Public Administration An Interdisciplinary Critical Analysis

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Edited by: Eran Vigoda ¹

 

Textbook / eBook | Print Published: 06/01/2002
Hard Cover
416 pages | Illustrated
Print ISBN: 0-8247-0717-6

Description

This text/reference stresses the impact of recent managerial reforms and shifting societal values on the stability, legitimacy, and progress of democratic governments and offers tools and strategies for a new generation of modern administrative systems—stressing a multi-method/multi-level analysis of current developments to revitalize the state and its administrative schemes, increase efficiency and accountability in government programs, and prepare effective remedies for the challenges and demands of the future.

Public Administration discusses

• innovations in consumer communication management and marketing
• evolving methods of policy planning, formation, and implementation
• the role of high-information/high-technology in public agencies

and considers

• ethical dilemmas in public service
• the definition of work for public sector employees
• population behavior during mass disasters

Providing insight into the transforming environment of democratic and international governing structures, Public Administration is an informative reference for practitioners and public service managers, public and government administrators, political scientists, sociologists, and public policy and public management specialists, and an indispensable text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in political science, sociology, management and business, human resource and industrial relations, public affairs, communication, comparative public administration, comparative politics, and political development.

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Table of Contents
 

The Legacy of Public Administration: Background and Review
Eran Vigoda

Politics and Policy Analysis: Players and Interests in the Governing Process

Economic Versus Social Values and Other Dilemmas in Policy Making
Ira Sharkansky
Toward More Democratic Governance: Modernizing the Administrative State in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Gerald E. Caiden and Naomi J. Caiden
Accountability in New Public Management: An Elusive Phenomenon?
Robert Schwartz
Governing in a Market Era: Alternative Models of Governing
B. Guy Peters
The Quest for Collaboration: Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Public Administration
Eran Vigoda and Etai Gilboa

Social and Cultural Analysis: Values, Ethics, and Information Revolution in the Administrative Process

The Meaning of Work for Public-Sector Versus Private-Sector Employees
Raphael Snir and Itzhak Harpaz
New Ethical Challenges Under the New Reform Movements in the Public Administration Sector
Rivka Amado
Public Administration—The New Generation: Management in High-Information-Level Societies
Lynton K. Caldwell
The Digitized Health Service: A Theoretical Framework for Public Administration
Urs E. Gattiker and Inger Marie Giversen
Can Competition Transform Public Organizations? European Attempts to Revitalize Hospitals Through Market Mechanisms
Michael I. Harrison

Organizational and Managerial Analysis: A Business Management Approach for the Public Sector

Some Organizational Learning About Change: Effective and Timely Change Are Not Oxymoronic in the Public Sector
Robert T. Golembiewski and Carl Miller
The Organization of Chaos: The Structure of Disaster Management
Alan Kirschenbaum
Consumer Communications Management and Public Administration: A View from the Business Bridge
Moshe Davidow
Toward Comprehensive Reform of Israel's Education System
Arye Globerson and Rami Ben-Yshai

Synthesis and Summary: Current Trends and the Way Forward

Public Management and Governance: Emerging Trends and Potential Future Directions
Tony Bovaird

Index