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performance, government regulation, civil rights, white-collar crime, and urban policydevelopment are examined.Keywords: bureaucracy, public administration, textbookPolitics and Administration at the Top: Lessons from Down Under. Dunn, Delmer.PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997.http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/24a2e172ad4083bba19afeb4da09e526.htmlDrawing on a rich set of interviews with top Australian officials, Dunn provides newinsight into the interplay between politics and administration. His work will makescholars rethink their notion of how bureaucrats and politicians define their roles andresponsibilitiesKeywords: bureaucracy, public administration, textbookThe Promise of Representative Bureaucracy: Diversity and Responsiveness in aGovernment Agency. Selden, Sally Coleman. NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/ed83a923bb831136a19afeb4da09e526.htmlThis prize-winning study examines the impact of the employment of women and ethnicand racial minorities in public organizations on the implementation of governmentprograms by those agencies. Driving the study is the question of whether the concept of"representative government" applies also to the "permanent government"-- thebureaucracy. What difference does it make if an administration is either more or lessrepresentative of the population it serves? To what extent, if at all, is an agency'sresponsiveness to different segments of the public a function of the demographiccomposition of the agency itself?Keywords: bureaucracy, public administration, textbookINTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONAn Inner Voice for Public Administration. Murray, Nancy, CT: Praeger Publishers.1997.http://info.greenwood.com/books/0275952/0275952509.htmlMurray seeks to demonstrate how Eastern philosophy can contribute to the developmentof Western public administration theory and practice. She views the end of the 20th374