PUAD 502 ------------------------------ FALL 2004------------------------------READINGS

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - History and Conceptions

• Public Administation_History- Confucius:_Life and Influences

• Hoagland, Why Are We Always "Dissing Government"

WRITERS ON ORGANIZATION AND BUREAUCRACY:

• WoodrowWilson - Commentary on His Article

• Comments on Max Weber by Davis

• Max Weber and the Bureaucratic Model

• Taylor: Comments on Growth of Scientific Management

• F.W. Taylor - a Biography by Papesh

• F.W. Taylor - Great Ideas

• Early Founders of Administrative Theory- Weber Wilson Taylor

• McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory

• The Hawthorne Studies Launch Human Relations

• The Meaning of Organizational Culture

• Sytems Theory-Definitions and Utility

INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

• Our Smallest Governments: The Authority of Homeowners Associations

REGULATORY ADMINISTRATION

• Insurance Companies Want One Regulator-Not 50

• Ohio Utility Regulation - Blackout

• Economist, The State Regulation of Companies

• The Need to Revive Federal Regulations

• Bush Overhauls U.S. Regulations

• Bush Changes the Regulatory Regime

PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION (see 'Dissing Government' above)

• Federal Workplace Overhaul by Bush

• Privitization Squable at the Federal Aeronautics Administration

• Federal Model of Recruitment: the GAO

ETHICS AND ADMINISTRATION

• Definitions of Ethics and Ethical Dilemmas (pdf format)