Charles Goodsell
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Charles T. Goodsell | |
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| Born | Charles T. Goodsell July 23, 1932 Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S. |
| Education | BA at Kalamazoo College, PhD. at Harvard University |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, Political Scientist, author |
| Notable work | The Case for Bureaucracy |
| Spouse | Mary Elizabeth Goodsell |
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Charles True Goodsell (born July 23, 1932) is
Goodsell is a co-author of the Blacksburg Manifesto,[2] written with Gary Wamsley, Robert Bacher, Philip Kronenberg, John Rohr, Camilla Stivers, Orion White, and James Wolf – all of whom were at Virginia Tech during the 1980s. In 1994, Goodsell was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.[3]
Early life and education
Charles T. Goodsell was born in
Academic career
Goodsell began his academic teaching career as an assistant professor of public administration at the University of Puerto Rico in 1961. In 1964 he became a research associate at Princeton University. Two years later in 1966, he became a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University. In 1978, Charles Goodsell began teaching at Virginia Tech University as a professor of public administration and public affairs and served as director of the university's Center for Public Administration and Policy.[4] Goodsell continued to teach at Virginia Tech University until he retired in 2002, although he remained at the university as professor emeritus. During his career, Goodsell was also a distinguished visitor at Cleveland State University, Carleton University and the University of Texas at Austin.[6]
Author
In The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic, Charles Goodsell takes the position that the generally disparaging view of bureaucracy is unwarranted, and that the "quality of public service in the United states is vastly underrated".[7] Originally published in 1983, it is Goodsell's best known work. Intended to be a rebuttal to the popular notion of bureaucracy as a callous, oppressive, and dysfunctional machine, it has been the recipient of much praise within the field of public administration.[8][9][10] Since its original release, there have been 3 subsequent editions, with the 4th edition being released in December 2003.
In Goodsell's 2011 book, Mission Mystique: Belief Systems in Public Agencies, he examines six United States public agencies, including the
In The American statehouse: Interpreting democracy's temples, Goodsell reviews all fifty United States’ capitals and their buildings.[12] He uses three concepts to interpret government architecture in the social sense: the search for political values in the buildings, the effects of the building on behavior, and the impression the buildings make on society. Additionally, all of the photographs used in the book were taken by Goodsell.[12]
References
- ^ Broder, David (March 1994). "Bureaucracy Gets Two Cheers". Star News. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ^ Marshall, Gary S. and White, Orion F., "The Blacksburg Manifesto and the Postmodern Debate: Public Administration in a Time Without a Name" (1990). Public Administration Faculty Publications. Paper 67. http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=pubadfacpub
- ^ Incorporated, Prime. "National Academy of Public Administration". National Academy of Public Administration. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
- ^ a b c d Ead.lib.virginia.edu. (2005). A Guide to the Charles Goodsell Collection 1982–2001 Goodsell, Charles Collection Ms2004-012. Retrieved October 14, 2015, from http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00165.xml#bioghist_1.1
- ^ Kalamazoo College. (1954). Kalamazoo College Alumnus. Retrieved from https://cache.kzoo.edu/bitstream/handle/10920/29739/1954_06_KC_Alumnus.pdf?sequence=1
- ^ "VT Professor Wins National Public Administration Award – This marks the 2nd year in a row the award has been given to a Virginia Tech professor". Virginia Tech News. Virginia Tech. 2003. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-56802-907-8.
- JSTOR 1955830.
- JSTOR 2130719.
- JSTOR 41842145.
- ISBN 978-1933116754.
- ^ ISBN 978-0700610440.
Additional publications
- Goodsell, Charles T (1965). Administration of a revolution; executive reform in Puerto Rico under Governor Tugwell, 1941–1946. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. OCLC 487459.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1974). American corporations and Peruvian politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02280-5.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1977). "Bureaucratic manipulation of physical symbols: an empirical study". American Journal of Political Science. 21 (1): 79–91. JSTOR 2110449.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1981). The public encounter: where state and citizen meet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-15363-0.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1983). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-934540-17-9.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1985). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic (2nd ed.). Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-934540-55-1.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1988). The social meaning of civic space: studying political authority through architecture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0347-3.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1989). "Administration as ritual". Public Administration Review. 49 (2): 161–166. JSTOR 977336.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1992). "The public administrator as artisan". Public Administration Review. 52 (3): 246–253. JSTOR 976922.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1993). "Reinvent government or rediscover it?". Public Administration Review. 53 (1): 85–87. JSTOR 977283.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1993). "Architecture as a setting for governance: Introduction". Journal of Architectural & Planning Research. 10 (4): 271–272. JSTOR 43029093.
- Goodsell, Charles T (1994). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic (3rd ed.). Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56643-007-4.
- Goodsell, Charles T; Nancy Murray (1995). Public administration illuminated and inspired by the arts. Westport, Conn: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-94806-1.
- Goodsell, Charles T (2006). "A new vision for public administration". American Journal of Political Science. 66 (4): 623–635. .
- Goodsell, Charles T (2007). "Six normative principles for the contracting-out debate". Administration & Society. 38 (6): 669–688. .
External links
- Curriculum Vitae (Summary) at the Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech
- Charles Goodsell on Governing Space at 2013 Ridenour Faculty Fellowship Conference
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