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Public administration : organizations, people, and public policy

Title: Public administration : organizations, people, and public policy / Samuel J. Bernstein, Patrick O'Hara.
Author: Bernstein, Samuel J.
Publication: New York : Harper & Row, ©1979.

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O'Hara, Patrick, 1946-

Description

xviii, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

USA. Textbook on public administration - covers organization of institutional framework, human relations, bureaucracy, personnel management, conflict and collective bargaining, government policy making, roles of the national budget, public finance, evaluation of programmes, use of EDP, etc. Bibliography after each chapter, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, references.

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Textbooks (form)
textbook.
bibliography.
illustration.
photograph.
reference.
manuel d'enseignement.
bibliographie.
photographie.
référence bibliographique.
libro de texto.
bibliografía.
fotografía.
ilustración.
referencia.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Public administration : an interdisciplinary crossroad -- Public administration : an intersection of the social sciences -- A definition and a summary -- Organizations, people, and public policy -- New approaches to public policy making -- Approaching the materials -- A send-off -- ch. 2. Perspectives on organizations -- A generic profile of organizations -- Organizations: a view from below -- The relationship between society and organizations -- Weberian bureaucracy : the ideal type -- Bureaucracy: deviatins from the ideal -- The legal framework of organizations -- Public versus private organizations -- Categories of public organizations -- ch. 3. Who rules in organizations -- A road map -- Blueprints and calculations : top-down rule and organizational design -- Criticizing the blueprint -- Perspectives on informal organization -- The potential of authority : Milgram's experiments -- ch. 4. Organization and environment -- Classical theory and organizational obedience -- A redefinition of organizational functions in society -- The organization as a living system -- Forms of adaptation -- Border-spanning agents -- Information theory : a framework for analysis -- Monitoring the environment : some implication for organizational design -- ch. 5. People -- Taylorism -- The Hawthorne experiments : the group influence in organization -- From sociological to psychological humanism -- Interpersonal competence -- The hierarchy of needs -- Scorecards for management -- Experiments in organizational change -- Human relations movement : critiques from within -- Contingency theory -- ch. 6. Public personnel policies, processes, and problems -- Government by aristocrats -- Andrew Jackson : the democratization of the civil service -- Civil service reform -- Merit system personnel management -- Case study: Long hair in the merit system -- Federal personnel innovations -- State and local personnel innovations -- The search for representative bureaucracy -- Community control and equal employment opportunity -- Government employment as public policy -- Role conflicts in the public service -- ch. 7. Collective conflict in the public organization -- "The harmony bias" in organization studies -- Public sector unionization -- The collective bargaining games: moves and motives -- Public sector labor relations -- Public employee unionism : trends and prospects -- Conflict in the executive ranks -- Professionalization
Ch. 8. Administration and the public policy environment -- Philosophies for governance -- The ascendant presidency -- A further separation of powers : the executive and administration -- Administrative roles -- Administration as a focus of values -- The word from the tower : a case study -- Administation and public policy -- The public interest reasserted -- Summary: Does public policy serva a public interest? -- ch. 9. The roles of the budget : setting policies and reviewing organizational performance -- The budget as public policy -- The incremental character of budgetary decision making -- Backdoor spending : constraints on budgetary decision making -- Putting together the budget manuscript -- Budgetary gamesmanship : PPBS and ZBB -- A closing thought -- ch. 10. Financing govenment -- The emergence of public finance -- Theoretical approaches to public finance -- Categories of government services -- Paying for public goods -- The federal financial setting -- The national economic policy process : executive style -- Tax legislation -- The federal financial picture : an overview -- The federal financial picture : an critique -- The state and local financial environment -- Theories of state and local finance -- State and local taxes -- Intergovernmental transfers -- State and local borrowing -- ch. 11. Increasing the responsiveness of government organizations -- Remedies for institutionalization -- Project wildcate -- Antidotes for pluralism -- ch. 12. The systems approach to policy analysis -- Circumstances beyond incremental control -- What are systems? -- Looking at a government system : criminal justice -- Urban systems -- The basics of model building -- Conclusion: The goals of systems analysis -- ch. 13. Evaluating programs -- Defining programs -- The evolution of program evaluation -- Evaluating organizational achievement -- Quantifying criteria -- A systematic approach -- Evaluation design : the real meets the ideal -- Putting evaluation to work -- ch. 14. Computers and government administration -- More data processing for more data -- Management information systems -- Types of computer applications -- The problems with computers.

ISBN

0060406496
9780060406493

LCCN

78026531

OCLC

ocm04493100
4493100
SCSB-144779

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library