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The Spirit of Public Administration

ISBN: 978-0-7879-0295-7
Hardcover
288 pages
October 1996, Jossey-Bass
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Introduction: Understanding Public Administration

Part One: Governance, Politics, and the Public

1. Finding the Public in Public Administration

2. The Political Context of Public Administration

3. Public Administration as Governance

Part Two: Issues of Fairness

4. The Question of Administrative Discretion

5. Fairness and Social Equity in Public Administration

6. Intergenerational Concepts of Public Administration

Part Three: Ethics, Citizenship, and Benevolence in Public Administration

7. Ethics and Public Administration

8. The Paradox of Distance and the Problem of Differentiation (with David G. Frederickson)

9. Patriotism, Benevolence, and Public Administration (with David Kirkwood Hart)

10. The Public Administrator as a Representative Citizen (with Ralph Clark Chandler)

11. Pushing Things Up to Their First Principles

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