Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 233 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781589010932
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9781589010925
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1589010922
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1589010930
Series Statement:
Public management and change series
Content:
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 wheth
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Dwight Waldo's The Administrative State; 2 The Material Background; 3 The Cultural and Ideological Background; 4 The Criteria of Action; 5 Who Should Rule?; 6 The Separation of Powers; 7 The Thinning of Administrative Institutions; 8 Competition for Human Capital; 9 Business and Government; 10 Institutional Values and the Future Administrative State; 11 Conclusion: Additional Notes on the Present Tendencies; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781589010932
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State : Constancy and Change in Public Administration
Language:
English
URL:
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