This edition differs very little from the first in that it is a &dquo;systems model&dquo; approach to the study of public administration. As a pioneer in applying the systems model to an introductory text in public administration, Sharkansky's work was a refreshing new approach two years ago when the first edition appeared. Its innovative quality no doubt accounts for the appearance of the second edition, as noted by the author in his preface, in that the first lacked those materials on management that one normally finds in an introductory text. The author has partially remedied this failing with a new chapter, &dquo;The Management of Government Agencies,&dquo; but it seems to the reviewer much more could be done. The book is a good one. I have tried it and I like it. Nevertheless, the book still has one major shortcoming. The systems model is not complete and is curiously arranged. This book is disturbing to this reviewer on two counts: one, it is more than two hundred pages of narrative concerning man's inhumanity to man; and, two, it is a badly written account of man's inhumanity to man. As a result, no one save a diehard racist could help but feel compassion (and shame) for the blacks of South Africa and the way they must live, and no one save a reviewer (or a masochist) would bother to wade through this tedious book. Father Desmond, who got himself the title &dquo;Communist&dquo; for his efforts, traveled throughout ten regions of South Africa to see first-hand the Government's relocation efforts. Eight of his ten chapters deal with what he saw. Invariably it was people being uprooted from their living areassometimes called &dquo;Black Spots&dquo; -to live in reserves chosen for them by the Govenlment. These reserves, also invariably, he found to be unfit for the human habitation expected. It is too bad that Father Desmond did not analyze the situation or did not have more talents for dramatics. The former would have helped scholars; the latter might have helped the poor people involved.
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