Frederick C. Mosher

Frederick C. Mosher

Frederick C. Mosher was a professor of government at the University of Virginia who strongly influenced a generation of scholars in public administration with his many writings. Mosher was an important member of the second generation of public administration scholars along with his close friend, Dwight Waldo, and others who helped define the modern structure and function of the field as taught in hundreds of PA programs around the world.

Mosher received his doctorate in public administration from Harvard University in 1950. He taught at Syracuse University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Bologna University, before moving to the University of Virginia's Department of Government and Foreign Affairs.

Mosher wrote widely on the subject of governance and public administration. He authored, coauthored, and edited books on subjects such as government staffing, presidential transitions, government agency reorganization, city services management, and the federal government's General Accounting Office (now Government Accountability Office).

Mosher perhaps is best known for his book, Democracy and the Public Service, published by Oxford University Press in 1968, a work that has influenced countless civil servants in governments around the world. According to Professor Jeremy F. Plant, a 1990 poll of public administration scholars "ranked Democracy and the Public Service as the fifth most influential book published between 1940 and 1990." [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119395706/PDFSTART Jeremy F. Plant, A Classic Work Revisited: Democracy and the Public Service,] , Public Administration Review, Jan/Feb. 2008, pp. 181-184. Retrieved on 2008-01-08] In the book, which is a series of lectures, Mosher grapples with the evolving nature of the civil servants who staff agencies, and considers how they might be educated and trained, and how to reconcile their expertise with respect for democratic governance.

References

Biography

Max O. Stephenson, Jr. and Jeremy Plant, "The Legacy of Frederick C. Mosher" Public Administration Review Volume 51, No. 2, March/April 1991.


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