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Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management.

Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management. By Brian J. Cook. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2007. 279 pp.

In Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management, Brian J. Cook provides a masterful survey of Woodrow Wilson's writing on the two great themes that shaped his conception of the modern age. This analysis of Wilson is particularly valuable because Cook devotes considerable attention to the lesser-known administrative studies that Wilson pursued after the publication of Congressional Government. Cook uses those writings to build a case for the continuing importance of Wilson to modern students of public administration and to construct hypothetical dialogues between Wilson and other prominent figures in the public administration tradition.

Dissenting from the conventional view that Wilson was an Americanized version of...

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