Charles Goodsell
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles True Goodsell is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy. He is perhaps best known for his volume The Case for Bureaucracy, now in its 4th edition. Goodsell is a co-author of the Blacksburg Manifesto, written with Gary Wamsley, Robert Bacher, Philip Kronenberg, John Rohr, Camilla Stivers, Orion White, and James Wolf – all of whom were at Virginia Tech during the 1980s. In 1994, Goodsell was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Charles Goodsell's Published Works
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- The case for bureaucracy : a public administration polemic (1983) (261)
- The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic.@@@Bureaucratic Power in Society. (1985) (259)
- The Search for Government Efficiency: From Hubris to Helplessness (1987) (151)
- A New Vision for Public Administration (2006) (110)
- The Case For Bureaucracy (1983) (97)
- Reinvent Government or Rediscover It?@@@Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming the Public Sector (1992) (87)
- The Social Meaning of Civic Space: Studying Political Authority Through Architecture (1988) (85)
- The Concept of Public Space and Its Democratic Manifestations (2003) (74)
- The Architecture of Parliaments: Legislative Houses and Political Culture (1988) (59)
- Looking Once Again at Human Service Bureaucracy (1981) (52)
- Mission Mystique (2011) (48)
- Bureaucratic Manipulation of Physical Symbols: An Empirical Study (1977) (44)
- The Public Administration and the Governance Process: Refocusing the American Dialogue (1979) (42)
- The Public Administrator as Artisan (1992) (36)
- American Corporations and Peruvian Politics (1974) (35)
- Understanding Excellence in Public Administration: The Report of the Task Force on Educating for Excellence in the Master of Public Administration Degree of the American Society for Public Administration (2009) (31)
- The Grace Commission: Seeking Efficiency for the Whole People? (1984) (31)
- Administration as ritual (1989) (30)
- Client Evaluation of Three Welfare Programs (1980) (25)
- Administration of a Revolution: Executive Reform In Puerto Rico Under Governor Tugwell, 1941-1946 (1965) (24)
- Red Tape and a Theory of Bureaucratic Rules (2000) (22)
- Cross-cultural comparison of behavior of postal clerks towards clients. (1976) (20)
- A Tribute to Larry D. Terry, January 6, 1954–June 17, 2006 (2006) (19)
- Agenda for Excellence: Public Service in America (1992) (19)
- The Public Encounter (1982) (19)
- The New Case for Bureaucracy (2014) (18)
- Six Normative Principles for the Contracting-Out Debate (2007) (18)
- The Anti-Public Administration Presidency: The Damage Trump Has Wrought (2019) (18)
- The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples (2000) (17)
- Publicness (2017) (16)
- The Wheel of Fortune: Middle Ages, Not TV@@@Public Administration Illuminated and Inspired by the Arts (1995) (15)
- The Contented Older Client of Bureaucracy (1982) (12)
- Bureaucracy's House in the Polis: Seeking an Appropriate Presence (1997) (12)
- Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives (2016) (11)
- 5a. Public Administration and the Governance Process: Shifting the Political Dialogue (2016) (10)
- Charles A. Beard, Prophet for Public Administration (1986) (6)
- Public Administration as Its Own Steward in Times of Partisan Deadlock and Fiscal Stress (2013) (6)
- Insights for Public Administration from the Terrorist Attacks (2002) (6)
- A Radical Idea Welcomed—But with Some Buts (1998) (6)
- Book Review: Adrian Carr and Philip Hancock, Eds. Art and Aesthetics at Work. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 (2004) (5)
- The new comparative administration: A proposal (1981) (5)
- State Administration and the Founding Fathers During the Critical Period (1997) (4)
- Collegial State Administration: Design for Today? (1981) (4)
- A Legitimate Role for Bureaucracy in Democratic Governance (2020) (4)
- Conflicting Perceptions of Welfare Bureaucracy (1980) (3)
- Centennial History of Kalamazoo College: 1833 - 1933 (1933) (2)
- American Public Administration's Maturity: A Profile (2004) (2)
- Teaching State Public Policy: Distance Learning and “Converged” Instruction (2001) (2)
- Relations between Political Appointees and Career Officials: Principal‐Agent or Moral Equals? (2006) (2)
- Public Administration Scholarship Backwater or Deep Blue Sea? (2001) (2)
- Literature and Leadership: From Connections to Contributions (2006) (2)
- Taming the bureaucracy: Muscles, Prayers, and Other Strategies, by William T. Gormley, Jr. Princeton, NJ; Princeton University Press, 1989, 256 pp. Price: $29.50 cloth (1991) (2)
- Strengthening American Democracy Through Public Administration (2022) (1)
- Cornerstones of Presidential Power (1998) (1)
- Are the “Great Books” Great? (2012) (1)
- (Re)Founding the Field@@@Refounding Public Administration (1991) (1)
- Rhetoric as Praxis in Leading and Organizing a Public Administration: A Journey in Democratic Governance (1998) (1)
- Double-Dip-Some Afterthoughts (1981) (1)
- Public Architecture As Social Anchor in the Postmodern Age (2017) (1)
- The Program Variable in Comparative Administration : Postal Service (1976) (1)
- Public Administration as Republican Ally (1995) (1)
- Conflating Forms of Separation in Administrative Ethics (2006) (1)
- The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present . By Ballard C. Campbell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 289p. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. (1996) (0)
- AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (1965) (0)
- Latin America in the 1970s (1973) (0)
- The Deep Structure of Presidential Space (1999) (0)
- Not 'Innocents Abroad': American Multinational Corporations and the United States Government@@@Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations@@@American Corporations and Peruvian Politics@@@Multinational Corporations and the Politics of Dependence: Copper in Chile@@@The Maturing of Multin (1976) (0)
- Historic Preservation: A study in local public administration (2017) (0)
- Two. Peru and American Business (1974) (0)
- The Development Planning Mythos and the Real World@@@Guide for Development: Institution-Building and Reform@@@Economic Planning in Venezuela@@@Planning for Development in Peru@@@Financing Economic Development: Fiscal Policy for Emerging Countries@@@Natural Resource Information for Economic Developme (1970) (0)
- he Public Administtor as Artsan (2016) (0)
- Bureaucracy and Political Power . By B. C. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 1988. 263p. $40.00. - Comparing Public Bureaucracies: Problems of Theory and Method . By B. Guy Peters. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. 217p. $15.00 paper. (1989) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Civil Service (1965) (0)
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Public Enterprise (1965) (0)
- THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION: MAKING “ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS” WORK by Percy Luen-Tim Lui (1999) (0)
- Seven. Politics in the Company Town (1974) (0)
- Introductory Comments (1972) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. Administrative Leaders (1965) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Spending Process (1965) (0)
- Four. Corporate Political Behavior (1974) (0)
- Remembering Ralph Hummel (2012) (0)
- Glimpses of Iowa's Capitol (2005) (0)
- CHAPTER EIGHT. An Evaluation (1965) (0)
- 7. Diplomatic Protection of U.S. Business in Peru (1972) (0)
- Three. Control, Dependence, Attitudes (1974) (0)
- Public Administration Scholarship: Revisiting the Applied Function (2021) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers (2004) (0)
- Multinationals in Latin America@@@Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations@@@American Corporations and Peruvian Politics@@@Expropriation of U.S. Property in South America: Nationalization of Oil and Copper Companies in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile@@@Multinational Corporations and the Po (1976) (0)
- One. Foreign Investment and Politics (1974) (0)
- 1939 Founders Day Address (1939) (0)
- Eight. Aspects of National Integration (1974) (0)
- That Confounding Revolution in Peru (1975) (0)
- Rediscovering the Heart of Public Administration: The Normative Theory of In His Steps (1998) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. The Governorship (1965) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. The Revolution (1965) (0)
- The Information-Energy Model and Comparative Administration (1977) (0)
- Six. Bargaining over Investments (1974) (0)
- Thanks to Reviewers (2002) (0)
- Technological Progress in Latin America: The Prospects for Overcoming Dependency (1980) (0)
- Multinational Corporations in Latin America: Private Rights—Public Responsibilities (1979) (0)
- Sclerotic and Starved Government (2010) (0)
- Social Meanings of Public Architecture: A Victorian Elucidation (2017) (0)
- Mnemonic Meanings of the American Capitol (2019) (0)
- Introduction: The Symposium and Its Authors (2004) (0)
- Books in review (1992) (0)
- Conclusion: Getting It All Together (2004) (0)
- A NOTE ON SOURCES (1965) (0)
- Nine. Summation and Comment (1974) (0)
- Puerto Rico Moves Forward (1966) (0)
- Regulation and Drug Development. By Wardell William M. and Lasagna Louis. (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975. Pp. 181. $3.50, paper.) (1978) (0)
- The New American State@@@The New American State: Bureaucracies and Policies Since World War II (1988) (0)
- Architectural Power (2021) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX. The Planning Process (1965) (0)
- Leisha DeHart‐Davis , Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations ( Washington: Georgetown University Press ,2017). 177 pp. $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781626164468 (2018) (0)
- Five. Behavior of the U.S. Government (1974) (0)
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