The Statesman

by Sir Henry Taylor Revised Edition
Herausgeber: Schaefer, David; Taylor, Henry; Schaefer, Roberta

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sir Henry Taylor's classic treatise The Statesman, originally published in 1836, is the first modern book to be devoted to the subject of public administration. It has been read and studied by generations for its keen insights into the relationship between public administrators and elected officials in a democracy. It has also been appreciated for its wit. The present volume is the first twentieth-century edition to be based on the revised and expanded text that Taylor published in 1878 as part of his Collected Works. It is also the first edition to be fully annotated. The lengthy editors' introduction to this volume emphasizes the relevance of Taylor's thought to the fundamental issues of public administration in the contemporary United States. The editors demonstrate the superiority of Taylor's understanding of the relationship between politics and administration to the widely accepted model of that relation that derives from the thought of Woodrow Wilson. Above all, they argue, Taylor's insights merit our attention because they indicate how a properly organized civil service can be a locus of statesmanship in a democracy, fulfilling the intentions of the authors of the American Constitution in a contemporary context that differs significantly from what the Founders themselves anticipated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780275942854
• ISBN-10: 0275942856
• Artikelnr.: 25566080

Autorenporträt

Henry Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Sir Henry Taylor and the Study of Public
Administration Concerning the Education of Youth destined for a Civil
Career Of the Age at which Official and Parliamentary Life should commence
A Statesman's most pregnant Function lies in the Choice and Use of
Instruments On the Getting and Keeping of Adherents In the Choice of Men
how far Literary Merit may be a Guide Of Official Style On the Inferences
of Merit or Demerit from Popularity, and something concerning False
Reputations Concerning Interviews Concerning the Conscience of a Statesman
Concerning the Age at which a Statesman should marry, and what manner of
Woman he should take to Wife Concerning the Effects of Order and the
Maintenance of Equanimity Concerning certain Points of Practice On Official
Criticism On the Arts of Rising On Quarrelling On the Ethics of Politics On
Consistency in a Statesman On Secrecy On Ambition Concerning Rank as a
Qualification for High Office On Decisiveness Concerning Reform of the
Executive, and the Constitution of an Office or Establishment for
Transacting the Business of a Minister Further respecting the Establishment
of a Minister-Private Secretaries-Clerks Concerning Précis-writers, and
Processes of Business On the Methods by which a Statesman can upon occasion
get his Work done out of Doors On Parliamentary Interposition in
Administrative Business On Aids to Legislation to be derived from Executive
Experience Of the Manner in which able, and of the Manner in which
indifferent Statesmen are deterred from availing themselves of able
Service; and of the Evils which ensue from Men's Authority being in the
inverse Ratio of their Abilities On the Administration of Patronage
Concerning the Amusements of a Statesman On Manners Of Statesmen bred such,
and of Statesmen bred in the Army, in the Navy, in Commerce, and at the Bar
The Statesman out of Office Conclusion Notes Index