Public Administration : Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of Government
ISBN: 9780195330694 | 0195330692
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/22/2006
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Public Administration: Power and Politics in the Fourth Branch of Government presents public administration through the lens of politics and the policy-making power of the bureaucracy. By showing how the bureaucracy influences daily life, Smith and Licari bring the field of public administration alive for students. This text dispels the myth that the study of public administration is boring or irrelevant to students' lives by demonstrating just how deeply it pervades our lives. The authors focus on the bureaucracy--"the fourth branch of governm... MORE
| Introduction: The Government You Didn't Know You Had, or | |
| Why You Should Be Interested in Public Administration | |
| Why Study Public Administration? | |
| What Is Public Administration? | |
| How to Study Public Administration | |
| The Politics of Public Administration | |
| The Administrative State: Or, Where Did All This Bureaucracy Come From? | |
| The Need for Public Administratio... MORE | |
| Understanding the Rise of the Administrative State | |
| Bureaucracy's Role in the Policy Process | |
| Recap: Why We Need (and Want!) Bureaucracy | |
| The Structure of the Administrative State | |
| Why is Public Administration "Public"? | |
| A Difficult Mission: Trying to Please All the People All the Time | |
| The Basic Goal of Public Agencies | |
| Finding Goals | |
| Government Is No Way to Run a Business | |
| Having Business Run the Government | |
| Bureaucratic Power in a Democratic State: Or, Why Government Is More Than It's | |
| Cracked Up to Be | |
| The Traditional View of Public Administration | |
| Bureaucracy as a Political Actor | |
| Sources of Bureaucratic Power | |
| The Nature of Bureaucratic Power | |
| Rulemaking and Adjudication | |
| Ethics and Accountability | |
| A Question of Accountability | |
| Accountable to Whom? | |
| Mechanisms of Accountability | |
| Inside the Bureaucracy | |
| Deciding and Doing: The Central Challenges of Public Administration | |
| Deciders and Doers | |
| Decisions, Decisions | |
| Putting Decisions Into Action | |
| Public-Sector Performance | |
| Organizational Goals and Evaluating Performance | |
| Contextual Goals | |
| Public Expectations of Bureaucracy | |
| Multiple "Layers" of Implementation | |
| Evaluating Public-Sector Performance | |
| Public Management: The Core Functions of Public Administration | |
| Public Budgeting | |
| The Nature of Public Revenue and Spending | |
| What Do Public Budgets Do? | |
| Political Priorities in Public Budgeting | |
| The Federal Budget Process | |
| Budgeting in State and Local Governments | |
| Analysis in Public Budgeting | |
| Managing PeoplePublic Versus Private Personnel Systems | |
| Public Personnel Systems | |
| Recruiting, Selecting, and Hiring | |
| Compensation, Evaluation, and Promotion | |
| Unions and the Return of the Spoils System | |
| Implementation | |
| Requirements of Effective Policy Implementation | |
| The Reality of Policy Implementation | |
| New Directions in Public Administration | |
| The Future of Public Administration | |
| The ATM Bureaucracy | |
| The Great Governance Debate | |
| Political and Policy Change: The Rise of the Disarticulated State Homeland Security | |
| Personnel | |
| The Study of Public Administration | |
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