Includes index

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