David S. Arnold is an independent editor and writer, previously associated with the International City Management Association. Jeremy F. Plant is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg.
...a distinctive and needed addition to academic and practitioner
literature in public administration and public policy.
*Wm. G. Colman, Former Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission
on Intergovernmental Relations*
...should be required reading for serious students and
practitioners of public administration. This valuable book charts
the previously uncharted birth and evaluation of public official
associations as a key element in the governance of the American
administrative state.
*Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public
Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R*
...very informative...lively and very readable. All students of
public administration will profit from reading this book.
*Public Administration Review*
This is a book that, in addition to its function of describing and
interpreting the impact of public affairs associations in this
century, provides a critically important, totally unique view of
devolution of 19th century American government. It is a book whose
importance will grow with the passing of the years.
*James M. Banovetz, Northern Illinois University*
This is a book that, in addition to its function of describing and
interpreting the impact of public affairs associations in this
century, provides a critically important, totally unique view of
devolution of 19th century American government. It is a book whose
importance will grow with the passing of the years.
*James M. Banovetz, Northern Illinois University*
...a distinctive and needed addition to academic and practitioner
literature in public administration and public policy.
*Wm. G. Colman, Former Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission
on Intergovernmental Relations*
...should be required reading for serious students and
practitioners of public administration. This valuable book charts
the previously uncharted birth and evaluation of public official
associations as a key element in the governance of the American
administrative state.
*Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public
Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R*
...very informative...lively and very readable. All students of
public administration will profit from reading this book.
*Public Administration Review*
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