Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1: Introduction - definitions, concepts and setting: the practice and discipline of public administration - competing concerns; the development of public administration in the United States; federalism and intergovernmental relations; the structure of the American state. Part 2: Core functions: organization - structure and process; public personnel administration and collective bargaining; budgeting; decision making; policy analysis and evaluation. Part 3: The convergence of management, politics, and law in the public sector - an illustration: regulatory administration - an illustration of management, politics, and law in the public sector. Part 4: Public administration and the public: public administration and democratic constitutionalism; accountability and ethics; the future - building a new administrative culture.