Lawrence C. Howard, Jerome B. McKinney

Public Administration (eBook, PDF)

Balancing Power and Accountability

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a complete and up-to-date revision of the classic text for public administration, implementing the rule of law as a fundamental issue in American democracy in pursuit of the common interest. It presents public administration as a tension between the necessary exercise of power and the search for responsiveness to achieve maximum accountability from public servants. The authors have initiated a new approach to the study of public administration by focusing on middle- and lower-level managers. These are positions that most public servants will occupy for the bulk of their professional careers. The book recognizes that most of the administration is in field offices, in state and local government, and in cooperation with the private and nonprofit sectors. It then focuses on power and its potential for influencing the behavior of the bureaucracy to perform its goal-oriented and balancing functions in a pluralistic open system. This leads to the relationship between theories about administration and the actual practice and how best results (imperative of accountability) are achieved in the increasingly globalized environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313018992
• Artikelnr.: 37822305

Autorenporträt

LAWRENCE HOWARD is a psychologist who is currently a Research Associate in Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Dr. Howard has co-authored articles in Developmental Psychology and Psychophysiology, and is presently developing a work on violence in Buddhist societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Context of Administration Ethical Foundations and Imperatives of Public
Management The Environment and Setting for Public Administration
Reinventing Government: Transforming Public Administration Administration
in the Context of Its Practice Public Administration and Public Policy The
External Environment of Public Administration Linking Practice and Theory
Organization Theory and Management Practice Processes and Practices
Planning in Public Management Organizing, Coordinating, and Controlling the
Internal Environment of Management Decision Making and Communication as
Basic Management Activities Leadership in Public Management Community
Relations in Public Management Supporting and Controlling Functions
Personnel: The Administration and Management of Human Resources Financial
Management Productivity and Evaluation Policy Areas Intergovernmental
Relations and Administration International Administration and Development
Balancing Power and Accountability Appendix: Public Administration Research
Aids Selected Bibliography Index