Product Description: Since the first edition of Public Administration and Law was published in 1983, it has retained its unique status of being the only book in the field of public administration that analyzes how constitutional law regulates and informs the way administrators interact with each other and the public...read more

Product Description: Features reflections on contemporary public administration. This work is useful for those interested in public administration scholarship.

Product Description: This book focuses on the essentials that public managers should know about administrative law—why we have administrative law, the constitutional constraints on public administration, and administrative law’s frameworks for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on the essentials that public managers should know about administrative law-why we have administrative law, the constitutional constraints on public administration, and administrative law's frameworks for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This work chronicles the creation of a coherent and wide-ranging legislative-centred public administration. The evolution of the relationship between federal agencies and Congress is discussed, which it is believed, leads to a better understanding of current administration. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The seventh edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity through multiple sets of values that affect administrative management of the American state...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive guide, this book covers employee relations and the legacy of quality and reengineering, and discussions on the growth of public personnel management in state and local sectors. The authors discuss affirmative action and equal opportunity case law, work and family issues, the Volcker Commission findings, an analysis of federal pay reform and innovative classification and compensation systems currently implemented by federal agencies, a discussion of constitutional and legal issues facing public personnel administration in areas such as AIDS and drug testing, figures and tables on collective bargaining laws and trends, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This textbook with cases provides students of public administration with a comprehensive working knowledge of the constitutional reasoning, values, and constraints that currently govern public administration throughout the United States...read more

Product Description: Now in its Third Edition, this collection gathers together nearly four dozen classic and contemporary readings that provide essential insights into the workings of the American political and governmental processes.

Product Description: This volume presents a broad overview of the political, administrative, legal and constitutional questions posed by the rise of the administrative state in the United States - covering all core subjects in the study of regulatory policy and administrative law.

Product Description: Designed as a one-step guide to the issues, perspectives and vocabulary of modern public administration, this reader considers topics such as public choice, total quality management and deregulation, while delivering the classic material essential for mastery of the special language, concepts, analysis, history and practice of public administration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Contains fourteen essays that examine, through a public policy focus, the 1978 civil service reform and its aftermath.  The essays view policy design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as the overall politics of administration and institutional change.  An indispensible tool for students of public administration, bureaucratic politics, and personnel policy. Contributors: Carolyn Ban; John Halligan; Kirke Harper; Mark Huddleston; J. Edward Kellough; Larry M. Lane; Chester A. Newland; James L. Perry; Beryl A. Radin; Robert Vaughn; and the editors.

Product Description: This mainstream US public administration text provides comprehensive coverage of all major aspects and areas of public administration. Each chapter topic is analyzed from three viewpoints - management, politics and law - allowing students the opportunity to explore the tensions and inter connections between the three perspectives...read more

Product Description: Now in its Third Edition, this collection gathers together nearly four dozen classic and contemporary readings that provide essential insights into the workings of the American political and governmental processes.