The readings in Representative Bureaucracy provide an efficient guide to the settled knowledge and emerging issues regarding policy and research on democratizing public bureaucracies by making them socially representative of the people they ostensibly serve. The book includes both classic and cutting-edge works and presents a contemporary model for analyzing representative bureaucracy -- focusing on the linkages between social origins, life experiences, attitudes, and administrators' decision making. The selections address many of the leading concerns of contemporary politics, including diversity and equal opportunity policy, democratic control of administration, administrative performance, and "reinventing government." Many of the field's most cited works are included in this comprehensive yet affordable volume. Each chapter starts with an introductory summary of the key questions under consideration and concludes with discussion questions. The book makes the field of representative bureaucracy comprehensively and efficiently accessible to students, scholars, and reflective public managers. It serves as an essential reader for courses on bureaucracy, public administration, or human resource management in the public sector.

Some of the very best writings on issues involving local government can be found in journals published by the American Society for Public Administration or journals with which ASPA is associated. This volume includes thirty of the most outstanding articles that have been published over the past sixty years in these journals. Local Government Management is an ideal supplement for any course in local management and administration, whether the audience is students or practicing professionals.