Charles Goodsell

Charles T. Goodsell is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy. He is perhaps best known for his volume The Case for Bureaucracy, now in its 4th edition.

Goodsell is also known for his work as a co-author of the Blacksburg Manifesto, 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.

Goodsell received his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he was a student of V. O. Key, Jr.

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 0674022807. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1977). "Bureaucratic manipulation of physical symbols: an empirical study". American Journal of Political Science 21 (1): 79–91. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2110449. Retrieved 2012-02-20. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1981). The public encounter: where state and citizen meet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253153638. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1983). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 0934540179. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1985). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic (2nd ed.). Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 0934540551. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1988). The social meaning of civic space: studying political authority through architecture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700603476. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1993). "Reinvent government or rediscover it?". Public Administration Review 53 (1): 85–87. http://www.jstor.org/pss/977283. Retrieved 2012-02-20. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (1994). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic (3rd ed.). Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 1566430070. 
• Goodsell, Charles T; Nancy Murray (1995). Public administration illuminated and inspired by the arts. Westport, Conn: Praeger. ISBN 0275948064. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (2001). The American statehouse: interpreting democracy's temples. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0700610448. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (2004). The case for bureaucracy: a public administration polemic (4th ed.). Washington, DC: CQ Press. ISBN 1568029071. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (2006). "A new vision for public administration". American Journal of Political Science 66 (4): 623–635. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00622.x. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (2007). "Six normative principles for the contracting-out debate". Administration & Society 38 (6): 669–688. doi:10.1177/0095399706293147. 
• Goodsell, Charles T (2011). Mission mystique: belief systems in public agencies. Washington, DC: CQ Press. ISBN 9781933116754. 

External links

• Curriculum Vitae (Summary) at the Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech