current books & authors

Question 1

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

Answer 1

In Search of Excellence

Question 2

Deborah Stone

Answer 2

Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
“behind every policy issue works a contest over conflicting, though equally plausible, conceptions of the same abstract goal or value.”

Question 3

James MacGregor Burns

Answer 3

Leadership - 1978

Transactional and Transformational

Question 4

Ronald A. Heifetz

Answer 4

Leadership without Easy Answers (1998)
Leadership is no longer telling people what to do
Helping a group recognize its own problems

Question 5

Michael Lipsky

Answer 5

Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (1980)

Question 6

John W. Kingdon

Answer 6

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (1984)

problems, policies, and politics

Question 7

Cohen, March, and Olson

Answer 7

The Garbage Can Model (1972)

“collection of choices looking for problems and issues for which they might be the answer.”

Question 8

Peter M. Senge

Answer 8

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Question 9

Daniel Goleman

Answer 9

Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ (1995)

Question 10

Donald F. Kettl et al

Answer 10

Civil Service Reform

Question 11

The Arbinger Institute

Answer 11

Leadership and self-deception: getting out of the box (2000)

Question 12

Donald F. Kettl

Answer 12

The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century America
(2002)

Question 13

Janet V. Denhardt and

Robert B. Denhardt

Answer 13

The New Public Service: Serving not Steering (2002)

Critique of NPM

Question 14

Donald F. Kettl

Answer 14

Deficit Politics: The Search for Balance in American Politics (2003)
“Budgeting is perhaps the central political act”
Search for Rationaliy

Question 15

Stephan Goldsmith and

Williams D. Eggars

Answer 15

Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector

Government is the facilitator not the provider of services

Question 16

Thomas A. Birkland

Answer 16

An Introduction to the Policy Process

Question 17

Donald E. Klingner
John Nalbandian and
Jared Llorens

Answer 17

Public Personnel Management: Contexts and Strategies (2010)

Question 18

Grover Starling

Answer 18

Managing the Public Sector

Question 19

Jay M. Shafritz
E.W. Russell and
Christopher P. Borick

Answer 19

Introducing Public Administration