This peer-reviewed book includes David Reed’s chapter, “How Public Administrators Empower Themselves”. The chapter reveals lesser-known strategies by which public sector workers act against the wishes of their superiors to serve the public interest as the worker sees it.
https://www.routledge.com/Empowering-Public-Administrators-Ethics-and-Public-Service-Values/Olejarski-Neal/p/book/9781032651750
Empowering Public Administrators just released in paperback and ebook
Center for Public Administrators 