This new edition of features five new readings, and, based on input from adopters, an entirely new section on public policy making (Part IV: Public Organizations and Policy). The author's part-opening sections have all been extensively revised and updated.

Part I Introduction to the Central Issues; Chapter 1 Scope and Content of Public Administration; Chapter 2 Time and Change; Chapter 3 Democracy, Citizenship, and Governmental Structure; Part II Creating a New Democracy; Chapter 4 The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10, 17, & 51; Chapter 5 Introduction to The Federalist Papers Reader, Frederick Quinn; Chapter 6 Interpretative Essay, W.B. Allen, Gordon Lloyd, Margie Lloyd; Chapter 7 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, Alexis de Tocqueville; Part III Community and the Individual; Chapter 8 The Public Realm, Thomas E. McCollough; Chapter 9 Barn Raising, Daniel Kemmis; Chapter 10 The Nature of Community Governance, Richard C. Box; Part IV Public Organizations and Policy; Chapter 11 Democracy, Public Administrators, and Public Policy, Dale Krane; Chapter 12 A Brief Tour of Public Organization Theory in the United States, Gary S. Marshall; Chapter 13 The Future of the American Bureaucratic System, Richard J. StillmanII; Part V Values and Public Administration; Chapter 14 Unequal America, Elizabeth Gudrais; Chapter 15 Introduction to New Public Administration, H. George Frederickson; Chapter 16 Practitioners, Richard C. Box; Chapter 17 Running Government Like a Business: Implications for Public Administration Theory and Practice, Richard C. Box; Part VI The Public Service Practitioner in a Democratic Society; Chapter 18 Democracy and Public Service; Chapter 19 The Citizenship Role of the Public Professional, Richard C. Box; Chapter 20 Transforming Citizenship and Governance, Claire Mostel; Chapter 21 Obituary, Claire Mostel;

Richard C. Box is Regents/Foundation Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha and Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs at Park University in Kansas City. He served as a land-use planner and city administrator in local governments in Oregon and California before completing his doctorate at the University of Southern California. His writing focuses on the role of the public-service practitioner in a democratic society and the application of critical social theory in public administration. He is the author or editor of Citizen Governance: Leading American Communities into the 21st Century (Sage Publications, 1998); Public Administration and Society: Critical Issues in American Governance (M.E. Sharpe, 2004, 2009, 2013); Critical Social Theory in Public Administration (M.E. Sharpe, 2005); Democracy and Public Administration (M.E. Sharpe, 2007); and Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration (M.E. Sharpe, 2008).