Democracy and the Public Service



Democracy and the Public Service

About the Author

The book 'Democracy and the Public Service' has been written by Frederick Camp Mosher. Mosher was born in 1913 in Virginia. He was a renowned professor in University of Virginia for the subjects related to government and foreign affairs. Mosher possessed the ability to influence a generation of scholars within the domains of public administration. He has written many books and remained a government administrator himself. Mosher was considered to be one of the most important public administrators within the second generation scholars. Mosher remains one of the public administrators who defined the new structures and functions of the arena of public administration as being modern and unique one.

Definitions given by Mosher are widely taught in the public administration education all around the world. Mosher has written a lot on the subject of governance and public administration. However, the most popular writing of Mosher remains 'Democracy and the Public Service.' The book was published in 1968 by Oxford University Press. This book has assumingly influenced thousands of civil servants all around the world in relation with their responsibilities towards the government. The book has been ranked as the fifth most influential book published between 1940 and 1990. Mosher died in 1990 due to emphysema.

Book Review

There is no doubt about the fact that the book published by Mosher remained the most influential book in relation with the arena of public administration. Mosher developed various themes within the book in order to assess the status of democracy in relation with the field of public service. Mosher has suggested that democracy is being challenged by the new arenas of public services. The most significant challenge the author has identified is that the new order of public service is assumingly more assorted and loosely linked to the traditions of actual public service.

Mosher has also identified several attributes of the newly structured public service domain. The most significant feature that Mosher has described within the book is that government structures are assumingly the most significant influencing factor within the public service behaviors. Moreover, new government structures are extremely interconnected with the market forces. Mosher has also evaluated that the aspect of being flexible within the domain of public service where work attachments are extremely temporary. Further, this temporariness in relationships tends to produce differences between public servants and citizens all around the world ...