Classics of Public Administration

With this new seventh edition of CLASSICS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, authors Jay M. Shafritz and Albert C. Hyde aim to 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 Woodrow Wilson and continues to today's political scientists. A new Section V, "Public Administration in a New Century," is dedicated to writing and thinking from the 21st century. This edition includes six 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.

• Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It (Basic Books Classics)
• Politics of the Administrative Process
• Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector
• Introducing Public Administration
• The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government (Kettl Series)
• Public Administration: An Action Orientation, (with CourseReader 0-30: Public Administration Printed Access Card)
• Mastering Public Administration: From Max Weber to Dwight Waldo
• The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
• Public Budgeting Systems
• Introducing Public Administration