Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector - Brossura

David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is the 2001 recipient of the American Political Science Associations John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. In 1999, he received the American Society for Public Administration's Dwight Waldo Award for his outstanding contributions to the field. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, from which he received the 2001 Louis Brownlow Award for his book on Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration. Professor Rosenbloom serves on the editorial boards of about a dozen leading public administration journals and is a member of the Marietta College Board of Trustees. He frequently guest lectures at universities and public service organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

About the Authors
Contents in Brief
Contents
Preface

Part I. Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Setting

Chapter 1: The Practice and Discipline of Public Administration: Competing Concerns
Chapter 2: The American Administrative State: Development and Political Environment
Chapter 3: Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations: The Structure of the American Administrative State

Part II. Core Functions

Chapter 4: Organization: Structure and Process
Chapter 5: Public Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining
Chapter 6: Budgeting and the Public Finances
Chapter 7: Decision Making

Part III. The Convergence of Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector

Chapter 8: Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation
Chapter 9: Regulatory Administration: An Illustration of Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector

Part IV. Public Administration and the Public

Chapter 10: Public Administration and the Public
Chapter 11: Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism
Chapter 12: Accountability and Ethics
Chapter 13: The Future

Glossary
Credits
Index