A "must read" for both students and practitioners of public adminstration, this highly praised collection offers a one-stop source for significant scholarship in the field. Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde, together with new coauthor Sandra J. Parkes, have thoroughly updated this Fifth Edition, which now includes nine new selections of historic and contemporary importance.
Arranged chronologically to illustrate how the field's themes build upon one another, the selections cover over a century of seminal scholarship, beginning with Dorman B. Eaton's writings on the merit system and continuing through Deborah Stone's "Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making," written in 1997.
This Fifth Edition also features updated introductions that offer insight into the articles. Each chapter introductions is followed by a "Chronology" section, which places the writers' perspectives into a broader historical context.
Part 1 Early Voices and the First Quarter Century
(1880s to 1920s)
Part 2 The New Deal to Mid-Century (1930s to 1950s)
Part 3 From JFK to Civil Service Reform (1960s and 1970s)
Part 4 From Reagan to Reinvention (1980s and 1990s)
,etc.