Public administration: Concepts and cases - Stillman Richard J II (Houghton Mifflin Company London, 1976)
Keywords: Public administration -- Public services -- Search for substance and boundaries of public administration -- Pattern of public administration in America- is people, institutions and environment : Formal structure- concept of bureaucracy, ecology of public administration, concept of administrative power, internal dynamics- concept of informal group, key decision makers in government- concept of professional state -- Functions of public administration- their major activities and responsibilities : Decision making- concept of incremental public choice, administrative communication- concept of information networks, managing public service institution- concept of management by objectives, personnel leadership- concept of theory X and theory Y, human side of enterprise, planning function- concept of strategic planning, administrative planning, planning budgeting -concept of budgeting as political art of compromise and strategy -- Relationship between administration and politics- employer and employee, public servant and ethics : Proper relationship between politics and administration, securing cooperative human relationships between employer and employee, relationship between ethics and public service