The Politics of the Administrative Process 3/e - Softcover

Donald F. Kettle And James W. Fesler

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9781568029344: The Politics of the Administrative Process 3/e

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ISBN 10: 1568029349 ISBN 13: 9781568029344

Publisher: CQ Press, 2005

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In this edition, the authors focus on the core components of public administration - such as budgeting, personnel, and implementation - while accounting for recent major developments. Bringing real world examples to bear on the best theory and scholarship. they address such important issues as administrative responsibility, the problems of 'big government', the modelling of public administation on business practices, innovations in information technology, and the efforts to bring performance measurement to government at all levels. The book includes new tables, figures and photos, and a new case appendix that showcases 14 case studies.

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About the Author:

Donald F. Kettl is Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to his appointment, he was the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Political Science. Kettl is the author of numerous books, including The Next Government of the United States: Why Our Institutions Fail Us and How to Fix Them, The Global Public Management Revolution, and Leadership at the Fed. Kettl has twice won the Louis Brownlow Award for the best book in public administration, for The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for Twenty-first Century America in 2003 and System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics in 2005. In 2008, he was awarded the John Gaus Award of the American Political Science Association for lifetime contributions to the scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Kettl has consulted broadly for government organizations and is a regular columnist for Governing magazine.

Synopsis:

The third edition of Kettl (U. of Pennsylvania) and Fesler's (Yale U.) textbook has been fully updated and completely revised to place public administration even more fully within its political contexts and to focus more explicitly on how the governmental system translates broad policy ideas into frontline results. Changes to the text include revis

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