Designed to serve as a basic text for an introductory course in Public Administration, this innovative work provides students with an understanding of the basic management functions that are covered in all standard textbooks with two important differences. It is written to address the needs of both the experienced practitioner and the entry-level public servant and it provides a framework for understanding American political traditions and how they inform public administration as a political practice.
That left the field office director, Susan Webb, to handle most middle-management and strategic responsibilities. But the new conditions require some changes in this arrangement. The supervisors need to perform some important ...
David Riesman, a noted sociologist, captured this sense of conformity in American politics in his book Individualism Reconsidered (1954). Contrary to Noelle-Neumann, he argued that conformity was a new trait in America.
The third edition of this highly respected textbook introduces students of public administration to the practical issues of administrative law.
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The Guide to the Foundations of Public Administration
This book describes in which ways and to what extent the public administration discipline aims to shape this fundamental relation by analyzing the paradigmatic foundations of the discipline.
This book presents major trends in theory and practice in the field, provides an overview of its intellectual development, and demonstrates how it has professionalized.
This book presents major trends in theory and practice in the field, provides an overview of its intellectual development, and demonstrates how it has professionalized.
Public law today is a universal phenomenon, but its origins are European. Part I of the book examines the conditions of its formation, showing how much the concept borrowed from the refined debates of medieval jurists.
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