ASPA Classics
Conceived of and sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), the ASPA Classics Series publishes volumes on topics that have been, and continue to be, central to the contemporary development of the field. The ASPA Classics are intended for classroom use, library adoptions, and general reference. Drawing from the Public Administration Review (PAR) and other ASPArelated journals, each volume in the series is edited by a scholar who is charged with presenting a thorough and balanced perspective on an enduring issue.
Each volume is devoted to a topic of continuing and crosscutting concern to the administration of virtually all public-sector programs. Public servants carry out their responsibilities in a complex, multidimensional environment, and each collection will address a necessary dimension of their performance. ASPA Classics volumes bring together the dialogue on a particular topic over several decades and in a range of journals.
The volume editors are to be commended for volunteering to take on such substantial projects and for bringing together unique collections of articles that might not otherwise be readily available to scholars and students.
ASPA Classics Editorial Board
Marc Holzer, Editor-in-Chief
Rutgers University, Campus at Newark
Robert Behn, Harvard University
Beverly Cigler, Pennsylvania State University
Robert Denhardt, Arizona State University
Claire Felbinger, George Mason University
Steven Hays, University of South Carolina
Patria Julnes, Utah State University
Don Kettl, University of Wisconsin
Norma Riccucci, Rutgers University, Campus at Newark
Nancy Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School
Irene Rubin, Northern Illinois University
Marilyn Rubin, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Montgomery Van Wart, California State University, San Bernardino
Douglas J. Watson, University of Texas at Dallas
ASPA Classics
Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector
Montgomery Van Wart and Lisa A. Dicke, eds.
Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations
Norma M. Riccucci, ed.
Public Administration and Law
Julia Beckett and Heidi O. Koenig, eds.
Local Government Management
Current Issues and Best Practices
Douglas J. Watson and Wendy L. Hassett, eds.
Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector
An ASPA Classics Volume
Edited by
Montgomery Van Wart and Lisa A. Dicke
First published 2008 by M.E. Sharpe
Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Administrative leadership in the public sector / edited by Montgomery Van Wart and Lisa A. Dicke.
p. cm. (ASPA classics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7656-1348-6 (cloth : alk. paper)ISBN 978-0-7656-1349-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Public administrationUnited States. 2. LeadershipUnited States. 3. Civil serviceUnited StatesPersonnel management. 4. EmployeesTraining ofUnited States.
I. Van Wart, Montgomery, 1951II. Dicke, Lisa A., 1960
JK421.A545 2007 |
352.236dc22 | 2007002134 |
ISBN 13: 9780765613493 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780765613486 (hbk)
CONTENTS
James W. Fesler
Montgomery Van Wart
Matthew R. Fairholm
John J. Corson
Paul H. Appleby
Rudolph B. Garrity
Mary M. Hale and Aimee L. Franklin
Herman Finer
Carl J. Bellone and George Frederick Goerl
James M. Banovetz
Kevin P. Kearns
James F. Guyot
Weston H. Agor
Marshall Dimock
Helen D. Levine
Donald C. Stone
Carl F. Stover
Sven Lundstedt
Robert W. Gage
Susan R. Raynis and Margaret A. Cleek
Dennis M. Daley and Katherine C. Naff
R. Wayne Boss, Leslee Boss, and James A. Johnson
Sandford Borins
Amitai Etzioni
Steven A. Cohen
Lawrence S. Buck
James K. Conant
Dahlia Bradshaw Lynn
Raymond A. Katzell
H. George Frederickson and Meredith Newman
John J. Corson
Robert D. Behn
TABLES AND FIGURES
Tables
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This ASPA classic volume is designed to fill a much-needed gap in the public administration leadership literature. Although a substantial body of work on leadership exists, it is scattered and only loosely connected. Indeed, leadership theory and research have suffered significantly from the fragmentation of the field. For the first time, in this volume, the authors bring together significant contributions to the public-sector leadership literature in a coherent fashion. It is hoped that this compilation will provide students and scholars with a resource that allows them to view conceptual, historical, and intellectual relationships more easily.
The value of the volume for scholars and libraries, then, is that these materials fill a large gap in the administrative leadership monograph literature. Although such a literature does exist (see Van Warts assessment of the field in ), it is largely specialized or narrowly focused. The drawing together of the various theoretical strands (which occurred in the mainstream literature in the 1990s) is only now beginning to occur in the public-sector arena. The literature assembled here, along with the comprehensive overviews of the subareas, should help this cause. Indeed, it is hoped that scholars may see the gaps in the literature more clearly with this compilation.
The value to instructors teaching various public administration classes should also be substantial. Classes in administrative leadership have been almost entirely dependent on the private-sector literature. Management classes have had to resort to broad theoretical treatments or hypothetical case studies instead of materials discussing the concrete elements of leader-manager effectiveness. Organization theory and behavior courses can be enhanced through a more comprehensive treatment of the subject of administrative leadership. Edited volumes are not generally intended as primary texts, but the substantial introductions provide an ample overview to the field and the sequential nature of the materials provides excellent structure for the instructor who chooses to use it as such for a course or a portion of it. The text will find more use at the graduate level but should be quite accessible to upper-division college students as well.
