A comprehensive guide to the key theories in contemporary public administration, from rational choice to postmodern approaches.
This book paints a full picture of how these theories contribute to, and explain, what we know about public administration today.
Frederickson and Smith describe several theories and analytical approaches that contribute to what we know about policy administration. This book asks: Which theories or approaches are the most promising, the most influential?
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The Public Administration Theory Primer
Mark Schneider and Jack Buckley (2002) picked up on this notion of “local factors” or non-outcome factors as dictating school choice and mobility decisions. To understand how parents make school choice decisions, Schneider and Buckley ...
The Public Administration Theory Primer: Essentials Of Public Policy And Administration
Combining historical, contextual and theoretical perspectives, this text give students a truly comprehensive overview of the discipline and focuses on the practical implications of public administration theory.
The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci embraces the diversity of research methods rather than suggesting that there is one best way to conduct research in public ...
The book examines the history and development of public administration, the study of the internal structure and functioning of government and its interaction with society and its citizens.
"Ethics and Public Administration" refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics.