Public Management in Global Perspective - 9780765617262

This textbook was written by Schiavo-Campo (a retired senior staff member of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and International Monetary Fund) and McFerson (public and international affairs, George Mason U.) for students of public administration, practitioners, and academics to combine the conceptual foundations of public administration with nonparochial coverage of the United States and other major countries' systems and lessons from international experience, as well as to fuse the best elements of "new public management" and "traditional public administration." They also intend to inject critical issues they feel to be largely missing from the public administration literature, including the overall governance context as articulated around the four pillars of accountability, transparency, rule of law, and participation; the importance of institutions as the "rules of the game;" and the influence of social capital. The material is organized into sections that address the roots of public administration in ancient Greece, China, and India and the major roles and functions of government; managing government financial resources, managing government personnel, managing public procurement, and managing performance; accountability, participation and social capital, transparency (including the media and information technology), and the rule of law; and major administrative reforms in developed countries over the past two decades and the necessity of fusing new public management's emphasis on results and performance with the traditional requirements of integrity and due process. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)