Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 360
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8647-6 • Paperback • August 1998 • $69.00 • (£53.00)
Peter Augustine Lawler is professor of political science at Berry College in Georgia. His most recent book is Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens (Rowman & Littlefield), which he edited with Joseph Knippenberg. Robert Martin Schaefer is associate professor of political science at the University of Mobile. He edited The American Experiment (Rowman & Littlefield), with Peter Lawler. David Lewis Schaefer is professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Montaigne.
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I. Some Fundamental Concerns
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 American Statesmanship: Old and New
Chapter 5 Toqueville on Administration and for Administrators
Chapter 6 Public Administration and Policy Deliberation: The Case of Global Warming
Chapter 7 Impartiality and Administrative Statesmanship
Chapter 8 Theodore Lowi and the Administrative State
Part 9 Part II. Administration, Political Institutions, and the Constitution
Chapter 10 Introduction
Chapter 11 Bureaucratic Idealism and Executive Power: A Perspective on The Federalist's View of Public Administration
Chapter 12 Administrative Responsibility and the Separation of Powers
Chapter 13 The Rhetorical Presidency and the Eclipse of Executive Power in Woodrow Wilson's Constitutional Government in the United States
Chapter 14 Presidents and Their Cosmopolitan Advisors: The Nixon-Kissinger Dialogue
Chapter 15 Limiting Bureaucratic Discretion: Competing Theories of Administrative Law
Part 16 Part III. Rebuilding Public Administration
Chapter 17 Introduction
Chapter 18 The Place of Constitutionalism in the Education of Public Administrators
Chapter 19 The Limits of Ethics: Revisiting the Origins of the America Regime
Chapter 20 Bureaucratic Morality in the United States
Chapter 21 Responsibility and Public Service
Chapter 22 Index
This collection is an excellent set of readings designed to stimulate critical thought about the enduring problem of the administrator's role in a democratic political system.
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