Preface to public administration : a search for themes and direction
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Preface to public administration : a search for themes and direction
St. Martin's Press, c1991
- pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-232) and index
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Description
Examining the development of public administration from the late 18th century to the present, this text offers a comparative history of public administration in Europe. It considers current problems and controversies in public administration, as well as exploring possible remedies.
Table of Contents
- What is public administration theory in America?
- the peculiar "stateless" origins of American public administration theory
- "chinking in " a temporary American state (and the strange administrative theory it created)
- the rise of a global professional technocracy - a new postwar American state system?
- shifting doctrines in 20th-century American public administration thought - one, two, many
- current trends in American public administration thought - the drive to specialize in texts, teaching and training
- modern public administration theory as a great state debate - no state?, bold state?, pre-state?, pro-state?
- the future of American public administration theory - a dialectic among competing state visions.
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