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Classics of Public Administration (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.65 — 287 ratings — published 1978
Public Administration: Concepts and Cases (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.72 — 127 ratings — published 1976
Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.84 — 329 ratings — published 1980
Introducing Public Administration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.38 — 183 ratings — published 1996
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,255 ratings — published 1988
Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.61 — 104 ratings — published 1992
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.02 — 591 ratings — published 1989
Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.49 — 77 ratings — published 1989
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.82 — 456 ratings — published 1988
New Horizons Of Public Administration (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.95 — 294 ratings — published 2000
The Politics of the Administrative Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.55 — 168 ratings — published 2001
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,915 ratings — published 2018
Classics of Organization Theory (with InfoTrac)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.63 — 187 ratings — published 1978
Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service (Text Teach / Policies)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.90 — 140 ratings — published 2001
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,615 ratings — published 2001
Public Administration The Business of Government
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.93 — 244 ratings — published 2008
Reframing Organizations Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,836 ratings — published 1990
The Public Administration Theory Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.68 — 80 ratings — published 2003
Public Administration in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 2.92 — 51 ratings — published 1995
Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.88 — 241 ratings — published 1992
The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.33 — 27 ratings — published 1974
Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,054 ratings — published 2002
The New Public Service: Serving, Not Steering (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.76 — 105 ratings — published 2002
Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.21 — 120 ratings — published 2018
Unmasking Administrative Evil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.06 — 100 ratings — published 1998
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,006 ratings — published 2000
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.93 — 89,462 ratings — published 1981
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,510 ratings — published 2011
Public Budgeting Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.31 — 107 ratings — published 1973
Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior and Instititutions (New Institutionalism in American Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.70 — 166 ratings — published 1996
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.34 — 5,031 ratings — published 2014
Economics of the Public Sector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.19 — 208 ratings — published 1986
Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Strategic Approach (Educational Resources for Nonprofit and Public Management)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.55 — 157 ratings — published 1997
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.68 — 591 ratings — published 1984
The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government (Public Affairs and Policy Administration Series)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.83 — 104 ratings — published 2005
Theories of Public Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.62 — 81 ratings — published 1993
Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 2000
The Case for Bureaucracy: A Public Administration Polemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.35 — 80 ratings — published 1983
Public Administration and Public Affairs (11th Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.62 — 105 ratings — published 1980
Public Administration: Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge (Public Management and Change)
by (shelved 3 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.62 — 37 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.29 — 118,283 ratings — published 2017
Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction (4th Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.88 — 153 ratings — published 1980
Public Administration - Paper 1 - KBC Nano (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published
Understanding and Managing Public Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.60 — 95 ratings — published 1991
The Implementation Game: What Happens After a Bill Becomes a Law (Mit Studies in American Politics and Public Policy, 1)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1977
Public Administration: Administrative Theories and Concepts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.36 — 58 ratings — published 1997
Ideas and Issues in Public Administration: A Book of Readings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,477 ratings — published 2017
Disaster Policy and Politics: Emergency Management and Homeland Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.98 — 45 ratings — published 2008
The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as public-administration)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,711 ratings — published 2020
“One of the claims to a special status in democratic government, it seemed to me, was being made by those creating the literature of public administration - a claim more or less obscured by a language of "public service" and "civil servant.”
― The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
― The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
“Public servants are the only servants who are routinely rude to their payer and still manage to retain their position and payment.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
