Public Administration
Classic Readings
7th Edition
Published on 1. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-1-111-34276-0 (ISBN)
Description
With this new seventh edition of Public Administration: Classic Readings, International Edition, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde aim to introduce students to the principles of public administration via the most significant scholarly writings on the topic. Straightforward and informative, this text begins its discussion with Woodrow Wilson and continues to today's political scientists. A new Section V, "Public Administration in a New Century," is dedicated to writing and thinking from the 21st century. This edition includes six new readings and addresses the key fields of public administration: bureaucracy, organization theory, human resources management, the budgetary process, public policy, implementation, evaluation, intergovernmental relations, and public service ethics.
Reviews / Votes
1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. 2. Cognition and the Brain: Basic Principles. 3. Perception. 4. Attention. 5. Short-Term and Working Memory. 6. Long-Term Memory: Basic Principles. 7. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors. 8. Knowledge. 9. Visual Imagery. 10. Language. 11. Problem Solving. 12. Reasoning and Decision Making.More details
Edition
7th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
720 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-111-34276-0 (9781111342760)
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Persons
Albert C. Hyde is Senior Scholar in Residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy School of Public Affairs at American University. He has been an advisory consultant for the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Forest Service on federal policy and strategy development. From 1992 to 2008, he was a senior consultant for the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.. His academic experience includes directing public administration programs at San Francisco State University and the University of Pittsburgh. He holds an MPA and a PhD from the State University of New York at Albany. Jay M. Shafritz is professor emeritus of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He is the author, co-author, or editor of more than 40 textbooks and reference books on business and public administration. He holds a doctorate from Temple University and an MPA from the Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Content
Part I: EARLY VOICES AND THE FIRST QUARTER CENTURY (1880S TO 1920S). 1. The Study of Administration (1887) Woodrow Wilson. 2. Politics and Administration (1900) Frank J. Goodnow. 3. Scientific Management (1912) Frederick W. Taylor. 4. The Movement for Budgetary Reform in the States (1918) William F. Willoughby. 5. Bureaucracy (1922) Max Weber. 6. Introduction to the Study of Public Administration (1926) Leonard D. White. 7. The Giving of Orders (1926) Mary Parker Follett. Part II: THE NEW DEAL TO MID-CENTURY (1930S TO 1950S). 8. Notes on the Theory of Organization (1937) Luther Gulick. 9. Informal Organizations and Their Relation to Formal Organizations (1938) Chester I. Barnard. 10. Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (1940) Robert K. Merton. 11. The Lack of a Budgetary Theory (1940) V. O. Key, Jr. 12. A Theory of Human Motivation (1943) A. H. Maslow. 13. The Proverbs of Administration (1946) Herbert A. Simon. 14. The Administrative State: Conclusion (1948) Dwight Waldo. 15. The Cooptative Mechanism (1949) Philip Selznick. 16. The Human Side of Enterprise (1957) Douglas Murray McGregor. 17. The Science of Muddling Through (1959) Charles E. Lindblom. Part III: FROM JFK TO CIVIL SERVICE REFORM (1960S AND 1970S). 18. Organizations and the System Concept (1966) Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn. 19. The Road to PPB: The Stages of Budget Reform (1966) Allen Schick. 20. Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in Government Service (1967) Yehezkel Dror. 21. The Life Cycle of Bureaus (1967) Anthony Downs. 22. Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS (1969) Aaron Wildavsky. 23. The End of Liberalism: The Indictment (1969) Theodore J. Lowi. 24. Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap (1969) Martin Landau. 25. Toward a New Public Administration (1971) H. George Frederickson. 26. Systematic Thinking for Social Action (1971) Alice M. Rivlin. 27. Implementation (1973) Jeffrey L. Pressman & Aaron Wildavsky. 28. Representative Bureaucracy (1974) Samuel Krislov. 29. Intergovernmental Relations: An Analytical Overview (1974) Deil Wright. 30. Organizational Decline and Cutback Management (1978) Charles H. Levine. 31. Ethics for Bureaucrats: An Essay on Law and Values (1979) John A. Rohr. Part IV: FROM REAGAN TO REINVENTION (1980 TO 2000). 32. Public and Private Management: Are They Fundamentally Alike in All Unimportant Respects? (1980) Graham T. Allison. 33. Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats (1980) Michael Lipsky. 34. Public Budgeting Amidst Uncertainty and Instability (1981) Naomi Caiden. 35. Democracy and the Public Service: The Collective Services (1982) Frederick C. Mosher. 36. Public Administrative Theory and the Separation of Powers (1983) David H. Rosenbloom. 37. How Does an Idea's Time Come? In Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (1984) John W. Kingdon. 38. The Possibility of Administrative Ethics (1985) Dennis F. Thompson. 39. "Understanding Organizational Culture" (1989) J. Steven Ott. 40. From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity (1990) Roosevelt Thomas. 41. Toward a Feminist Perspective in Public Administration Theory (1990) Camilla Stivers. 42. The Ethics Challenge in Public Service (1992) Carol W. Lewis. 43. Breaking Through Bureaucracy (1992) Michael Barzelay with Babak J. Armajani. 44. Defining Public Value in Creating Public Value (1995) Mark H. Moore. Part V: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN A NEW CENTURY. 45. Information Technology and Democratic Governance (2002) Joseph S. Nye. 46. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (2002) Deborah Stone. 47. In the Face of Administrative Evil: Finding a Basis for Ethics in the Public Service (2004) Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour. 48. Inside Collaborative Networks: Ten Lessons for Public Managers (2006) Robert Agranoff.