The seventh edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management,
Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public
administration while embracing its complexity through multiple sets of values that affect
administrative management of the American state. This cutting-edge new edition explains
and analyzes public administration from the point of view of three well-established
perspectives: management, politics, and law.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Setting
1: The Practice and Discipline of Public Administration:
Competing Concerns
2: The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment
3: Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: The Structure of the American
Administrative State
Part II. Core Functions
4: Organization: Structure and Process
5: Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining
6: Budgeting and the Public Finances
7: Decision Making
Part III. The Convergence of Management, Politics and Law in the Public
Sector
8: Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation
9: Regulatory Administration: An Illustration of Management, Politics and Law in the
Public Sector
Part IV. Public Administration and the Public
10: Public Administration and the Public
11: Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism
12: Accountability and Ethics
13: The Future
Glossary
Credits
Index
608 pages , Paperback