David H Rosenbloom, Robert S Kravchuk, Richard M Clerkin

Public Administration

Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector

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Produktbeschreibung

Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector, Ninth Edition grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity. It describes, explains, and analyses public administration through the lenses of three well-established perspectives: management, politics, and law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 9th edition
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1352g
• ISBN-13: 9781032055602
• ISBN-10: 103205560X
• Artikelnr.: 62227027

Autorenporträt

David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at American University in Washington, DC. Robert S. Kravchuk is Professor of Public Affairs in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Richard M. Clerkin is Professor MPA Director in the Department of Public Administration in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. PART I Introduction: Definitions, Concepts, and Settings CHAPTER 1
The Contemporary Practice and Discipline of Public Administration:
Managerial, Political and Policy, and Legal Perspectives. Some Definitions.
Constitutions. The Public Interest. Public Value and Public Values. The
Market. Sovereignty. Regulation and Service. Managerial, Political and
policy, and Legal Approaches. The Managerial Approach to Public
Administration. Traditional Managerial Legacies in Contemporary Public
Administration. Organizational Structure. View of the Individual Cognitive
Approach. Resource Allocation. Decision Making. The Contributions of New
Public Management to the Contemporary Managerial Approach. Organizational
Structure. View of the Individual. Cognitive Approach. Resource Allocation.
Decision Making. Human Resources Management. The Political and Policy
Approach to Public Administration. Organizational Structure. Cognitive
Approach. View of the Individual. Resource Allocation. Decision Making.
Human Resources Management. The Legal Approach to Public Administration.
Main Sources. Constitutional law. Increasing Relevance of the Law. Legal
Values. Organizational Structure. View of the Individual. Cognitive
Approach. Resource Allocation. Decision Making. Human Resources Management.
From New Public Management to New Public Governance: Current Trends in
Public Administration. Broadening Performance Measurement. Using Networks,
Partnerships, and Collaborative Coproduction. Capacity Building. Civic
Participation and Engagement. Conflict Resolution. Conclusion: Public
Administration Reconsidered. STUDY QUESTIONS/ADDITIONAL READING/PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION THEORY WEB SITES. CHAPTER 2 The American Administrative
State: Development and Political Environment. The Rise of the American
Administrative State. The Political and Policy Roots of the American
Administrative State. Goals of Government. Public Policy. "Third-Party
Government". Drivers of Growth. The Legal Origins of American Public
Administration. Regulation. Balancing Liberty and Equality. The
Administrative Procedure Act. The Managerial Origins of the Contemporary
American Administrative State. Administrative Authority and Responsibility.
The Paradox of Administrative Power. Administrative Independence. Public
Policy Making. Responses to the Rise of the Administrative State. The
President and Public Administration. The Mythical Presidency. Limits to
Presidential Authority. Tools of Presidential Management. Congress and the
Administrative State. The Courts: A Judicial Response to Modern Public
Administration, Strengthening and Articulating Constitutional Rights.
Stricter Scrutiny of Administrative Decisions. Public Law Litigation or
Remedial Law. Liability and Immunity. Interest Groups. Advisory Committees.
Negotiated Rule Making. Legislative Review of Rules. Other Avenues of
Influence. Public Employee Unions and Contractors' Associations. The
Public. Political Parties. State and Local Governments. Extensions to the
Administrative State. The Managerial Approach. The Political and Policy
Approach. The Legal Approach. Conclusion: The Administrative State. Study
Questions/Additional Reading/Federal, State, and Local Web Sites/Notes.
CHAPTER 3 Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations. The Structure of the
American Administrative State. Why Federalism? The Political Approach. What
Federalism Does. Dual Sovereignty. Bicameralism. Multiple Layers of
Representation. Administrative Decentralization: The Managerial Approach.
The Quest for Uniformity: The Legal Approach. The Fourteenth Amendment. The
Commerce Clause. The Tenth Amendment. The Eleventh Amendment. Evolving
Models of American Federalism. American Government: The Building Blocks.
Municipalities. Townships. Counties. School Districts and Other Special
Districts. States. Federal. Intergovernmental Relations. Federal-State
Relations and Fiscal Federalism. "Horizontal Federalism": Interstate
Relations. Relationships among Local Governments. Conclusion: Federalism
and Intergovernmental Relations. Study Questions/Additional
Reading/Federalism Web Sites/Notes. PART II Introduction: Definitions,
Concepts, and Settings. CHAPTER 4. Core Functions. Organization: Structure
and Process. Organizations and Organization Theory. What Are Organizations?
Organization Theory. Commonalities in Public Administrative Organizations.
Bureaucracy. Scientific Management. The Human Relations Approach.
Leadership. Motivation. Contemporary Approaches to Organization Theory.
Managerial Perspectives on Public Organizations . Orthodox Public
Administration: POSDCORB. Challenges to the Orthodoxy. What Will Replace
POSDCORB. The Political and Policy Approach to Public Organizations.
Pluralism. Autonomy. The Legislative Connection. Decentralization. A
Checklist of Political Questions on Administrative Organization. The Legal
Approach to Public Organizations. Independence. The Commission Format.
Insulation from Ex Parte Influences. Independent Hearing Examiners -
Administrative Law Judges. Staffing for Adjudication. Alternative Dispute
Resolution. Conclusion: The Future . Fundamental Assumptions. Democratic
Organization. Market-Based Organization. The Networked Organization. New
Public Governance, an Emerging Synthesis of Trends? Study Questions / Notes
/ Additional Readings. CHAPTER 5 Public Personnel Administration and
Collective Bargaining. Historical Background. Public Personnel
Administration According to "Gentlemen". Public Personnel Administration
According to "Spoils". Public Personnel Administration According to
"Merit". Management, Politics and Policy, and Law in Public Personnel
Administration. Civil Service Reform, 1978. HRM Reform in the 1990s through
the 2010s. Managerial Public Personnel Administration. Position
Classification. Recruitment, Selection, and Promotion. Performance
Appraisal. Pay. Workforce Planning. Cutbacks. Quality of Work Life (QWL).
Political Neutrality. The Political and Policy Approach to Public Personnel
Administration. Responsiveness. Representativeness. The Legal Approach to
Public Personnel Administration. The Constitutional Rights of Public
Employees and Applicants. The Liability and Immunity of Public Employees.
Collective Bargaining and Labor-Management Partnerships. Collective
Bargaining. Labor-Management Partnerships. Conclusions: Three Possible
Futures for HRM. Study Questions / Notes / Additional Readings. CHAPTER 6
Budgeting and the Public Finances The Size and Growth of Budgets. Sources
of Revenues. Revenue Evaluation Criteria. Governmental Fiscal Policy
Making. The National Debt: Is it a Burden? The Federal Budgetary Process.
Stages in the Budgetary Process. The Distinction between Authority and
Appropriations. The Continuing Saga of the Budget: Execution. Continuing
Problem Areas. A Budget Theory or Theories about Budgeting? The Managerial
Approach to Public Budgeting. The Political and Policy Approach to Public
Budgeting. The Legal Influence on Budgeting. Study Questions / Notes /
Additional Readings / Budgeting Websites. CHAPTER 7 Decision Making.
Practical Realities: "Small World" and "Large World" Decisions. The
Traditional Managerial Approach to Decision Making. Specialization.
Hierarchy. Formalization. Merit. The Rational-Comprehensive Model. Critique
of the Rational-Comprehensive Model. The Political and Policy Approach to
Decision Making: The Incremental Model. Components of the Incremental
Model. Incrementalism and Small- and Large-World Problems. A Critique of
the Incremental Model. The Legal Approach to Decision Making. Advantages of
Adjudication. Critique of Adjudication as a Decision Making Model. The Case
of Benzene in the Workplace. New Public Management and New Public
Governance Approaches to Decision Making. New Public Management and
Decision-Making. New Public Governance and Decision-Making. The Impact of
Context on Decision Making. Individual Level: Recognition-Primed Decision
Model. Organizational Level: The Governmental Process Model and
Decision-Making Inside the "Garbage Can" Conclusion: Synthesizing Decision
Making Approaches. What to Avoid. Impact of Information Technology. Study
Questions / Notes / Additional Readings / Budgeting Websites. PART III.
The Convergence of Management, Politics and Policy, and Law in the Public
Sector. CHAPTER 8. Policy Analysis and Implementation Evaluation. The
Growing Concern with Policy Analysis. Approaches to Analyzing Public
Policies. Outcomes Analysis. Process Analysis and Implementation Studies.
Big Data: An Emerging Methodology in Policy Analysis. Implementation
Evaluation. Managerial Perspectives on Implementation. Contemporary Public
Management. Discretion, Customer Satisfaction, and Performance. Monitoring
and Measuring Performance. The Political and Policy Perspective on
Implementation. Representation. Responsiveness. Accountability. The Legal
Perspectives on Implementation. Constitutional Integrity. Equal Protection.
Procedural Due Process and Protection of Individual Rights. Estoppel.
Using Analysis and Evaluation. Conclusion: The Complexity of Policy Design
. Study Questions / Notes / Additional Readings. CHAPTER 9. Regulatory
Administration. An Illustration of Management, Politics, and Law in the
Public Sector. Key Learning Objectives. The Development and Growth of
Regulatory Administration. Origins of Government Regulation. Market
Failure. Regulatory Federalism. Regulatory Policy and Administration.
Political Patterns. Social Factors. The Structure and Process of Regulatory
Administration. Independent Regulatory Commissions (IRCs). Regulatory
Agencies. Rule Making. Adjudication. Common Criticisms of Regulatory
Administration. Regulation Is Expensive. Regulation Dampens Economic
Performance. Regulation Produces Delay, Extravagant Red Tape, and
Paperwork. Incompetence and Impropriety. Overinclusiveness of Regulation.
Determining Success. DEREGULATION AND REGULATORY REFORM. Deregulation.
Behavioral Economics and "Nudging". Formal and Informal Rule Making.
Negotiated Rule Making. Perspectives on Regulatory Administration.
Traditional Managerial Legacies for Regulatory Administration. The New
Public Management Contributions to Contemporary Regulatory Management. The
Political Approach to Regulatory Administration. The Legal Approach to
Regulatory Administration. Conclusion: Synthesizing Approaches toward
Regulatory Administration. Study Questions. Additional Reading. REGULATORY
AFFAIRS WEB SITES. NOTES. PART IV. Public Administration and the Public.
CHAPTER 10. Public Administration and the Public. The Public's Interaction
with Public Administration. Clients Customers. The Regulated Public.
Participants. Litigants. Street-Level Encounters. Contractors. The
Individual in the Administrative State. The Individual in Society. The
Individual in the Political System. The Individual in the Economy. The
Public's Evaluation of Public Administration. Client and Customer
Satisfaction. A Look at Typical Government Services. Public Administrative
Approach to the Public. The Managerial Approach to the Public. The
Political and Policy Approach to the Public. The Legal Approach to the
Public. Conclusion: Putting the Public Back in Public Administration.
Study Questions / Notes / Additional Resources. CHAPTER 11. Public
Administration and Democratic Constitutionalism. Key Learning Objectives.
Why Public Administrators Must Understand the Constitution. Administrative
Structure and Constitutional Structure. Administrative Separation of
Functions. Constitutional Separation of Powers. Collapse of the Separation
of Powers. The Phillips Case. Administrative Discretion and "Guerrilla
Government". The Three "Masters" of Public Administration. Constitutional
Values. Legitimacy. Diversity among the Citizenry. Freedom and Liberty.
Property Rights. Procedural Due Process. Equal Protection. Individuality.
Fourth Amendment Privacy Rights. Equity. State Action. Conclusion: An
Ongoing Partnership. Study Questions. Additional Reading. CONSTITUTIONAL
LAW WEB SITES. Notes. CHAPTER 12. Accountability and Ethics. Why the
Guardians Need Guarding. Misconception of the Public Interest. Corruption.
Subversion. Why It Is Difficult to Guard the Guardians. The Accretion of
Special Expertise and Information. The Advantage of Full-Time Status. The
Protective Nature of Personnel Systems. The "Law of Counter Control". The
Problem of Coordination. The Lack of Political Direction. The Fragmentation
of Agency Structures and Functions. The Large Size and Scope of Public
Administration. "Third-Party" Government. Ethics and Public Administrators:
Three Broad Approaches to Ethical Decision Making. Perspectives on
Accountability and Ethics. The Traditional Managerial Perspective. Recent
Variants: New Public Management and New Public Governance. The Political
and Policy Perspective. The Legal Perspective. Conclusion: Personal
Responsibility. Study Questions / Notes / Additional Readings / Government
Ethics Websites. CHAPTER 13. The Future. Key Learning Objectives. LESSONS
TO BE LEARNED. Presidential Authority Over the Federal Executive Branch.
Complexity. Public Administration Will Be Defined by Politics. Law Will
Continue to Be Central to Public Administration. Performance.
Disaggregation of Public Administration. Fragmentation of the Civil
Service. The Changing Face of Management. Personal Responsibility.
Conclusion: A New Administrative Culture. Study Questions. Additional
Readings. Public Administration Web Sites. Notes. Glossary. Credits. Index.