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Tables of Contents for Contemporary Public Administration
PART I: THE PRACTICE AND DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: COMPETINGCONCERNSCHAPTER 1: What is Public AdministrationCHAPTER 2: BureaucracyCHAPTER 3: Public Administration in the Third Century of the Constitution: Supply-SideManagement, Privatization, or Public InvestmentCHAPTER 4: Public Choice: A Different Approach to the Study of Public AdministrationCHAPTER 5: The Perils--and Prospects--of Public AdministrationPART II: THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIVE STATECHAPTER 6: The FederalistsCHAPTER 7: What the Anti-Federalists were ForCHAPTER 8: Bureaucracy and ConstitutionalistCHAPTER 9: Political Foundations of the American Federal Service: Rebuilding a CrumblingBaseCHAPTER 10: Congress and the Administrative StateCHAPTER 11: Mandates or Mandarins? Control and Discretion in the Modern AdministrativeStateCHAPTER 12: Public Managers, Judges, and Legislators: Redefining the New PartnershipPART III: FEDERALISM AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 13: Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Intergovernmental ManagementsHistorical Reflections and Conceptual ComparisonsCHAPTER 14: American Federalism: Madison's Middle Ground in the 1980'sPART IV: ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION: STRUCTURE AND PROCESSCHAPTER 15: Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in AllUnimportant RespectsCHAPTER 16: Adapting Total Quality Management (TQM) to GovernmentCHAPTER 17: Formal Models of Bureaucracy: A ReviewCHAPTER 18: The Politics of Governmental OrganizationCHAPTER 19: Toward a Theory of Street-Level BureaucracyPART V: PUBLIC PERSONNEL SYSTEMSCHAPTER 20: The State Merit in the Federal GovernmentCHAPTER 21: The Motivational Bases of Public ServiceCHAPTER 22: State Civil Service and Collective Bargaining: Systems in ConflictCHAPTER 23: The Federal Career Executive in Search of a SystemCHAPTER 24: Environmental Change and the Personnel Function: A Review of the ResearchCHAPTER 25: Organizational Involvement and Representative Bureaucracy: Can We Have itBoth Ways?CHAPTER 26: The Public in Practice and TheoryCHAPTER 27: Exploring the Limits of PrivatizationCHAPTER 28: Theories of Government Related to Decentralization and Citizen ParticipationPART X: ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICSCHAPTER 29: Public Administration's Moral ComponentCHAPTER 30: Reconciling Public Entrepreneurship and DemocracyCHAPTER 31: Accountability in the Public Sector: Lessons from the Challenger TragedyCHAPTER 32: Public Administration and Ethics