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.
The purpose of this book is not so much to force choices among the alternative visions of governance, but rather to make the choices available to governments more evident. To the extent that these models have been implemented in the real worl (particularly the market model), they have been put forward for ideological reasons as much as from any through consideration of their relative merits. Ea…