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

Rosenbloom, David H.; Rosenbloom, Deborah D; Kravchuck, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072401923 ISBN 13: 9780072401929

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2001

Synopsis

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION is one of the most widely adopted books for both undergraduate and graduate levels. The basis of its appeal is the authors' utilization of the three-part framework of management, politics, and the law. The themes in the text correspond to these three perspectives that are central to public administration, reiterating the theory that ignoring one or another leads to failures in both the practice of and in academic treatments of the field. This edition continues to refer to these three perspectives, but goes one step further by dividing management into two subsets: traditional and the new public management.

About this title

From the Publisher

Chapters 2,3, and 6 have been heavily revised to deal with the development of the American administrative state, federalism and intergovernmental relations, and budgeting and finance.
There is more coverage of state and local administration in this edition.
New co-author Robert Kravchuk of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.
The text explains and juxtaposes three perspectives of Public Administration: managerial (including New Public Management or Reinventing Government), political, and legal.
The text integrates constitutional and administrative law into the discussion of all aspects of U.S. Public Administration.
Includes a chapter (10) on Public Administration and the Public.
Historical treatment of the development of Public Administration practical systems is included in Chapters 2,5, and 6.

About the Author

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 Association’s 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072401923
• ISBN 13: 9780072401929
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 622