Policing, environmental protection, and tax administration have much more in common than practitioners in these areas often recognize. Their cultures and traditions have, for the past few decades, inc
With the benefit of a historical perspective on the development of American public service from the days of the progressives to the present, the contributors to this book argue that deregulating the
This is one of the very first studies by Chinese and Western experts to analyze the current picture of public administration in China. The authors provide a general background into the nature of publi
This reference handbook gives a detailed, objective picture of the evolution, structure, and processes of public administration in representative Third World countries. Written by an international gro
In this lively and, ultimately, disturbing study of policy analysts who are employed in bureaucracies, the author finds a startling paradox. The analysts know that the papers they so painstakingly pre
Are phenomena labeled as corrupt subject to systematic social science investigation, or does corruption lie so much in the eye of the beholder as to frustrate serious analysis? The editors of this vol
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears un
Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to pol
This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s.
A Primer for Policy Analysis is an overview of economic theory as it is applied to environmental problems. It does not, however, consider other approaches to such problems.
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