Cover; Title; Copyright; Brief Contents; Detailed Contents; Preface; Key Events in Public Administration; CHAPTER 1 Defining Public Administration; Keynote: Go Tell the Spartans; The Definitions of Public Administration; Political Definitions of Public Administration; Public Administration Is What Government Does; Public Administration Is Both Direct and Indirect; Public Administration Is a Phase in the Public Policymaking Cycle; Public Administration Is Implementing the Public Interest; Public Administration Is Doing Collectively That Which Cannot Be So Well Done Individually., Legal Definitions of Public AdministrationPublic Administration Is Law in Action; Public Administration Is Regulation; Public Administration Is the King's Largesse; Public Administration Is Theft; Managerial Definitions of Public Administration; Public Administration Is the Executive Function in Government; Public Administration Is a Management Specialty; Public Administration Is Mickey Mouse; Public Administration Is Art, Not Science-or Vice Versa; Occupational Definitions of Public Administration; Public Administration Is an Occupational Category; Public Administration Is an Essay Contest., Public Administration Is Idealism in ActionPublic Administration Is an Academic Field; Public Administration Is a Profession; The Evolution of Public Administration; A Short History of Public Administration; The Pre-modern Period and Five Eras of Civil Service Development; The Modern Period and Shifting Perspectives on the Roles of Government; Working in the Public Sector in the Twenty-First Century; A Case Study: How a President Undeservedly Received Credit for Founding a Discipline; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended Books., CHAPTER 2 The Political and Cultural Environment of Public Policy and its AdministrationKeynote: Who Decides Whether the United States Should Wage War?; What Is Public Policy?; Public Policymaking in a Republic; Executive Powers; The Restricted View; The Prerogative Theory; The Stewardship Theory; The Policymaking Process; Agenda Setting; Decision Making; A Single Calculating Decision Maker-Not!; Implementation; Evaluation; Feedback; Power-The External Perspective; Pluralism; Group Theory; Power-The Internal Perspective; Organizational Goals; Internal Power Relationships., and The Cultures of Public OrganizationsThe Outside Cultural Environment; Cultural Values and Administration; The Inside Cultural Environment; Professional Socialization; Symbolic Management; A Case Study: How Old Bottles Create New Jobs-Both Legal and Not; Summary; Review Questions; Key Concepts; Bibliography; Recommended books; CHAPTER 3 The Continuous Reinventing of the Machinery of Government; Keynote: The New Feudalism; What Is the Machinery of Government?; Fine-Tuning the Machinery; The Rise and Fall of Governmental Machinery; The Administrative Architecture of the US Government.
