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Alexander Hamilton's Public Administration

by Richard T. Green

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360320

Pub Date: December 2021

Format: Paperback

Examines how Hamilton’s thoughts and experiences about public administration theory and practice have shaped the nation

A Presidential Civil Service

FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management

by Mordecai Lee

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360238

Pub Date: April 2021

Format: Paperback

A Presidential Civil Service is a masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission.

Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy

Public Administration in the Information Age

by Akhlaque Haque

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817359881

Pub Date: July 2020

Format: Paperback

Investigates public administration’s increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices

Planning the Urban Region

A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations

by Peter Self

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817359430

Pub Date: March 2019

Format: Paperback

Provides a comparative framework for analyzing issues of urban planning and government

Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy

The Politics of Implementation

by Stephen L. Percy

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817359256

Pub Date: April 2018

Format: Paperback

An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.

Public Administration's Final Exam

A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline

by Michael M. Harmon

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817358709

Pub Date: November 2016

Format: Paperback

Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance

Fabricating the People

Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State

by Thomas J. Catlaw

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817358150

Pub Date: December 2015

Format: Paperback

Fabricating the People boldly proposes post-representational governance that reframes the practice of modern democracy and reinvents the role of public administration.

Modern Organization

by Victor A. Thompson

Introduction by Victor A. Thompson

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817348380

Pub Date: December 2015

Format: Paperback

In Modern Organization, Victor A. Thompson tackles arbitrary power structures and their hold over more specialized but less appreciated workers. The book is ultimately interested in righting dynamics between power and knowledge in the modern working world.

In Defense of Politics in Public Administration

A Value Pluralist Perspective

by Michael W. Spicer

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817357962

Pub Date: May 2014

Format: Paperback

A spirited declaration of principles and a timely contribution to a dialogue that is redefining public administration, both in theory and in practice

Roosevelt the Reformer

Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895

by Richard D. White Jr

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817357245

Pub Date: October 2012

Format: Paperback

Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington

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