Nowadays, we all tend to complain about bureaucracy, if only because it touches our daily lives, sometimes in frustrating ways. This book examines the gradual emergence of American public administration. As a history of American bureaucracy, it focuses on key and pivotal events in its evolution and development. Chapters highlight major issues and controversies including the anti-democratic origins of the field, Congressional hostility to the bureaucracy, if appointed city managers should be subject to recall by voters, early limits on the role of women, and the establishment of a membership association for practitioners and academics alike-an unusual feature in the American professional world. This book will appeal to university students, university faculty members, and academic libraries interested in American government and US history. The subject is at the intersection of several academic disciplines, including public administration, American history, political science, public management, management history, and organization theory.
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Mordecai Lee is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, where he taught for 22 years. He received a master's degree and PhD in public administration from Syracuse University, New York. Before his faculty appointment, he was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, legislative assistant to a Member of Congress, executive director of a faith-based nonprofit organization, and elected to the Wisconsin Legislature's State Assembly for three terms and State Senate for two terms. He is the author of 12 books, 70 journal articles, and 14 book chapters, including his most recent publication, The Emergence and Scope of the Voice of Government: Propaganda, Civic Information, or Both? (2023). His primary interests are public administration history, nonprofit management, and government public relations.
