TY - BOOK AU - Rosenbloom,David H. AU - Kravchuck,Robert AU - Clerkin,Richard M. TI - Public administration: understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector SN - 9780073403892 (alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Public administration KW - United States KW - Politics and government N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0814/2008005541-t.html ER -