Includes bibliographical references.

The study of administration / Woodrow Wilson -- Politics and administration / Frank J. Goodnow -- Scientific management / Frederick W. Taylor -- The movement for budgetary reform in the states / William F. Willoughby -- Bureaucracy / Max Weber -- Introduction to the study of public administration / Leonard D. White -- The giving of orders / Mary Parker Follett -- Public administration and the public interest / E. Pendleton Herring -- Notes on the theory of organization / Luther Gulick -- Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management / Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, & Luther Gulick -- Informal organizations and their relation to formal organizations / Charles I. Barnard -- Bureaucratric structure and personality / Robert K. Merton -- The lack of a budgetary theory / V.O. Key, Jr. -- A theory of human motivation / A.H. Maslow -- Planning and planners / David E. Lilienthal -- Government is different / Paul Appleby -- The proverbs of administration / Herbert A. Simon -- The administrative state : conclusion / Dwight Waldo -- The cooptative mechanism / Philip Selznick -- Power and administration / Norton E. Long -- Toward a theory of budgeting / Verne B. Lewis -- Basic concepts in the study of public management / Catheryn Seckler-Hudson -- Parkinson's law or the rising pyramid / C. Northcote Parkinson -- The human side of enterprise / Douglas Murray McGregor -- The science of "muddling through" / Charles E. Lindblom -- Organizations and the system concept / Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kuhn -- The road to PPB : the stages of budget reform / Allen Schick -- The American system / Morton Grodzins -- Organizations of the future / Warren Bennis -- Policy analysts : a new professional role in government service / Yehezkel Dror -- The life cycle of bureaus / Anthony Downs -- Rescuing policy analysis from PPBS / Aaron Wildavsky -- The Peter principle / Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull -- Administrative decentralization and political power / Herbert Kaufman -- The end of liberalism : the indictment / Theodore J. Lowi -- Toward a new public administration / H. George Frederickson -- The self-evaluating organization / Aaron Wildavsky -- Purpose of evaluation / Carol H. Weiss -- Implementation / Jeffrey L. Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky -- Watergate : implications for responsible government / Frederick C. Mosher & others -- Representative bureaucracy / Samuel Krislov -- Organizational decline and cutback management / Charles H. Levine -- Public and private management : are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects? / Graham T. Allison -- Street-level bureaucracy / Michael Lipsky -- Public budgeting amidst uncertainty and instability / Naomi Caiden -- Democracy and the public service : the collective services / Frederick C. Mosher -- Public administrative theory and the separation of powers / David H. Rosenbloom -- The possibility of administrative ethics / Dennis F. Thompson -- The seven deadly sins of policy analysts / Arnold J. Meltsner -- Exploring the limits of privatization / Ronald C. Moe -- Understanding intergovernmental relations / Deil S. Wright.