Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector - Softcover

Rosenbloom,David; Kravchuk,Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072867957 ISBN 13: 9780072867954

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2004

Synopsis

Rosenbloom and Kravchuk use a three part framework of management, politics, and the law as the basis for one of the most popular books for advanced courses in public administration. The text's analytic framework organizes the material of public administration to create a lasting understanding of the field.

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About the Authors

David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He is the 2001 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. In 1999, he received the American Society for Public Administration's Dwight Waldo Award for his outstanding contributions to the field. He is a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, from which he received the 2001 Louis Brownlow Award for his book on Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration. Professor Rosenbloom serves on the editorial boards of about a dozen leading public administration journals and is a member of the Marietta College Board of Trustees. He frequently guest lectures at universities and public service organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

Robert S. Kravchuk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His teaching and research focus on public budgeting and finance, administrative theory and the political economy of former socialist countries in transition, with a special emphasis on Ukraine and Russia. His current research projects include an exploration of the root concepts of American administrative theory, and a comprehensive history of Russian public administration from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin. His administrative experience includes service as Under Secretary in the Connecticut State budget office, U.S. Treasury Department Resident Budget Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine, and appointment by the U.S. Secretaries of State and the Treasury as the Financial Advisor to the President of Bosnia-Herzegovina. A frequent writer and lecturer on public budgeting and administrative reform and capacity building, Professor Kravchuk has taught at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the University of Connecticut, the University of Hartford, and Le Moyne College. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072867957
• ISBN 13: 9780072867954
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 608