TY - BOOK AU - Stillman, Richard Joseph, AU - ED - ED - ED - ED - TI - : concepts and cases SN - 9780495797425 (pbk);0495797421 (pbk);9780618993017;0618993010 SN - 2 PY - 2010///];copyright 2010.46 CY - Boston, Mass. ;;United Kingdom PB - Wadsworth Cengage Learning, KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Case studies KW - Public administration.;Public administration;Public administration N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The search for the scope and purpose of public administration -- The formal structure: the concept of bureaucracy -- The general environment: the concept of ecology -- The political environment: the concept of administrative power -- Intergovernmental relations (IGR): the concept of opportunistic federalism -- Internal dynamics: the concept of the informal group -- Key decision makers inside public administration: the concept of competing bureaucratic subsystems -- Decision making: the concept of incremental choice -- Administrative communication: the concept of its professional centrality -- Public management: the concept of collaborative processes -- Public personnel motivation: the concept of the public service culture -- Public budgeting: the concept of budgeting as political choice -- Administrative reorganization: the concept of the tides of reform -- The relationship between politics and administration: the concept of issue networks -- The relationship between bureaucracy and the public interest: the concept of administrative responsibility -- The relationship between ethics and public administration: the concept of competing ethical obligations; 5 ER -