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1. Social equity and the new public administration -- 2. Social equity in context -- 3. Social equity : the democratic context and the compound theory -- 4. Social equity and the question of administrative discretion -- 5. The state of social equity in American public administration -- 6. An intergenerational social equity ethic -- 7. Social equity, law, and research -- 8. When education quality speaks, education equality answers -- 9. Social equity in the twenty-first century : in memory of Philip J. Rutledge -- 10. Conclusions.

""Ethics and Public Administration"" refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics. Within a theoretical perspective,the authors qualify their findings and take care not to over-generalise results. The findings are relevant to the practice of public administration. Specific areas addressed include understanding public corruption, ethics as control, and ethics as administration and policy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of Institutional Dynamics -- 3. Political and Administrative Cities -- 4. The Evolution of Political Cities -- 5. The Evolution of Administrative Cities -- 6. Model City Charters and Institutional Dynamics -- 7. Adapted Cities -- 8. Probing the Complexity of Adapted Cities -- 9. The Conciliated City -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Authors

Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced, treatment of public management reform and innovation available. The subject of reform in the public sector is not new; indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics. Still, as the contributors ask in this volume, is good politics necessarily good government? Given the growing desire to reinvent government, there are hard questions to be asked: Is the private sector market model suitable and effective when applied to reforming public and governmental organizations? What are the major polit

Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, the authors examine the influence of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (with consideration of the later Program Assessment Rating Tool of 2002) on federal performance measurement, agency performance, and program outcomes. They focus a systematic examination on five agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesthe Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service