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Classics of Public Administration

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ISBN-10: 0495189561

ISBN-13: 9780495189565

Edition: 6th 2009

Authors: Jay M. Shafritz, Albert C. Hyde, Parkes

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With this newly expanded sixth edition of CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde aim to introduce you to the principles of public administration via the most significant scholarly writings on the topic. Straightforward and informative, this text starts you with Woodrow Wilson and takes you all the way to today's political scientists. This edition includes five new readings and helps you learn the key fields of public administration: bureaucracy, organization theory, human resources management, the budgetary process, public policy, implementation, evaluation, intergovernmental relations, and public service ethics.
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Book details

List price: $126.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Early Voices And The First Quarter Century (1880s to 1920s)
The Study of Administration (1887)
Politics and Administration (1900)
The Problem with Municipal Administration (1904)
Scientific Management (1912)
The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States (1918)
Bureaucracy (1922)
Introduction to the Study of Public Administration (1926)
The Giving of Orders (1926)
The New Deal To Mid-Century (1930s to 1950s)
Notes on the Theory of Organization (1937)
Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management (1937)
Informal Organizations and Their Relation to Formal Organizations (1938)
Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (1940)
The Lack of a Budgetary Theory (1940)
A Theory of Human Motivation (1943)
Government Is Different (1945)
The Proverbs of Administration (1946)
The Administrative State: Conclusion (1948)
The Cooptative Mechanism (1949)
Excerpt from The Hoover Commission Report, Report of The Commission on Organization of The Executive Branch of Government (1949)
The Human Side of Enterprise (1957)
The Science of Muddling Through (1959)
From Jfk To Civil Service Reform; The 1960s And 1970s
Organizations and the System Concept (1966)
The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform (1966)
The American System (1966)
Organizations of the Future (1967)
Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service (1967)
The Life Cycle of Bureaus (1967)
Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS (1969)
Administrative Decentralization and Political Power (1969)
The End of Liberalism: The Indictment (1969)
Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap (1969)
Toward a New Public Administration (1971)
Systematic Thinking for Social Action (1971)
Implementation (1973)
Others, Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government (1974)
Representative Bureaucracy (1974)
Organizational Decline and Cutback Management (1978)
Ethics for Bureaucrats (1978)
From Reagan To "21C"; 1980s And 1990s
Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects? (1980)
Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats (1980)
Public Budgeting Amidst Uncertainty and Instability (1981)
Democracy and the Public Service: The Collective Services (1982)
Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers (1983)
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Paradoxes (1984)
The Possibility of Administrative Ethics (1985)
Exploring the Limits of Privatization (1987)
Toward a Feminist Perspective in Public Administration Theory (1990)
"Understanding Organizational Culture" (1989)
From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity (1990)
A Public Management for all Seasons (1990)
Federalism, Intergovernmetal Relations and Intergovernmental Management (1990)
The Ethics Challenge in Public Service (1991)
Breaking Through Bureaucracy (1992)
The National Performance Review, From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less (1993)
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making Decision-Making (1997)
In the Face of Administrative Evil (1998)
The Transformation of Governnance: Who Governs and How (2002)