Introduction to Public Administration (Second Edition)

Author: Zhang Guoqing
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
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, comprising 20 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. Additionally, it has rewritten or revised chapters on 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 organization and classification;
(2) Broad and balanced knowledge and theory;
(3) Objective and fair analysis and evaluation;
(4) Rigorous and standardized academic conventions.
To this end, the book provides a bilingual (Chinese-English) name index for foreign scholars, and direct quotations and cited viewpoints are annotated with footnotes for sources. Additionally, each chapter includes a standardized format with "Key Terms," "Review and Reflection," and "References," listing approximately 200 reference books per 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, making it suitable for college and university students, government officials, and managers.