Public Administration and Society: Critical Issues in American Governance Book

	Preface
Pt. I	Introduction to the Central Issues: Context, Change, and Democracy	1
Ch. 1	Scope and Content of Public Administration	3
Ch. 2	Time and Change: The Environment of Public Administration	11
Ch. 3	Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure	25
Pt. II	Debate and Decision in the Founding Era	43
	The Federalist Papers	44
	Federalist Papers 10, 17, and 51	46
	The Anti-Federalist Response and Tocqueville's Concerns About Democracy	47
	The Ideas of the Founding Generation in the Present	48
Reading 2.1	The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51	51
Reading 2.2	Introduction	63
Reading 2.3	Interpretative Essay	87
Reading 2.4	What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear	93
Reading 2.5	The Future of the American Bureaucratic System	97
Pt. III	Community and the Individual	125
	Concerns About the Nature of Communities	126
	In Celebration of Community	127
Reading 3.1	The Nature of Community Governance	129
Reading 3.2	The Quest for a Civil Society	153
Reading 3.3	Barn Raising	175
Pt. IV	Social Equity and Economic Efficiency	187
	Public Administration Takes an Outward-Looking Approach to Social Conditions ...	188
	... Then Turns Inward Toward Managerial Efficiency	189
Reading 4.1	Introduction	191
Reading 4.2	Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice	199
Reading 4.3	The Big Questions of Public Administration in a Democracy	221
Pt. V	The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society	235
Reading 5.1	Practitioners	237
Reading 5.2	New Public Management and Substantive Democracy	253
Reading 5.3	Citizens and Administrators: Roles and Relationships	271
	Index	287
	About the Author	301