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Understanding Public Administration
Michiel S. de Vries
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Description for Understanding Public Administration
Paperback. This new introductory text by one of the key individuals working in the area explores the essential themes and issues that are crucial to understanding public administration as a distinct field today. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
Public administration - the practice of producing and executing government policy by bureaucrats, politicians, managers and other officials - affects almost everything we encounter in our day-to-day lives. Public administrators are - at least partially - responsible for the amount of hours we work, the quality of the air we breathe, the ease with which we can visit the doctor and the state of the roads we walk and drive down. Despite the widespread relevance of public administration however, the relative amount of government influence on society differs across the world. This major new introduction examines ... Read more
Public administration - the practice of producing and executing government policy by bureaucrats, politicians, managers and other officials - affects almost everything we encounter in our day-to-day lives. Public administrators are - at least partially - responsible for the amount of hours we work, the quality of the air we breathe, the ease with which we can visit the doctor and the state of the roads we walk and drive down. Despite the widespread relevance of public administration however, the relative amount of government influence on society differs across the world. This major new introduction examines ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137575449
SKU
V9781137575449
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99-1
About Michiel S. de Vries
Michiel S. de Vries holds the chair in Public Administration at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is the president of the International Association of Schools and Institutes in Administration (2012-2016) and full member of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe.
Reviews for Understanding Public Administration
'Rooted in the real world with numerous well-crafted everyday examples, this book is creative and imaginative in its scope and has the potential to appeal to students from a wide range of countries, given the breadth of examples and case studies.' - David Wilson, De Montfort University, UK 'This book takes an original approach in the field of classical books ... Read more