  and Management 274

Race, Sex, and Jobs: The Challenge of Affirmative Action 276

Does Public Human Resource Management Have a Future? 290

Part Four: Implementing Public Policy 303

Chapter 10 Understanding Public Policy 305

  Public Policy Analysis: A Brief History 305

  Political Science, Public Administration, and Policy Analysis 306

  The Incrementalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation 307

  The Rationalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation 314

  The Problems of the Paradigms 320

  The Strategic Planning Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation 321

  Strategic Planning: The Public Experience 322

  Truly Universal Strategic Planning 326

Chapter 11 Intersectoral Administration 331

Chapter l2 IntergovernmentalAdministration 379

Chapter 13 Toward a Bureaucratic Ethic 426

Appendix A: Information Sources, Journals, and Organizations in Public

Appendix B: Annotated Information Sources in Public Administration

Appendix C: Selected Annotated Journals Relevant to Public Administration 455

Appendix D: Selected Academic, Professional, and Public Interest Organizations

Appendix E: Correct Forms of Address for Public Offidals 463

Appendix F: Becoming a Public Administrator 465

Appendix G: American Society for Pubfic Administration Code of Ethics 473

Name Index 475

Subject Index 477

Chapter 4 The Fabric of Organizations: Forces 79

Chapter 5 The Fibers of Organizations: People 115

Part Three: Public Management 147

Chapter 6 Clarifying Complexity: Problems of Public Management 150

Chapter 7 Corruption's Consequences: Performance Measurement, Public Program

Chapter 8 The Public Budget: Purposes and Processes 214

Chapter 9 Managing Human Resources in the Public Sector 250