The Social Construction of Public Administration
The Social Construction of Public Administration

Author: Jong S. Jun

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0791481891

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In this conceptual guided tour of contemporary public administration, Jong S. Jun challenges the limitations of the discipline which, he argues, make it inadequate for understanding today's complex human phenomena. Drawing on examples and case studies from both Eastern and Western countries, he emphasizes critical and interpretive perspectives as a counterforce to the instrumental-technical rationality that reduces the field to structural and functionalist views of management. He also emphasizes the idea of democratic social construction to transcend the field's reliance on conventional pluralist politics. Jun stresses that public administrators and institutions must create opportunities for sharing and learning among organizational members and must facilitate interactive processes between public administrators and citizens so that the latter can voice their problems and opinions. The future role of public administrators will be to transcend the limitations of the management and governing of modern public administration and to explore ways of constructing socially meaningful alternatives through communicative action and the participation of citizens.

Handbook of Public Administration
Handbook of Public Administration

Author: W. Bartley Hildreth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 1705

ISBN-13: 1351564420

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Since the publication of the previous edition, the best-selling Handbook of Public Administration enters its third edition with substantially revised, updated, and expanded coverage of public administration history, theory, and practice. Edited by preeminent authorities in the field, this work is unparalleled in its thorough coverage and comprehensive references. This handbook examines the major areas in public administration including public budgeting and financial management, human resourcemanagement, decision making, public law and regulation, and political economy. Providing a strong platform for further research and advancement in the field, this book is a necessity for anyone involved in public administration, policy, and management. This edition includes entirely new chapters on information technology and conduct of inquiry. In each area of public administration, there are two bibliographic treatises written from different perspectives. The first examines the developments in the field. The second analyzes theories, concepts, or ideas in the field’s literature.

Bureaucracy in the Modern State
Bureaucracy in the Modern State

Author: Jon Pierre

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781781959718

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Public administration is under increasing pressure to become more efficient, better geared to the demands and opinions of citizens, more open to contacts with transnational bureaucracies, and more responsive to the ideas of elected policy makers

Comparative Public Administration
Comparative Public Administration

Author: Eric E. Otenyo

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2006-07-24

Total Pages: 1017

ISBN-13: 0762313595

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Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. This title brings together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary public management scholarship.

Contemporary Public Administration
Contemporary Public Administration

Author: David H. Rosenbloom

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13:

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Designed as a one-step guide to the issues, perspectives and vocabulary of modern public administration, this reader considers topics such as public choice, total quality management and deregulation, while delivering the classic material essential for mastery of the special language, concepts, analysis, history and practice of public administration.

Introducing Public Administration
Introducing Public Administration

Author: Jay M. Shafritz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 1317347412

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Updated in its 8th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides readers with a solid, conceptual foundation in public administration, and contains the latest information on important trends in the discipline.Known for their lively and witty writing style, Shafritz, Russell, and Borick cover the most important issues in public administration using examples from various disciplines and modern culture. This approach captivates readers and encourages them to think critically about the nature of public administration today.