Jonathan P. West, Ph.D. - Books

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Jonathan P. West, Ph.D.	Books
	Research Monographs
	Journal Articles (refereed)
	Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings, and Other Publications:
Work in Progress
Research currently underway on civil service reform, State and Federal Hatch Acts, managing managers’ habits in local government, poor versus excellent public management practices, emotional intelligence among managers in local government, environmental accounting in hospitals, environmental waste management, HRM under crisis conditions.

American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System.
Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis, 2007 (co-edited with J. Bowman).

The Ethics Edge, 2nd edition. Washington, D. C. International City & County Management Association, 2006 (co-edited with E. Berman). (1st edition, 1998). First edition: 1998 (with S. Bonczek).
Reviewed in: Public Administration Review, vol.60, no.6 (November/December 2000), pp.525-530; Social Science Journal, vol.37, no.2 (2000), pp.309-312; Public Integrity, vol.2 no.2 (Spring 2000), pp.173-176; Public Productivity & Management Review, vol.24, no.1 (September 2000), pp.99-105.

Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006 (Co-author with E. Berman, J. Bowman, and M. Van Wart). (1st edition, 2001).
Translation in Thai: 2007 (Expernet Co., Bangkok), forthcoming.
Translation in Chinese: 2007 (Peking University Press, Beijing), forthcoming.
First edition: 2001.
Best Book Award by the American Society for Public Administration, Section on Personnel and Labor Relations (March, 2001). Nominated for Best Book Award of the American Society for Human Resource Development (2005).
Reviewed in: Public Performance and Management Review, vol.24, no.4 (June 2001), pp.440- 442.

The Professional Edge: Competencies for the Public Service. NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004. Co-author with J. Bowman, E. Berman and M. Van Wart.
Translation in Chinese: February 2006 (Renmin University Press, Beijing).
Reviewed in: Government Finance Review; vol. 20 no.3 (June 2004), p.10. American Review of Public Administration, vol.35, no.1 (March 2005), pp.94-97. Government Finance Review (August 2004),, vo.20, no.4, pp.68-69

American Government and Environmental Politics.
(New York: Longman, 2002. (Co-author with G. Sussman and B. Daynes).

Quality Management Today: What Local Governments Need to Know, Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association, 1995.

Career Planning, Development, Management: An Annotated Bibliography, New York: Garland Publishing company, 1983, 306.

Borderlands Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1983, 445. Co-edited with E. Stoddard and R. Nostrand. Author of chapter on "Public Administration and Local Coordination" and co-author (with D. James) of chapter on "Border Tourism."