Preface
Chapter One: A Warning Renewed
Chapter Two: The True Size of Government
Chapter Three: Pressures on the Dividing Line
Chapter Four: A Proper Blending
Conclusion: The Next-Gen Public Service
Appendix 1: Options for Reform
Endnotes
Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service
at New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance and
a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Before
joining NYU, he was vice president and director of governmental
studies at the Brookings Institution, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow,
and founding director of its Center for Public Service.
He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia,
University of Minnesota, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy
School of Government. He was also senior adviser to the U.S. Senate
Governmental Affairs
Committee from 1987-1989, associate dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey
School of Public Affairs at the University ofMinnesota from
1989-1994, director of the public policy grant program at the Pew
Charitable Trusts from 1995-1998. Light has written 25 books,
including four national award winners, and is a recognized expert
on government reform, legislative history, social innovation, and
government by investigation.
This is an impressive and highly engaging contribution. Scholars
should view it as a call to (research) arms; much more attention is
clearly needed to unpack the who of government work.
*Rachewl Augustine Potter, University of Virginia, Congress & the
Presidency*
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