Why Public Service Matters : Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy

R. Durant

ISBN 10: 0230341497 / ISBN 13: 9780230341494

Editore: Palgrave Macmillan Us, 2014

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America's 'compensatory state' and on the pitfalls of reformers' focus on bureaucratic, rather than democratic, administration. The book links the nation's ability to handle contemporary policy problems with the strategic, tactical, and normative quality of public management. In doing so, it offers newcomers a rare, concise, and accessible overview of the field. Readers will gain an appreciation for the challenges, choices, and opportunities facing public managers as they help advance a sense of common purpose informed by democratic constitutional values in twenty-first century America.

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• Titolo: Why Public Service Matters : Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan Us
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0230341497
• ISBN 13: 9780230341494
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 150 A x 20 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 150 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 431 grammi

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Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America's "compensatory state" and on the pitfalls of reformers' focus on bureaucratic, rather than democratic, administration. The book links the nation's ability to handle contemporary policy problems with the strategic, tactical, and normative quality of public management. In doing so, it offers newcomers a rare, concise, and accessible overview of the field. Readers will gain an appreciation for the challenges, choices, and opportunities facing public managers as they help advance a sense of common purpose informed by democratic constitutional values in twenty-first century America.

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Robert Durant is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University, USA. He is the recipient of four lifetime achievement awards, including the John M. Gaus Award and Lectureship from the American Political Science Association, awarded in recognition of his exemplary research in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.

Robert Durant is Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University, USA. He is the recipient of four lifetime achievement awards, including the John M. Gaus Award and Lectureship from the American Political Science Association, awarded in recognition of his exemplary research in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.