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

Rosenbloom, David H; Kravchuk, Robert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072867957 ISBN 13: 9780072867954

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2004

Synopsis

Rosenbloom and Kravchuk use a three part framework of management, politics, and the law as the basis for one of the most popular books for advanced courses in public administration. The text's analytic framework organizes the material of public administration to create a lasting understanding of the field.

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From the Publisher:

New Public Management'Extensive coverage of "NPM"' is now included and is presented in neutral terms, which is unusual because most treatments advocate it.
Updated Scholarship'There is less coverage of federal administrative processes and more focus on the changes taking place in state and local administration.
Three perspectives'The text focuses on three perspectives (management, politics, law) and each is applied to all the main areas of public administration and each is tied to a constitutional function.
Comprehensive Coverage of Law'The text has chapters on "Regulatory Administration", "Public Administration and the Public", and "Public Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism". No other book treats law as comprehensively.
Pedagogy'The book has a number of useful aids such as: charts, figures, and glossary.

About the Author:

David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1969. Professor Rosenbloom writes extensively about public administration and democratic-constitutionalism. His most recent book is Building A Legislative-Centered Public Administration: Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999 (University of Alabama Press, 2000). 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 and served on the 1992 Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Team for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. David Rosenbloom is the 2001 recipient of the APSA’s Gaus Award “to honor the recipient’s lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration and, more generally, to recognize achievement and encourage scholarship in public administration.

Robert S. Kravchuk is Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. His teaching and research focus on budget and administrative reform, budgetary politics, and the political economy of former socialist economies in transition, with a special emphasis on Ukraine. His administrative experience includes service as Under Secretary in the Connecticut State budget office, U.S. Treasury Department Resident Budget Advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Finance, and appointment by the U.S. Secretaries of State and the Treasury as the Financial Advisor to the President of Bosnia-Herzegovina. A frequent writer and lecturer on public budgeting and administrative reform and capacity building, Professor Kravchuk has taught at the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford, and Le Moyne College. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0072867957
• ISBN 13: 9780072867954
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 608