Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector - Brossura

Rosenbloom, David; Kravchuk, Robert; Clerkin, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0071263810 ISBN 13: 9780071263818

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education / Asia, 2008

Riassunto

The seventh edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity through multiple sets of values that affect administrative management of the American state. This cutting-edge new edition explains and analyzes public administration from the point of view of three well-established perspectives: management, politics, and law.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is the 2001 recipient of the American Political Science Associations John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. In 1999, he received the American Society for Public Administration's Dwight Waldo Award for his outstanding contributions to the field. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, from which he received the 2001 Louis Brownlow Award for his book on Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration. Professor Rosenbloom serves on the editorial boards of about a dozen leading public administration journals and is a member of the Marietta College Board of Trustees. He frequently guest lectures at universities and public service organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

Contenuti:

Part I. Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Setting
1: The Practice and Discipline of Public Administration: Competing Concerns
2: The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment
3: Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: The Structure of the American Administrative State
Part II. Core Functions
4: Organization: Structure and Process
5: Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining
6: Budgeting and the Public Finances
7: Decision Making
Part III. The Convergence of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector
8: Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation
9: Regulatory Administration: An Illustration of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector
Part 4. Public Administration and the Public
10: Public Administration and the Public
11: Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism
12: Accountability and Ethics
Chapter 13: The Future
Glossary
Credits
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education / Asia
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071263810
• ISBN 13: 9780071263818
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 608