The Intellectual Crisis in American Public AdministrationThis revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom's analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations. |
Contents
1 The Crisis of Confidence | 1 |
2 The Intellectual Mainstream in American Public Administration | 20 |
3 The Work of the Contemporary Political Economists | 42 |
The Rejected Alternative | 65 |
5 The Choice of Alternative Futures | 87 |
6 The Continuing Constitutional Crises in American Government | 116 |
7 Intellectual Crises and Beyond | 139 |
Notes | 169 |
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