Classics of public administration

pt. 1. Early voices and the first quarter century: Ancient times to 1920s. The Analects of Confucius (300 BCE) / Confucius

On duties (44 BCE) / Cicero

Of the principle of utility (1780) / Jeremy Bentham

On war (1832) / Carl von Clausewitz

The study of administration (1887) / Woodrow Wilson

Politics and administration (1900) / Frank J. Goodnow

Problems of municipal administration (1904) / Jane Addams

Scientific management (1912) / Frederick W. Taylor

The movement for budgetary reform in the states (1918) / William F. Willoughby

Bureaucracy (1922) / Max Weber

Introduction to the study of public administration (1926) / Leonard D. White

The giving of orders (1926) / Mary Parker Follett.

pt. 2. The New Deal to mid-century: The 1930s to 1950s. Bureaucracy and the public interest (1936) / E. Pendleton Herring

Notes on the theory of organization (1937) / Luther Gulick

Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management (1937) / Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, and Luther Gulick

Bureaucratic structure and personality (1940) / Robert K. Merton

A theory of human motivation (1943) / A.H. Maslow

The proverbs of administration (1946) / Herbert A. Simon

The administrative state revisited (1940, 1965) / Dwight Waldo

Theory Y: the integration of individual and organizational goals (1957) / Douglas McGregor

The science of "muddling through" (1959) / Charles E. Lindblom.

pt. 3. From JFK to civil service reform: the 1960s and 1970s. The road to PPB: the stages of budget reform (1966) / Allen Schick

Organizations of the future (1967) / Warren Bennis

Policy analysts: a new professional role in government service (1967) / Yehezkel Dror

The life cycle of bureaus (1967) / Anthony Downs

Rescuing policy analysis from PPBS (1969) / Aaron Wildavsky

Administrative decentralization and political power (1969) / Herbert Kaufman

The end of liberalism: the indictment (1969) / Theodore J. Lowi

Toward a new public administration (1971) / H. George Frederickson

Dilemmas in a general theory of planning (1973) / Horst W. J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber

Systematic thinking for social action (1971) / Alice M. Rivlin

The implementation game (1977) / Eugene Bardach

Watergate: implications for responsible government (1974) / Frederick C. Mosher & others

Representative bureaucracy (1974) / Samuel Krislov

Intergovernmental relations: an analytical overview (1974) / Deil S. Wright.

pt. 4. From Reagan to reinvention: the 1980s to 1990s. Public and private management: are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects? (1980) / Graham T. Allison

Street-level bureaucracy: the critical role of street-level bureaucrats (1980) / Michael Lipsky

Public budgeting amidst uncertainty and instability (1981) / Naomi Caiden

Public administrative theory and the separation of powers (1983) / David H. Rosenbloom

Agendas, alternatives, and public policies (1984) / John W. Kingdon

The possibility of administrative ethics (1985) / Dennis F. Thompson

American federalism: Madison's middle ground in the 1980s (1987) / Martha Derthick

The organizational culture perspective (1989) / J. Steven Ott

From affirmative action to affirming diversity (1990) / R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.

Toward a feminist perspective in public administration theory (1990) / Camilla Stivers

The motivational bases of public service (1990) / James L. Perry and Lois Recascino Wise

Managing state government operations: changing visions of staff agencies (1990) / Michael Barzelay and Babak J. Armajani

From red tape to results: creating a government that works better and costs less (1993) / The National Performance Review

Using performance measures in the federal budgeting process (1993) / U.S. Congressional Budget Office.

pt. 5. Public administration in the twenty-first century. Information technology and democratic governance (2002) / Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Unmasking administrative evil (2004) / Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour

The ethics of dissent: managing guerilla government (2006) /

Rosemary O'Leary

Inside collaborative networks: ten lessons for public managers (2006) / Robert Agranoff

Public value: theory and practice: conclusions (2011) / John Benington and Mark H. Moore.