Gaining Cultural Competency to Advance Public Service

Kristen A. Norman-Major and Susan T. Gooden, editors, Cultural Competency for Public Administrators (M.E. Sharpe, 2012)

Reviewed by Warren Master

This book's editors and more than 30 contributors have done our community of public managers a great service by framing the issue of cultural competency and harnessing good governance tools and techniques more fully than has been achieved to date. As a former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey during the mid-1960s, a trained cultural anthropolo