TY - BOOK AU - Rosenbloom , David H. AU - Kravchuk ,Robert S. AU - Clerkin,Richard M TI - Public administration: understanding management,politics, and law in the public sector SN - 9780071263818 AV - JF 1351 R67P 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York ; Singapore PB - McGraw-Hill KW - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION KW - UNITED STATE KW - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : definitions, concepts, and setting -- The practice and discipline of public administration : competing concerns -- The American administrative state : development and political environment -- Federalism and intergovernmental relations : the structure of the American administrative state -- Core functions -- Organization : structure and process -- Public personnel administration and collective bargaining -- Budgeting and the public finances -- Decision making -- The convergence of management, politics, and law in the public sector -- Policy analysis and implementation evaluation -- Regulatory administration : an illustration of management, politics, and law in the public sector -- Public administration and the public -- Public administration and the public -- Public administration and democratic constitutionalism -- Accountability and ethics -- The future ER -