The Craft of Public Administration

Table of Contents Preface 1 ~ The Administrative Craft The Heart of the matter Art, Science, or Craft? Capital, Government, and Myths Trust in Government and Politics Partisan, Policy, and System Politics Adversarial Legalism Bureaucratic Legalism and Hidden Law American Constitutional principles Summary 2 ~ The Ecology of the Administrative Craft Our Organized Society Equality and Efficiency Rights and Dollars Ebbs and Flows of Government Expansions, Constraints, and Prospects The Growth of Public Bureaucracy Comparing Public and Private Administration Nuances Interested Groups and the Greater Good Washington's Power Summary 3 ~ The Anatomy of Public Organizations The Basis of Organization Points about Pyramids Line and staff Centralization and Decentralization The HHS Organizational Framework The Craft and Political Culture Summary 4 ~ The Physiology of Public Organizations Democracy in Bureaucracy Baseline Originals in Organizational Life Neoclassical Theories Human Relations Theories Women, Men, and Management Styles Gender Gap in Government Summary 5 ~ People and Personnel Conflicting Doctrines in American Public Administration Procedures and Policies Employee Recruitment Merit-Based Recruitment Arrangements Does Federal Hiring Need a Fix? The Postrecruitment Phase Promotion The Challenges of Public Personnel Administration The Changing Demographics of the Federal Workforce The True Size of Government Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Performance Ratings Individual Performance Measurement Position Classifications Summary 6 ~ Public Sector Labor-Management Relations A Social-Work Model of Unionism Decline, transformation, or Reformation? Union Members in 2001 State and Local Government Labor Issues Alternatives for Avoiding a Work Stoppage Collective Bargaining for Federal Employees Working Conditions Earnings Conflicts in State Civil Service and Collective Bargaining Systems Zero-Sum Versus One-Ten Power Games? Radical Individualism and Labor unions Public Sector Labor Law Impacts Reasons for Union prominence Summary 7 ~ Leadership Leadership and Needs of the Situation Leadership Qualities Competence and Decision-Making Leaders, Followers, and Charisma Max Weber and Charisma Power Centers Charismatic Leader Behaviors Historical Conditions Favoring Charisma Institutionalizing the American Presidency The Limits of Leadership Summary 8 ~ Communication Communication and Public Administration Formal and informal Communication The Advantages of the Paper Trail The Disadvantages of the Paper Trail The Information Highway E-Government and Communications The Other Organization Upward, Downward, and Across Communications Summary 9 ~ Taxing, Budgeting, and Spending Who Gets What Amount of Money? Cycles in Congressional Budgeting Phases of the Budget Cycle The Incrementalism Budgeting Perspective Roots of the Deficit Problem Economic growth, Taxes, and Savings Federal Spending in the States State Tax Burdens Summary 10 ~ The Productivity Challenge: Working Smarter While Doing More with Less What is Excellence? Efficiency and Effectiveness Privatization of the Public Sector Evaluating Government Programs Citizen-Driven Government Performance People Crisis and/or Opportunity? The Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) Summary 11 ~ Administrative Law and Control The Impact of Administrative Growth on Democratic Ideals and Administrative Law Traditional and Contemporary Cornerstones of American Administrative Law What is Administrative Law? Administrative Discretion and Its Limits Opening Up the Government Administrative law Judges and Federal Regulations Internal and External Administrative Controls The Whistle-Blower as Tell-All Law and Control: How Much is Enough? Summary 12 ~ Government Regulations and Regulatory Behaviors If Not Taxes, Perhaps Regulations? Market Failure and Regulations Is the Unites States a Regulatory State? Economic, Social, and Subsidiary Regulations Administrative Rules and rule Making The Administrative Procedure Act Regulatory Restraint and Modification The Stages of Rule making What is the Public Interest? Summary Appendix ~ Seven Ways to land a Great Internship