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The Public Administration Workbook
Dennis L. Dresang
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Description for The Public Administration Workbook
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables, 28 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JMJ; JPP; KJU; LND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 294 x 23. Weight in Grams: 660.
Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook, 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded, practice-minded student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science, law, industrial psychology, and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to ... Read more
Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook, 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded, practice-minded student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science, law, industrial psychology, and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138682085
SKU
V9781138682085
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99-2
About Dennis L. Dresang
Dennis Dresang is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Reviews for The Public Administration Workbook
Especially in academic disciplines like public administration and political science, one frequently hears that there is a huge gap between theory and practice, between what is in the textbook and what happens in the real world. The Public Administration Workbook comes closer to filling that gap than any other book in the field. It offers students the opportunity to deal ... Read more