Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments to the First Edition
1. Public Administration as Instrument and Institution
2. Preserving the Chain of Dependence: The Ideas of the Founding and Early Republic
3. Restoring Republican Virtue: The Impact of Jacksonian Ideals
4. Perfecting the Neutral Instrument: Transformations of the Second State and Progressive Reforms
5. Serving the Liberal State: Administration and the Rise of the New Deal Political Order
6. Politics and Administration after the New Deal: Liberal Orthodoxy and Its Challenges
7. The Constitutive Dimension of Public Administration: Appreciating Consequences
8. Bureaucracy and the Future of American Self-Government
References
Index

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A thorough update to this well-regarded political history of American public administration.

About the Author

Brian J. Cook is a professor of public administration and policy at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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Useful for advanced students and faculty... Recommended. Choice