Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration
(Part of the Public Management and Change Series)
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The prevailing notion that the best government is achieved through principles of management and business practices is hardly new-it 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1589010930
ISBN13:9781589010932
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Georgetown University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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