The Politics of the Administrative ProcessAn introduction to the field of public administration which has been revised to reflect the political issues of the 1990s. The major components and processes of the bureaucratic system are covered. This encompasses the functions and tools of government, organization theory, the executive branch, and the civil service, as well as problems of decision making, budgeting, implementation, and legislative and judicial control. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
What Government Does | 25 |
Organizations | 43 |
Copyright | |
22 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Accounting Accounting Office achieve action activities agencies American analysis appointments approach appropriations Assistant authority Board branch budget bureau Bureaucracy career careerists civil service Commission committees comparability Congress congressional contracts cost courts decision Defense Department economic effective employees example executive fact federal government force functions goals Government Printing Office government's grants groups heads higher House implementation important improve increase individual Institution interest issues legislative less limited major Management ment operating organization percent performance personnel persons political positions president presidential Press problems programs promotion proposed Protection Public Administration public service rates Reagan reform regulation regulatory relations Report require responsibility Review role salaries secretary sector Senate Senior serve social spending staff statutes structure Theory tion unions United University Press Washington White York