Public administration : understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector /
- 7th edition.
- Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2009.
- xvii, 580 pages : includes illustrations ;
includes 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.