1 - The search for the scope and purpose of public administration The study of administration - Woodrow Wilson The refounding movement in american public administration - Richard J. StillmanII The blast in centralia No. 5: a mine disaster No one stopped - John Bartlow Martin Part one: The pattern of public administration in America: its environment, structure, and people 2 - The formal structure: the concept of bureaucracy Bureaucracy - Max Weber How Kristin Died - George Lardner, Jr 3 - The general environment: the concept of ecology The ecology of public administration - John M. Gaus Dumping $2.6 million on bakerfield(or how not to build a migratory farm workers'clinic) - Michael Aron 4 - The political environment: the concept of administrative power Power and administration - Norton E. Long The last flight of the space shuttle challenger - Michael T. Charles 5 - Intergovernmental relations(IGR): the concept of IGR as interdependence, complexity, and bargaining American intergovernmental relations: an overview - Laurence J. O'Toole Jr Wichita confronts contamination - Susan Rosegrant 6 - Internal dynamics: the concept of the informal group Hawthorne and western electric company - Elton Mayo Personnel changes in cuty government - Curtis Copeland 7 - Key decision makers inside public administration: the concept of competing bureaucratic subsystems Inside public bureaucracy - Richard J. StillmanII Twisting in the wind? Ambassador glaspie and the Persian Gulf crisis - Jillian P. Dickert Part two: The multiple functions of public administrators: their major activities, responsibilities, and roles 8 - Decision making: the concept of incremental choice The science of "muddlling through" - Charles E. Lindblom The decision to liberate Kuwait - Bob Woodward 9 - Administrative communications: the concept of information networks The communication process - Herbert A. Simon, Donald W. Smithburg, and Victor A. Thompson ATF and the media prepare for the raid on the branch devidian compound - Report of the department of the treasury 10 - Executive management: the concept of the uniqueness of public management Public and private management: are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects? Graham T. Allison,Jr The move disaster - Jack H. Nagel 11 - Public personnel motivation: the concept of rational, norm-based, affective motives The motivational bases of public service - James L. Perry and Lois Recascino Wise A sucess at the border earned only a shrug - Joel Brinkley 12 - Public budgeting: the concept of budgeting as political choice The politics of public budgets - Irene S. Rubin County prison overtime - Tom Mills 13 - Implementation: The concept of optimal conditions for effectively accomplishing objectives The conditions of effective implementation - Paul Sabatier and Daniel Mazmanian Dr. Barbara Levin and the monroe maternity center, Inc. - Jillian P. Dickert 14 - The relationship between politics and administration: the concept of issue network Issue network and the executive establishment - Hugh Heclo "Execucrats" - Norma M. Riccucci 15 - The relationship between bureaucracy and the public interest: the concept of public sector deregulation Bureaucracy and the public interest - James Q. Wilson But no cigar: how a rescue mission failed, just barely, in orange county - Laura Jereski 16 - The relationship between ethics and public administration: the concept of competing ethical obligations Public administration and ethics: a prologue to a preface - Dwight Waldo Madonna's sex - Douglas F. Morgan