TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shafritz,Jay M.
AU  - Russell,E.W.
AU  - Borick,Christopher P.
TI  - Introducing public administration
SN  - 9780205008063
AV  - JF1351 .S448 2011
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Longman
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Textbooks
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table Of Contents; Preface; Key Events in Public Administration; Defining Public Administration; Keynote: Go Tell the Spartans; The Definitions of Public Administration; Political Definitions of Public Administration; Legal Definitions of Public Administration; Managerial Definitions of Public Administration; Occupational Definitions of Public Administration; The Evolution of Public Administration; The Core Content; It's an Adventure!; A Case Study: How a President Undeservedly Received Credit for Founding a Discipline; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; The Political and Cultural Environment of Public Policy and its Administration; Keynote: Who Decides if the United States Should Wage War?; What is Public Policy?; Public Policymaking in a Republic; Executive Powers; The Policymaking Process; Agenda Setting; Decision Making; A Single Calculating Decision Maker---Not!; Implementation; Evaluation; Power---The External Perspective; Pluralism; Group Theory; Power---The Internal Perspective; Organizational Goals; Internal Power Relationships; The Cultures of Public Organizations; The Outside Cultural Environment; The Inside Cultural Environment; Professional Socialization; Symbolic Management; A Case Study: Were the Space Shuttle Astronauts Killed by Fog?; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; The Continuous Reinventing of the Machinery of Government; Keynote: The New Feudalism; What is the Machinery of Government?; Fine-Tuning the Machinery; The Rise and Fall of Governmental Machinery; The Administrative Architecture of the U.S. Government; Executive Branch Machinery; State and Local Government Machinery; State Government; County Government; Municipal Government; Towns and Special Districts; Local Management Machinery; Metropolitan Government; Continuous State and Local Reform; Reforming the National Machinery of Government; The Brownlow Committee; The Hoover Commissions; The Ash Council; The President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control; Reinventing Government; The Gore Report; Reinvention in Recess; The Obama Revolution---The Return of Big Government; The Micromanagers; The Pressure of Privatization; Strategies for Privatization; Privatization in the Military; The Nonprofit Gambit; The Faith-Based Initiative; Voluntarism and Philanthropy; A Case Study: The Revolution in the British Machinery of Government 1979-2005; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Intergovernmental Relations; Keynote: The Age of Devolution; The Evolution of Federal Systems; Alliances and Confederations; Defining Intergovernmental Relations; The Fundamental Settlement; The Constitution; The European Union; The American Federal System; Three Categories of Governments; The Structure of Intergovermental Relations; The Effects of Pluralism; The Marble-Cake Metaphor; Dynamic Federalism; Dual Federalism; Cooperative Federalism; Creative Federalism; New Federalism; New New Federalism; Intergovernmental Management; Picket Fence Federalism; Councils of Government and Intergovernment Agreements; Mandate Mania; Mandates and the War on Terrorism; The Transformation of Governance; Fiscal Federalism---Following the Money; The Theory of Fiscal Federalism; Grant Programs; The Devolution Revolution; The Public Choice Solution; The Race to the Bottom; A Case Study: Why Illegal Immigration is an Intergovernmental Mess and Will Remain So; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Honor, Ethics, and Accountability; Keynote: Niccolo Machiavelli, the Preeminent Public Administration Ethicist; The Origins and Nature of Honor; National Honor; Why Honor Precedes Ethics; Dimensions of Honor; Regime Values; Corruption in Government; Bribery; Watergate; Lying for Your Country; The Dirty Hands Dilemma; Lying About Sex; Hierarchy of Ethics; The Four Levels of Ethics; The Iran-Contra Affair; The Higher Law Defense; Codes of Honor, Conduct, and Ethics; The New Face of Dueling; Honorable Behavior; Was ``Deep Throat's'' Behavior Honorable?; Standards of Conduct; The Challenge of Accountability; Constitutional and Legal Constraints; Obsessive Accountability; Avoiding Accountability; Legislative Oversight; Hearings; Casework; A Case Study: The Blood on Robert McNamara's Hands---and Conscience; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; The Evolution of Management and Organization Theory; Keynote: Moses Meets the First Management Consultant; The Origins of Public Management; The Continuing Influence of Ancient Rome; The Military Heritage of Public Administration; The Evolution of Management Principles; Comparing Military and Civilian Principles; The Principles Approach; What is Organization Theory?; Classical Organization Theory; Adam Smith and the Pin Factory; The Origins of Scientific Management; The Staff Concept; The Influence of Frederick W. Taylor; Fayol's General Theory of Management; The Period of Orthodoxy; Paul Appleby's Polemic; Luther Gulick's POSDCORB; The Many Meanings of Bureaucracy; All Government Offices; All Public Officials; A General Invective; Max Weber's Structural Arrangements; Neoclassical Organization Theory; The Impact of Sociology; ``Modern'' Structural Organization Theory; Basic Assumptions; Mechanistic and Organic Systems; Systems Theory; Cybernetics; Complex Adaptive Systems; A Case Study: The Critical Importance of Administrative Doctrine; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Organizational Behavior; Keynote: Henry II of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, and Rufus Miles of the U.S.; Bureau of the Budget: How a Medieval King, a Martyred Saint, and an American Bureaucrat Illustrate Miles's Law; Organizational Behavior; Group Dynamics; Organization Development; The Impact of Personality; The Impact of Bureaucratic Structure on Behavior; Bureaucratic Dysfunctions; Bureaucratic Impersonality; Bureaucratic Bashing; The Case for Bureaucracy; Motivation; The Hawthorne Experiments; The Needs Hierarchy; The Motivation-Hygiene Theory; Toward a Democratic Environment; Theory X and Theory Y; The Future of Organizations; Postbureaucratic Organizations; Postmodernism; The Problem of Technocracy; Postmodern Public Administration; A Feminist Perspective; A Case Study: The Dangers of Groupthink from Pearl Harbor to the War in Iraq; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Managerialism and Information Technology; Keynote: Socrates Discovers Universal Management; Managerialism; A New Managerial Revolution; Policy Entrepreneurs; Reengineering; Radical as Opposed to Incremental Change; Becoming a Reengineer; Empowerment; Empowering Teams; Entrepreneurialism; Toward a Competitive Public Administration; The New Public Management; What is Performance Management?; The Politics of Performance Management; Management Control; Productivity Improvement; Productivity Measurement; Barriers to Productivity Improvement; Total Quality Management; Information Technology; Social Networks and New Media; From E-Commerce to E-Government; The Two Faces of E-Government; Wired Citizens; One-Stop Government; Technology and Government Productivity; A Case Study: Is It Management or Is It Public Relations? Only Your Administrator Knows for Sure; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Strategic Management and Government Regulation; Keynote: Using Government Regulations of Business to Strategically Manage the Environment; What is Strategic Management?; Objectives; The Planning Horizon; Capabilities; Game Theory; Strategic Management Tools; Best Practices; Benchmarking; Management Scorecards; Government Regulation for Health, Safety, and Economic Equity; Independent Regulatory Agencies; The Rule-Making Process; State Government Regulation; Occupational Licensing (Who Puts the ``Certified'' in the CPA?); Local Government Regulation; Zoning; Building Codes; Public Health (Do You Want Roaches with Those Fries?); A Case Study: Opportunity Lost: The Story of Bernie Madoff and the Securities and Exchange Commission; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Leadership; Keynote: The Hedgehog, the Fox, or Henry V; Leading for Performance; Defining Leadership; Leadership and Management; Trait Theories; Transactional Approaches; Contingency Approaches; Transformational Leadership; Too Much Leadership; Micromanagement; Overmanagement; Moral Leadership; The Bully Pulpit; Rhetorical Leadership; A Case Study: Transforming the Postal Service; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Personnel Management and Labor Relations; Keynote: The Adventures of a Young Man as a Personnel Technician; The Personnel Function; Recruitment; Merit Selection; Position Classification and Pay; Performance Appraisal; Training; Management Development; The Bittersweet Heritage of Civil Service Reform; The Netherworld of Public Personnel Administration; From Spoils to Merit; The Pendleton Act; State and Local Reform; The Rise and Fall of the Civil Service Commission; The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978; Reinventing Public Personnel Administration; Privatizing Public Personnel; Contracting Out Personnel; Patronage Appointments; The Constitutionality of Patronage; Veterans Preference; Patronage Gone Bad; Public Sector Labor Relations; The AFL-CIO; Administrative Agencies; Collective Bargaining; Strikes; A Case Study: The Air Traffic Controllers Strike; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Social Equity; Keynote: Three Thousand Years of Sexual Harassment; What is Social Equity?; Mandating Social Equity; The New Public Administration; The Challenge of Equality; Racism; The Bitter Heritage of Slavery; From Reconstruction to Second Reconstruction; An Administrative Fix for Racism; Equal Employment Opportunity; Origins of Affirmative Action; The Case for Affirmative Action; The Case Against Affirmative Action; Representative Bureaucracy; Reverse Discrimination; Justifying Diversity; The Ongoing Role of Race in Public Administration; Nonracial Discrimination; Sex Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Pregnancy Discrimination; Age Discrimination; Disabilities Discrimination; Sexual Orientation Discrimination; A Case Study: Social Equity Through Social Insurance; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Public Financial Management; Keynote: Arnold Gets Terminated: A Hollywood Icon Sees His Political Fortunes Collapse Under the California Budget Crisis; The Importance of Public Financial Management; Six Principles; Balanced Budgets; The Fiscal Year; Budgeting Theory and Practice; The Taft Commission; The Influence of Keynes; The Objectives of Budgeting; The Two Types of Budgets; Waves of Innovation in Budget Making; The Executive Budget; Line-Item Budgeting; Performance Budgeting; Program Budgeting Versus Incrementalism; Zero-Based Budgeting; Contemporary Budget Reform; Integrated Budgets; Multiyear Budgets; Financing Public Expenditure; Taxation; The Ability-to-Pay Principle; The Flat Tax; User Charges; Grants; The Problem of Debt and Budgetary Manipulation; Abuse of Public Debt; Municipal Bonds; The Rating Agencies; Debt and Economic Recovery; Bonds, Debt, and Emergency Recovery; Stealth Budgeting: Hiding the True Costs of the Iraq War; Economic Policy; Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy; A Case Study: Social Security Reform from Clinton to Obama; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Program Audit and Evalution; Keynote: Captain Bligh's Program Evaluation of the Mutiny on the Bounty; What is an Audit?; Multiple Applications; A History of Auditing; The Government Accountability Office; Types of Audit; Compliance Audit; Performance Audit; Internal Audit; Program Evaluation; Policy Analysis is Not Program Evaluation; Legislative Program Evaluation; Types of Evaluation; Evaluation Standards; Management Control: Evaluation in Microcosm; Evaluation and the Democratic Process; A Case Study: Jeremy Bentham, the Philosopher of Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books; Related Web Sites; Glossary; Appendix: Additional Sources; Index
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