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

by ROSENBLOOM

• ISBN13: 9780070539723
• ISBN10: 0070539723
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition	xv	(2)
Acknowledgments	xvii	(2)
Preface to the First Edition	xix
PART ONE INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND SETTING	1	(138)
1 The Practice and Discipline of Public Administration: Competing Concerns	3	(42)
2 The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment	45	(54)
3 Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: The Structure of the American Administrative State	99	(40)
PART TWO CORE FUNCTIONS	139	(266)
4 Organization: Structure and Process	141	(66)
5 Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining	207	(68)
6 Budgeting	275	(48)
7 Decision Making	323	(38)
8 Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation	361	(44)
PART THREE THE CONVERGENCE OF MANAGEMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: AN ILLUSTRATION	405	(46)
9 Regulatory Administration: An Illustration of Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector	407	(44)
PART FOUR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND THE PUBLIC	451	(122)
10 Public Administration and the Public	453	(40)
11 Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism	493	(36)
12 Accountability and Ethics	529	(32)
13 The Future	561	(12)
Glossary	573	(8)
Index	581