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Public Administration: Criticism and Creativity

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Whenever Two or More Are Gathered

Whenever Two or More Are Gathered

Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse

by Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360566

Pub Date: March 2022

Format: Paperback

Makes the case for human relationship as the proper foundation of administrative ethics
 
A Presidential Civil Service

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

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
 
Fabricating the People

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.

In Defense of Politics in Public Administration

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

Governing Narratives

Governing Narratives

Symbolic Politics and Policy Change

by Hugh T. Miller

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817317737

Pub Date: September 2012

Format: Hardcover

By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context.
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