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Democracy and administration : Woodrow Wilson's ideas and the challenges of public management / Brian J. Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Brian J., 1954-
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management.
- Johns Hopkins studies in governance and public management
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public administration--United States--History.
- Public administration.
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
- Wilson, Woodrow.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Democracy and Administration calls on scholars and practitioners to take Wilson's institutional design and regime-level orientation into account as part of the ambitious enterprise to develop a new science of democratic governance.
- Contents:
- Remaking the public executive
- The character of modern democracy
- Situating administration in the modern democratic state
- Enhancing democracy through administrative design and organizational practice
- Administrative reform and expansion
- Legal structure, cabinet government, and interpretive leadership
- The continuing relevance of Wilson's ideas
- Public management, representative government, and the continuation of Wilson's quest.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9177-9
- 1-4356-9216-0
- OCLC:
- 923192866
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