competitive federalism. 1980-2008; and (5) the angel food cake: manna-from-heaven federalism,2009 to the present. The last coinage marks an engaging addition to a familiar literature on shifting federalist styles over time. Similarly periodized accounts of longitudinal changes in public budgeting and in performance measurement are public budgeting and in performance measurement are highlights of the book.
Moving from familiar to more movelpublic administration material. Henry includes valuable accounts of concepts such as organizational worth decision making amid short- and long-range uncertainty, advances in measuring public productivity, cybercrime and cybersecurity, and the challenges of management during times of all but unlimited change. In short, this is not your parents* public administration textbook. And yet, ultimately, Henry's exhaustive tour through public administration concepts and ideas winds up in a place that would not be unfamiliar to Dwight Waldo: that efficient and effective governance is a constant, possibly unfulfilled quest.