Introduction to Public Administration

Author: Zhou Qingxing, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is dedicated to interpreting the public nature of government actions from a public perspective and attempts to establish an administrative analysis framework rooted in publicness. This framework is a value chain composed of four parts—“Public Administrative Theory,” “Public Administrative System,” “Public Administrative Technology,” and “Public Administrative Practice,” totaling 20 chapters—to clarify issues such as the dislocation and confusion of public administrative subjects caused by “official-centric thinking,” “money-centric thinking,” and “one-sided performance-oriented thinking,” the deviation of public administrative value standards and value selection, the decline of public administrative value ideals, and the lack of scientific development concepts and correct performance-oriented thinking among public decision-making subjects. It upholds the unity of purposefulness and regularity between individual and collective interests, as well as between partial and overall interests, and regards the pursuit of the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people as the eternal value orientation of public administration. In the selection of cases, it adheres to a stance rooted in the western region and oriented toward the nation, exhibiting a strong sense of western identity and flavor.