本书全面而系统地介绍了公共行政的各个方面,包括公共行政的学科发展范式、公共组织、公共管理、政策制定与执行、政府间关系以及行政伦理等。本书是第九版,它反映了公共行政和公共管理领域理论和实践的新变化和新发展。
《公共行政与公共事务》一直是北美各大学公共行政专业学院*受欢迎的教科书。本书自问世以来多次再版,一直在亚马逊图书销售排行榜上名列前茅。

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One Paradigms of Public Administration
Chapter 1 Big emocracy,Big Bureaucracy
Chapter 2 Public Administration's Century in a Quandary
Part Two Public Organizations
Chapter 3 The Threads of Organizations:Theories
Chapter 4 The Fabric of Organizations:Forces
Chapter 5 The Fibers of Organizations:People
Part Three:Public Management
Chapter 6 Clarifying Complexity:Problems of Public Management
Chapter 7 Corruption's Consequences:Performance Measurement,Public Program Evaluation,and Productivity
Chapter 8 The Public Budget:Purposes and Processes
Chapter 9 Managing Human Resources in the Public Sector
Part Four:Implementing Public Policy
Chapter 10 Understanding Public Policy
Chapter 11 Intersectoral Administration
Chapter 12 Intergovernmental Administration
Chapter 13 Toward a Bureaucratic Ethic
Appendix A Information Sources,Journals,and Organizations in Public
Appendix B Annotated Information Sources in Public Administration and Related Fields
Appendix C Selected Annotated Journals Relevant to Public Administration
Appendix D Selected Academic,Professional,and Public Interest Organizations with Websites and Descriptions
Appendix E Correct Forms of Address for Public Offcials
Appendix F Becoming a Public Administrator
Appendix G American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics
Name Index
Subject Index

尼古拉斯·亨利是一位**的公共行政学家,专长于公共政策分析与公共管理研究。他先后在美国印第安纳大学布卢明顿校区获得公共管理硕士和哲学博士学位。享利教授著书十余本,发表论文几十篇共论文获得过《美国公共行政评论》颁发的埃德文·O·斯坦恩奖。他曾就职于美国印第安纳州立大学、新默默西哥大学、佐治亚大学以及亚利桑那州立大学。他所领导的佐治亚南部大学曾被CNN专题报道为美国高等教育的一颗新星,而他本人也步入了佐治亚州100位当代*有影响人物的行列。