Reflections on public administration / John Merriman Gaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaus, John M. (John Merriman), 1894-1969.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this classic, Gaus writes perceptively of the 'ecology' of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century led citizens repeatedly to look to government for relief. Politicians, in turn, created or expanded the powers of public agencies." -Journal of Management History

Contents:

The ecology of government

Politics and administration

The processes of policy and administration

Devolution and federation

The purposes and procedures of control

A theory of the processes of government : diagnosis, policy, and revision.

Notes:

Originally published: University of Alabama Press, 1947.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8188-0

OCLC:

609839911