Public Administration

Public administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.

Administration is determined action taken in pursuit of a conscious purpose. It is the systematic ordering of affairs and the calculated use of resources aimed at making those happen which one wants to happen.

Part One: Paradigms of Public Administration

Chapter 1 Big Democracy, Big Bureaucracy

Chapter 2 Public Administrations Century in a Quandary

Part Two: Public Organizations

Chapter 3 The Threads of Organizations: Theories

Chapter 4 The Fabric of Organizations: Forces

Chapter 5: The Fibers of Organizations: People

Part Three: Public Management

Chapter 6 Clarifying Complexity: Problems of Public Management

Chapter 7 Corruptions Consequences: Performance Measurement and Public Program Evaluation

Chapter 8 The Public Trough: Financing and Budgeting Governments

Chapter 9 Managing Human Resources in the Public Sector

Part Four: Implementing Public Policy

Chapter 10 Understanding and Improving Public Policy

Chapter 11 Intersectoral Administration

Chapter 12 Intergovernmental Administration