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Tables of Contents for Classics of Public Administration
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Part One Early Voices and the First Quarter Century (1880's to 1920's)
1
71
1. Civil Service Reform in Great Britain,
Dorman B. Eaton
16
6
2. The Study of Administration,
Woodrow Wilson
22
13
3. Politics and Administration,
Frank J. Goodnow
35
3
4. Problems of Municipal Administration,
Jane Addams
38
5
5. Scientific Management,
Frederick W. Taylor
43
3
6. The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States,
William F. Willoughby
46
4
7. Bureaucracy,
Max Weber
50
6
8. Introduction to the Study of Public Administration,
Leonard D. White
56
8
9. The Giving of Orders,
Mary Parker Follett
64
8
Part Two The New Deal to Mid-Century (1930's to 1950's)
72
116
10. Notes on the Theory of Organization,
Luther Gulick
90
9
11. Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management,
Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Mewiam, & Luther Gulick
99
5
12. Informal Organizations and Their Relation to Formal Organizations,
Chester I. Barnard
104
5
13. Bureaucratic Structure and Personality,
Robert K. Merton
109
9
14. The Lack of a Budgetary Theory,
V.O. Key, Jr.
118
5
15. A Theory of Human Motivation,
A.H. Maslow
123
8
16. Government Is Different,
Paul Appleby
131
5
17. The Proverbs of Administration,
Herbert A. Simon
136
14
18. The Administrative State: Conclusion,
Dwight Waldo
150
5
19. The Cooptative Mechanism,
Philip Selznick
155
7
20. The Report of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government,
Excerpt from The Hoover Commission Report
162
9
21. The Human Side of Enterprise,
Douglas Murray McGregor
171
6
22. The Science of "Muddling Through,"
Charles E. Lindblom
177
11
Part Three From JFK to Civil Service Reform (1960's and 1970's)
188
182
23. Organizations and the System Concept,
Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn
206
11
24. The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform,
Allen Schick
217
16
25. The American System,
Morton Groduns
233
5
26. Organizations of the Future,
Warren Bennis
238
12
27. Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service,
Yehezkel Dror
250
8
28. The Life Cycle of Bureaus,
Anthony Downs
258
13
29. Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS,
Aaron Wildavsky
271
14
30. Administrative Decentralization and Political Power,
Herbert Kaufman
285
13
31. The End of Liberalism: The Indictment,
Theodore J. Lowi
298
4
32. Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap,
Martin Landau
302
13
33. Toward a New Public Administration,
H. George Frederickson
315
13
34. Systematic Thinking for Social Action,
Alice M. Rivlin
328
11
35. Implementation,
Jeffrey L. Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky
339
4
36. Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government,
Frederick C. Mosher & Others
343
7
37. Representative Bureaucracy,
Samuel Krislov
350
5
38. Organizational Decline and Cutback Management,
Charles H. Levine
355
15
Part Four From Reagan to Reinvention (1980's and 1990's)
370
 
39. Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects?
Graham T. Allison
396
18
40. Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats,
Michael Lipsky
414
9
41. Public Budgeting amidst Uncertainty and Instability,
Naomi Caiden
423
11
42. Democracy and the Public Service: The Collective Services,
Frederick C. Mosher
434
12
43. Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers,
David H. Rosenbloom
446
12
44. The Possibility of Administrative Ethics,
Dennis F. Thompson
458
9
45. Exploring the Limits of Privatization,
Ronald C. Moe
467
10
46. Toward a Feminist Perspective in Public Administration Theory,
Camilla Stivers
477
10
47. Understanding Organizational Culture,
J. Steven Ott
487
7
48. From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity,
R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.
494
9
49. A Public Management for All Seasons?
Christopher Hood
503
14
50. Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Intergovernmental Management: Historical Reflections and Conceptual Comparisons,
Deil S. Wright
517
16
51. Breaking Through Bureaucracy,
Michael Barzelay with Bobak J. Armajani
533
23
52. From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less,
The National Performance Review
556
8
53. How Does an Idea's Time Come? Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies,
John W. Kingdon
564
7
54. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making,
Deborah Stone
571