Preface to Public Administration, Third Edition

Preface to Public Administration is a brief introduction to the underlying theories and concepts of PA-a necessary complement to the "nuts and bolts" approach favored by traditional textbooks. Concise, inexpensive, and beautifully written, it tackles crucial issues facing public administration, including: What is public administration? How did it originate as a distinctive study and a unique set of institutions?What is the relationship between its ideas and its institutions? What are its basic doctrines?

• Organizational Behavior: Real Research for Public and Nonprofit Managers
• Essential History for Public Administration
• The Public Administration Theory Primer
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
• Ethics Management for Public and Nonprofit Managers
• HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker)
• Public Administration: Concepts and Cases
• HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict (HBR Guide Series)
• Bring Back the Bureaucrats: Why More Federal Workers Will Lead to Better (and Smaller!) Government (New Threats to Freedom)
• Politics of the Administrative Process