Introduction to Public Administration: Selected Readings

Author: (USA) Otte
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This is a reader in public administration, with the selected literature covering the nature, structure, functions, and challenges of public administration today. The reader is based on the assumption that public administration is not merely the application of business management tools to government agencies, but rather has its own overarching core values and ethics. Most of the literature selected for this reader comes from the most influential articles and works in the field. It examines long-standing public administration issues from a contemporary perspective of the "beginning of the 21st century," and in this regard, this reader is unprecedented.