Books in the Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management series

While acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.

Madison's Managers challenges public management scholars and professionals to recognize that the legitimacy and future of public administration depend on its constitutional foundations and their specific implications for managerial practice.

Democracy and Administration calls on scholars and practitioners to take Wilson's institutional design and regime-level orientation into account as part of the ambitious enterprise to develop a new science of democratic governance.

In Pursuit of Performance is an invaluable tool for government leaders and the scholars who study them.

Its lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators.