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Public Administration and Public Affairs

by: Henry, Nicholas

Public Administration and Public Affairs

by: Henry, Nicholas

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9780132222976
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0132222973
Edition: 10th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Summary

Public Administration and Public Affairsis a comprehensive, up-to-date book that focuses on public management and public policy. It covers the new and emerging theories of governance, while continuing to define the basic values and ideas of public administration and public policy formulation in the United States, and serves as a reference for students, instructors, and professionals alike.Comprehensive and well-organized, this book covers the gamut of subjects in this field, including its bureaucracy, history, personalities, ethics, and problems in public administration and management.With its comprehensive resource material, this book will serve as an excellent reference book for professionals in the field of public administration and public affairs.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiv

Part I: Paradigms of Public Administration

(48)

Big Democracy, Big Bureaucracy

(20)

Constraint: The Context and Tradition of Public Administration in the United States

(2)

Infernal Vernon: A Case of Unconstrained Public Administration

(3)

Government, Public Leaders, and Public Trust

(1)

Bureaucrats: Image and Reality

(2)

Revolt and Resistance: Americans and Governmental Growth

(1)

Power: The Gray Eminence of the Public Administrator

(3)

Noetic Authority and Knowledge Management: The Bases of Bureaucratic Power

(8)

Public Administration's Century in a Quandary

(23)

The Beginning

(1)

Paradigm 1: The Politics/Administration Dichotomy, 1900--1926

(1)

Paradigm 2: The Principles of Administration, 1927--1937

(2)

The Challenge, 1938--1950

(2)

Reaction to The Challenge, 1947--1950

(1)

Paradigm 3: Public Administration as Political Science, 1950-1970

(1)

The Impact of Political Science: Bureaucracy in the Service of Democracy

(1)

Paradigm 4: Public Administration as Management, 1956--1970

(1)

The Impact of Management: Understanding the ``Public'' in Public Administration

(2)

The Forces of Separatism, 1965--1970

(1)

Public Administration as Neither Management Nor Political Science

(1)

Paradigm 5: Public Administration as Public Administration: 1970--Present

(1)

Paradigm 6: Governance, 1990--Present

(2)

A Paradigmatic Balance? or, Public Administration, Happy at Last

(7)

Part II: Public Organizations

(80)

The Threads of Organization: Theories

(18)

Models, Definitions, and Organizations

(1)

The Closed Model of Organizations

(2)

The Open Model of Organizations

(6)

The Closed and Open Models: The Essential Differences

(1)

Closed or Open Organizations?

(4)

The Literature of Model Synthesis

(1)

Are Public Organizations Different?

(4)

The Fabric of Organizations: Forces

(34)

Society and the Assessment of Organizations

(2)

Information and Intelligence in Organizations

(2)

Information, Intelligence, Organizations, and Four Dead Horses

(2)

Decision Making in Organizations

(4)

Changing the Public Organization

(2)

Deep Change: The Impact of the Environment on the Public Organization

(22)

The Fibers of Organizations: People

102

(27)

The Motives of Public and Nonprofit Administrators

102

(1)

Models of Adult Development

103

(2)

Models of Cultural Behavior

105

(3)

Models of Political Behavior

108

(1)

Culture and the Bureaucrat

108

(4)

Darwinism and the Organizational Personality

112

(1)

Leadership in Organizations

113

(4)

The Evolution of Leadership Theory: Defining Leadership for the Times

117

(4)

Leading the Public Organization

121

(8)

Part III: Public Management

129

(152)

Clarifying Complexity: The Public's Information Resource

130

(17)

Privacy versus Policy: The Particular Problem of the Public Computer

130

(2)

A Case of Unmatched Failure

132

(2)

The Crusade for Secure Data

134

(2)

Knowledge Management: Managing the Public's Information Resource

136

(3)

E-Gov: Lean, Clean, and Seen Government

139

(1)

Best Practices for Knowledge Management

140

(1)

Clarifying Public Decisions

141

(1)

The Information Resource and the Future of Governance

142

(5)

Corruption's Consequence: Public Productivity

147

(36)

Naming Things What They Are

147

(1)

Curtailing Corruption: Do Productivity Measures Help?

148

(4)

Efficiency for Good Government, 1900--1940

152

(1)

Budgeting to Control Costs, 1940--1970

153

(1)

Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness, 1970--1980

153

(3)

Privatizing for Less Government, 1981--1992

156

(1)

Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: The New Meaning of Corruption, 1975--Present

156

(2)

A New Public Management, 1992-Present

158

(2)

Katrina, Crisis, and Collapse

160

(2)

Control or Corruption? Turbidity or Agility?

162

(2)

Measuring Public Performance

164

(2)

Permutations of Performance Measurement

166

(1)

Performance Measurement in Practice

167

(3)

Evaluating Public Programs

170

(1)

Public Program Evaluation in Practice

171

(3)

Using Public Program Evaluations

174

(9)

The Public Trough: Financing and Budgeting Governments

183

(42)

How Much Should Governments Cost?

183

(1)

Public Finance: Paying for Public Policy

184

(2)

Financing the Federal Government

186

(2)

Taxing Times: Rethinking Federal Taxes

188

(1)

Financing State Governments

189

(1)

Financing Local Governments

190

(3)

Taxing Times: The Fiscal Future of States and Communities

193

(1)

The Federal Government and the National Economy

194

(4)

A Founder on Debt

198

(1)

Congress's Quixotic Quest: Decreasing Deficits

199

(3)

Public Budgeting: Spending for Public Policy

202

(2)

The Evolution of Public Budgeting: Variations, Viewpoints, and Values

204

(1)

Line-Item Budgeting, 1921--1939

204

(3)

Program/Performance Budgeting, 1940--1964

207

(2)

Planning-Programming-Budgeting, 1965-1971

209

(2)

Budgeting-by-Objectives, 1972-1977

211

(1)

Zero Base Budgeting, 1977-1980

212

(1)

Target Base Budgeting, 1980--1992

213

(2)

Cutback Management: Responding to the Reality of Red Ink

215

(2)

Budgeting for Results, 1993--Present

217

(8)

Managing Human Resources in the Public Sector

225

(56)

Who Wants to Work for Government?

225

(1)

Who Works for Government?

226

(1)

The Civil Service System: The Meaning of Merit

227

(1)

The First Reform

228

(11)

The Collective System: Blue-Collar Bureaucrats

239

(4)

The Political Executive System: Politics in Administration

243

(5)

The Professional Public Administration System: Embracing the Professions of Politics and Management

248

(1)

A Pair of Professional Profundities: Performance and Pay

249

(3)

Does Human Resource Management Impair Public Administration?

252

(2)

Race, Sex, and Jobs: The Challenge of Affirmative Action

254

(27)

Part IV: Implementing Public Policy

281

(128)

Understanding and Improving Public Policy

283

(20)

Political Science, Public Administration, and Policy Analysis

283

(1)

The Incrementalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation

284

(6)

The Rationalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation

290

(5)

The Problems of the Paradigms

295

(1)

The Strategic Planning Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation

296

(1)

Strategic Planning: The Public and Nonprofit Experiences

297

(6)

Intersectoral Administration

303

(46)

Why Collaborate?

305

(1)

An American Orthoxy

305

(1)

The Privatization of the People's Property: A Forthcoming Federal Fire Sale?

306

(1)

The Privatization of Federal Policy: Public Programs and Private Profit Seekers

307

(2)

The Process of Federal Privatization

309

(2)

Federal Contracting: A Critique

311

(1)

The Beltway Bandits: Service Contracting and the Curious Question of Consultants

312

(1)

Contracting in Corruption: A Capital Case

313

(2)

Reforming Federal Privatization

315

(1)

Privatizing in the States

315

(2)

Privatizing by Local Governments

317

(1)

To Privatize or not to Privatize? Local Pressures and Public Programs

318

(2)

Local Contracting: Management and Cost

320

(1)

Is Business Better? The Case for Competition

321

(3)

Practical Privatization: Lessons Learned

324

(1)

The Public's Enterprises: Vast and Varied

324

(1)

Managing the Public's Enterprises: The Public Authority and Other Quasi Governments

325

(2)

The Evolution of the Public Authority

327

(2)

Mysteries, Money, and Might: The Unexplored Economy of the Grass-Roots Authority

329

(1)

It's Good Being King: Public Authorities and Their Surfeit of Freedom

330

(2)

The Independent Sector: Experiences in Interdependence

332

(3)

The Third Sector and the Other Two: Questions of Performance and Impact

335

(14)

Intergovernmental Administration

349

(44)

Thousands and Thousands of Governments

349

(1)

The Constitution and the Courts: Setting the Rules

350

(1)

The Evolution of Intergovernmental Administration

351

(3)

Fiscal Federalism

354

(4)

Money and Mandates: Federal Instruments of Implementation

358

(4)

Victims of Federalism

362

(1)

Federalism Among Equals: The States

362

(2)

Intergovernmental Administration in the States

364

(2)

A Load of Local Governments: Definitions, Scope, Services, Revenue Sources, Government, and Forms of Government for Counties, Municipalities, Townships, School Districts, and Special Districts

366

(10)

Creeping Regionalism: The Role of Local Collaboration

376

(1)

Place, People, and Power: The Puzzle of Metropolitan Governance

377

(16)

Toward a Bureaucratic Ethic

393

(16)

Codes and Commissions: The Rise of Public Sector Ethics

393

(2)

Practicing Ethical Public Administration

395

(1)

Do Morals Matter? Ethics and the Effective Organization

396

(1)

Deeper Currents: Bureaucracy and the Public Interest

397

(2)

Justice-as-Fairness: A View of the Public Interest

399

(1)

Intuitionism, Perfectionism, and Utilitarianism

400

(2)

Applying the Justice-as-Fairness Theory

402

(2)

The Passion of Public Administration

404

(5)

Appendix A: Information Sources, Journals, and Organizations in Public and Nonprofit Administration by Specialization

409

(6)

Budgeting and Finance

409

(1)

Criminal Justice

410

(1)

Ethics

410

(1)

Federal Government

410

(1)

Human Resource Management

411

(1)

Independent Sector

411

(1)

Information Resource Management

411

(1)

Intergovernmental Administration

412

(1)

Local Government

412

(1)

Minority and Gender Affairs

412

(1)

Planning

413

(1)

Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

413

(1)

State Government

413

(1)

Welfare, Health, and Public Safety

414

(1)

Appendix B: Annotated Information Sources in Public Administration and Related Fields

415

(3)

Appendix C: Selected Annotated Journals Relevant to Public and Nonprofit Administration

418

(4)

Appendix D: Selected Academic, Professional, and Public-Interest Organizations with Web Sites and Descriptions

422

(4)

Appendix E: Becoming a Public or Nonprofit Administrator

426

(11)

Careers in Public and Nonprofit Administration: How Many Jobs, How Much Pay?

426

(1)

Preparing for a Position in Public or Nonprofit Administration

427

(4)

Finding a Position in Public or Nonprofit Administration

431

(1)

The Job Interview

432

(2)

Sample Consolidated Resume

434

(3)

Index

437

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