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

Rosenbloom, David H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070539723 ISBN 13: 9780070539723

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1998

Synopsis

This work asserts that management, politics and law are central to public administration and that ignoring one or another leads to failures in both the practice of and in academic treatments of the field. The book divides management into two subsets: traditional and the "new public management".

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0070539723
• ISBN 13: 9780070539723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 600