Charles T. Goodsell is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...

's Center for Public Administration and Policy

Center for Public Administration and Policy

The Center for Public Administration and Policy, or CPAP, is an academic department focused on public administration and policy at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. It is known for strong advocacy of an agential and moral perspective on government...

. He is perhaps best known for his volume The Case for Bureaucracy, now in its 4th edition.

Goodsell is also known for his work as a co-author of the Blacksburg Manifesto, written with Gary Wamsley

Gary Wamsley

Gary Wamsley is public administration specialist and professor emeritus at Virginia Tech's Center for Public Administration and Policy. He is perhaps best known as the coordinating editor of Refounding Public Administration, a work that followed from a well-known public administration paper called...

, Robert Bacher

Robert Bacher

Robert Fox Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project.-Early life and career:...

, Philip Kronenberg, John Rohr

John Rohr

John A. Rohr is a Professor Emeritus at the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech. Rohr is particularly known as a leading scholar of the U.S. Constitution in relationship to civil servants and public administration...

, Camilla Stivers

Camilla Stivers

Camilla Stivers is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at Levin College of Cleveland State University.She received an MPA from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in public administration and policy from Virginia Tech....

, Orion White, and James Wolf—all of whom were at Virginia Tech during the 1980s.

Goodsell received his Ph.D. at Harvard

Harvard University

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, where he was a student of V. O. Key, Jr.

V. O. Key, Jr.

Valdimer Orlando Key, Jr. , usually known simply as V. O. Key, was an influential American political scientist known for his empirical study of elections and voting behavior.-Biography:...