Serving as a useful resource for any Public Administration course involving Leadership and Public Management, this book is organized around Van Wart's unique leadership assessment model, which provides a useful framework for understanding the vast subject of leadership.

This collection drawn from "Public Administration Review" and other ASPA-sponsored journals is an ideal resource for any PA course involving Leadership and Public Management. Far more than a simple anthology, the book is organized around Van Wart's unique leadership assessment model, which provides a useful framework for understanding the vast subject of leadership. Each of the book's nine main sections begins with an introductory text by the editors, followed by relevant readings. The volume includes some of the most important readings on public leadership published over the last eight decades.

Preface
Part 1. Introduction
1. Leadership and Its Context, James W. Fesler
2. Public-Sector Leadership Theory: An Assessment, Montgomery Van Wart
3. Different Perspectives on the Practice of Leadership, Matthew R. Fairholm
4. Leaders and Leadership, John J. Corson
Part 2. The Preliminary Assessments that Leaders Need to Make
5. Organizing Around the Head of a Large Federal Department, Paul H. Appleby
6. Total Quality Management: An Opportunity for High Performance in Federal Organizations, Rudolph B. Garrity
7. Reevaluating Methods of Establishing Priorities for Governmental Services, Mary M. Hale and Aimee L. Franklin
Part 3. Goal Setting
8. Administrative Responsibility in Democratic Government, Herman Finer
9. Reconciling Entrepreneurship and Democracy, Carl J. Bellone and George F. Goerl
10. City Managers: Will They Reject Policy Leadership? James M. Banovetz
11. Accountability and Entrepreneurial Public Management: The Case of the Orange County Investment Fund, Kevin P. Kearns
Part 4. Personal Traits
12. Government Bureaucrats Are Different, James F. Guyot
13. A Technique to Capitalize on Human Intelligence in Organizations: Brain Skill Management, Weston H. Agor
14. Creativity, Marshall Dimock
15. Successful Leadership in Local Government Programs: Hillsborough County's Productivity Initiatives, Helen D. Levine
16. Notes on the Governmental Executive: His Role and His Methods, Donald C. Stone
Part 5. Situational Leadership
17. Changing Patterns in the Philosophy of Management, Carl Stover
18. Administrative Leadership and Use of Social Power, Sven Lundstedt
19. Leadership and Regional Councils: A Mismatch between Leadership Styles Today and Future Roles, Robert W. Gage
20. Research and Interventions for Stress Reduction Via Leadership in a Hospital Setting, Susan A. Raynis and Margaret A. Cleek
Part 6. Functional Domains
21. Gender Differences and Managerial Competencies: Federal Supervisor Perceptions of the Job of Management, Dennis M. Daley and Katherine C. Naff
22. The Cost of Not Listening to Employees: The Case of a Union Movement at Bradford Hospital, R. Wayne Boss, Leslee Boss, and James A. Johnson
23. Loose Cannons and Rule Breakers, or Enterprising Leaders? Some Evidence About Innovative Public Managers, Sandford Borins
24. Mixed Scanning: A "Third" Approach to Decision Making, Amitai Etzioni
Part 7. Organizational Evaluation
25. Defining and Measuring Effectiveness in Public Management, Steven A. Cohen
26. Executive Evaluation: Assessing the Probability for Success in the Job, Lawrence S. Buck
Part 8. Leadership Development
27. The Manager's View of Management Education and Training, James K. Conant
28. Succession Management Strategies in Public Sector Organizations, Dahlia Bradshaw Lynn
29. Reflections on Educating Executives, Raymond A. Katzell
Part 9. Administrative Leadership: Exemplars and Autocrats
30. The Patriotism of Exit and Voice: The Case of Gloria Flora, H. George Frederickson and Meredith Newman
31. Leaders and Leadership, John J. Corson
32. Branch Rickey as a Public Manager: Fulfilling the Eight Responsibilities of Public Management, Robert D. Behn
Index
* About the Editors.