Democracy, Bureaucracy, And The Study Of Administration

This anthology addresses several of the most central ideas in the field of public administration. These ideas are as relevant to public budgeting as they are to performance measurement or human resource management. Collectively and individually the essays explore what Dwight Waldo referred to as the ?political theories? of public administration: issues that are ultimately unresolvable yet crucial to understanding the nature of public administrative practice. How can democracy and efficiency be balanced? Can there be a science of administration? How should we think about administrative accountability? What is the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? Is professionalism an adequate mechanism for ensuring accountability? How efficient can or should bureaucracy be? What is proper leadership by administrators hoping to address political democracy and managerial efficiency? This ASPA Classics Volumes serves to connect the practice of public policy and administration with the normative theory base that has accrued and the models for practice that may be deduced from this theory.

Camilla Stivers

Introduction , Politics and Administration , Political Ends and Administrative Means , The American Bureaucrat: A History of a Sheep in Wolves' Clothing , The Study of Administration , The Proverbs of Administration , The Science of Public Administration: Three Problems , Public Administration and Business Management , Stories Managers Tell: Why They Are as Valid as Science , Grout: Alternative Kinds of Knowledge and Why They Are Ignored , Public Management: Should It Strive to Be Art, Science, or Engineering? , Responsibility, Accountability, Responsiveness , Gauging Administrative Responsibility , Accountability in the Public Sector: Lessons from the Challenger Tragedy , Responsiveness and Neutral Competence in American Bureaucracy , The Listening Bureaucrat: Responsiveness in Public Administration , Citizens and the Administrative State , Maximum Feasible Manipulation , Citizenship and Professionalism in Public Administration , Citizenship and Service Delivery: The Promise of Coproduction , The Question of Participation: Toward Authentic Public Participation in Public Administration , Professionalism in Public Administration , The Mind of the Career Man , Professionalism and Bureaucratic Responsiveness: Conflict or Compatibility? , Public Administration and the Paradox of Professionalization , Bureaucracy , The Dialectical Organization: An Alternative to Bureaucracy , The Coming Death of Administrative Man , A Bureaucratic-Centered Image of Governance: The Founders' Thought in Modern Perspective , Leadership , Authority in Organizations , The Existentialist Executive , The Management of Social Transformation , Leadership: Arranging the Chairs-Reflections on the Lessons of Neely Gardner