Leadership of Public Bureaucracies: The Administrator as Conservator

The revolution in public management has led many reformers to call for public managers to reinvent themselves as public entrepreneurs. Larry D. Terry opposes this view, and presents a normative theory of administrative leadership that integrates legal, sociological, and constitutional theory. Foreword, Preface to First Edition, Preface to Second Edition, 1. Bureaucratic Leadership in a Democratic Republic, 2. A Model of Administrative Conservatorship, 3. Conserving Mission, 4. Conserving Values, 5. Conserving Support, 6.The Administrator as Conservator, Bibliography, Index