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

✍ Scribed by Robert F. Durant (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
301
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Engaging the Call to Public Service....Pages 1-21
Thinking Ecologically....Pages 23-42
Linking Problems, Policy, and Public Management....Pages 43-58
Aligning Structure and Strategy....Pages 59-78
Shooting the Political Rapids....Pages 79-100
Informing Policy Decisions....Pages 101-123
Linking People to Public Purposes....Pages 125-150
Stewarding a Nation’s Treasure....Pages 151-175
Networking in the Shadow of Hierarchy....Pages 177-196
Revitalizing a Sense of Common Purpose....Pages 197-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-290

✦ Subjects

Political Science; Political Sociology; Business Strategy/Leadership; Public Administration; Democracy; Public Policy

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