This work explains the rise and evolution of an occupational group in its efforts to professionalize, and offers an interpretive analysis of the factors that have historically shaped and influenced public school supervision.
Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work.
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In this book, Verkuil uses his inside perspective on government to examine the increasing impact of private contractors on governance.
First published in 1998, this volume examines the changing nature of professionalism, asking how new challenges are changing professions and how professionals themselves are adapting.
By highlighting the leadership that already exists in the career ranks, Verkuil senses a willingness, or even eagerness, to make government, like America, great again.
This edition includes a new foreword linking the themes of Moral Mazes to the financial tsunami that engulfed the world economy in 2008.
The contributors to this volume trace the evolution of public administration institutions and explore issues such as the protection and improvement of the public service, recent innovations in the area of service delivery, and how this has ...
This book draws together internationally acclaimed scholars from across the world to address the roles of public officials whose jobs involve dealing directly with the public.
The present revised edition is an attempt to understand how industrial labor was transformed and to identify the historical process by which good jobs were created. It is, therefore, an...
She has published seven books, including Civil Servants on the Silver Screen: Hollywood's Depiction of Government and Bureaucrats, The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators (with Sara R. Rinfret), ...