1: Scope and Methods of Administrative History; 1: The Study of Administrative History; 2: Countries, Authors, and Sources: General and Introductory Literature; 3: Methods and Problems of Research; 4: Era, Area, and Evolution: Stage Models, Administrative History, and the Social Sciences; 2: Administrative History Proper; 5: Public Services and Public Finance: From Small to Big Government; 6: The Structure and Functioning of Government: Organizational Differentiation and Bureaucratization; 7: The Civil Service: Bureaucratization of Administrative Officeholders; 3: Administration and Society; 8: Citizens and Government: Participation, Representation, and Citizenship; 9: State-Making and Nation-Building: Sovereignty, Church, and Army; 10: International Relations: Between Universal Authority and Balance of Power; 11: Past Lessons, Current Trends, and Future Challenges: Administrative History for a Changing World; 4: Bibliography of Administrative History; 12: Some Notes on Selection and Classification
Jos Raadschelders
-Raadschelders presents his own overarching theory on the
development of government, built around the thesis that centuries
of state-making dedicated protecting territory were eventually
balanced by a period of nation-building that served the people.
This attempt at grand synthesis is admirable but less valuable than
his remarkable success in reviewing the field's enormous range of
complexity, and variety of viewpoints. This is the most important
work appear on the subject since E.N. Gladden's two-volume History
of Public Administration (1972).- --C.T. Goodsell, Choice
"Raadschelders presents his own overarching theory on the
development of government, built around the thesis that centuries
of state-making dedicated protecting territory were eventually
balanced by a period of nation-building that served the people.
This attempt at grand synthesis is admirable but less valuable than
his remarkable success in reviewing the field's enormous range of
complexity, and variety of viewpoints. This is the most important
work appear on the subject since E.N. Gladden's two-volume History
of Public Administration (1972)." --C.T. Goodsell, Choice
"Raadschelders presents his own overarching theory on the
development of government, built around the thesis that centuries
of state-making dedicated protecting territory were eventually
balanced by a period of nation-building that served the people.
This attempt at grand synthesis is admirable but less valuable than
his remarkable success in reviewing the field's enormous range of
complexity, and variety of viewpoints. This is the most important
work appear on the subject since E.N. Gladden's two-volume "History
of Public Administration (1972)."" "--"C.T. Goodsell, "Choice"
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