Title: The spirit of public administration /
Authors: Frederickson, H. George
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Public administration
Abstract: In this field-defining, broad approach to the study and practice of public administration, H. George Frederickson, one of the field's most respected scholars, carefully measures the meets and bounds of public administration and fixes its place in the context of changing politics, values, and ethics. He describes a robust and exciting public administration that includes, but is much more than, effective government management. Frederickson strongly defends broad grants of.
Contents: Introduction: Understanding public administration -- Part one: Governance, politics, and the public -- Finding the public in public administration -- The political context of public administration -- Public administration as governance -- Part two: Issues of fairness -- The question of administrative discretion -- Fairness and social equity in public administration -- Intergenerational concepts of public administration -- Part three: Ethics, citizenship, and benevolence in public administration -- Ethics and public administration -- The paradox of distance and the problem of differentiation (with David G. Frederickson) -- Patriotism, benevolence, and public administration (with David Kirkwood Hart) -- The public administrator as a representative citizen (with Ralph Clark Chandler) -- Pushing things up to their first principles.