TY - BOOK AU - Rosenbloom,David H. AU - Kravchuck,Robert AU - Clerkin,Richard M. TI - Public administration: understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector SN - 9780073403892 AV - JF1351 .R56 2009 PY - 2009///] CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Public administration KW - United States KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- Introduction : definitions, concepts, and setting; -- The practice and discipline of public administration : competing concerns; -- The American administrative state : development and political environment; -- Federalism and intergovernmental relations : the structure of the American administrative state; -- Core functions; -- Organization : structure and process; -- Public personnel administration and collective bargaining; -- Budgeting and the public finances; -- Decision making; -- The convergence of management, politics, and law in the public sector; -- Policy analysis and implementation evaluation; -- Regulatory administration : an illustration of management, politics, and law in the public sector; -- Public administration and the public; -- Public administration and the public; -- Public administration and democratic constitutionalism; -- Accountability and ethics; -- The future ER -