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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 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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