Enthusiasm for public management in administering the pub-lic's business has burgeoned
over the past decade. 2 This emphasis has borne a burden of hope (and hype) as public …

The article discusses perils and prospects of public administration in the US Every discipline
periodically goes through a period of sometimes wrenching reassessment. For public …

That public adminstration-both the discipline and the profession-is in the midst of
considerable ferment is not surprising. It would be sur-prising if it were otherwise, for there is …

The public administration enterprise today is and has for some time been approaching a
state of" marasmus," which, according to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, is the" …

I Only a person of weak mind and rash temperament would accept this assignment. The
three controlling words in the title," trends,"" theory," and" administration," are ambiguous …

What's in a name? Sometimes a good deal. Tom Hammond organized the panels on" Public
Administration" for the 1988 meetings of APSA. As he later told me, he decided that this …

A merican public administration is awe-omely multidisciplinary and morecomplicatedly
multicultural-drawing on the expertise and insights, even the hopes and imaginations, of all …

Public administration has developed as an intellectual and professional field through a
succession of six paradigms—that is, how the field has' seen itself'in the past and present …

Public management as an applied, problem-oriented field will always, and should always,
wrestle with the exquisite tension between theory and prac-tice. Researchers in public …

For a decade, public administration and management literature has featured a riveting story:
the transformation of the field's orientation from an old paradigm to a new one. While many …