In the pages that follow, we argue that American representative democracy is neither representative nor democratic.Sovereign will formation is not happening. Lacking sovereign legitimacy, top-down bureaucratic rule is but petty autocracy. Worse, the postmodern condition that we describe deprives the culture at large of any robust basis in shared reality from which the sovereignty of the whole p…
This book has been a long time in its writing, but fortunately as the decade has rolled on we have found that the simplistic private-good, public-bad propositions that heard in 1990 have been largerly discredited. The reader will find that s/he has a vast interdisiplinary range of concepts and analytical frame-works to explore.
Buku ini diterbitkan dalam upaya untuk menambah wawasan ilmu kebijaksanaan pemerintah bagi pengambil keputusan, utamanaya di tingkat daerah. Semoga buku ini dapat bermanfaat bagi pejabat pemerintah, masyarakat dan menambah khasanah kepustakaan.
This book is designed to cover materials required for research methods courses in MPA programs certified by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPA). It is also appropriate for traditional social science methods courses if the instructor wishes ti use material focusing on examples and applications from the public policy area.
Highlights of this third edition include: a discussion of current policy analysis and management issues, new approaches to organization theory, theoretical considerations as they relate to practical experience and an exploration of the future of public administration.
Looking forward to the decade of the 1990s, twenty-two of the thirty-two articles included here are new to this edition of Current Issues in Public Administration. To begin with, a new chapter has been added dealing with the relation between business and public administration. The article on computers and technology takes a unique approach, projecting the impact of these dramatic changes on man…
This book provided a review of the literature on management and organization theory and addressed applications for the public sector grounded in evidence from research on public organizations and their members. It was intended to be valuable to practicing managers, scholars, and studenets in the field.
Implementing Public Policy, the sixth book in Congressional Quarterly Press public policy series, is both appropriate and timely. In his simple but compelling book, professor George C. Edwards III of Texas A & M University examines four sets of categories -communication, resources, dispositions, and bureaucratic structure- all of which may contribute to or inhibit the implementationof public po…
Performance management is an important multi-disciplinary topic. It is central to good government by parties of any political persuasion, and to effective public administration. This report presents the findings of a project looking at performance management in public sector agencies.