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Public Administration in the United States | ||||
1999 • 1-58510-001-3 • paper • 320 pages • 7 x 10 • $39.95 Readings that explore modern thinking of public administration— the philosophy, theory and practice. | About the Author | Contents | Preface | | ||||
John C. Koritansky is Professor of Political Science at Hiram College, where he teaches American politics, public law, public administration, and political philosophy. Dr. Koritansky is also the author of Alexis de Tocqueville and the New Science of Politics (Carolina Academic Press, 1986). He has also authored numerous articles in political philosophy and public law. Dr. Koritansky received his A.B. from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. | ||||
Introduction: Public Adminstration and American Liberal Democracy. Part I: The Experience of America’s First Century 1. John C. Koritansky Founding Principles and Democratic Reforms: Federalists,Jeffersonians, and Jacksonians Part II: Meritocracy, and the “Politics/Administration” Distinction 2. Woodrow Wilson The Study of Administration... 3. Herbert J. Storing Leonard D. White and the Study of Public Administration.. Part III: The Problem of Political Control of the Neutral Civil Service.. 4. Herbert Kaufman Emerging Conflicts in the Doctrine of Public Administration. 5. Robert Dince Coping With the Civil Service.. 6. Herbert Simon, Donald W. Smithberg, and Victor A. Thompson The Universality of Administration.. 7. Donald Rowat A Necessary Evil.. 8. Carl J. Friedrich The Nature of Administrative Responsibility 9. Herman Finer The Case for Subservience. 10. Herbert J. Storing The Crucial Link: Public Administration, Responsibility, and the Public Interest. 11. The President’s Commission on Administrative Management Recommendation for a Civil Service Administrator. 12. James K. Pollock The Inadequacy of a Civil Service Commission. 13. William W. Shaw Independent Civil Service Commissions and Executive Power.. 14. Leonard D. White The Case for a Senior Civil Service... 15. Everett Reimer The Case Against a Senior Civil Service.. 16. H.E. Kaplan Have Public Employees the Right to Strike?--No.. 17. S.D. Spero Have Public Employees the Right to Strike?--Maybe. Part IV: Independent Civil Servants, The Rule of Law, and Sovereignty 18. The President’s Commission on Administrative Management The Headless Fourth Branch. 19. The First Hoover Commission The Use of the Independent Regulatory Comission. 20. Theodore Lowi Pluralism and the Transfomation of Capitalist Ideology (from The End of Liberalism). 21. Harvey C. Mansfiled Disguised Liberalism. Part V: Decision Making Theory and Performance Budgeting 22. Herbert Simon The Proverbs of Administration. 23. Edward Banfield A Criticism of the Decision-Making Schema 24. Herbert Simon The Decision Making Schema, A Reply. 25. Samuel Greenhouse PPBS: Rationale, Language, and Idea Relationships. 26. Aaron Wildavsky The Political Economy of Efficiency Part VI: The Science of Management and Organization 27. Frederick Taylor Scientific Management. 28. F.J. Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson Human Relations. 2. Chester Barnard Cooperation. 30. Charles Perrow Managerial Ideologies
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Public Administration in the United States: A Reader 
