Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration

Book Overview

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