Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Part One: Paradigms of Public Administration 1 Chapter I Big Democracy, Big Bureaicracy 4 Constraint: The Context and Tradition of Public Administration in the United States Attenuations: The Legacy of Limited Public Administration 7 Government, Public Leaders, and Public Trust 11 Bureaucrats: Image and Reality 13 Revolt and Resistance: Americans and Governmental Growth 14 Why Bureaucracy? 15 Explaining Things 16 Power: The Gray Eminence of the Public Administrator 17 Chapter 2 Public Administrations Century in~ Quandary 29 The Beginning 29 Paradigm 1: The Politics/Administration Dichotomy, 1900-1926 30 Paradigm 2: The Principles of Administration, 1927-1937 32 The Challenge, 1938-1950 34 Reaction to the Challenge, 1947-1950 36 Paradigm 3: Public Administration as Political Science, 1950-1970 37 The Impact of Political Science: Bureaucracy in the Service of Democracy 40 Paradigm 4: Public Administration as Management, 1956-1970 41 The Impact of Management: Understanding the "Public" in Public Administration 42 The Forces of Separatism, 1965-1970 45 Public Administration as Neither Management Nor Political Science 46 Paradigm 5: Public Administration as Public Administration: 1970-? 48 Governance: Toward a New Paradigm? 49 Part Two: Public Organizations 57 Chapter 3 The Threads of Organizations: Thebries 58 Models, Definitions, and Organizations 58 The Closed Model of Organizations 59 The Open Model of Organizations 62 The Political Executive System: Politics in Administration 270 The Professional Career System: The Person over the Position 273 The Professional Public Administration System: Embracing the Professions of Politics and Management 274 Race, Sex, and Jobs: The Challenge of Affirmative Action 276 Does Public Human Resource Management Have a Future? 290 Part Four: Implementing Public Policy 303 Chapter 10 Understanding Public Policy 305 Public Policy Analysis: A Brief History 305 Political Science, Public Administration, and Policy Analysis 306 The Incrementalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation 307 The Rationalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation 314 The Problems of the Paradigms 320 The Strategic Planning Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation 321 Strategic Planning: The Public Experience 322 Truly Universal Strategic Planning 326 Chapter 11 Intersectoral Administration 331 Chapter l2 IntergovernmentalAdministration 379 Chapter 13 Toward a Bureaucratic Ethic 426 Appendix A: Information Sources, Journals, and Organizations in Public Appendix B: Annotated Information Sources in Public Administration Appendix C: Selected Annotated Journals Relevant to Public Administration 455 Appendix D: Selected Academic, Professional, and Public Interest Organizations Appendix E: Correct Forms of Address for Public Offidals 463 Appendix F: Becoming a Public Administrator 465 Appendix G: American Society for Pubfic Administration Code of Ethics 473 Name Index 475 Subject Index 477 Chapter 4 The Fabric of Organizations: Forces 79 Chapter 5 The Fibers of Organizations: People 115 Part Three: Public Management 147 Chapter 6 Clarifying Complexity: Problems of Public Management 150 Chapter 7 Corruptions Consequences: Performance Measurement, Public Program Chapter 8 The Public Budget: Purposes and Processes 214 Chapter 9 Managing Human Resources in the Public Sector 250