About: Refounding Public Administration

Refounding Public Administration (1990) is a noted text in the public administration field that formulated a multi-faceted argument that government is properly an agential and active servant of the public good. It is among a very few books that have been pivotal in defining public administration as a distinct field from political science with its own theory and raison d'etre. Other works in this genre include Dwight Waldo's The Administrative State and Frederick C. Mosher's . The work was edited by Gary Wamsley, who contributed a classic essay on bureaucratic , and also includes works by Charles Goodsell, John Rohr, Camilla Stivers, , , James Wolf and others.