Public Management

 

Reading List

 

Compiled by:

 

Professors James L. Perry, 2000; Roger Parks, 2000 (modest additions)

 

 

TEXTS

 

Barry Bozeman (ed.). Public Management: The State of the Art. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993

 

Hal Rainey. Understanding and Managing Public Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.

 

James Perry (ed.).  Handbook of Public Administration (2d ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996

 

Classics of Public Management

 

Paul Appleby. Policy and Administration. University, AL: Alabama University Press, 1949.

 

Chester Barnard. The Functions of the Executive. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.

 

Alfred D. Chandler.  The Visible Hand:  The Management Revolution in American Business.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard , 1977.

 

Mary Parker Follett. Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, edited by Henry C. Metcalf and Lyndall Urwick. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.

 

Frank Goodnow. Politics and Administration. New York: MacMillan, 1900.

 

George Graham. "How Professor Wilson Would Rate Public Administration Today." Public Administration Review 53 (September/October 1993): 486-502.

 

Paula Graham (ed). Mary Parker Follett--Prophet of Management. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.

 

Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick (eds). Papers on the Science of Administration. New York: Institute of Public Administration, 1937.

 

E. Pendleton Herring. Public Administration and the Public Interest. New York: Russell & Russell. 1936.

 

Vincent Ostrom. The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration.  2nd ed.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1989.

 

Philip Selznick.  Leadership in Administration.  New York: Harper & Row.  1957

 

Herbert Simon. “The Proverbs of Administration.”  Public Administration Review 6 (1946): 53-67.

 

Herbert Simon. Administrative Behavior. New York: Free Press, 1947.

 

Herbert A. Simon, Donald W. Smithburg, and Victor A. Thompson, Public Administration. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

 

Frederick W. Taylor. The Principles of Scientific Management. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.

 

Dwight Waldo. The Administrative State. New York: Ronald Press, 1948.

 

Dwight Waldo. The Study of Public Administration. New York: Random House, 1955.

 

Leonard D. White. Introduction to the Study of Public Administration. New York: Macmillan, 1926.

 

Woodrow Wilson. "The Study of Administration." Political Science Quarterly 2 (June 1887): 197-222.

 

The Evolution of Public Management

 

*Barry Bozeman. "Introduction: Two Concepts of Public Management. " In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993:1-5.

 

Howard McCurdy. Public Administration: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1986.

 

*Richard Elmore. "Graduate Education in Public Management: Working the Seams of Govern­ment. " Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 6 (Fall 1986):69-83.

 

Patricia Ingraham and Donald Kettl. Agenda for Excellence: Public Service in America. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1992.

 

Herbert Kaufman. "Administrative Decentralization and Political Power. " Public Administration Review 29 (1969): 339-52.

 

Jan Kooiman and Kjell A. Eliassen (eds.). Managing Public Organizations. London: Sage, 1987.

 

Laurence Lynn Jr. Managing Public Policy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

 

Frank Marini (ed.). Toward A New Public Administration: The Minnowbrook Perspective. Scranton, PA: Chandler, 1971.

 

Les Metcalfe and Sue Richards. Improving Public Management. London: Sage, 1987.

 

Henry Mintzberg. "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact." Harvard Business Review (July­-August 1975).

 

*James L. Perry. "Public Management Theory: What is It? What Should It Be? In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 16-18.

 

*James L. Perry and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Public Management: Public and Private Perspectives. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1983: preface (pp. ix-xii) and introduction to Part I (pp. 1-5).

 

Hal G. Rainey. "Public Management: Recent Developments and Current Prospects." In Naomi Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky (eds.), Public Administration: State of the Discipline. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1990: 157-84.

 

*Hal Rainey. Understanding and Managing Public Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991): 1-12.

 

*Richard J. Stillman II, Preface to Public Administration: A Search for Themes and Direction. New York: St. Martin's, 1991, especially Chapter 7.

 

Charles H. Wise, "Public Service Configurations and Public Organizations: Public Organization Design in the Post-Privatization Era." Public Administration Review 50 (March/April 1990): 141-55

 

The Meaning and Significance of "Public" in Public Management

 

*Graham T. Allison. "Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects?" In James L. Perry and Kenneth L. Kraemer (eds.), Public Management: Public and Private Perspectives. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1983: 72-92.

 

Edward Banfield. "Corruption as a Feature of Governmental Organization." Journal of Law and Economics 20 (1977): 587-605.

 

*S. I. Benn and G. F. Gaus. Public and Private in Social Life. New York: St. Martin's, 1983, Chapter 1.

 

Barry Bozeman. All Organizations Are Public. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.

 

Barry Bozeman and Stuart Bretschneider. "The 'Publicness Puzzle' in Organization Theory: A Test of Alternative Explanations of Differences Between Public and Private Organizations. " Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 4 (1994): 197-223.

 

John Chubb and Terry Moe. "Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools. " American Political Science Review 82 (1988): 1065-87.

 

John Chubb and Terry Moe, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1990.

 

H. George Frederickson. "Toward a Theory of the Public for Public Administration," Administra­tion and Society, 22 (February 1991): 395-417.

 

Joseph Gusfield. The Culture of Public Problems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

 

Albert O. Hirschman, Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Steven Kelman, "Public Choice and Public Spirit," The Public Interest 87 (Spring): 80-94.

 

Jack Knott, "Comparing Public and Private Management: Cooperative Effort and Principal-Agent Relationships," Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 3 (January 1993): 93-119.

 

Charles Lindblom. Politics and Markets. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

 

Barry Mitnick, "Public vs. Private Settings: An Inclusive Typology via Systematics," Research in Public Administration 3 (1994): 105-36.

 

Lloyd Musolf and Harold Seidman, "The Blurred Boundaries of Public Administration," Public Administration Review 40 (1980): 124-30.

 

James L. Perry and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Public Management: Public and Private Perspectives. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1983.

 

*James L. Perry and Hal G. Rainey, "The Public-Private Distinction in Organization Theory: A Critique and Research Strategy," Academy of Management Review 13 (April 1988): 182-201.

 

Hal G. Rainey, Robert Backoff, and Charles H. Levine, "Comparing Public and Private Organiza­tions," Public Administration Review 36 (March/April, 1976): 233-44.

 

*W. Richard Scott and John W. Meyer, "The Organization of Societal Sectors: Propositions and Early Evidence," in Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio (eds.), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991: 108-40.

 

Annmarie Walsh, The Public's Business: The Politics and Practices of Government Corpora­tions. Cambridge: MIT Press.

 

Research Issues

 

Michael Barzelay. "The Single Case Study as Intellectually Ambitious Inquiry. " Journal of Public Administraffon Research and Theory 3 (1993): 305-18.

 

*Robert D. Behn. "The Big Questions of Public Management." Public Administration Review 55 (July/August 1995): 313-24.

 

*Barry Bozeman. "Theory, 'Wisdom,' and the Character of Knowledge in Public Management: A Critical View of the Theory-Practice Linkage." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 27-39.

 

Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman. "Comparative Administration: Methods, Muddles, and Models." Administration and Society 18 (February 1987): 473-506.

 

*Robert B. Denhardt, "Public Administration Theory: The State of the Discipline," in Naomi B. Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky (eds.), Public Administration: The State of the Discipline. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1990: 43-72.

 

*Lee Frost-Kumpf and Barton Wechsler. "A Metaphor Rooted in a Fable." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 19-23.

 

Robert T. Golembiewski, "Public Sector Organization Behavior and Theory: Perspectives on Nagging Problems and on Real Progress," in Naomi B. Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky (eds.), Public Administration: The State of the Discipline. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1990: 127-56.

 

Philip H. Jos and Mark E. Tompkins. "Accountability: An Interdisciplinary Perspective." Research in Public Administration 3 (1994): 41-104.

 

Donald F. Kettl. "Searching for Clues About Public Management: Slicing the Onion Different Ways." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 55-68.

 

*Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. "Theory in Public Management." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 13-15.

 

*Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. "Public Management Research: The Triumph of Art Over Science." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 13 (Spring 1994): 231-59.

 

*James L. Perry. "Strategies for Building Public Administration Theory." Research in Public Administration 1 (1991): 1-18.

 

James L. Perry and Kenneth L. Kraemer, "Research Methodology in Public Administration: Issues and Patterns." In Naomi B. Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky (eds.), Public Administration: The State of the Discipline. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1990: 347-72.

 

Hal G. Rainey, "Public Management: Recent Developments and Current Prospects," In Naomi Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky (eds.), Public Administration: State of the Discipline. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1990: 157-84.

 

*Hal G. Rainey, "Important Research Questions." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 9-12.

 

Grace Hall Saltzstein. "The Search for a Theory of Bureaucratic Responsiveness." Research in Public Administration 3 (1994): 1-40.

 

Curtis Ventriss, "Two Critical Issues of American Public Administration," Administration and Society 19 (1987): 25-47.

 

Jay D. White and Guy B. Adams, eds. Research in Public Administration: Reflections on Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994.

 

Decision-Making

 

Graham T. Allison, Essence of Decision. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.

 

*Graham T. Allison. "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis." American Political Science Review 63 (1969): 689-718.

 

Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen, "A Garbage Can Model of Organiza­tional Choice," Administrative Science Quarterly 17 (1972): 1-25.

 

Robert F. Durant. "Public Policy, Overhead Democracy, and the Professional State Revisited." Administration and Society 27 (August 1995): 165-202.

 

Amitai Etzioni, "Mixed Scanning: A 'Third' Approach to Decision Making," Public Administra­tion Review 27 (1967): 385-92.

 

Amitai Etzioni, "Mixed Scanning Revisited," Public Administration Review 46 (1986): 8-14.

 

Irving L. Janis, Crucial Decisions. New York: The Free Press, 1989.

 

*Martin Landau, "The Concept of Decision-Making in the 'Field' of Public Administration. " In Sidney Mailick and Edward H. Van Ness (eds.), Concepts and Issues in Administrative Behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

 

Charles Lindblom, "The Science of Muddling Through," Public Administration Review 19 (1959): 79-88.

 

Charles Lindblom, "Still Muddling, Not Yet Through," Public Administration Review 39 (1979): 517-26.

 

Strategic Management

 

Frances Stokes Berry. "Innovation in Public Management: The Adoption of Strategic Planning." Public Administration Review 54 (July/August 1994): 322-29.

 

John Bryson. Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthen­ing and Sustaining Organizational Achievement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988.

 

*Lee Frost-Kumpf, Barton Wechsler, Howard J. Ishiyama, and Robert W. Backoff. "Strategic Action and Transformational Change: The Ohio Department of Mental Health." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 137-52.

 

David Hickson, R. J. Butler, D. Cray, G.R. Mallory, and D.C. Wilson. Top Decisions: Strategic Decision-Making in Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1986.

 

Paul Nutt and Robert W. Backoff. Strategic Management of Public and Third Sector Organiza­tions: A Handbook for Leaders San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

 

Paul C. Nutt and Robert W. Backoff. "Organizational Publicness and Its Implications for Strategic Management. " Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 3 (April 1993): 209-31.

 

James Brian Quinn. Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1980.

 

Jack Rabin, Gerald Miller, and W. Bartley Hildreth (eds.). Handbook of Strategic Management. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1989.

 

*Hal Rainey. Understanding and Managing Public Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991): 73-97.

 

Peter Smith Ring and James L. Perry. "Strategic Management in Public and Private Organiza­tions: Implications of Distinctive Contexts and Constraints. " Academy of Management Review 10 (April 1985): 276-86.

 

*Nancy Roberts. "Limitations of Strategic Action in Bureaus." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 153-72.

 

Barton Wechsler and Robert Backoff, "Policy Making and Administration in State Agencies: Strategic Management Approaches," Public Administration Review 46 (July/August 1986): 321-27.

 


Administrative Reform

 

Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda. "Design and Devolution: Surges of Rational and Norma­tive Ideologies of Control in Management Discourse." Administrative Science Quarterly 37 (September 1992): 363-99.

 

John J. DiIulilo (ed.). Deregulating the Public Service: Can Government Be Improved? Washing­ton, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994.

 

Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell. "Introduction," in Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio (eds.), The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991: 1-38.

 

James M. Ferris and Shui-Yan Tang. "The New Institutionalism and Public Administration: An Overview." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 3 (January 1993): 4-10.

 

James L. Garnett and Charles H. Levine. "State Executive Branch Reorganization: Patterns and Perspectives." Administration and Society 12 (November 1980): 227-76.

 

Patricia W. Ingraham and Barbara S. Romzek (eds). New Paradigms for Government: Issues for the Changing Public Service. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

 

Jack H. Knott and Gary J. Miller.  Reforming Bureaucracy: The Politics of Institutional Choice.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987.

 

Laurence Lynn Jr. Managing Public Policy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

 

*James G. March and Johan P. Olsen. "Organizing Political Life: What Administrative Reorgani­zation Tells Us About Government." American Political Science Review 77 (June 1983): 281-96.

 

James G. March and Johan Olsen. "The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life." American Political Science Review 78 (September 1984): 734-49.

 

James G. March and Johan Olsen. Rediscovering Institutions. New York: The Free Press, 1989.

 

Steven Maynard-Moody, Donald D. Stull, and Jerry Mitchell. "Reorganization as Status Drama: Building, Maintaining, and Displacing Dominant Subcultures." Public Administration Review 46 (July/August 1986): 301-10.

 

Marshall W. Meyer. Change in Public Bureaucracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

 

H. Brinton Milward, Keith G. Provan, and Barbara A. Else. "What Does the 'Hollow State' Look Like?" In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 309-22.

 

Gary J. Miller.  Managerial Dilemmas:  The Political Economy of Hierarchy.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  1991.

 

Jarnes Morone. The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government New York: Basic Books, 1990.

 

David Osborne and Ted Gaebler. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

 

Frank J. Thompson. Revitalizing State and Local Public Service: Strengthening Performance, Accountability, and Citizen Confidence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

 

Pamela S. Tolbert and Lynne G. Zucker. "Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform." Administrative Science Quarterly 28: 9

 

Public Service Motivation

 

Jeffrey L. Brudney. Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector. San Francisco: Jossey­-Bass, 1990.

 

Amitai Etzioni. The Moral Dimension. New York: The Free Press, 1988.

 

*David Knoke and Christine Wright-Isak. "Individual Motives and Organizational Incentive Systems." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 1 (1982): 209-54.

 

Jane Mansbridge (ed.). Beyond SelfÄInterest. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990.

 

Jone L. Pearce. Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers. London: Routledge, 1993.

 

James Perry. "Measuring Public Service Motivation: An Assessment of Construct Reliability and Validity. " Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Forthcoming, 1996.

 

James L. Perry and Lyman W. Porter. "Factors Affecting the Context for Motivation in Public Organizations." Academy of Management Review 7 (1982): 89-98.

 

*James L. Perry and Lois Wise. "The Motivational Bases of Public Service." Public Administra­tion Review 50 (1990): 367-73.

 

James L. Perry, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Debora E. Dunkle, and John Leslie King. "Motivations to Innovate in Public Organizations." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 294-306.

 

*Hal Rainey. Understanding andManaging Public Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991: 119-56.

 

Hal Rainey. "Reward Preferences Among Public and Private Managers: In Search of the Service Ethic." American Review of Public Administration 16 (1982): 288-302.

 

Dennis Wittmer. "Serving the People or Serving for Pay: Reward Preferences Among Govern­ment, Hybrid Sector, and Business Managers." Public Productivity and Management Review 14 (Summer 1991): 369-83.

 

The Context of Public Management

 

Michael Barzelay. Breaking Through Bureaucracy: A New Vision for Managing in Government. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

 

Louis K. Bragaw. Managing Federal Agency: The Hidden Stimulus. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

 

Martha Derthick. Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American Government. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1990.

 

John DiIulio. Governing Prisons. New York: The Free Press, 1987.

 

John DiIulio. Barbed Wire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

 

*John DiIulio. Recovering the Public Management Variable: Lessons from Schools, Prisons, and Armies. " Public Administration Review 49 (1989): 127-33.

 

Gerald Garvey. Facing the Bureaucracy: Living and Dying in a Public Agency. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

 

*Robert T. Golembiewski. "A Critical Appraisal of Refounding Public Administration. " In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 91-107.

 

Jane Hannaway. Managers Managing: The Workings of an Administrative System. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989

 

Herbert Kaufman. The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs . Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1981.

 

Donald Kettl. Leadership at the Fed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

 

*Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. "Policy Achievement as a Collective Good: A Strategic Perspective on Managing Social Programs." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 108-33.

 

Howard McCurdy. Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

 

Jerry L. Mashaw. Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.

 

Jerry L. Mashaw and David L. Harfst. The Struggle for Auto Safety. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

 

*Steven Maynard-Moody and Marisa Kelly. "Stories Public Managers Tell About Elected Officials: Making Sense of the Politics-Administration Dichotomy." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 71-90.

 

Walter W. Powell (ed). The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook. New Haven, CT: Yale, l987

 

Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky. Implementation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973 (2d ed. 1984).

 

Fred Thompson and L. R. Jones. Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

 

Gary L. Wamsley and others. Refounding Public Administration. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.

 

James Q. Wilson. The Investigators: Managing FBI and Narcotics Agents. New York: Basic Books, 1978.

 

James Q. Wilson.  Bureaucracy:  What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It.  New York:  Basic Books, 1989.

 

Comparative

 

Randall Baker (ed.). Comparative Public Management: Putting U.S. Public Policy and Imple­mentation in Context. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

 

Hans Bekke, James Perry, and Theo Toonen (eds.). Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.

 

Ethics

 

James S. Bowrnan (ed.). Ethical Frontiers in Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.

 

Terry L. Cooper. The Responsible Administrator. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.

 

Terry L. Cooper and N. Dale Wright (eds.). Exemplary Public Administrators. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

 

H. George Frederickson (ed.). Ethics and Public Administration. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993: 3-10.

 

*H. George Frederickson. "Introduction." In H. George Frederickson (ed.), Ethics and Public Administration. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993: 3-10.

*H. George Frederickson. "Ethics and Public Administration: Some Assertions." In H. George Frederickson (ed.), Ethics and Public Administration. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993: 243-61.

 

Louis Gawthrop. Public Sector Management, Systems, and Ethics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1984.

 

*Philip H. Jos and Samuel M. Hines, Jr. "Care, Justice, and Public Administration. " Administra­tion and Society 25 (November 1993): 373-92.

 

Carol Lewis and Bayard Catron. "Professional Standards and Ethics." In James L. Perry (ed.), Handbook of Public Administration (2d ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Paul C. Light. Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1993.

 

Douglas F. Morgan and Henry D. Kass. "Legitimizing Administrative Discretion Through Constitutional Stewardship." In James S. Bowman (ed.), Ethical Frontiers in Public Manage­ment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991: 286-307.

 

Gerald M. Pops and Thomas J. Pavlak. The Case for Justice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991.

 

Dennis Thompson. "Moral Responsibility of Public Officials: The Problem of Many Hands." American Political Science Review 74 (1980): 905-16.

 

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Effectiveness

 

Joel D. Aberbach, Robert D. Putnam and Bert A. Rockman. Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1981.

 

D. N. Ammons and C. Newell. City Executives: Leadership Roles, Work Characteristics, and Time Management. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.

 

Robert Behn. Leadership Counts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

 

Robert D. Behn. "Case-Analysis Research and Managerial Effectiveness: Learning How to Lead Organizations Up Sand Dunes." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 40-54.

 

Joseph Bower. "Effective Public Management. " Harvard Business Review 56 (1977): 129-37.

 

Richard E. Boyatzis. The Competent Manager. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1982.

 

James McGregor Burns. Leadership. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

 

J. W. Doig and E. C. Hargrove. Leadership and Innovation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

 

Peter F. Drucker. The Effective Executive. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

 

Erwin C. Hargrove and John C. Glidewell. Impossible Jobs in Public Management. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1990.

 

Robert L. Katz. "Skills of an Effective Administrator." Harvard Business Review 52 (Septem­ber/October 1974).

 

Eugene Lewis. Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1980.

 

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Managing the Public's Business. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

 

*Eugene B. McGregor. "Toward a Theory of Public Management Success." In Barry Bozeman (ed.), Public Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993: 173-85.

 

James Perry. "Effective Enterprises, Effective Administrators." In James L. Perry (ed.), The Handbook of Public Administration (2d ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

 

Lyrnan Porter and John Van Maanen. "Task Accomplishment and the Management of Time. " In James L. Perry and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Public Management: Public and Private Perspectives. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1983: 212-24.

 

*Hal Rainey. Understanding and Managing Public Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991: 157-84, 207-22, and 250-66.

 

Paul Teske and Mark Schneider. "The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: The Case of City Managers." Public Administration Review 54 (July/August 1994): 331-40.