Introduction to Public Administration - (Second Edition)

Author: Zhang Guoqing
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Publishing Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This book focuses on "Public Administration in the 20th Century." In terms of temporal scope, it selects works such as Woodrow Wilson's The Study of Administration (1887) as theoretical markers for the beginning of public administration, and works like David Osborne and Ted Gaebler's Reinventing Government (1992) as theoretical markers for the end of the 20th-century public administration research. It provides extensive introductions and discussions on the important ideas, theories, events, debates, tasks, and representative works of public administration over the past century. An Introduction to Public Administration (Second Edition) is divided into four parts, with a total of twenty chapters. It adds chapters on administrative functions, public finance, administrative capacity, rule of law governance, administrative ethics, contemporary Chinese administrative reforms, and the development of public administration. It also completely rewrites or revises chapters such as the introduction, administrative power, administrative efficiency, administrative implementation, and administrative methods, while enriching, correcting, and adjusting other chapters. The total text is approximately 610,000 words.
As a textbook, this book emphasizes:
(1) Appropriate and logical layout and categorization;
(2) Broad and balanced knowledge and theories;
(3) Objective and fair analysis and evaluation;
(4) Rigorous and standardized academic conventions.
To this end, the book includes a bilingual (Chinese-English) name index for foreign scholars, and direct quotes and key viewpoints are also annotated with footnotes for their sources. Additionally, each chapter features a standardized format with "Glossary," "Review and Reflection," and "Key References," with approximately 200 reference books listed for each chapter. This book is one of the most comprehensive textbooks in China regarding the knowledge, theory, academic rigor, standardization, and reference value of public administration. It is suitable for college and university students, government officials, and managers to study.