Public Administration: Clashing Values in the Administration of Public Policy (with InfoTrac®) (Thomson Advantage Books) [Paperback]

Michael C. LeMay (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0534601375 | ISBN-13: 978-0534601379 | Publication Date: July 19, 2005 | Edition: 2

Develop an understanding of how values connote principles, goals, or standards that an individual, class, organization, or society holds dear with this affordable CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS version of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: CLASHING VALUES IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC POLICY. This textbook uses a "clash of values" approach that gets to the heart of how administrators make decisions and implement public policy. Case studies and examples capture the intricacies of this unique area of political science. You'll also investigate the role public administrators play throughout the policy process, including targeting a problem, placing it on the government's agenda, structuring the alternatives that elected officials use, implementing public policy through the programs and procedures they largely determine, and finally, evaluating the success or failure of a policy. Finally, you'll explore the reorganization of the national bureaucracies following the 9/11 attacks that prompted the enactment of the PATRIOT Act and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security.

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LeMay has made an important contribution to the field of public administration by writing a text that breaks down preexisting stereotypes in favor of a more realistic and stimulating argument regarding the politics of the American bureaucracy.

About the Author

Michael LeMay is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at California State University-San Bernardino. He received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota (1971). Before teaching at CSUSB he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he served as Assistant Director of the Institute for Governmental Affairs. He was also Professor and Chair of the Department at the Frostburg State University in Maryland. Of his many publications, his ten political science books include four that are related to his area of special expertise--United States immigration policy. He is published in such journals as American Politics Quarterly, National Civic Review, International Migration Review, Social Science Quarterly, Southeastern Political Review, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Teaching Political Science. He is author of 11 books, including several relating to immigration policy and to minority group politics: THE STRUGGLE FOR INFLUENCE (1985, University Press of America); OPEN DOOR TO DUTCH DOOR (1987, Praeger Press); THE GATEKEEPERS (1989, Praeger Press); ANATOMY OF A PUBLIC POLICY (1994, Praeger Press); GATEWAYS TO AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY (eds. with Elliott Barkan, 1999, Greenwood Press); THE PERENNIAL STRUGGLE (2004, Prentice-Hall), PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (2006, Wadsworth Publishing), and U.S. IMMIGRATION: A REFERENCE HANDBOOK (2004: ABC-CLIO). He has served as a consultant to the Office of Personnel, City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and to numerous city and county agencies in Wisconsin. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 2 edition (July 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534601375
• ISBN-13: 978-0534601379
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good broad public administrative review, April 2, 2008

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Kristopher M. Malloy (Fort Washington, MD) - See all my reviews
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Excellent overview of past-to-present public administrative theory and practice. Used for a graduate level class, and unfortunately the only book that even came close to that expected level of reading. Recommend as a basic book for the public administrator. Covers nearly two hundred years of public administrative theory and practice. Most selections are easy to read, and are set up both historically and functionally/catagorically.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, August 26, 2011

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This review is from: Public Administration: Clashing Values in the Administration of Public Policy (with InfoTrac®) (Thomson Advantage Books) (Paperback)

This book was pretty interesting even though I had to read it for a class. I bought new and it weathered well being toted around in my purse every day on the train.

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy, April 1, 2011

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This review is from: Public Administration: Clashing Values in the Administration of Public Policy (with InfoTrac®) (Thomson Advantage Books) (Paperback)

Bought this book for a graduate class and it said right in the title with infotrac but guess what? No infotrac as that is only for the first buyer of the book. Live and learn. This book is useless as a used book for any graduate class so just go buy it new as I am now doing. But of course now I am starting my class without a textbook :(