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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954927603321

Titolo

Revisiting Waldo's administrative state : constancy and change in public administration / / David H. Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-58901-407-3

1-4356-2747-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Public management and change series

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenbloomDavid H

McCurdyHoward E

Disciplina

351.73

Soggetti

Public administration

Organizational change - United States

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dwight Waldo's The administrative state / David H. Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy -- The material background / Donald F. Kettl -- The cultural and ideological background / Howard E. McCurdy -- The criteria of action / Norma M. Riccucci -- Who should rule? / Patricia W. Ingraham -- The separation of powers / David H. Rosenbloom -- The thinning of administrative institutions / Larry D. Terry -- Competition for human capital / John Cadigan -- Business and government / Barbara S. Romzek -- Institutional values and the future administrative state / Robert F. Durant -- Additional notes on the present tendencies / Howard E. McCurdy and David H. Rosenbloom.

Sommario/riassunto

The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly newùit echoes the early twentieth-century gospel of efficiency challenged by Dwight Waldo in 1948 in his pathbreaking book, The Administrative State. Asking, Efficiency for what?, Waldo warned that public administrative efficiency must be backed by a framework of consciously held democratic values. Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State brings together a group of distinguished authors who critically explore public



administration's big ideas and issues and question whether