Public Sector ManagementMarcia L. Whicker, Todd W. Areson Bloomsbury Academic, 1990 M01 8 - 273 pages Intended as a text for master's level students in public administration and public policy, this volume provides an introductory survey of the field that focuses on the structures of operation, management, and environments of modern governments. The contributors address federal, state, and local governments as well as intergovernmental relations, discussing such topics as fiscal management, policy analysis, program evaluation, management and administration, marketing, and the developmental progress of national governments. Their aim throughout is to distill for the reader a solid base of current knowledge about the field of public administration and the challenges it offers to practitioners as we move into the 1990s. |
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... federal commerce power . In short , the Court began to allow judicial enlargement of federal powers , sometimes at ... assistance . Only 15 programs of federal assistance were authorized by 1930. Between 1933 and 1940 , another 15 were ...
... assistance remained dom- inant . Along with the growth in federal assistance was a growth in protective con- ditions required by the federal government to enhance the professionalism and political neutrality of recipients . In 1939 , the ...
... federal assistance inched upward the next few years , and by FY 1984 , federal grants to state and local governments were at the $ 106 billion mark , an 8.6 percent increase over the previous year . Federal aid as a percentage of state ...
Contents
The Functions and Structure of the Federal Bureaucracy | 1 |
The Functions and Structures of State and Local Governments | 31 |
TABLES | 35 |
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