The administration of human services.

Human service programs have gone from a period of rapid growth in the 1960s and early 1970s to a period of retrenchment in the 1980s. The changing political and economic context has forced these programs to undergo major organizational transformations and to adopt different administrative strategies. These include degovernmentalization of social services, reliance on cutback management, and deprofessionalization of human-service workers. The article explores the implications of these developments on the delivery of services to the public.     

A case of publication standards: M. Ferro's book in translation

Marc Ferro, La Révolution de 1917. La chute du tsarisme et les origines d'Octobre. Paris: Aubier Editions Montaigne, 1967. 606 pp. 30 F.

Marc Ferro, The Russian Revolution of February J027. Translated by J. L. Richards. Notes and bibliography translated by Nicole Stone. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. xv + 478 pp. £4.95.     

Budgeting,policy and administration: patterns and dynamics in the U.S

This article examines the relationships between policy, administration, and budgeting I argue that the administration of government is directly and primarily influenced by changes in policy and budgeting. A conceptual framework of the interrelationship between these three factors is presented. This framework is applied to Schick's classic periodicization of twentieth century U.S. history. Three value orientations of budgeting—control, management, and planning—were evident at different times during these periods. The framework is then applied to the period since 1981, labeled a phase of limitation. This phase has been an unhealthy development in American government.