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The
Ethics of Dissent:
Managing Guerrilla Government
Rosemary O'Leary
Paperback
135 pp.
©2005
CQ Press
ISBN: 1-933116-60-9
$28.95
Table Of Contents
Foreword
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Chapter 1
Guerrilla What?
Chapter 2
Guerrilla Government and the Nevada Wetlands
First Interlude: More Stories of Guerrilla Government
Chapter 3
Guerrilla
Government
in
EPA’s Seattle Regional
Office
Second Interlude: More Stories of Guerrilla Government
Chapter 4
A Government Guerrilla Sues His Own Agency:
Off-Road Vehicles in the Hoosier National Forest
Chapter 5
Managing Guerrilla Government:
Ethical Crusaders or Insubordinate Renegades?
Postlude: Are There Lessons?
Some General Questions
References
Index
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Guerrilla
Government
Guerrillas in government are all
around us. They include both “Deep Throat” and the clerk
who deliberately slows the processing of driver’s
license applications.
Woven into the fabric of everyday bureaucracy, they run the spectrum from anti-establishment
liberals to fundamentalist conservatives, from constructive contributors to deviant
destroyers.
Guerilla government is the manifestation of tensions between bureaucracy
and democracy.
Rosemary O’Leary underscores the importance of
dissent. She also shows how public servants can engage
in ethical guerrilla activity and how public managers
can tap into the potentially insightful, creative ideas
and energy of dissenters to make constructive changes
in the system.
Rosemary O'Leary
The author and editor of six books and
more than 85 articles on public management and public policy,
Rosemary O'Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration
and Co-Director of the Program for the Analysis and Resolution
of Conflict, at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
From 2003 to
2005, O’Leary was a member of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's Return to Flight Task Group,
which was assembled in response to the Columbia space shuttle
accident. She was also a member of NASA's Aerospace Safety
Advisory Panel in 2004.
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Rosemary O'Leary
Rosemary O'Leary
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What others are saying about The
Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla Government by Rosemary O'Leary
Steven W. Maynard-Moody
University of Kansas
"A lively, well-written book, the cases
provide an essential glimpse into the real workings of government.
Combining extended cases with theoretical discussion connects theory
and practice.
It will also help students and practitioners better understand the churning
flow of dissent and commitment to public interest just below the surface
in our staid, grey world of public administration. Books like O'Leary's
are rare."
Norma M. Riccucci
Rutgers University-Newark
"Rosemary O'Leary's Ethics of Dissent is
exquisitely written and provides one of the most compelling analyses
and syntheses of the implications of guerrilla
government to democracies."
Frances S. Berry
Florida State University
"This important book delves into an under-discussed topic – managers
as
guerrilla fighters – through rich case studies.
The author has a wonderful
writing style that is very engaging and accessible. Professor O’Leary
is highly respected; she is the perfect author for this book."
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Distinguished Professor H. George Frederickson
PA Times, February 2006
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