From the Editors
Abstract
FROM THE EDITORS With this issue we introduce a new feature to Administration and Society: the invitational review essay. We have asked the members of our editorial board to recommend for review a book they deem to be of particular significance for the study of administration and society and to recommend someone they feel is especially qualified to review the book. Our first invitational review essay is by Lewis Anthony Dexter, who reviews Charles Schultze's The Public Use of Private Interest. We invite your comments and suggestions on this new feature. Readers of Administrtion and Society are well aware of our long-standing policy of encouraging a multidisciplinary ap- proach to the study of administration. In looking over the range of academic interests represented in the journal's publi- cations, we noted two disciplines pertinent to administration that we have somewhat neglected: law and history. To correct this, we would like to encourage the submission of manuscripts that explore constitutional questions with relevance for admin- istration and society with an eye toward the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987. A focus on the Constitution will combine questions of law and history in a way that is obviously signifi- cant for