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This 4 page paper compares two books about public administration: Richard J. Stillman's "Public Administration Concepts and Cases" and Jos C.N. Raadschelders's "Government: A Public Administration Perspective." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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subject. Discussion The first work is entitled Public administration: Concepts and cases by Richard Stillman. Stillman begins by explaining what public administration is, and the scope of it; then how
and to what extent it is part of the bureaucracy; how it co-exists with politics; and how it works when its paired with the private sector; then he goes on
to discuss specific people in the field, and the ongoing issues public administrators face. By tracing the field in this way, he makes it more accessible and puts a face
to what often seems to be essentially an impersonal field. Stillman says that one of the reasons why its hard to define public administration (debates are ongoing about just what
comprises the field) is that its grown and changed immensely in the 20th century, to the point where it affects almost everyone, in a surprising variety of ways. "Public administrators
are engaged in technical, though not necessarily mundane, details: they prepare budgets for a city government, classify jobs in a post office, have potholes patched and mail delivered, or evaluate
the performance of a citys drug treatment centers" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). He points out that in addition to performing tasks like these, public administrators also become involved in trying
to meet the "major goals of society" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). For instance, he says, if a state agency proposes to build a new highway, it seems like an administrative
decision, but its much more than that: it "involves a wide range of social values related to pressing concerns such as land-use patterns, energy consumption, pollution control, and mass transit
planning" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). Public administrators are involved at every step, because all of these issues have to be resolved as the project goes into work. Such people, he
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