Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State

David H. Rosenbloom is a Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He is the author of Administrative Law for Public Managers and coauthor of several books including Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector and A Reasonable Public Servant. He is the recipient of the 2001 John Gaus Award for Exemplary Scholarship in the Joint Tradition of Political Science and Public Administration and the 1999 Dwight Waldo Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Literature of Public Administration. Howard E. McCurdy is a professor of public administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He is the author of several books including Space and the American Imagination and Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program. He is the recipient of the Henry Adams Prize and the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award.

• 1. Introduction: Dwight Waldo's The Administrative State David H. Rosenbloom and Howard E. McCurdy 2. The Material Background Donald F. Kettl 3. The Cultural and Ideological Background Howard E. McCurdy 4. The Criteria of Action Norma M. Riccucci 5. Who Should Rule? Patricia W. Ingraham 6. The Separation of Powers David H. Rosenbloom 7. The Thinning of Administrative Institutions Larry D. Terry 8. Competition for Human Capital John Cadigan 9. Business and Government Barbara S. Romzek 10. Institutional Values and the Future Administrative State Robert F. Durant 11. Conclusion: Additional Notes on the Present Tendencies Howard E. McCurdy and David H. Rosenbloom Contributors Index

The book's major strength lies in its application of public administration theories to tomorrow's social problems that we, as a planetary society, have not widely discussed ... [it] advances Waldo's work into the twenty-first century and serves as an excellent graduate text in public administration theory or as a supplement in an introductory course. Political Studies Review