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

Rosenbloom, David; Kravchuk, Robert; Clerkin, Richard

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ISBN 10: 007340389X ISBN 13: 9780073403892

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 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.

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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

Preface to the Seventh Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Part I. Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Setting

Chapter 1: The Practice and Discipline of Public Administration: Competing Concerns

Chapter 2: The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment

Chapter 3: Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: The Structure of the American Administrative State

Part II. Core Functions

Chapter 4: Organization: Structure and Process

Chapter 5: Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining

Chapter 6: Budgeting and the Public Finances

Chapter 7: Decision Making

Part III. The Convergence of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector

Chapter 8: Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation

Chapter 9: Regulatory Administration: An Illustration of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector

Part 4. Public Administration and the Public

Chapter 10: Public Administration and the Public

Chapter 11: Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism

Chapter 12: Accountability and Ethics

Chapter 13: The Future

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 007340389X
• ISBN 13: 9780073403892
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 580