Bibliography

Required Readings:

  • Steven Cohen and William Eimicke,  The New Effective Public Manager
  • Peter Scholtes (et.al.), The Team Handbook (2nd edition)
  • *Various authors -- Columbia, Harvard Business School and JFK Cases
  • **Reserve readings

Supplemental Reading List:

1.  Introduction and Background

·      Robert Caro, The Power Broker (1974)

·      Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1968)

·      Robert Reich, Tales of A New America (1987)

·      Bernstein & Woodward, All The President's Men (1974)

·      Peter Drucker, Managing for the Future (1992)

·      David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, Reinventing Government (1992)

2.  What is Management, Public Administration, and Public Management?

·      Fred Lane, Current Issues in Public Administration (1990)

·      Roscoe Martin, Public Administration and Democracy (1965)

·      Ralph Chander, A Centennial History of the American Administrative State (1987)

·      Marshall & Schram, Mandate For Change (1993)

·      William Eimicke, Public Administration in a Democratic Context (1974)

·      Laurence Lynn, Public Management as Art, Science and Profession (1996)

·      George Fredrickson, The Spirit of Public Administration (1997)

·      David Osborne and Peter Plastrik, Banishing Bureaucracy (1997)

3.  The Use of Contracts

·      Peter Drucker, Managing the Non-Profit Organization (1990)

·      Lester Salamon, Partners in Public Service (1995)

·      Donald Kettl, Sharing Power (1993)

·      Ralph Kramer, "Voluntary Agencies and the Contract Culture," Social Service Review, March 1994, pp. 33-60.

·      Lawrence Martin, "A Proposed Methodology for Comparing the Costs of Government Versus Contract Service Delivery," 1994 Municipal Yearbook, pp. 12-15.

·      Stephen Goldsmith, The 21st Century City (1997)

·      David Osborne, Laboratories of Democracy (1988)

4.  The Use of Organization Structure and Organizational Design

·      James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy (1989)

·      Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots (1966)

·      Gerth & Mills, From Max Weber (1970)

·      Hodge, Anthony & Gales, Organization Theory (1996)

·      Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline (1990)

·      Chester Barnard, The Functions of the Executive (1938)

·      Michael Hammer, Beyond Reengineering (1996)

5.  Personnel Issues

·      Ronald Sylvia, Public Personnel Administration (1994)

·      Richard Haas, The Power to Persuade (1994)

·      Herbert Simon, Administrative Behavior (1965)

·      Frederick Mosher, Democracy and the Public Service (1970)

·      Lee Bowes, No One Need Apply (1987)

6.  Budgeting, Financial Management and MIS

·      Aaron Wildavsky, The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1988)

·      Jesse Burkhead, Government Budgeting (1956)

·      Allen Schick, Reconciliation and the Congressional Budget Process (1981)

·      Caiden & Wildavsky, Planning & Budgeting in Poor Countries (1974)

·      Brecher & Horton, Setting Municipal Priorities (1984 or any year's edition)

7.  Leadership and Standard Operating Procedures

·      Stephen Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership (1992)

·      Ernst House, Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma (1988)

·      Morrison, White & Van Velson, "Executive Women:  Substance Plus Style," in Fred Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (1995)

·      James MacGregor Burns, Leadership (1978)

8.  Facing Challenges of a Changing Society

·      Mark Moore, Creating Public Value (1995)

·      James Mercer, Strategic Planning for Public Managers (1991)

·      Cohen & Kamieniecki, Environmental Regulation Through Strategic Planning (1991)

·      Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos (1987)

·      Michael E. Porter, Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance (1985)

·      Tom Peters, Liberation Management (1992)

9.  Political Management

·      Graham Allison, Essence of Decision:  Explaining The Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)

·      Philip Heymann, The Politics of Public Management (1987)

·      Hargrove & Glidewell, Impossible Jobs in Public Management (1990)

·      Charles Lindblom, "The Science of 'Muddling Through,'" Public Administration Review, 19 (Spring 1959)

·      Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents (1990)

10.  Ethics in Government

·      James Wilson, The Moral Sense (1993)

·      Carol Lewis, The Ethics Challenge in Public Service (1991)

·      Reinhold Niebuhr, The Children of Light and The Children of Darkness (1944)

·      The Council on State Governments, Public Integrity Annual (1996)