Why Public Service Matters: Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy

by Robert F. Durant and Robert F. Durant

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Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America's "compensatory state" and on the pitfalls of reformers' focus on bureaucratic, rather than democratic, administration. The book links the nation's ability to handle contemporary policy problems with the strategic, tactical,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230341497

ISBN13:9780230341494

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:290 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"

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