This volume includes perspectives on public service selected from decades of major public administration journals. It also includes cross-national analyses of the public service in other systems, proposals for rethinking public service systems, and questions as to the future of the public service.

Introduction -- Role Models and Roles -- Images of the Common Good -- Harold D. Smith-Public Administrator -- William A. Jump -- The Mind of the Career Man -- Advice to the Eager Neophyte -- Branch Rickey as a Public Manager: Fulfilling the Eight Responsibilities of Public Management -- Are We Educating for Public Service? -- Universities and the Future of the Public Service -- The Legitimacy Crisis and the New Progressivism -- Student Attitudes Toward Government Employees and Employment -- What Motivates People to Enter the Public Service? -- Antecedents of Public Service Motivation -- The Public Service Ethic and the Professions in State Government -- The Public Service and the Patriotism of Benevolence -- Government in the Twilight Zone: Motivations of Volunteers to Small City Boards and Commissions -- Are Public Servants Satisfied in Their Jobs? -- Job Satisfaction Among Early Labor Force Participants: Unexpected Outcomes in Public and Private Sector Comparisons -- What Municipal Employees Want from Their Jobs Versus What They Are Getting -- The Effects of Public Service Recognition, Job Security, and Staff Reductions on Organizational Involvement -- An Updated Look at the Values and Expectations of Federal Government Executives -- Whistle Blowers in the Federal Civil Service: New Evidence of the Public Service Ethic -- Are Public Servants Staying or Fleeing? -- The Crisis of Morale and Federal Senior Executives -- Turnover and the Quiet Crisis in the Federal Civil Service -- Are the Best and the Brightest Fleeing Public Sector Employment? -- What Do We Need to Know? To Do? -- Some Aspects of Loyalty -- Next Steps in Public Administration -- Public Service: Attractions and Recommended Changes -- Research Needs on the Public Service -- Public Service and the Public Interest -- Political Foundations of the American Federal Service: Rebuilding a Crumbling Base