Public Administration : A Comparative Perspective

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Public administration : Past present and future. 3. Public management. 4. Administrative morality. 5. Complexity and inter-disciplinarity. 6. Public sector performance measurement. 7. Governance and accountability. 8. Exploring complexity in would be administrative worlds. 9. Implications for organisational development in the public service. Bibliography. Index.

Public administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. Public administration can be broadly described as the  development implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society ensuring a well run fair and effective public service are some of the goals of the field. Public administration is carried out by public servants who work in public departments and agencies at all levels of government and perform a wide range of tasks. The goals of the field of public administration are related to the democratic values of improving equality justice security efficiency effectiveness of public services business administration is primarily concerned with profit. (jacket)