Public Administration and Society: Critical Issues in American Governance
- ISBN-10
- 0765623587
- ISBN-13
- 9780765623584
- Series
- Public Administration and Society
- Category
- Administrative agencies
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Richard C. Box
Description
Part I. Introduction to the Central Issues: Context, Change, and Democracy 1 Chapter 1. Scope and Content of Public Administration 3 Instrumental and Contextual Public Administration 4 The Unique Public Sector 5 Coercion and Government 7 Scope and Content of American Governments 9 Chapter 2. Time and Change: The Environment of Public Administration 11 Predispositions and Freedom of Thought 12 Recurring Themes 13 A Picture of Change 15 Historical Peculiarity 17 Historical Similarity 18 Change and Economics 20 Chapter 3. Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure 23 Democratic Citizenship 24 Precursors of American Democracy 25 Toward a New American Government 27 Contemporary Public Service Institutions 31 Republican Form of Government 32 The "Vertical" Structure of Government 33 The "Horizontal" Structure of Government 34 Politics and Administration 36 Transition 38 Part II. Debate and Decision in the Founding Era 41 The Federalist Papers 42 Federalist Papers 10, 17, and 51 43 The Anti-Federalist Response and Tocqueville's Concerns About Democracy 45 The Ideas of the Founding Generation in the Present 46 Reading 2.1 The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51 47 Reading 2.2 Introduction to The Federalist Papers Reader, Frederick Quinn 59 Reading 2.3 Interpretative Essay, W.B. Allen, Gordon Lloyd, and Margie Lloyd 81 Reading 2.4 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, Alexis de Tocqueville 87 Reading 2.5 The Future of the American Bureaucratic System, Richard J. Stillman II 91 Part III. Community and the Individual 121 Reading 3.1 The Public Realm, Thomas E. McCollough 125 Reading 3.2 Barn Raising, Daniel Kemmis 147 Reading 3.3 The Nature of Community Governance, Richard C. Box 159 Part IV. Social Equity and Economic Efficiency 183 Reading 4.1 Unequal America: Causes and Consequences of the Wide-and Growing-Gap Between Rich and Poor, Elizabeth Gudrais 187 Reading 4.2 Introduction to New Public Administration, H. George Frederickson 199 Reading 4.3 Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice, Richard C. Box 207 Part V. The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society 229 Reading 5.1 Practitioners, Richard C. Box 233 Reading 5.2 New Public Management and Substantive Democracy, Richard C. Box, Gary S. Marshall, B.J. Reed, and Christine M. Reed 249 Reading 5.3 Citizens and Administrators: Roles and Relationships, Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers 267 Reading 5.4 Transforming Citizenship and Governance, Claire Mostel 283.
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