Public Official Associations and State and Local Government

Reviews / Votes

...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. -- Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R * 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. -- Richard Stillman, second author of ^RPreface to Public Administration and the American Bureaucracy^R * Public Administration Review *