Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State
Subtitle: Constancy And Change in Public Administration (Public Management and Change)
Contributors: David H. Rosenbloom (Editor); Howard E. McCurdy (Editor)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: June 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781589010925
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Public Affairs & Administration; History & Theory - General; Organizational change; Public administration; United States
First sentence: The 2005 American Political Science Association national meeting in Washington, D.C., featured a debate pitting Dwight Waldo's The Administrative State against Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior, with the protagonists for each having to argue that theirs was the best book on U.S. public administration written during the twentieth century.