The future of public administration: End of a short stay in the sun? Or a new day a-dawning.

In this article, Golembiewski adopts a futuristic view, resting on four contributors to the present uneasy state of the field but focusing on a dozen "action items" that can help remedy matters. Selectivity dominates, but nonetheless the author outlines the major thrusts required to move beyond the present conditions of the field--expressed as "an intellectual crisis," a "stuckness," or by related metaphors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]