Includes bibliographical references.

pt. 1. Early voices and the first quarter century: Ancient times to 1920s. The Analects of Confucius (300 BCE) / Confucius -- On duties (44 BCE) / Cicero -- Of the principle of utility (1780) / Jeremy Bentham -- On war (1832) / Carl von Clausewitz -- The study of administration (1887) / Woodrow Wilson -- Politics and administration (1900) / Frank J. Goodnow -- Problems of municipal administration (1904) / Jane Addams -- Scientific management (1912) / Frederick W. Taylor -- The movement for budgetary reform in the states (1918) / William F. Willoughby -- Bureaucracy (1922) / Max Weber -- Introduction to the study of public administration (1926) / Leonard D. White -- The giving of orders (1926) / Mary Parker Follett. pt. 2. The New Deal to mid-century: The 1930s to 1950s. Bureaucracy and the public interest (1936) / E. Pendleton Herring -- Notes on the theory of organization (1937) / Luther Gulick -- Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management (1937) / Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, and Luther Gulick -- Bureaucratic structure and personality (1940) / Robert K. Merton -- A theory of human motivation (1943) / A.H. Maslow -- The proverbs of administration (1946) / Herbert A. Simon -- The administrative state revisited (1940, 1965) / Dwight Waldo -- Theory Y: the integration of individual and organizational goals (1957) / Douglas McGregor -- The science of "muddling through" (1959) / Charles E. Lindblom. pt. 3. From JFK to civil service reform: the 1960s and 1970s. The road to PPB: the stages of budget reform (1966) / Allen Schick -- Organizations of the future (1967) / Warren Bennis -- Policy analysts: a new professional role in government service (1967) / Yehezkel Dror -- The life cycle of bureaus (1967) / Anthony Downs -- Rescuing policy analysis from PPBS (1969) / Aaron Wildavsky -- Administrative decentralization and political power (1969) / Herbert Kaufman -- The end of liberalism: the indictment (1969) / Theodore J. Lowi -- Toward a new public administration (1971) / H. George Frederickson -- Dilemmas in a general theory of planning (1973) / Horst W. J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber -- Systematic thinking for social action (1971) / Alice M. Rivlin -- The implementation game (1977) / Eugene Bardach -- Watergate: implications for responsible government (1974) / Frederick C. Mosher & others -- Representative bureaucracy (1974) / Samuel Krislov -- Intergovernmental relations: an analytical overview (1974) / Deil S. Wright. pt. 4. From Reagan to reinvention: the 1980s to 1990s. Public and private management: are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects? (1980) / Graham T. Allison -- Street-level bureaucracy: the critical role of street-level bureaucrats (1980) / Michael Lipsky -- Public budgeting amidst uncertainty and instability (1981) / Naomi Caiden -- Public administrative theory and the separation of powers (1983) / David H. Rosenbloom -- Agendas, alternatives, and public policies (1984) / John W. Kingdon -- The possibility of administrative ethics (1985) / Dennis F. Thompson -- American federalism: Madison's middle ground in the 1980s (1987) / Martha Derthick -- The organizational culture perspective (1989) / J. Steven Ott -- From affirmative action to affirming diversity (1990) / R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. -- Toward a feminist perspective in public administration theory (1990) / Camilla Stivers -- The motivational bases of public service (1990) / James L. Perry and Lois Recascino Wise -- Managing state government operations: changing visions of staff agencies (1990) / Michael Barzelay and Babak J. Armajani -- From red tape to results: creating a government that works better and costs less (1993) / The National Performance Review -- Using performance measures in the federal budgeting process (1993) / U.S. Congressional Budget Office. pt. 5. Public administration in the twenty-first century. Information technology and democratic governance (2002) / Joseph S. Nye Jr. -- Unmasking administrative evil: searching for a basis for public ethics (2004) / Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour --The ethics of dissent: managing guerilla government (2006) / Rosemary O'Leary -- Inside collaborative networks: ten lessons for public managers (2006) / Robert Agranoff -- Public value: theory and practice: conclusions (2011) / John Benington and Mark H. Moore.