Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy)

ISBN 10: 1466502363 / ISBN 13: 9781466502369

Published by Routledge, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities (ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466502363
• ISBN 13: 9781466502369
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Dialog between practitioners and academics has increasingly become the exception rather than the rule in contemporary public administration circles. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Debating Public Administration: Management Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities tackles some of the major management challenges, choices, and opportunities of the twenty-first century facing public managers across various subfields of public administration.

Informed by contemporary pressures on public managers to reconceptualize purpose, redefine administrative rationality, recapitalize human assets, reengage resources, and revitalize democratic constitutionalism, the book offers students, practitioners, and researchers an opportunity to take stock and ponder the future of practice and research in public administration. Organized by three sets of major management challenges facing the field―Rethinking Administrative Rationality in a Democratic Republic, Recapitalizing Organizational Capacity, and Reconceptualizing Institutions for New Policy Challenges―the book takes an uncommon approach to the study of these topics. In it, leading practitioners and academics comment on condensed versions of articles appearing in the Theory to Practice feature of Public Administration Review (PAR) from 2006 through 2011.

The authors and commentators focus on some of the best current research, draw lessons from that literature for practice, and identify gaps in research that need to be addressed. They expertly draw out themes, issues, problems, and prospects, providing bulleted lessons and practical takeaways. This makes the book a unique one-stop resource for cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, and cross-professional exchanges on contemporary challenges.

About the Author

Robert F Durant, Jennifer R.S. Durnat