Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : definitions, concepts, and setting -- The practice an d discipline of public administration : competing concerns -- The Ameri can administrative state : development and political environment -- Fed eralism and intergovernmental relations : the structure of the American administrative state -- Core functions -- Organization : structure and process -- Public personnel administration and collective bargaining - - Budgeting and the public finances -- Decision making -- The convergen ce of management, politics, and law in the public sector -- Policy anal ysis and implementation evaluation -- Regulatory administration : an il lustration of management, politics, and law in the public sector -- Pub lic administration and the public -- Public administration and the publ ic -- Public administration and democratic constitutionalism -- Account ability and ethics -- The future.