TY - BOOK AU - Rosenbloom, David H. AU - Goldman, Deborah D. ;Ingraham, Patricia W. TI - Contemporary public administration SN - 9780070539396 AV - JF 1351 .C64 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - McGraw Hill Education KW - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION N1 - 1. The Practice and discipline of public administration: competing concerns -- 2. The American administrative state -- 3. Federalism and intergovernmental relations -- 4. Administrative organization: structure process -- 5. Public personnel systems -- 6. Budgeting -- 7. Decision making -- 8. Public policy and public administration -- 9. Public administration and the public -- 10. Accountability and ethics N2 - Public administration is often characterized as a fragmented field- one that is pulled in competing directions by different intellectual and disciplinary perspective, as well as by the concerns of practice and theory ER -