Public administration : understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Public administration : understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector

David H. Rosenbloom ; with the assistance of Deborah D. Goldman

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1998

4th ed.

Available at  / 3 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work asserts that management, politics and law are central to public administration and that ignoring one or another leads to failures in both the practice of and in academic treatments of the field. The book divides management into two subsets: traditional and the "new public management".

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction - definitions, concepts, and setting: the practice and discipline of public adminstration - competing concerns
  • the American administrative state - development and political environment
  • federalism and intergovernmental relations - the structure of the American administrative state. Part 3 Core functions: organization - structure and process
  • public personnel administration and collective bargaining
  • budgeting
  • decision making
  • policy analysis and implementation evaluation. Part 3 The convergence of management, politics, and the law in the public sector - an illustration: regulatory adminstration - an illustration of management, politics, and law in the public sector. Part 4 Public adminstration and the public: public adminstration and the public
  • public adminstration and democratic constitutionalism
  • accountability and ethics
  • the future.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top