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Public Administration and Public Affairs

by: Henry, Nicholas

Public Administration and Public Affairs

by: Henry, Nicholas

ISBN 13:
9780130272713
ISBN 10:
013027271X
Edition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/01/2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in public administration or public affairs. This comprehensive, up-to-date text emphasizes a value-based approach to the study and practice of public administration. It covers the recent efforts to make government more accountable and responsive, serves as a professional reference for students, and gives them a sense of direction for the future.

Preface

xiii

Part One: Paradigms of Public Administration

(52)

Big Democracy, Big Bureaucracy

(24)

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

(3)

Attenuations: The Legacy of Limited Public Administration

(4)

Government, Public Leaders, and Public Trust

(2)

Bureaucrats: Image and Reality

(1)

Revolt and Resistance: Americans and Governmental Growth

(1)

Why Bureaucracy?

(1)

Power: The Gray Eminence of the Public Administrator

(7)

Knowledge Management: The Base of Bureaucratic Power

(5)

Public Administration's Century in a Quandary

(26)

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

(2)

Reaction to the Challenge, 1947--1950

(1)

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

(4)

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-- ?

(8)

Part Two: Public Organizations

(92)

The Threads of Organizations: Theories

(21)

Models, Definitions, and Organizations

(1)

The Closed Model of Organizations

(4)

The Open Model of Organizations

(6)

Closed and Open Models: The Essential Differences

(5)

The Literature of Model Synthesis

(1)

Are Public Organizations Different?

(4)

The Fabric of Organizations: Forces

(38)

Society and the Assessment of Organizations

(2)

Information and Intelligence in Organizations

(6)

Decision Making in Organizations

(3)

Administration in Organizations

(4)

Control, Power, and Authority in Organizations

(5)

Society and Change in Organizations

(17)

The Fibers of Organizations: People

113

(32)

What Can Organizations Do to You?

113

(1)

Administrative Humanity: Classicism, Social Psychology, and Public Administration

114

(4)

Models of Adult Development

118

(2)

Models of Cultural Behavior

120

(3)

Models of Political Behavior

123

(5)

Darwinism and the Organizational Personality

128

(1)

Leadership in Organizations

129

(3)

The Evolution of Leadership Theory: Defining Leadership for the Times

132

(6)

Leading the Public Organization

138

(7)

Part Three: Public Management

145

(150)

Public Information Resource Management

148

(19)

The Information Resource: Social Perspectives

148

(1)

The Information Resource: Implications for People and Organizations

149

(6)

The Public Information Resource

155

(2)

Best Practices for Public Information Resource Management

157

(1)

From Data to Decisions to Direct Access

158

(2)

Policy Versus Privacy: The Unique Dilemma of the Public Computer

160

(7)

Performance Measurement, Public Program Evaluation, and Productivity

167

(42)

Definitions: Calling Things What They Are

167

(1)

Efficiency for Good Government, 1900--1940

168

(2)

Budgeting to Control Costs, 1940--1970

170

(1)

Managing for Efficiency and Effectiveness, 1970--1980

171

(1)

Privatizing for Less Government, 1981--1992

172

(2)

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

174

(1)

Reinventing Government, 1992--Present

175

(6)

The Emergence of Performance Measurement and Public Program Evaluation

181

(4)

Measuring Performance: The Pillar of Public Program Evaluation

185

(4)

The Process of Public Program Evaluation

189

(3)

Permutations of Public Program Evaluation

192

(2)

Using Public Program Evaluations

194

(2)

Productivity: Three Innovations

196

(13)

The Public Budget: Purposes and Processes

209

(35)

Line-Item Budgeting, 1921--1939

211

(1)

Performance Budgeting, 1940--1964

212

(1)

Planning-Programming-Budgeting, 1965--1971

213

(3)

Management by Objectives, 1972--1977

216

(1)

Zero-Base Budgeting, 1977--1980

217

(2)

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

219

(1)

The Emergence of the Uncontrollables, 1980--Present

219

(1)

Top-Down Budgeting, 1980--1992

220

(9)

Budgeting for Results, 1993--Present

229

(3)

Building Budgets: Strategies and Tactics

232

(1)

The Process: Congress and Budget Making

233

(11)

Managing Human Resources in the Public Sector

244

(51)

The Evolution of American Public Human Resources Management

244

(4)

The Civil Service System: The Meaning of Merit

248

(9)

The Collective System: Blue-Collar Bureaucrats

257

(5)

The Political Executive System: Politics in Administration

262

(4)

The Professional Career System: The Person over the Position

266

(1)

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

267

(2)

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

269

(14)

Does Public Human Resources Management Have a Future?

283

(12)

Part Four: Implementation

295

(128)

Approaches to Public Policy and Its Implementation

297

(23)

The Incrementalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation

298

(5)

The Rationalist Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation

303

(7)

The Deficiencies of Rationalism and Incrementalism

310

(2)

The Strategic Planning Paradigm of Public Policymaking and Implementation

312

(1)

Strategic Planning: The Public Experience

313

(7)

Privatization: Government Contracting and the Public Authority

320

(38)

An American Orthodoxy: Business Is Better

320

(1)

The Politics of Privatization

321

(1)

The Privatization of Federal Policy

322

(5)

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

327

(3)

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

330

(1)

Privatizing in the States

331

(1)

Privatizing by Local Governments

332

(5)

The Public Authority

337

(11)

Odds and Innovations: Minor Methods of Privatization

348

(10)

Intergovernmental Administration

358

(45)

Thousands and Thousands of Governments

358

(1)

The Constitution and the Courts: Setting the Rules

359

(1)

The Evolution of Intergovernmental Administration

360

(3)

Fiscal Federalism

363

(3)

Money and Mandates: Federal Instruments of Implementation

366

(4)

Sorting Out Federalism: Fruitful or Futile?

370

(1)

Federalism among Equals: The States

371

(1)

Intergovernmental Administration: The State and Local Perspective

372

(3)

Regionalism in the States: The Odd American Experience with Intergovernmental Planning

375

(8)

Community Federalism: Interlocal Cooperation and Neighborhood Governance

383

(3)

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

386

(17)

Toward a Bureaucratic Ethic

403

(20)

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

404

(2)

An Example of Applied Ethical Choice in Public Administration

406

(1)

Justice as Fairness: A View of the Public Interest

406

(1)

Intuitionism, Perfectionism, and Utilitarianism

407

(1)

Applying the Justice-as-Fairness Theory

408

(2)

Practicing Ethical Public Administration

410

(8)

The Passion of Public Administration

418

(5)

Appendix A: Publications and Organizations in Public Administration by Specialization

423

(4)

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

427

(2)

Appendix C: Selected Annotated Journals Relevant to Public Administration

429

(4)

Appendix D: Selected Academic, Professional, and Public Interest Organizations, with Addresses, Websites, and Descriptions

433

(3)

Appendix E: Correct Forms of Address for Public Officials

436

(2)

Appendix F: Becoming a Public Administrator

438

(6)

Appendix G: American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics

444

(2)

Name Index

446

(2)

Subject Index

448

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