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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part One Politics and Administration -- 1 Political Ends and Administrative Means -- 2 The American Bureaucrat: A History of a Sheep in Wolves' Clothing -- Part Two The Study of Administration -- 3 The Proverbs of Administration -- 4 The Science of Public Administration: Three Problems -- 5 Public Administration and Business Management -- 6 Stories Managers Tell: Why They Are as Valid as Science -- 7 Grout: Alternative Kinds of Knowledge and Why They Are Ignored -- 8 Public Management: Should It Strive to be Art, Science, or Engineering? -- Part Three Responsibility, Accountability, Responsiveness -- 9 Gauging Administrative Responsibility -- 10 Accountability in the Public Sector: Lessons from the Challenger Tragedy -- 11 Responsiveness and Neutral Competence in American Bureaucracy -- 12 The Listening Bureaucrat: Responsiveness in Public Administration -- Part Four Citizens and the Administrative State -- 13 Maximum Feasible Manipulation -- 14 Citizenship and Professionalism in Public Administration -- 15 Citizenship and Service Delivery: The Promise of Coproduction -- 16 The Question of Participation: Toward Authentic Public Participation in Public Administration -- Part Five Professionalism in Public Administration -- 17 The Mind of the Career Man -- 18 Professionalism and Bureaucratic Responsiveness: Conflict or Compatibility? -- 19 Public Administration and the Paradox of Professionalization -- Part Six Bureaucracy -- 20 The Dialectical Organization: An Alternative to Bureaucracy -- 21 The Coming Death of Administrative Man -- 22 A Bureaucratic-Centered Image of Governance: The Founders' Thought in Modern Perspective -- Part Seven Leadership -- 23 Authority in Organizations -- 24 The Existentialist Executive

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Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this second edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change.

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