Public administration : Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector /

Rosenbloom, David H,

Public administration : Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector / David Rosenbloom, Robert Kravchuk, Richard M. Clerkin. - International edition. Seventh edition. - xvii, 580 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Previous edition: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Setting -- Ch. 1. The Practice and Discipline of Public Administration: Competing Concerns -- Ch. 2. The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment -- Ch. 3. Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: The Structure of the American Administrative State -- Part II. Core Functions -- Ch. 4. Organization: Structure and Process -- Ch. 5. Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining -- Ch. 6. Budgeting and the Public Finances -- Ch. 7. Decision Making -- Part III. The Convergence of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector -- Ch. 8. Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation -- Ch. 9. Regulatory Administration: An Illustration of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector -- Part 4. Public Administration and the Public -- Ch. 10. Public Administration and the Public -- Ch. 11. Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism -- Ch. 12. Accountability and Ethics -- Ch. 13. Accountability and Ethics -- Glossary -- Credits -- Index.

Using a three-part analytical framework of management, politics and the law, this text helps readers arrive at a lasting understanding of the field of public administration.

9780071263818 (pbk.) 0071263810 (pbk.)


Public administration.


United States--Politics and government.

351 / R.D.P.