ABSTRACT

Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods. The book functions as an introduction to central themes of public administration and related traditions of research, but also proposes a new pluralist approach for studying public institutions.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Studying Public Administration

chapter |17 pages

Power

chapter |17 pages

Structure

chapter |19 pages

People

chapter |19 pages

Roles

chapter |19 pages

Decisions

chapter |13 pages

Ideas

chapter |14 pages

Corruption

chapter |10 pages

Change

chapter |28 pages

Problems and Strategies