Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State: Constancy and Change in Public Administration
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...
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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
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781589010932 (1589010930)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Pages no: 233
Edition language: English