Public administration : understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector /
David H. Rosenbloom, Robert S. Kravchuck, Richard M. Clerkin
- 7th ed.
- Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2009
- xvii, 580 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : definitions, concepts, and setting -- The practice and discipline of public administration : competing concerns -- The American administrative state : development and political environment -- Federalism and intergovernmental relations : the structure of the American administrative state -- Core functions -- Organization : structure and process -- Public personnel administration and collective bargaining -- Budgeting and the public finances -- Decision making -- The convergence of management, politics, and law in the public sector -- Policy analysis and implementation evaluation -- Regulatory administration : an illustration of management, politics, and law in the public sector -- Public administration and the public -- Public administration and the public -- Public administration and democratic constitutionalism -- Accountability and ethics -- The future