A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It
成果类型：
Book Review
署名作者：
Shalala, Donna E.
署名单位：
University of Miami
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3352
DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.01999.x
发表日期：
2009
页码：
543-543
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摘要：
This essay analyzes and reviews the significance of the Alabama Public Administration Lecture Series, one of the most distinguished and long-lasting platforms in public administration. Based on guest lectures that were delivered annually to University of Alabama graduate students in public administration, the series began in 1944 and concluded in 2000. During those 57 years, most of the lectures were published as books, usually by the University of Alabama Press. The last book of the series will be published in 2009. This article examines the series as a whole and asks, what does the series tell us about public administration? What does it tell us about how our field got to where it is now? These questions are important because the books present a running conversation on the important subjects of public administration. The article shows that the lecture series offers a history of the field, reflecting the topics that were considered important by leading thinkers in their times.