An Impossible Job: Report on the Building Bridges Tour

Discusses a tour conducted by the editor-in-chief of \u27Public Administration Review,\u27 Larry Luton, and others around the United States to discuss the journal\u27s past performance, strengths, weaknesses and future. Four questions that were asked at every meeting; The editorial focus and content; How readers felt about the book reviews contained in the journal; The two biggest themes that ran through the discussions

Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era (Studies in Government & Public Policy)

During the first two decades of the twentieth century in cities across America, both men and women struggled for urban reform but in distinctively different ways. Adhering to gender roles of the time, men working for independent research bureaus sought to apply scientific and business practices to corrupt city governments, while women in the settlement house movement labored to improve the lives of the urban poor by testing new services and then getting governments to adopt them. Bureau Men, Settlement Women offers a rare look at the early intellectual history of public administration and is the only book to examine the subject from a gender perspective. It recovers the forgotten contributions of women-their engagement in public life, concern about the proper aims of government, and commitment to citizenship and community-to show that they were ultimately more successful than their male counterparts in enlarging the work and moral scope of government. Stivers\u27s study helps explain public administration\u27s longstanding identity crisis by showing why the separation of male and female roles restricted public administration to an unnecessary instrumentalism. It also provides the most detailed examination in half a century of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research and its role in the development of twentieth-century public administration. Her well-researched critique will help students and professionals better understand their calling and challenge them to reconsider how they think about, educate for, and perform government service.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1008/thumbnail.jp

Obituary for Larry D. Terry

Larry D. Terry died in Atlanta, Georgia on June 17, 2006, of respiratory arrest due to an allergic reaction. At the time of his death, he was vice-president for business and professor of public administration at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). He was 52 years old

Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State

Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women’s historical progress as public employees, their current status in federal, state, and local governments, the peculiar nature of the organizational reality they experience, and women’s place in society at large as it is shaped by government.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1006/thumbnail.jp

Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State

Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women’s historical progress as public employees, their current status in federal, state, and local governments, the peculiar nature of the organizational reality they experience, and women’s place in society at large as it is shaped by government.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1006/thumbnail.jp

An Impossible Job: Report on the Building Bridges Tour

Discusses a tour conducted by the editor-in-chief of \u27Public Administration Review,\u27 Larry Luton, and others around the United States to discuss the journal\u27s past performance, strengths, weaknesses and future. Four questions that were asked at every meeting; The editorial focus and content; How readers felt about the book reviews contained in the journal; The two biggest themes that ran through the discussions

Obituary for Larry D. Terry

Larry D. Terry died in Atlanta, Georgia on June 17, 2006, of respiratory arrest due to an allergic reaction. At the time of his death, he was vice-president for business and professor of public administration at the University of Texas, Dallas (UTD). He was 52 years old

Government Is Us: Public Administration in an Anti-Government Era

In recent years, American attitudes about government have become increasingly disaffected and critical. After the 1995 bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City, a newspaper ad sponsored by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees brought to the nation’s attention the heroism of government workers’ rescue efforts, with the reminder that This is our government. This volume, the result of collaboration by practicing administrators and academics, explores the current anti-government climate and its effect on the work and working lives of public employees and their relationships with citizens. If offers economic, political, historical, and philosophical perspectives on citizen discontent and tells stories of actual working relationships between public agencies and citizens. The collaborators maintain that while government workers cannot control the economy or the bureaucracy as a whole, they can take practical steps to improve their interactions with citizens. While many books advise citizens how to get what they want from government, few have been written to help career civil servants work better with citizens. In a time of public negativism, Government Is Us is about building relationships, listening, making connections, and hope.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1009/thumbnail.jp

Government Is Us: Public Administration in an Anti-Government Era

In recent years, American attitudes about government have become increasingly disaffected and critical. After the 1995 bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City, a newspaper ad sponsored by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees brought to the nation’s attention the heroism of government workers’ rescue efforts, with the reminder that This is our government. This volume, the result of collaboration by practicing administrators and academics, explores the current anti-government climate and its effect on the work and working lives of public employees and their relationships with citizens. If offers economic, political, historical, and philosophical perspectives on citizen discontent and tells stories of actual working relationships between public agencies and citizens. The collaborators maintain that while government workers cannot control the economy or the bureaucracy as a whole, they can take practical steps to improve their interactions with citizens. While many books advise citizens how to get what they want from government, few have been written to help career civil servants work better with citizens. In a time of public negativism, Government Is Us is about building relationships, listening, making connections, and hope.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_bks/1009/thumbnail.jp