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Public Administration and Public Affairs

by: Henry, Nicholas

Public Administration and Public Affairs

by: Henry, Nicholas

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9780136390893
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0136390897
Edition: 7th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 06/01/1998
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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For public administration or public affairs courses on the undergraduate or graduate level, this comprehensive, up-to-date text emphasizes a value-based approach to the study and practice of public administration.

PREFACE

PART I PARADIGMS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

(52)

CHAPTER 1 BIG DEMOCRACY, BIG BUREAUCRACY

(24)

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

(5)

Government, Public Leaders, and Civic Life in Decline

(2)

Bureaucrats, Bureaucracy, and Deliverance

(1)

Revolt and Resistance: Americans and Governmental Growth

(1)

Why Bureaucracy?

(3)

Bureacuratic Power

(2)

Bureaucratic Sovereignty

(5)

Knowledge Managements: The Base of Bureaucratic Power

(1)

Exploring Bureaucracy, Understanding Government

(1)

Notes

(4)

CHAPTER 2 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION'S CENTURY IN A QUANDARY

(27)

The Beginning

(1)

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

(2)

Paradigm 2: The Principles of Administration, 1927-1937

(2)

The Challenge, 1938-1947

(3)

Reaction to the Challenge, 1947-1950

(1)

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

(3)

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

(1)

Paradigm 4: Public Administration as Management, 1956-1970

(2)

The Impact of Management: Understanding the Public in Public Administration

(3)

The Forces of Separatism, 1965-1970

(1)

Paradigm 5: Public Administration as Public Administration, 1970

(3)

Notes

(5)

PART II PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

(102)

CHAPTER 3 THE THREADS OF ORGANIZATIONS: THEORIES

(25)

Models, Definitions, and Organizations

(1)

The Closed Model of Organization

(4)

The Open Model of Organizations

(10)

The Closed and Open Models: The Essential Differences

(6)

The Literature of Model Synthesis

(1)

Notes

(3)

CHAPTER 4 THE FABRIC OF ORGANIZATIONS: FORCES

(40)

Society and the Assessment of Organizations

(2)

Information and Intelligence in Organizations

(6)

Decision Making in Organizations

(4)

Administration in Organizations

(3)

Control, Power, and Authority in Organizations

(7)

Society and Change in Organizations

102

(11)

Notes

113

(6)

CHAPTER 5 THE FIBERS OF ORGANIZATIONS: PEOPLE

119

(36)

What Can Organizations Do to You?

119

(2)

Administrative Humanity: Classicism, Social-Psychology, and Public Administration

121

(3)

Models of Adult Development

124

(3)

Models of Cultural Behavior

127

(4)

Models of Political Behavior

131

(5)

Darwinism and the Organizational Personality

136

(1)

Leadership in Organizations

136

(4)

The Evolution of Leadership Theory: Defining Leadership for the Times

140

(6)

Leadership and Administration: Change versus Complexity

146

(2)

Leading the Public Organization

148

(1)

Notes

148

(7)

PART III PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

155

(190)

CHAPTER 6 THE SYSTEMS APPROACH AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

159

(34)

The Systems Idea

159

(2)

The Systems Debate

161

(2)

Public Management: The Public Experience

163

(2)

Management Science: An Overview of Selected Techniques

165

(7)

The Computer: A New Dawn In Public Management?

175

(6)

Technology, the Public Bureaucracy, and the Public

178

(10)

Notes

188

(5)

CHAPTER 7 PUBLIC PROGRAM EVALUATION AND PRODUCTIVITY

193

(49)

The Evolution of Public Program Evaluation, Productivity, and Corruption Control

194

(16)

Program Evaluation, Productivity, and American Governments

210

(3)

Public Program Evaluation: Purposes and Permutations

213

(4)

The Evaluation Process

217

(1)

Three Innovations: The Inspector General, Total Quality, and the Bottom Line

218

(10)

Evaluation Research: Three Problems

228

(5)

Does Public Program Evaluation Matter?

233

(1)

Notes

234

(8)

CHAPTER 8 THE PUBLIC BUDGET: PURPOSES AND PROCESSES

242

(39)

The Evolution of the Public Budget: An Introduction

242

(1)

Line-Item Budgeting, 1921-1939

243

(2)

Performance Budgeting, 1940-1964

245

(2)

Planning-Programming-Budgeting, 1965-1971

247

(3)

Management by Objectives, 1972-1976

250

(2)

Zero-Base Budgeting, 1977-1980

252

(2)

Sunset, Sunrise: Sunset Legislation in the States, 1976-1981

254

(1)

The Emergance of the Uncontrolables, 1980-Present

255

(1)

The Emergence of Serious Public Debt-and Deficit, 1980-1992

256

(1)

Top-Down Budgetting/ Target-Base Budgeting, 1981-1982

256

(9)

Budgeting for Results, 1993-Present

265

(3)

Building Budgets: Strategies and Tactics

268

(2)

The Process: Congress, Budget Making, and the Deficit

270

(6)

Notes

276

(5)

CHAPTER 9 MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

281

(64)

The Development of American Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

281

(6)

The Civil Service System: The Meaning of Merit

287

(10)

The Collective System: Blue-Collar Bureaucrats

297

(7)

The Political Executive System: Politics in Administration

304

(4)

The Professional Career System: The Person over the Position

308

(2)

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

310

(3)

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

313

(19)

Does Human Resource Management Have a Future?

332

(2)

Notes

334

(11)

PART IV IMPLEMENTATION

345

(130)

CHAPTER 10 APPROACHES TO PUBLIC POLICY AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION

346

(25)

The Evolution of Public Policy Analysis: Public Administration versus Political Science

346

(2)

Our Approach to the Literature of Public Policy: Process versus Output

348

(1)

Models of Public Policymaking and Implementation as a Process

348

(5)

Models of Public Policymaking and Implementation as an Output

353

(8)

The Deficiencies of Incrementalism and Rationalism

361

(2)

The Strategic Planning Model

363

(2)

Strategic Planning: The Public Experience

365

(3)

Notes

368

(3)

CHAPTER 11 PRIVATIZATION: GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING AND THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY

371

(39)

Public Administration and American Orthodoxy

372

(2)

The Politics of Privatization: Motivations to Contract

374

(1)

The Privatization of Federal Policy

375

(4)

Federal Contracting: A Critique

379

(1)

To Privatize or Not to Privatize? Questions of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

380

(3)

To Privatize or Not to Privatize? Questions of Public Policymaking in a Democracy

383

(2)

Privatizing at the Grass Roots

385

(7)

The Government Corporation

392

(10)

Notes

402

(8)

CHAPTER 12 INTERGOVERNMENTAL ADMINISTRATION

410

(47)

Thousands and Thousands of Governments

410

(1)

The Constitution and the Courts: Setting the Rules

411

(2)

The Evolution of Intergovernmental Administration

413

(3)

Fiscal Federalism

416

(4)

Money and Mandates: Federal Instruments of Implementation

420

(4)

Federalism: A New Sorting Out

424

(2)

Intergovernmental Administration: The State and Local Perspective

426

(15)

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

441

(9)

Notes

450

(7)

CHAPTER 13 TOWARD A BUREAUCRATIC ETHIC

457

(18)

Public Administration and the Recognition of the Public Interest: Two Intellectual Attempts

458

(2)

Affirmative Action: An Example of Applied Ethical Choice in Public Administration

460

(1)

Justice as Fairness: A View of the Public Interest

461

(1)

Intuitionism, Perfectionism, and Utilitarianism

462

(1)

Applying the Justice-as-Fairness Theory

463

(2)

Practicing Ethical Public Administration

465

(7)

Conclusion: Politics Ain't Beanbag and Management Ain't Food Stamps

472

(1)

Notes

473

(2)

APPENDIX A ANNOTATED INFORMATION SOURCES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND RELATED FIELDS

475

(3)

APPENDIX B SELECTED ANNOTATED JOURNALS RELEVANT TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

478

(4)

APPENDIX C SELECTED ACADEMIC, PROFESSIONAL, AND PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS

482

(3)

APPENDIX D CORRECT FORMS OF ADDRESS FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS

485

(1)

APPENDIX E BECOMING A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR

486

(6)

APPENDIX F AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CODE OF ETHICS

492

(2)

INDEX

494

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