Defining Public Administration: Selections from the International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration

by Shafritz, Jr.,Jay M.

• ISBN13: 9780813397665
• ISBN10: 0813397669
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-05-05
• Publisher: PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP

Summary

This anthology,Defining Public Administration, is designed to assist beginning and intermediate level students of public policy, and to stir the imaginations of readers concerned with public policy and administration. The forty-five articles included in the text are all reprinted from theInternational Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, and these accessible, interesting articles have been assembled to offer a sample of the riches to be found within the larger work. The articles provide definitions of the vocabulary of public policy and administration as it is used throughout the world-from the smallest towns, to the largest national bureaucracies.Defining Public Administrationis organized into twelve parts. Each part focuses on a domain pertinent to the study of public administration, including overviews, policy making, intergovernmental relations, bureaucracy, organization behavior, public management, strategic management, performance management, human resource management, financial management, auditing and accountability, and ethics.

Author Biography

Jay M. Shafritz, Jr., professor of public and international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of over three dozen text and reference books on various aspects of government, management, and public administration, including Classics of Public Administration, Classics of Organization Theory, Introducing Public Administration, The HarperCollins Dictionary of American Government and Politics, The Dictionary of Twentieth Century World Politics, Words on War, and Shakespeare on Management.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1 Overviews of Public Administration
Public Administration	3	(14)
Frank Marini
American Administrative Tradition	17	(13)
Nicholas Henry
Feminist Theory of Public Administration	30	(9)
Camilla Stivers
Part 2 Policy Making
Policy	39	(4)
William H. Park
Policy Leadership	43	(22)
Jeffrey S. Luke
Policy Network	65	(8)
Charles J. Fox
Hugh T. Miller
Rule	73	(10)
Cornelius M. Kerwin
Part 3 Intergovernmental Relations
Intergovernmental Relations	83	(19)
Dale Krane
Deil S. Wright
Mandates	102	(8)
Jeffrey D. Straussman
Government Corporation	110	(11)
Jerry Mitchell
Part 4 Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy	121	(7)
Ralph P. Hummel
Bureaucrat Bashing	128	(4)
Charles T. Goodsell
Bureaupathology	132	(5)
Ruth Hoogland DeHoog
Part 5 Organization Behavior
Organizational Culture	137	(10)
Dvora Yanow
Guy B. Adams
Groupthink	147	(4)
Robert T. Golembiewski
Miles's Law	151	(3)
Jeffery K. Guiler
Parkinson's Law	154	(2)
Peter Foot
Peter Principle	156	(5)
Susan C. Paddock
Part 6 Public Management
Public Management	161	(8)
Mary E. Guy
Scientific Management	169	(11)
Judith A. Merkle
Management Science	180	(4)
Dorothy Olshfski
Michele Collins
Entrepreneurial Public Administration	184	(7)
Carl J. Bellone
Part 7 Strategic Management
Leadership	191	(17)
Frederick W. Gibson
Fred E. Fiedler
Strategic Planning	208	(22)
John M. Bryson
Mission Statement	230	(7)
Kevin P. Kearns
Part 8 Performance Management
Productivity	237	(12)
Marc Holzer
Reengineering	249	(22)
Albert C. Hyde
Quality Circles	271	(8)
Ann-Marie Rizzo
Public Enterprise	279	(16)
Roger Wettenhall
Part 9 Human Resources Management
Public Personnel Administration	295	(12)
Ronald D. Sylvia
Mentoring	307	(8)
Steven W. Hays
Pay-for-Performance	315	(7)
Dennis M. Daley
Workforce Diversity	322	(17)
Donald E. Kligner
Glass Ceiling	339	(6)
Katherine C. Naff
Part 10 Financial Management
Financial Administration	345	(10)
John L. Mikesell
Congressional Budget Process	355	(12)
Philip G.Joyce
Target-Based Budgeting	367	(8)
Irene S. Rubin
Part 11 Auditing and Accountability
Audit	375	(7)
Ira Sharkansky
Accountability	382	(14)
Barbara S. Romzek
Melvin J. Dubnick
Stewardship	396	(11)
Douglas F. Morgan
Part 12 Ethics
Administrative Morality	407	(9)
Willa Marie Bruce
Standards of Conduct	416	(4)
April Hejka-Ekins
Regime Values	420	(2)
John A. Rohr
Lying with Statistics	422	(6)
Claire Felbinger
Whistleblower	428	(9)
Deborah D. Goldman
David H. Rosenbloom
Appendix	437	(12)
Index	449