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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 351
EAN num: 9780495007395
ISBN number: 0495007390
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 704
Printing Date: March 20, 2006
Publishing house: Wadsworth Publishing
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Think you know how to run a city government? Find out how it's really done with PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICA. This edition shows you how the day-to-day operations work, plus asks tough questions about ethics and power. Take your leadership to a new level and ace the class with PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONIN AMERICA.
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Up to date and relevent. It gets to the point: a nice change if pace in a textbook.
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This is a great book, required for use at my university, however it is very well written and I love the size of the book.
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I have used several editions of this book in my introduction to public administration courses; I have been very pleased by the breadth of coverage as well as the clarity of the exposition. In particular, the book adopts a strongly political view of administration in the public sector that is easily translatable to the classroom.
In particular, the authors adopt Yates' framework of administrative efficiency vs. pluralistic democracy early in the work and this framework serves to inform the discusion of policy, personnel, budgeting, decision making, et cetera. This provides the book with a strong thematic component that I have found lacking in other books of this type.
A couple of criticisms: The sections on ensuring democratic processes in public administration is a bit confusing and lacks a unifying theme. However, the elements of the discusion are there and can be easily clarified in a classroom discussion.
Secondly, and this is a quibble is that the treatment of alternative decision making models is a bit sketchy, but then again this is an introductory tome.
All in all a good, useful and CLEAR book for undergrad courses.
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