The Public Administration Workbook

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Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice unaided. The Public Administration Workbook Ninth Edition is specifically designed with the theoretically grounded practice-oriented student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science law industrial psychology and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how …