Explores public administration's ideas and issues and questions whether contemporary efforts to "reinvent government", promote privatization, and develops public management approaches that constitute a coherent political theory capable of meeting the challenges of governing in a democracy.
"This fascinating book updates Dwight Waldo's enduring insights with in-depth reflections about contemporary public administration by the best thinkers in the field today. It is a must read' for anyone serious about public administration scholarship."—Rosemary O'Leary, Distinguished Professor, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
