This Fifth Edition also features updated introductions that offer insight into the articles. Each chapter introduction is followed by a "Chronology" section, which places the writers’ perspectives into a broader historical context.

A ''must read'' for both students and practitioners of public administration, this highly praised collection offers a one-stop source for significaht scholarship in the field. Jay M. Shafritz and Albert, C. Hyde, together with new coauthor Sandra J. Parkes, have thoroughly updated this Fifth Edition, which now includes nine new selections of historic and contemporary importance.

Arranged chronologically to illustrate how. the field’s themes build upon one another, the selections cover over a century of seminal scholarship, beginning with Dorman B. Eaton s writings on the merit system and continuing through Deborah Stone’s ''Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making,'' written in 1997.

This Fifth Edition also features updated introductions that offer insight into the articles. Each chapter introduction is followed by a ''Chronology'' section, which places the writers’ perspectives into a broader historical context.

Part One Early Voices and the First Quarter Century

 (1880s to 1920s)

 1. Civil Service Reform in Great Britain, Dorman B. Eaton

 2. The Study of Administration, Woodrow Wilson

 3. Politics and Administration, Frank I. Goodnow

 4. Problems of Municipal Administration, Jane Addams

 5. Scientific Management, Frederick W. Taylor

 6. The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States, William E Willoughby

 7. Bureaucracy, Max Weber

 8. Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, Leonard D. White

 9. The Giving of Orders, Mary Parker Follett

Part Two The New Deal to Mid-Century

 (1930s to 1950s)

 10. Notes on the Theory of Organization, Luther Gulick

 11. Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management, Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, & Luther Gulick

 12. Informal Organizations and Their Relation to Formal Organizations, Chester I. Barnard

 13. Bureaucratic Structure and Personality, Robert K. Merton

 14. The Lack of a Budgetary Theory, V. O. Key, Jr.

 15. A Theory of Human Motivation, A. H. Maslow

 16. Govermnent Is Different, PaulAppleby

 17. The Proverbs of Administration, Herbert A. Simon

 18. The Administrative State: Conclusion, Dwight Waldo

 19. The Cooptative Mechanism, Philip Selznick

 20. The Report of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government, Excerpt from The Hoover Commission Report

 21. The Htunan Side of Enterprise, Douglas Murray McGregor

 22. The Science of "Muddling Through," Charles E. Lindblom

Part Three From JFK to Civil Service Reform

 (1960s and 1970s)

 23. Organizations and the System Concept, Daniel Katz & Robert L Kahn

 24. The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform, Allen Schick

 25. The American System, Morton Grodzins

 26. Organizations of the Future, Warren Bennis

 27. Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service, Yehezkel Dror

 28. The Life Cycle of Bureaus, Anthony Downs

 29. Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS, Aaron Wildavsky

 30. Administrative Decentralization and Political Power, Herbert Kaufman

 31. The End of Liberalism: The Indictment, Theodore J. Lowi

 32. Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap, Martin Landau

 33. Toward a New Public Administration, H. George Frederickson

 34. Systematic Thinking for Social Action, Alice M. Rivlin

 35. Implementation, Jeffrey L Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky

 36. Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government, Frederick C. Mosher & Others

 37. Representative Bureaucracy, Samuel Krislov

 38. Organizational Decline and Cutback Management, Charles H. Levine

Part Four From Reagan to Reinvention

  (1980s and 1990s)

 39. Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects? Graham T. Allison

 40. Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats, Michael Lipsky

 41. Public Budgeting amidst Uncertainty and Instability, Naomi Caiden

 42. Democracy and the Public Service: The Collective Services, Frederick C. Mosher

 43. Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers, David H. Rosenbloom

 44. The Possibility of Administrative Ethics, Dennis F. Thompson

 45. Exploring the Limits of Privatization, Ronald C. Moe

 46. Toward a Feminist Perspective in Public Administration Theory, Camilla Stivers

 47. Understanding Organizational Culture, J. Steven Ott

 48. From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity, R, Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.

 49. A Public Management for All Seasons? Christopher Hood

 50. Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Intergovernmental Management: Historical Reflections and Conceptual Comparisons, Deil S. Wright

 51. Breaking Through Bureaucracy, Michael Barzelay with Babak J. Armajani

 52. From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less, The National Performance Review

 53. How Does an Idea's Time Come? Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, John W. Kingdon

 54. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, Deborah Stone