Administration category: 6852 books
by James L. Perry, Robert K. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The fundamentals of public administration, from the world's leading practitioners
Handbook of Public Administration is the classic, comprehensive guide to the field, featuring original writings from the world's foremost public administration thought leaders and practitioners. Intended to help...
by S.K Kochhar
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
"For all those who are in the field of education this book will clearly explain about school administration and educational management to institutional planning. Is also prepares the reader to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century in the areas of educational administration and management....
by Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell, Christopher P. Borick
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Now in an extensively revised 9th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. Known for its lively and witty writing style, this beloved textbook examines the most important issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Christopher Hodgkinson is one of the most important contributors to the field of educational administration. This collection of essays open up the philosophical foundations of ethical educational administration by reviewing his writings and exploring the ethical theories of major philosophers, as...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative...
The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration
Transforming, Performing, and Innovating in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Public management is context dependent, rather than generic. That may sound obvious, but in the late 1920s through the 1930s, a dominant strand of thought considered public administration to be a "single process," wherever practiced. Today by contrast, federal administration is distinguished...
Centering Educational Administration
Cultivating Meaning, Community, Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2003
In this book, Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice. In Part I, he develops three main themes--cultivating meaning, community, and moral responsibility--which he then positions...
by William K.G. Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In a nation ‘freed without freedom, led without leaders, governed without governance, and justice is just-them;’ Dr. William Kpanah Gowah Barnes, a distinguished Liberian educator, expert of governance, former executive of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and a victim of injustices,...
American Public Administration
Public Service for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the last decade. Now in an extensively revised and updated second edition, authors Cropf and Wagner weave the most recent and compelling research throughout every...
Public Administration
Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among scholars. The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci embraces...
The Next Public Administration
Debates and Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component of democratic governance and fostering a state-citizen...
The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration
A Conflict in World Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Viewed alternately as an obstacle to justice, an impediment to efficient government, and a tool by which some groups gain benefits and privileges at the expense of others, public administration threatens to become the whipping boy of American government. In this innovative look at the nation's bureaucracy,...
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
A Value Pluralist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and skewed priorities. Supporters of this anti-political stance have become even more strident in...
The Public Administration Profession
Policy, Management, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
While many introductory public administration textbooks contain a dedicated chapter on ethics, The Public Administration Profession is the first to utilize ethics as a lens for understanding the discipline. Analyses of the ASPA Code of Ethics are deftly woven into each chapter alongside complete coverage...