Louis Gawthrop is an eminent scholar in government and public administration at the University of Baltimore. His fields of interest are public management, bureaucratic politics, organizational theory and public sector ethics. He was the editor in chief of Public Administration Review (1978-84). He is the author of five books–Bureaucratic Behavior in the Executive Branch; The Administrative Process and Democratic Theory; Administrative Politics and Social Change; Public Sector Management, Systems and Ethics and Public Service and Democracy–as well as numerous other scholarly publications. Gawthrop is the director of the University of Baltimore’s School of Public Affairs and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration.