Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the importance of democracy for public administration / Richard C. Box -- Democracy and public service / Mary R. Hamilton -- Democracy, public administrators, and public policy / Dale Krane -- A brief tour of public organization theory in the United States / Gary S. Marshall -- Citizens, citizenship, and democratic governance / Cheryl Simrell King -- Democracy, public participation, and budgeting : mutually exclusive or just exhausting? / Aimee L. Franklin and Carol Ebdon -- Citizen participation in performance measurement / Alfred T. Ho -- Democracy and the "republican revival" in administrative law / Christine M. Reed -- En-gendering democracy : a feminist perspective on the body politic / Janet R. Hutchinson -- Democratic administration in a multicultural environment / Mohamad G. Alkadry -- Nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and democracy in the United States / Angela M. Eikenberry -- The public service practitioner as agent of social change / Richard C. Box.

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