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

by ROSENBLOOM DAVID H.

• ISBN13: 9780072867954
• ISBN10: 0072867957
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Rosenbloom and Kravchuk use a three part framework of management, politics, and the law as the basis for one of the most popular books for advanced courses in public administration. The text's analytic framework organizes the material of public administration to create a lasting understanding of the field.

Table of Contents

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 2. Core Functions

Chapter 4: Organization: Structure and Process

Chapter 5: Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining

Chapter 6: Budgeting and Finance

Chapter 7: Decision Making

Part 3. 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

Glossary

Credits

Index