Public Administration and Society (3^rd Ed.) Critical Issues in American Governance

For instructors who want to expose their students to the social, political, and historical context of the practice of public administration, this book provides a unique approach to the introductory PA course. The author's own text is skilfully interwoven with a collection of seminal readings and documents that illuminate the key issues of past and present for public service professionals in a democratic society.

More than an overview of public administration, Public Administration and Society offers students a broad perspective on the American Founding Era, the relationship of citizens to government, and how the structure of government reflects societal values. The premise of the book is that understanding the societal context is important to the success of the practitioner and to the practitioner's role as a responsible agent of change in a democratic society.

Introductory essays and readings offer students perspectives on five important thematic areas in public administration: the Founding-Era debate over the size and scope of government, the relationship of the community to the individual, public organizations and policy making, values and public administration, and the role of the public service practitioner in a democratic society.

This new edition of features five new readings, and, based on input from adopters, an entirely new section on public policy making (Part IV: Public Organizations and Policy). The author's part-opening sections have all been extensively revised and updated.

Part I Introduction to the Central Issues; Chapter 1 Scope and Content of Public Administration; Chapter 2 Time and Change; Chapter 3 Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure; Part II Creating a New Democracy; Chapter 4 The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51; Chapter 5 Introduction to The Federalist Papers Reader, Frederick Quinn; Chapter 6 Interpretative Essay, W.B. Allen, Gordon Lloyd, Margie Lloyd; Chapter 7 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, Alexis de Tocqueville; Part III Community and the Individual; Chapter 8 The Public Realm, Thomas E. McCollough; Chapter 9 Barn Raising, Daniel Kemmis; Chapter 10 The Nature of Community Governance, Richard C. Box; Part IV Public Organizations and Policy; Chapter 11 Democracy, Public Administrators, and Public Policy, Dale Krane; Chapter 12 A Brief Tour of Public Organization Theory in the United States, Gary S. Marshall; Chapter 13 The Future of the American Bureaucratic System, Richard J. StillmanII; Part V Values and Public Administration; Chapter 14 Unequal America, Elizabeth Gudrais; Chapter 15 Introduction to New Public Administration, H. George Frederickson; Chapter 16 Practitioners, Richard C. Box; Chapter 17 Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice, Richard C. Box; Part VI The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society; Chapter 18 Democracy and Public Service; Chapter 19 The Citizenship Role of the Public Professional, Richard C. Box; Chapter 20 Transforming Citizenship and Governance, Claire Mostel; Chapter 21 Obituary, Claire Mostel;