Dwight Waldo Administrative Theorist for our Times

Introduction

Dwight Waldo: Administrative Theorist for our Times

What is Public Administration?

The Study of Public Administration

Public Administration in a Time of Revolutions

Contents: Ideas and Issues in Public Administration

Reversing the Glass

Perspectives of Social Science

The Novelist on Organization and Administration

Scope of Theory of Public Administration

The Material and Ideological Background

The Rise – And Decline? – Of Administration

Comparative Public Administration: Prologue, Problems, and Promise

Public Administration and Culture

A Theory of Public Administration in our Times Means a Theory of Public Administration Also

Public Administration and Ethics: A Prologue to a Preface

Education for Public Administrators

Education for Public Administration: Currents, Crosscurrents, Undercurrents, Countercurrents

Public Administration Toward Year 200: The Certainty of Interesting Times

The Continuing Search for Public Administration – An Agenda for the Future

Bibliography: Chronological List of the Publications of Dwight Waldo

Publications on Dwight Waldo

A Brief Biographical Statement

Biography

Richard J. Stillman II is a professor of public administration at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver. He taught on the faculties of George Mason University and California State University-Bakersfield and is the author and editor of several books. Stillman is an elected fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration and his textbook, Public Administration: Concepts and Cases, 9^th edition, is used in over 400 universities and colleges. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Hungarian. He received the William E. and Frederick C. Mosher Award for distinguished scholarship and served as Editor in Chief of the Public Administration Review (PAR). During his editorial tenure, 2006–11, PAR was ranked by Google Scholar as the number one journal in the field according to its academic impact worldwide. His book, Preface to Public Administration, also was recently selected as the third most influential book published in the field since 1990. In 2020 Stillman received the American Society for Public Administration’s Dwight Waldo Award for his lifetime scholarly contributions to the field of public administration.

"This anthology of Dwight Waldo’s work is a generalist and philosophically oriented breath of fresh air in a time that specialist, quantitative-statistically oriented scholarship dominates. Throughout his career, Waldo asked big questions, but never answered them knowing that any answer about the role and position of government in society could not be but illusive given the constantly changing social environment. The study of public administration has too little attention for the kind of normative, conceptual questions which Waldo 'circled.' The author of this volume did an excellent job in selecting pieces representative of Waldo’s wide-ranging thought, providing a really good introduction to Waldo as human being and PA-scholar, and with solid introductions to the seven parts in which the 18 pieces have been placed. Digesting the content of this volume will be beneficial to anyone seeking to understand America’s administrative state."

Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Ohio State University, USA

　

"Stillman’s innovative book provides homage to one of the illustrious founders of our field, Dwight Waldo. Stillman creatively weaves the written works of Waldo into a compelling composition of what public administration is, its political and managerial nature, and its significance in a democratic society. This ingenious book is essential reading for students and scholars of public administration and management."

Norma M. Riccucci, Rutgers University Newark, USA