Description: Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.
Brief description: Staci M. Zavattaro is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Mississippi State University.
Review Quotes:
"Grounded in the experiences and knowledge of public servants, Portraits of Public Service provides concrete examples of why people choose public service and exactly what the job of public servants entails. This is key for not only our primary student body, but it also serves as an important example of a methodology that needs to be adopted more broadly in the field: storytelling and narrative inquiry."-- Norma M. Riccucci, author of Critical Race Theory: Exploring its Application to Public Administration
"This is an excellent book for introduction to public administration at the graduate level and would also be appropriate for an undergraduate course directed at college seniors. Public administration is a vast field; this book reveals how big that tent really is. By reframing all of these occupations as public servants, the essays within this volume offer a way to connect the many disparate jobs performed by public administrators in a very thoughtful and powerful way."-- Domonic A. Bearfield, coauthor of The Myth of Bureaucratic Neutrality: An Examination of Merit and Representation