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The Statesman: By Sir Henry Taylor

The Statesman: By Sir Henry Taylor

Taylor, Henry
Schaefer, David Lewis
Schaefer, Roberta Rubel

Hardcover

Political BiographiesFiction AnthologiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0275942856
ISBN13: 9780275942854
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Dec 4 1992
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

Sir Henry Taylor's classic treatise The Statesman, originally published in 1836, is the first modern book to be devoted to the subject of public administration. It has been read and studied by generations for its keen insights into the relationship between public administrators and elected officials in a democracy. It has also been appreciated for its wit. The present volume is the first twentieth-century edition to be based on the revised and expanded text that Taylor published in 1878 as part of his Collected Works. It is also the first edition to be fully annotated.

The lengthy editors' introduction to this volume emphasizes the relevance of Taylor's thought to the fundamental issues of public administration in the contemporary United States. The editors demonstrate the superiority of Taylor's understanding of the relationship between politics and administration to the widely accepted model of that relation that derives from the thought of Woodrow Wilson. Above all, they argue, Taylor's insights merit our attention because they indicate how a properly organized civil service can be a locus of statesmanship in a democracy, fulfilling the intentions of the authors of the American Constitution in a contemporary context that differs significantly from what the Founders themselves anticipated.

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