Complete the following exercise:
1. What common themes do you notice in the history of public administration?
2. What do you find most and least convincing in each of the readings?
Respond to at least two other postings.
Use the reading below to answer the questions
Lynn. L. (2005). Public Management: A Concise History of the Field. In E. Ferlie, L. Lynn, and C. Pollitt (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Public Management. 27-50. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gulick, L. (1937/2012) Notes on the Theory of Organization. Administration’ in J. Shafritz & A. Hyde. (eds) Classics of Public Administration 7th Ed. (pp. 81 -89) Boston (MA): Wadsworth.
Weber, M. (1922) ‘Bureaucracy’ in J. Shafritz & A. Hyde. (eds.) Classics of Public Administration 7th Ed. (pp. 44 -49) Boston (MA): Wadsworth
Wilson, W. (1887/2012). The study of administration. Political Science Quarterly, 2(2), 197-222.
