附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-110) and index.
Introduction: the uneasy status of public administration -- The lack of legitimacy of public administration -- Why worry about legitimacy? -- Public administration and the U.S. Constitution -- Critics of the Constitution -- The importance of worldviews -- The purpose of this work -- The relevance of this work -- Rationalist and anti-rationalist worldviews -- The rationalist worldview -- Rationalist thought -- The anti-rationalist worldview -- Anti-rationalist thought -- The worldviews of public administration and the Constitution -- Rationalism and public administration: the early writers -- Rationalism and public administration: contemporary writers -- Anti-rationalism and the founders -- On the checking of power: the logic of a constitution -- Interests -- Passions -- Unintended exploitation -- Majority rule -- The use of knowledge -- Visions of public administration -- "Discretionists" and "Instrumentalists": the Friedrich argument -- The finer argument.
