Subject(s): Public administration -- Bureaucracy, democracy and legitimacy question : Knowledge management, government -- Public administration's ninety years in a quandary : Politics/administration dichotomy, principles of administration, political science, administrative science -- Public organizations- theories, concepts and people : Threads of organization theory, closed and open models, literature of model synthesis -- Concept of organization theory : Information and intelligence in organization, control and authority in organizations, decision making and administration in organization, performance of public organizations -- Model of administrative man in organizations : Models of administrative man -- Towards a bureaucratic ethic : Public administrations ethical evolvement, public interest- two intellectual attempts, applied ethical choice in public administration, intuitionism, perfectionism and utilitarianism -- Techniques of public administration : Systems approach and management science, public bureaucracy, program evaluation in public administration, budget , public personnel administration, political neutrality, , blue collar bureaucrats, reforming civil service reform, public services -- Approaches to public affairs, models of public policy making as a process, urban professions, financing urban government, Manhattan money squeeze, budgeting urban governments -- Urban experience, crime in streets, housing, urban transit policy -- Federal maze, federalism in turmoil, revival of regionalism, grassroots federalism urban federalism, fiscal federalism, purchasing public policy, problems of grant in aid system, revenue sharing and bigger block grants, federalism and pyramiding of power -- Managing growth, global crisis, regulating environment, pollution and politics, state and local government encounter the environment, solid waste recovery, energy, oil and gas, nuclear power and political distrust