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Revisiting Waldo's administrative state : constancy and change in public administration / David H. Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Public management and change.
- Public management and change series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waldo, Dwight. Administrative state.
- Waldo, Dwight.
- Public administration.
- Organizational change--United States.
- Organizational change.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly newùit echoes the early twentieth-century gospel of efficiency challenged by Dwight Waldo in 1948 in his pathbreaking book, The Administrative State. Asking, Efficiency for what?, Waldo warned that public administrative efficiency must be backed by a framework of consciously held democratic values. Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State brings together a group of distinguished authors who critically explore public administration's big ideas and issues and question whether
- Contents:
- Dwight Waldo's The administrative state / David H. Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy
- The material background / Donald F. Kettl
- The cultural and ideological background / Howard E. McCurdy
- The criteria of action / Norma M. Riccucci
- Who should rule? / Patricia W. Ingraham
- The separation of powers / David H. Rosenbloom
- The thinning of administrative institutions / Larry D. Terry
- Competition for human capital / John Cadigan
- Business and government / Barbara S. Romzek
- Institutional values and the future administrative state / Robert F. Durant
- Additional notes on the present tendencies / Howard E. McCurdy and David H. Rosenbloom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58901-407-3
- 1-4356-2747-4
- OCLC:
- 652626223
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