Jay M Shafritz, Christopher P Borick

Cases in Public Policy and Administration

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, "Introducing Public Administration," Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy - and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators - in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration to life in an engaging, witty style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780205607426
• ISBN-10: 020560742X
• Artikelnr.: 28175019

Autorenporträt

Jay M. Shafritz is Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He,is author of over three dozen texts and reference books on various aspects of government, management, and public administration. Christopher Borick is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Public Opinion at Muhlenberg College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: On The Utility Of The Historical Case Study  I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF
AMERICAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION  1.  Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of
Scientific Management: How The World's Most Famous Detective  Was A Pivotal
Influence On The Development Of American Public Administration.  2.
Muckrakers And Reformers To The Rescue: How The Progressive Movement
Created Modern Public Administration From The Muck Of Corruption,
Indifference And Ignorance.  II: PUBLIC POLICY MAKING  3.  The case for
understanding the critical role of doctrine in public policy making:
"Seeing" policy evolve through the lenses of the doctrinal development
cycle.  4.  Who really made the decision to drop the first atomic bomb on
Hiroshima? Was it President Harry S Truman or his advisors, the chief
executive or his team of technical experts?  III: THE MACHINERY OF
GOVERNMENT  5. How the ideas of an academic economist, Fredrich A. Hayek,
led to the Thatcher Revolution in Great Britain, inspired the Reagan
Revolution in the United States and pushed the world's global economy into
its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.  6. From German
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to American President Bill Clinton: How
Political Leaders Created the Modern Welfare State Using Social Insurance
As An Alternative To Socialism.  IV: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS  7. Gun
shows, gun laws and gun totin': Second Amendment fanatics versus all levels
of government.  8.  The Politics-Administration Dichotomy Negated Again:
How The Rove Doctrine Subordinated State, Local And National Environmental
Policy To The Service Of The Republican Party.  V: ETHICS  9. The Gas
Chamber Of Philadelphia: How A 1977 Incident At Independence Mall
Illustrates The "Banality Of Evil" Concept First Applied To Adolf Eichmann,
The Nazi Holocaust Administrator.  10. The Red Ink Of Orange County: When
Is It Ethical For Public Treasurers To Gamble With Public Money?  Only When
You Win!  VI: ORGANIZATION THEORY  11. Using Systems Theory To Understand
How Sun Tzu Predictably Turned Concubines Into Soldiers In Ancient China;
And How Chaos Theory Explains Why Systems are Ultimately Unpredictable Even
When They Are Otherwise Understood  12.  Using William Shakespeare's Plays
To Prove That He Was An Instinctive And Early Organization Theorist:
Whether In A Beehive Or The Court Of Elizabeth I, He Knew How Honey (Or
Money) Got Things Done.  VII: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR  13. The Case Of The
Ubiquitous Chief Of Staff: How A Job Invented By And Once Confined To The
Military Escaped Its Uniformed Existence And Is Now Commonly Found In
Government And Corporate Offices.  14. Organization Development in
Hollywood war movies: From John Wayne in The Sands of Iwo Jima to G. I.
Jane and beyond.  VIII: MANAGERIALISM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  15.
George Orwell's Big Brother is Bigger and Better than Ever: He is not Only
Watching You; He is Counting The Number of Times You Visit His Web Site,
Taking Your Picture, Converting It To A Series Of Numbers And Destroying
Your Anonymity!  16. Was It Al Gore Who Really Invented the Internet? And
did Gore Subsequently lose the 2000 Presidential Election to George W. Bush
by Threatening to Take Away the Internet?  IX: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT  17.
How The American Strategic Policy Of Containment (Of Communism In General
And The Russian Soviet Union In Particular) Gradually Evolved Just After
World War II To Win The Cold War In 1989.  18. The Rand Corporation As An
Exemplar: The Origins Of, And Increasingly Important Role Of, Strategic
Think Tanks.  X: LEADERSHIP  19. Implementing Strategy Through The Levels
Of Leadership And Strategic Optimism: How Strategic Leadership Invariably
Devolves Into Tactical Operations.  20. Was It Good Leadership For General
Douglas Macarthur To Take His Staff With Him When He Abandoned His Army In
The Philippines And Ran Away To Australia At The Beginning Of World War
II?  XI: PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT  21. Why Advancement In Public Administration
Has Always Been An Essay Contest: Case Examples From The Presidency And The
Bureaucracy.  22. The Case For Mentoring Junior Managers With Executive
Potential: How General Fox Conner Set A Young Dwight D. Eisenhower On The
Path To The Presidency.  XII: SOCIAL EQUITY  23. Brown Reverses Plessy's
Doctrine: The Story Of How Thurgood Marshall Convinced The U. S. Supreme
Court That Separate Was Inherently Not Equal, Laid The Legal Foundations
For The Modern Civil Rights Movement, And Earned Himself An Appointment As
The First African American Associate Justice On The Supreme Court.  24. The
Government Regulation Of Sex: Toward Greater Social Equity At Work Through
Remedial Legislation, Judicial Precedents And Sexual Harassment
Prohibitions Written Into Manuals Of Personnel Rules  XIII: PUBLIC FINANCE 
25. Take Me Out To The Ball Game And You Buy The Ticket: The Case For
Public Stadium Financing.  26. The Fall Of The House Of California: How The
Richest State In The U. S. Cratered Into Budgetary Chaos And A Fiscal
Nightmare  XIV: PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION  27. Why Florence
Nightingale, The Famous Nurse Who Pioneered The Graphic Presentation Of
Statistical Data, Is The Now Forgotten "Mother" Of "Powerpoint"
Illustrations.  28. The Often Ridiculous Nature of Public Policy and its
Analysis: Why It Is So Important to Always Allow for Ridicule and to
Seriously Consider the Ridiculous.