Introduction to the Study of Public Administration

Leonard D. White

Published by Macmillan Company, 1958

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Cloth hardcover, revised, fourth printing 1958 (4th edition copyright 1955), xx + 531 pages. No ISBN. Weight over 1kg. No dust jacket. Cancelled foreign library stamps (a stamp on both sides of the title page and in the lower margin of a few text pages & a small label inside rear board). Dusty boards with faint grubby handling marks and moderate scuffing to edges; gentle faint dusty marks on page edges externally. Interior shows a touch of mild age-toning, remains in clean condition, free of any foxing and age-spotting; unmarked text. Slightly wrinkly texture of the upper inner corner of first pages (no discolourations). Secure undamaged binding. -- Contents: 1. Art of Administration; 2. Form and Spirit of Public Administration in the United States; 3. Some General Aspects of Organization; 4. Quest for Unity: the Chief Executive; 5. Service-Wide Management Agencies; 6. Quest for Unity: Departmental Organization and Management; 7. Middle Management; 8. Headquarters-Field Relationships; 9. Independent Regulatory Commissions; 10. Government Corporations; 11. Federal-State Administrative Relations; 12. National and State Administrative Relations with Local Officials; 13. Reorganization; 14. Line Function: Political Level; 15. Line Function: Career Sector; 16. Organization for Fiscal Management; 17. Budget Procedures and Practice; 18. Budget Strategy and Tactics; 19. Executive Control of Expenditures; 20. Congressional Control of Expenditures: Audit; 21. Rise of Public Personnel Management; 22. Government Career Service; 23. Recruitment, Examination, and Certification; 24. Position Classification; 25. Education and Training for the Public Service; 26. Promotion, Efficiency Records, and Discipline; 27. Public Service Organizations and Unions; 28. Industrial Relations in the Public Service; 29. Loyalty and Security; 30. Prestige, Morale, and Public Service Ethics; 31. Administrative Powers; 32. Administrative Powers and Sanctions; 33. Power and Responsibility; 34. Administration and the Courts -- "This fourth edition is a complete revision, within the general framework of the previous editions, but subtracting something here and adding something there. [.] More specifically, these are the principal innovations in this edition. (1) The material on structure and organization has been thrown into the framework of the quest for unity. This is one, but not the only setting in which meaning becomes apparent in the organizational changes of the last half century. (2) The section in the third edition devoted to the dynamics of administration has been replaced by a section on the line function. It gradually became apparent that the absence of such a treatment was an incomprehensible gap in previous editions, and that what I had been reaching toward in the dynamics of administration was a generalized analysis of the very essence of administration, viz., the line function. (3) The chapters on fiscal administration have been expanded and I hope rendered more meaningful by new material on budget strategy and tactics. (4) In the part dealing with personnel management I have compressed much of the data bearing on detailed operations in order to make room for two new chapters, dealing respectively with industrial relations in the public service (including a short account of the difficult case of the Atomic Energy Commission installations) and with the problem of loyalty and security. (5) The chapters on administrative powers have been compressed and thrown into perspective. (6) The concluding chapters on the control of the powerful official agencies that the times seem to demand have been substantially rewritten to take into account the crescendo of events that burst into public view in 1954. (7) Since this book is read abroad I have included footnote references to much of the current American literature, excepting that which was ephemeral in nature." [from 'Preface to the Fourth Edition" by the Author].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
• Publisher: Macmillan Company
• Publication Date: 1958
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket