Reflections on Public Administration

John M. Gaus (Author)

9780817354183

Paperback / softback, published 10 December 2006

164 pages
21.5 x 13.9 x 1.2 cm, 0.22 kg

In this classic, Gaus writers perceptively of the 'ecology' of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century led citizens repeatedly to look to government for relief. Politicians, in turn, created or expanded the powers of public agencies. - Journal of Management History