Jay M Shafritz, Christopher P Borick

Cases in Public Policy and Administration

From Ancient Times to the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, Introducing Public Administration, Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy -- and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators -- in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration to life in an engaging, witty style.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138374010
• ISBN-10: 1138374016
• Artikelnr.: 55103497

Autorenporträt

Jay M. Shafritz is Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He,is author of over three dozen texts and reference books on various aspects of government, management, and public administration. Christopher Borick is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Public Opinion at Muhlenberg College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: On The Utility Of The Historical Case Study I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF
AMERICAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 1. Sherlock Holmes And The Case Of
Scientific Management: How The World's Most Famous Detective Was A Pivotal
Influence On The Development Of American Public Administration. 2.
Muckrakers And Reformers To The Rescue: How The Progressive Movement
Created Modern Public Administration From The Muck Of Corruption,
Indifference And Ignorance. II: PUBLIC POLICY MAKING 3. The case for
understanding the critical role of doctrine in public policy making:
"Seeing" policy evolve through the lenses of the doctrinal development
cycle. 4. Who really made the decision to drop the first atomic bomb on
Hiroshima? Was it President Harry S Truman or his advisors, the chief
executive or his team of technical experts? III: THE MACHINERY OF
GOVERNMENT 5. How the ideas of an academic economist, Fredrich A. Hayek,
led to the Thatcher Revolution in Great Britain, inspired the Reagan
Revolution in the United States and pushed the world's global economy into
its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. 6. From German
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to American President Bill Clinton: How
Political Leaders Created the Modern Welfare State Using Social Insurance
As An Alternative To Socialism. IV: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 7. Gun
shows, gun laws and gun totin': Second Amendment fanatics versus all levels
of government. 8. The Politics-Administration Dichotomy Negated Again: How
The Rove Doctrine Subordinated State, Local And National Environmental
Policy To The Service Of The Republican Party. V: ETHICS 9. The Gas Chamber
Of Philadelphia: How A 1977 Incident At Independence Mall Illustrates The
"Banality Of Evil" Concept First Applied To Adolf Eichmann, The Nazi
Holocaust Administrator. 10. The Red Ink Of Orange County: When Is It
Ethical For Public Treasurers To Gamble With Public Money? Only When You
Win! VI: ORGANIZATION THEORY 11. Using Systems Theory To Understand How Sun
Tzu Predictably Turned Concubines Into Soldiers In Ancient China; And How
Chaos Theory Explains Why Systems are Ultimately Unpredictable Even When
They Are Otherwise Understood 12. Using William Shakespeare's Plays To
Prove That He Was An Instinctive And Early Organization Theorist: Whether
In A Beehive Or The Court Of Elizabeth I, He Knew How Honey (Or Money) Got
Things Done. VII: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR 13. The Case Of The Ubiquitous
Chief Of Staff: How A Job Invented By And Once Confined To The Military
Escaped Its Uniformed Existence And Is Now Commonly Found In Government And
Corporate Offices. 14. Organization Development in Hollywood war
movies: From John Wayne in The Sands of Iwo Jima to G. I. Jane and beyond.
VIII: MANAGERIALISM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 15. George Orwell's Big
Brother is Bigger and Better than Ever: He is not Only Watching You; He is
Counting The Number of Times You Visit His Web Site, Taking Your Picture,
Converting It To A Series Of Numbers And Destroying Your Anonymity! 16. Was
It Al Gore Who Really Invented the Internet? And did Gore Subsequently lose
the 2000 Presidential Election to George W. Bush by Threatening to Take
Away the Internet? IX: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 17. How The American Strategic
Policy Of Containment (Of Communism In General And The Russian Soviet Union
In Particular) Gradually Evolved Just After World War II To Win The Cold
War In 1989. 18. The Rand Corporation As An Exemplar: The Origins Of, And
Increasingly Important Role Of, Strategic Think Tanks. X: LEADERSHIP 19.
Implementing Strategy Through The Levels Of Leadership And Strategic
Optimism: How Strategic Leadership Invariably Devolves Into Tactical
Operations. 20. Was It Good Leadership For General Douglas Macarthur To
Take His Staff With Him When He Abandoned His Army In The Philippines And
Ran Away To Australia At The Beginning Of World War II? XI: PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT 21. Why Advancement In Public Administration Has Always Been An
Essay Contest: Case Examples From The Presidency And The Bureaucracy. 22.
The Case For Mentoring Junior Managers With Executive Potential: How
General Fox Conner Set A Young Dwight D. Eisenhower On The Path To The
Presidency. XII: SOCIAL EQUITY 23. Brown Reverses Plessy's Doctrine: The
Story Of How Thurgood Marshall Convinced The U. S. Supreme Court That
Separate Was Inherently Not Equal, Laid The Legal Foundations For The
Modern Civil Rights Movement, And Earned Himself An Appointment As The
First African American Associate Justice On The Supreme Court. 24. The
Government Regulation Of Sex: Toward Greater Social Equity At Work Through
Remedial Legislation, Judicial Precedents And Sexual Harassment
Prohibitions Written Into Manuals Of Personnel Rules XIII: PUBLIC FINANCE
25. Take Me Out To The Ball Game And You Buy The Ticket: The Case For
Public Stadium Financing. 26. The Fall Of The House Of California: How The
Richest State In The U. S. Cratered Into Budgetary Chaos And A Fiscal
Nightmare XIV: PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION 27. Why Florence
Nightingale, The Famous Nurse Who Pioneered The Graphic Presentation Of
Statistical Data, Is The Now Forgotten "Mother" Of "Powerpoint"
Illustrations. 28. The Often Ridiculous Nature of Public Policy and its
Analysis: Why It Is So Important to Always Allow for Ridicule and to
Seriously Consider the Ridiculous.