Introducing Public Administration

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- Key Events in Public Administration -- CHAPTER 1 Defining Public Administration -- Keynote: Go Tell the Spartans -- The Definitions of Public Administration -- Political Definitions of Public Administration -- Public Administration Is What Government Does -- Public Administration Is Both Direct and Indirect -- Public Administration Is a Phase in the Public Policymaking Cycle -- Public Administration Is Implementing the Public Interest

Public Administration Is Doing Collectively That Which Cannot Be So Well Done Individually -- Legal Definitions of Public Administration -- Public Administration Is Law in Action -- Public Administration Is Regulation -- Public Administration Is the King's Largesse -- Public Administration Is Theft -- Managerial Definitions of Public Administration -- Public Administration Is the Executive Function in Government -- Public Administration Is a Management Specialty -- Public Administration Is Mickey Mouse -- Public Administration Is Art, Not Science-or Vice Versa

Occupational Definitions of Public Administration -- Public Administration Is an Occupational Category -- Public Administration Is an Essay Contest -- Public Administration Is Idealism in Action -- Public Administration Is an Academic Field -- Public Administration Is a Profession -- The Evolution of Public Administration -- A Short History of Public Administration -- The Pre-modern Period and Five Eras of Civil Service Development -- The Modern Period and Shifting Perspectives on the Roles of Government -- Working in the Public Sector in the Twenty-First Century

A Case Study: How a President Undeservedly Received Credit for Founding a Discipline -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Key Concepts -- Bibliography -- Recommended Books -- CHAPTER 2 The Political and Cultural Environment of Public Policy and its Administration -- Keynote: Who Decides Whether the United States Should Wage War? -- What Is Public Policy? -- Public Policymaking in a Republic -- Executive Powers -- The Restricted View -- The Prerogative Theory -- The Stewardship Theory -- The Policymaking Process -- Agenda Setting -- Decision Making -- A Single Calculating Decision Maker-Not!

Implementation -- Evaluation -- Feedback -- Power-The External Perspective -- Pluralism -- Group Theory -- Power-The Internal Perspective -- Organizational Goals -- Internal Power Relationships -- The Cultures of Public Organizations -- The Outside Cultural Environment -- Cultural Values and Administration -- The Inside Cultural Environment -- Professional Socialization -- Symbolic Management -- A Case Study: How Old Bottles Create New Jobs-Both Legal and Not -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Key Concepts -- Bibliography -- Recommended books

CHAPTER 3 The Continuous Reinventing of the Machinery of Government

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