List of Tables
Preface
Part I: Impossible Jobs in General, John C. Glidewell and Erwin C. Hargrove
1. Dimensions of Impossibility
2. An Analysis of Impossible Jobs
3. Coping with Impossible Jobs
Part II: Impossible Jobs in Particular
4. Managing a Barbed-Wire Bureaucracy: The Impossible Job of Corrections Commissioner, John J. DiIulio, Jr.
5. Police Leadership: The Impossible Dream?, Mark H. Moore
6. A State Mental Health Commissioner and the Politics of Mental Illness, Gary E. Miller and Ira Iscoe
7. Managing the Social Safety Net: The Job of Social Welfare Executive, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.
8. When a Possible Job Becomes Impossible: Politics, Public Health, and the Management of the AIDS Epidemic, Edward F. Lawlor
9. Consensus Prison Reform: A Possible Dream, Fritz Byers
The Contributors
Index