Why Public Service Matters [electronic resource] : Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy / by R. Durant.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137069573
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/25998
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2014.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIV, 290 p. 10 illus. online resource.
Özet, vb.
Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America's "compensatory state" and on the pitfalls of reformers' focus on bureaucratic, rather than democratic, administration. The book links the nation's ability to handle contemporary policy problems with the strategic, tactical, and normative quality of public management. In doing so, it offers newcomers a rare, concise, and accessible overview of the field. Readers will gain an appreciation for the challenges, choices, and opportunities facing public managers as they help advance a sense of common purpose informed by democratic constitutional values in twenty-first century America.
Konu
Political science.
Political sociology.
Strategic planning.
Leadership.
Public administration.
Political planning.
Political Science.
Political Sociology.
Business Strategy and Leadership.
Public Administration.
Public Policy.
Political sociology.
Strategic planning.
Leadership.
Public administration.
Political planning.
Political Science.
Political Sociology.
Business Strategy and Leadership.
Public Administration.
Public Policy.
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