This guide has been prepared by the Public Administration Faculty of the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, School of Policy Studies. It is expected that Political Science Ph.D. students seeking to qualify in the public administration field will have read and be familiar with the works listed below. This list is intended to be a foundation, and it does not provide citations to specialized sources in fields such as budgeting, public management, human resources, and others that may be of special interest to certain students. All students, therefore, should consult closely with the public administration faculty who will be writing and reading their field examinations. These consultations should begin during the first quarter of doctoral studies at GSU. This list of texts will be updated annually.

Doctoral students are also expected to maintain currency through regular reading of major scholarly research journals in the field. These include The Public Administration Review, Administration and Society, American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and The Public Administration Quarterly.

1. Aaron, Taylor, and Mann, Values and Public Policy (1994)

2. Allison, Graham, The Essence of Decision (1971)

3. Barnard, Chester, The Functions of the Executive (1938)

4. Dahl, Robert A., A Preface to Democratic Theory (1956)

5. Downs, Anthony, Inside Bureaucracy (1967)

6. Durant, Robert F., The Administrative Presidency Revisited (1992)

7. Fry, Brian R., Mastering Public Administration 1989)

8. Heclo, Hugh, A Government of Strangers (1977)

9. Goodsell, Charles T., The Case for Bureaucracy (3^rd ed.) (1994)

10. Meier, Kenneth, Politics and the Bureaucracy (3^rd ed.) (1993)

11. Peters, Guy, The Future of Governing (1996)

12. Rainey, Hal, Understanding and Managing Public Organizations (2^nd ed.) (1997)

13. Rourke, Francis, Bureaucracy, Politics, and Public Policy (3^rd ed.) (1984)

14. Rubin, Irene, The Politics of Public Budgeting (2^nd ed.) (1997)

15. Salamon, Lester, Beyond Privatization (1989)

16. Shadish, Cook, and Leviton, Foundations of Program Evaluation (1991)

17. Shafritz and Hyde, Classics of Public Administration (4^th ed.) (1997)

18. Simon, Herbert A., Administrative Behavior (3^rd ed.) (1976)

19. Starling, Grover, Managing the Public Sector (5^th ed.) (1998)

20. Stillman, Richard, Preface to Public Administration (1991)

21. Stillman, Richard, The American Bureaucracy (2^nd ed.) (1996)

22. Theodoulou and Cahn, Public Policy: The Essential Readings (1995)

23. Van Wart, Changing Public Sector Values (1998)

24. Wilson, James Q., Bureaucracy (1989)

25. Waldo, Dwight, The Administrative State (2^nd ed.) (1984)

26. Waldo, Dwight, The Enterprise of Public Administration (1981)

27. Wamsley, Gary L. et al. Refounding Public Administration (1991)

28. Wildavsky, Aaron, The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1988)