Index 307
Politics, Position, and Power: Th e Dynamics
of Federal Organization (Seidman), 54
Th e Politics of Bureaucracy (Tullock), 199
Politics (or policy)-administration
dichotomy
council-manager government, 18–24,
22 (fi g.), 23 (fi g.)
empirically valid representation of, 17,
17 (fi g.)
relationships between politics and
administration, 18–21, 19 (fi g.),
21 (fi g.)
traditional representation of, 16 (fi g.)
Portillo, Shannon, 260
POSDCORB, 99–100, 127
Positivism, 9, 109, 170, 260
Postmodern theory
assessment of, 259–260
characterization of modernity, 137,
140–142
critiques of, 149 (table)
defi ning, diffi culty in, 147–148
dialectic in, 148–150
emotional labor, 154–156, 259, 260
enterprise, 146–147
feminism and, 150–154, 260
imagination, 156–157
methodology, 161–165, 259
nation-state and, 157–161
organizational paradigms, 137,
138–140 (table)
particularism, 142–143
scientism, 143–145
technologism, 145–146
Postmodernism, 141–142, 147, 149–150,
149 (table), 158–165, 259
Postpositivism, 130–132, 136–137
Powell, Walter, 93
Predictably Irrational (Ariely), 220
Presidential Power (Neustadt), 48
Principal-agent theory, 35–39, 87, 94,
119–120, 125–126, 128, 193, 212,
252–253
Th e Principles of Scientifi c Management
(Taylor), 99, 127
Prisoners’ dilemma, 87, 181–182, 192
Privatization, 69, 120, 146–147, 211, 233
Professional bureaucracies, 76–77
Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART),
36, 253
Progressive Era, 88, 99
Project for Equity, Representation, and
Governance, 114
Project management approach, 121
Protasel, Greg J., 23
Provan, Keith, 69, 123, 124
Public, new defi nition of, 223
Public, theory of, 143
Public administration
analysis of, 3–4
changes in, 222–223
doctrines of, 109–112
elemental features of, 1–2
Public administration, theories of
assessments of, 251 (table)
behaviorists’ position of, 9
criteria for, 6–8, 249
evolution of, 9–10
importance of, 1–4, 269–270
traditional position of, 8–9
usefulness of, 4–6, 8, 10–11, 249–250,
268, 269
Public Administration Review, 102,
146–147, 164
Public Administration Th eory Network
(PATnet), 130, 135
Public Management Strategies: Guidelines
for Managerial Eff ectiveness
(Straussman), 106
Public management theory
communication theory, 107–108
contracting out, 118–123, 128
defi ned, 97
developments in, 95–99
doctrines of, 109–112, 113 (table)
evolution of, 108–115