Books by Richard C Box

Presents an approach for instructors who want to expose their students to the social, political, and historical context of the practice of public administration. This book discusses key issues for public service professionals in a democratic society.

The true measure of the successful practice of public service is its ability to remain faithful to the tenets of democratic society. This text links the practice of public administration to the core concepts of American democracy. It covers the various aspects of public administration in the context of "delivering democracy" in public service.

Suitable for those in Public Administration, this book presents regressive and progressive values in five matched pairs, each a continuum of thought and action: aggressiveness and cooperation; belief and knowledge; economics as end, and economics as means; great inequality and limited inequality; and Earth as resource, and Earth as home.

This book provides a framework for the application of critical social theory in public administration. Its goal is to encourage awareness among public administration scholars and practitioners of social conditions that tend to shape and constrain scholarship, practice, teaching, and social change.