Public Administration Textbook Pdf
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Norma M. Riccucci is a professor of public administration at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of Unsung Heroes: Federal Execucrats Making a Difference and How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform which won the 2009 Herbert Simon Book Award from the American Political Science Association.
Dr. Angela Pool-Funai, director of the Southern Utah University master of public administration (MPA) program and assistant professor of political science and public administration, recently published her first book, Ethics in Fiscal Administration: An Introduction, summer of 2018. Pool-Funai is the first, to her knowledge within the field of public sector budgeting, to write a textbook that primarily discuss ethics in public administration.
Pool-Funai has degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University, Baylor University, and Valdosta State University. She specializes in public administration, virtual currency, tax policy, and philanthropy.
Public Administration: The Essentials provides students with the conceptual foundation they need for an introduction to the field of public administration. This OER textbook covers the most critical issues in the field through the use of classic texts and theory as well as through modern examples.
Jayme Renfro is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Northern Iowa. Dr. Renfro teaches Public Administration and Public Policy at the undergraduate and graduate level, offering introductory courses as well as courses in leadership and management, race and policy, policy process and analysis, and public human resourcemanagement. She has previously published three books, State and Local Government 2013-14, State and Local Government 2014-15, and Cases and Topics in State and Local Government. She has also published several articles in political science journals on political behavior.
Since 1968, the National Academy of Public Administration has recognized outstanding contributions to the literature of public administration through the presentation of the Louis Brownlow Book Award. The Award recognizes outstanding contributions on topics of wide contemporary interest to practitioners and scholars in the field of public administration. Generally, it is made to an author who provides new insights, fresh analysis, and original ideas that contribute to the understanding of the role of governmental institutions and how they can most effectively serve the public.
Books published during the two years preceding the closure date are eligible for consideration. Nominations may be submitted by publishers, professional associations, or individuals with an interest in the subject matter. Each publisher or organization may nominate as many as three books; each individual may submit one book. The nominators must include a statement explaining the contribution of the book to public administration literature.
There is no restriction on the official or academic status of the author. Textbooks and collections of essays written by a number of different authors are not eligible. Typically an entry will be considered only the first time it is submitted. A later edition or revision of a published work will not be considered unless there has been a very substantial revision containing new material and/or a new interpretation of data.
Public Administration: The Essentials provides students with the conceptual foundation they need for an introduction to the field of public administration. This OER textbook covers the most critical issues in the field through the use of classic texts and theory as well as through modern examples.
Dr. Jayme L. Renfro, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Northern Iowa
The foundation of this series will be both cutting-edge contributions on emerging topics and definitive reviews of keystone topics in public and nonprofit administration, especially those that lack longer treatment in textbook or other formats.
Among keystone topics of interest for scholars and practitioners of public and nonprofit administration, we are interested in contributions in the areas of public management, public budgeting and finance, nonprofit studies, and the interstitial space between the public and nonprofit sectors, along with theoretical and methodological contributions, including quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods pieces. Among emerging topics of interest, we are interested in cutting-edge contributions that push the boundaries of our field.
*The Public Management Research Association improves public governance by advancing research on public organizations, strengthening links among interdisciplinary scholars, and furthering professional and academic opportunities in public management.
Andrew Whitford is Alexander M. Crenshaw Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. His research centers on strategy
and innovation in public policy and organization studies. His papers have been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the American Journal of Public Health, and the American Journal of Political Science.
This undergraduate textbook introduces students to the subjects of public administration, government and governance. It provides an accessible and informative overview of the various substantive areas that comprise the study of public administration, drawing on examples and case studies from around the world. The opening chapters outline some of the basics of the political-administrative institutional arrangements for governing. The following chapters introduce students to the fundamentals of public administration. Study questions, supplemental guidance for instructors, and a glossary of terms will be useful for both students and teachers.
The book is accompanied by a comprehensive online Instructors' Manual, complete with PowerPoint slides for each chapter, case studies, relevant YouTube videos to illustrate chapter content, additional artwork, webinars, and relevant films and tv shows to better engage students in important themes of public service. This text, then, is very much a dynamic learning system designed to enliven the teaching of public administration, improve the learning experience, and help motivate students of public service to become problem-solving public servants.
Now in an extensively revised 9th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. Known for its lively and witty writing style, this beloved textbook examines the most important issues in the field of public administration through the use of examples from various disciplines and modern culture. This unique approach captivates students and encourages them to think critically about the nature of public administration today. Refreshed and revised throughout, the 9th edition contains a number of imporant updates:
- An exploration of the 2008 economic meltdown and its consequences for the regulation of financial markets, cut-back management, and social equity, providing students with a critical look at the recent changes in the global economy.
- All-new images, international examples, keynotes, and case studies have been incorporated to reflect the diversity of public servants throughout history. Case studies correspond to those in optional companion book Cases in Public Policy and Administration to offer clear discussion points and seamless learning with the two books side by side.
- New sections on careers in public service, whistleblowing and public employee dissent, networks and collaboration across organizations, social innovation, managerialism and productivity improvement, Big Data and cloud computing, collaboration and civic engagement, and evidence-based policy and management.
This introductory textbook provides students with the conceptual foundation they need for an introduction to the field of public administration. This OER textbook, available as an ebook and downloadable pdf, covers the most critical issues in the field through the use of classic texts and theory as well as through modern examples. Related teaching materials are available upon request.
Governments across the world make thousands of personnel management decisions, procure millions of goods and services, and execute billions of processes each day. They are data rich. And yet, there is little systematic practice to-date which capitalizes on this data to make public administrations work better. This means that governments are missing out on data insights to save billions in procurement expenditures, recruit better talent into government, and identify sources of corruption, to name just a few.
Part 2 focuses on cross-cutting challenges in government analytics. These include privacy and ethics, holistic measurement which addresses risks (e.g. from political pressure on indicators), up-to-date analytics practice which accord with good social science principles and measurement of the use of government analytics indicators by decision-makers.
Part 4 focuses on surveys of public servants, one of the most widely used data sources for government analytics by governments to-date. Part 4 surveys the global landscape of public servant surveys and provides novel empirical evidence to advise governments on how to best design and implement surveys of public servants, and how to best leverage survey results for management improvements.
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