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Public Official Associations and State and Local Government: A Bridge Across One Hundred Years - Hardcover
This volume is an authoritative description of a little-recognized element of modern governance: associations of public officials in state and local government. These associations, whose membership consists of elected and appointed officials such as mayors, legislators, council members, city and county managers, and planners, play an often overlooked role in public administration and governmental policy on state and local levels. This work provides an incisive analysis of their role using a combination of documentary sources and extensive personal interviews with a special interest in association management. It traces the historical development of associations from 1890 to 1990 within the context of the Progressive Movement, the New Deal, the Great Society, and the era of cutbacks and devolution. In addition, an examination of the effects of associations in the evolving administrative state touches upon many of the most important topics in public administration, including intergovernmental relations, by professionalism, ethics, and leadership. The text is augmented by an appendix of association profiles, an annotated bibliography, and an index.
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David S. Arnold is an independent editor and writer, previously associated with the International City Management Association. Jeremy F. Plant is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg.
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...a distinctive and needed addition to academic and practitioner literature in public administration and public policy. (Wm. G. Colman, Former Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
...should be required reading for serious students and practitioners of public administration. This valuable book charts the previously uncharted birth and evaluation of public official associations as a key element in the governance of the American administrative state. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R)
...very informative...lively and very readable. All students of public administration will profit from reading this book. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R Public Administration Review)
This is a book that, in addition to its function of describing and interpreting the impact of public affairs associations in this century, provides a critically important, totally unique view of devolution of 19th century American government. It is a book whose importance will grow with the passing of the years. (James M. Banovetz, Northern Illinois University)
This is a book that, in addition to its function of describing and interpreting the impact of public affairs associations in this century, provides a critically important, totally unique view of devolution of 19th century American government. It is a book whose importance will grow with the passing of the years. (James M. Banovetz, Northern Illinois University)
...a distinctive and needed addition to academic and practitioner literature in public administration and public policy. (Wm. G. Colman, Former Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
...should be required reading for serious students and practitioners of public administration. This valuable book charts the previously uncharted birth and evaluation of public official associations as a key element in the governance of the American administrative state. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R)
...very informative...lively and very readable. All students of public administration will profit from reading this book. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R Public Administration Review)
...should be required reading for serious students and practitioners of public administration. This valuable book charts the previously uncharted birth and evaluation of public official associations as a key element in the governance of the American administrative state. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R)
...very informative...lively and very readable. All students of public administration will profit from reading this book. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R Public Administration Review)
This is a book that, in addition to its function of describing and interpreting the impact of public affairs associations in this century, provides a critically important, totally unique view of devolution of 19th century American government. It is a book whose importance will grow with the passing of the years. (James M. Banovetz, Northern Illinois University)
This is a book that, in addition to its function of describing and interpreting the impact of public affairs associations in this century, provides a critically important, totally unique view of devolution of 19th century American government. It is a book whose importance will grow with the passing of the years. (James M. Banovetz, Northern Illinois University)
...a distinctive and needed addition to academic and practitioner literature in public administration and public policy. (Wm. G. Colman, Former Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
...should be required reading for serious students and practitioners of public administration. This valuable book charts the previously uncharted birth and evaluation of public official associations as a key element in the governance of the American administrative state. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R)
...very informative...lively and very readable. All students of public administration will profit from reading this book. (Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R Public Administration Review)
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- PublisherUniversity Publishing Association
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0913969656
- ISBN 13 9780913969656
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages314
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