Public Administration in Perpective: Theory and Practice Through Multiple Lenses

Farmer (political science and public administration, Virginia Commonwealth U.) considers public administration from traditional, business, economic, political, critical theory, post-structural, psychoanalytic, neuroscience, feminist, ethical, and data perspectives and their implications for theory and practice in the field, and how these perspectives impact functions of planning, management, underlying public administration, the scope of the field, and imaginative creativity. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)