Public administration
Subtitle: power and politics in the fourth branch of government
By: Kevin B. Smith, Michael Licari.
Contributors: Licari, Michael J.
Publisher: Roxbury Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Public administration -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The government you didn't know you had, or why you should be interested in studying public administration; title: The administrative state, or where did all this bureaucracy come from?; title: A difficult mission : trying to please all the people all the time; title: Bureaucratic power in a democratic state, or why government is more than it's cracked up to be; title: Ethics and accountability; title: Deciding and doing : the central challenges of public administration; title: Public sector performance; title: Public budgeting; title: Managing people; title: Implementation; title: The future of public administration.