Best Public Administration Books
Here you will get Best Public Administration Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. Introducing Public Administration
Author: by Jay M. Shafritz
Published at: Routledge; 9th edition (October 3, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1138666344
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 examination of the effect of the Barack Obama administration on the discipline, especially economic and financial management and budgetary policy, allowing students to apply the theories and concepts in the text to recent US government practice.
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.
2. Politics and the English Language: By George Orwell
Author: by George Orwell
Published at: Sahara Publisher Books (January 1, 1946)
ISBN: 978-2491704810
“Politics and the English Language” (1946) is an essay by George Orwell that criticised the “ugly and inaccurate” written English of his time and examines the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language. The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”. Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it.
This unclear prose was a “contagion” which had spread to those who did not intend to hide the truth, and it concealed a writer’s thoughts from himself and others. Orwell encourages concreteness and clarity instead of vagueness, and individuality over political conformity.
3. Classics of Public Administration
Author: by Jay M. Shafritz
Published at: Cengage Learning; 8th edition (January 1, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1305639034
With this newly expanded eighth edition of CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde introduce students to the principles of public administration via the most significant scholarly writings on the topic. Straightforward and informative, this text begins its discussion with Confucius in ancient China and continues to today’s political scientists.
This edition includes 17 new readings and addresses the key fields of public administration: bureaucracy, organization theory, human resources management, the budgetary process, public policy, implementation, evaluation, intergovernmental relations, and public service ethics.
4. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Author: by David Graeber
Published at: Melville House; Reprint edition (February 23, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1612195186
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms?
And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeberone of our most important and provocative thinkerstraces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even noticethough he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealingeven romanticabout bureaucracy.
Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible.
5. Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges
Author: by Norma M. Riccucci
Published at: Routledge; 6th edition (August 17, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1138689701
Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration, political science, and public policy over the last 25 years. Since the first edition published in 1991, the book has offered professors and students alike an in-depth look at cutting-edge developments beyond standard textbook coverage, to provide a broad understanding of the key management and policy issues facing public and nonprofit HRM today.
Original chapters are written expressly for the text by leading public administration scholars, each focusing on specific and often controversial concerns for public personnel management, such as pensions, gender and sexuality, healthcare, unions, and a multi-generational workforce. Now in an extensively revised sixth edition, Public Personnel Management presents new, original chapters to examine developments of interest to researchers and practitioners alike, including: remote working, cybersecurity, public service motivation, the abandonment of traditional civil service at the state and local levels, the Affordable Care Act and its implications for practice, pension systems and labor relations, affirmative action, social equity, legislation surrounding LGBT rights, and as the field of public personnel management becomes more internationalized a chapter addressing public personnel management across Europe.
6. The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Author: by Peter H. Daly
Published at: Harvard Business School Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2006)
ISBN: 978-1591399551
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challengesfrom higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environmentsthat will make their transitions even more challenging than in the business world.
Now Michael Watkins, author of the bestselling book The First 90 Days, applies his proven leadership transition framework to the public sector. Watkins and coauthor Peter Daly address the crucial differences between the private and public sectors that go to the heart of how success and failure are defined, measured, and rewarded or penalized.
This concise, practical book provides a roadmap that will help new government leaders at all levels accelerate their transitions by overcoming nine transition challenges, ranging from clarifying expectations to defining goals to building a team to managing personal stress. The authors also offer detailed strategies for avoiding major transition traps.
7. Public Administration in America
Author: by Michael E. Milakovich
Published at: Cengage Learning; 11th edition (January 1, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1111828011
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICA tackles the current and emerging trends, ethics, and challenges in public administration with the most comprehensive scholarship available. The Eleventh Edition gives you a behind the scenes look at day-to-day operations while examining the policies implemented and the procedures undertaken across the various levels of American government.
The most current applications of public administration are discussed and analyzed, with up to date coverage of recent education initiatives such as Race to the Top, the ongoing health care debates, Homeland Security challenges and threats, and much more. To encourage student engagement, the Eleventh Edition introduces two new features, “Point/Counterpoint” and “What Would You Decide?,” where students are invited to play an active role in debating and discussing some of the most up-to-date topics.
Presented in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand format, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICA builds student knowledge of core concepts while showing them the path to an exciting and fulfilling career in politics and public administration-where they can make a difference!
8. Summary: Never Split The Difference – Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
Author: by Companion Works
Published at: Independently published (December 5, 2020)
ISBN:
979-8576765249
Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It | Book SummaryBoost Your Negotiation skills and transform into an adept in conflict resolution. Packed with practical advice and easy to follow strategies, You will be able to easily apply and integrate all that you have learnt into constant usage in Daily Life!
This book delivers a comprehensive and detailed summary of the original book by Chris Voss, such that the key points as well as important facts are highlighted and captured for you to provide a quick, effective read. You’ll absorb and be able to implement the ideas contained within the book in the shortest possible time!
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9. Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't
Author: by L. David Marquet
Published at: Portfolio Penguin (February 4, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0241373668
Few of us realize that our language in the workplace inhibits creative problem-solving and escalates uncertainty and stress. In both high-pressure situations and everyday scenarios, in each meeting and email, we have the opportunity to empower our colleagues by using the right words.
In Say Less, Lead More, Former US navy captain David Marquet expands on his bestselling leadership book Turn the Ship Around! And shows managers and leaders the next step in their development: how to enable their team through communication. Marquet outlines a set of principles and tools that help leaders inspire their people to take responsibility and address challenges without waiting to be told what to do, highlighting how small changes in language can lead to dramatic changes in a team’s success and happiness.
Praise for Turn the Ship Around!:’I don’t know of a finer model of this kind of empowering leadership than Captain Marquet. And in the pages that follow you will find a model for your pathway’ Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’To say I’m a fan of David Marquet would be an understatement…
10. Public Opinion
Author: by Walter Lippmann
Published at: Digireads.com Publishing (March 23, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1420967692
First published in 1922, Public Opinion is the fascinating study of the role of citizens in a democracy by Walter Lippmann, an American writer, reporter and political commentator. Lippmann’s notable career spanned decades and produced some of the most important journalism in American history.
He was the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, received many awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, and wrote thousands of articles and columns, earning him the title of the Great Elucidator. Public Opinion is Lippmann’s assessment of a functional democratic government and the role that citizens play in the democracy.
Lippmann examines the dilemmas presented in revolutionary periods of history and raises doubts on the ability of citizens to effectively govern themselves. He draws important attention to the media’s role in shaping public perceptions and opinions and presciently warns against the power of propaganda.
Lippmann’s work exploring modern democracy, how it functions, and what situations most threaten its success have made Public Opinion a staple in the field of political science. Lippmann’s work was far ahead of its time in understanding the dangers of propaganda and his conclusions remain relevant and thought-provoking nearly a century later.
11. Workbook for So You Want To Talk About Race
Author: by Companion Works
Published at: Independently published (February 2, 2021)
ISBN: 979-8703476802
Workbook For So You Want To Talk About RaceHow To Use This Workbook For You To Achieve The Greatest BenefitThis workbook has been created with the purpose of empowering you with the practical How-To on dealing with racial inequality as well as helping you develop the strength and vision to make a proper stand against racism.
Passionate author Ijeoma Oluo not only shares her illuminating life story in the book So You Want To Talk About Race, she also details a comprehensive framework on how we can be handling the thorny issue of racism. The lessons shared by Ijeoma are curated from her own personal experiences as well as science based techniques drawn from behavioral studies, all designed to give you a healthy edge in the fight against racism.
Designed with the idea of imparting practical wisdom in mind, the questions and exercises found in the workbook will enable you to learn and discover more about yourself, point you in the right direction for fruitful development, and create ample space for you to grow.
12. Administrative Law for Public Managers
Author: by David H Rosenbloom
Published at: Routledge; 2nd edition (December 17, 2013)
ISBN: 978-0813348810
This book focuses on the essentials that public managers should know about administrative lawwhy 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. Rosenbloom views administrative law from the perspectives of administrative practice, rather than lawyering with an emphasis on how various administrative law provisions promote their underlying goal of improving the fit between public administration and U.S.
Democratic-constitutionalism. Organized around federal administrative law, the book explains the essentials of administrative law clearly and accurately, in non-technical terms, and with sufficient depth to provide readers with a sophisticated, lasting understanding of the subject matter.
13. Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition
Author: by Dean Gueras
Published at: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 3rd edition (October 1, 2010)
ISBN: 978-1567262957
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14. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, Revised Edition
Author: by Stephen Skowronek
Published at: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; 2nd edition (March 25, 1997)
ISBN: 978-0674689374
Stephen Skowronek’s wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. In an afterword to this new edition, the author examines third way leadership as it has been practiced by Bill Clinton and others.
These leaders are neither great repudiators nor orthodox innovators. They challenge received political categories, mix seemingly antithetical doctrines, and often take their opponents’ issues as their own.
15. The Public Administration Workbook
Author: by Dennis L. Dresang
Published at: Routledge; 8th edition (August 15, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1138682085
Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook, 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded, practice-minded student in mind.
It reviews scholarship in political science, law, industrial psychology, and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to other institutions, this workbook promotes a more effective way of learningby doingand more directly prepares those who will pursue careers in public agencies.
Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant concepts and scholarship before moving into a hands-on exercise analyzing core analytical and management challenges. This edition includes an all-new exercise on contract negotiation, many international examples interwoven throughout the book, and a fully updated HRM section to reflect alternative ranking and compensation systems.
16. Public Administration and Public Affairs
Author: by Nicholas Henry
Published at: Routledge; 13th edition (September 7, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1138693524
Public Administration and Public Affairs demonstrates how to govern efficiently, effectively, and responsibly in an age of political corruption and crises in public finance. Providing a comprehensive, accessible and humorous introduction to the field of Public Administration, this text is designed specifically for those with little to no background in the field.
Now in its 13th edition, this beloved book includes: Engaging, timely new sections designed to make students think, such as “Why Are So Many Leaders Losers?” and “Even Terrorists Like Good Government” Comparisons throughout of the challenges and opportunities found in the nonprofit sector vs.
The public sector (sections such as “The Dissatisfied Bureaucrat, the Satisfied Nonprofit Professional?”) Extensive new material on e-governance, performance management, HRM, intersectoral and intergovernmental administration, government contracting, public budgeting, and ethics. The 13th edition is complete with an Instructor’s Manual, Testbank, and PowerPoint slides for instructors, as well as Learning Objectives and Self-test Questions for students, making it the ideal primer for public administration/management, public affairs, and nonprofit management courses.
