As a public administration textbook that is both interesting to students and rigorous, this book combines recent public management thinking and research with examples of how organizations apply these ideas. It is a comprehensive, balanced, and systematic introduction to the field that blends theory with practice, helping students understand the often abstract and distant world of public management. This text is intended for introduction to public administration, or introduction to public management courses offered at the junior-senior level in departments of political science or at the graduate level in schools of public administration of public affairs. Features: * Generous coverage of state and local government and nonprofit organizations offers a broad perspective of the field. * "Working Profiles" of leading public executives appear in every chapter. * Innovative "Talking Shop" boxes provide a no-nonsense discussion of how experienced practitioners would handle selected management issues. New to this edition: * New topics include reinventing and rethinking government, process reengineering, strategic management in the information revolution, the team approach to organizations, the quest for tax reform, and much more. * Public administration is viewed from a global perspective throughout the book and in features called "Global Perspective". * Ten new cases offer insights into contemporary issues, such as the new Denver International Airport, outlaw engineers at NASA, the Waco tragedy, and more.

MANAGING THE PUBLIC SECTOR, 5E

STARLING

Administrative Law

Wadsworth Publishing

Managing the Public Sector (11) by [Paperback (2010)]

Managing the Public Sector

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Schools & Teaching

Managing Public Sector Im

Wadsworth

In Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of J&#333;do Shinsh&#363; (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as b&#333;mori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on "domestic religion," a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature. The Buddhist temple wife's movement back and forth between the main hall and the "back stage" of the kitchen and family residence highlights the way religious meaning cannot be confined to canonical texts or to the area of the temple prescribed for formal worship. Starling argues that attaining Buddhist faith (shinjin) is just as likely to occur in response to a simple act of hospitality, a sense of community experienced at an informal temple gathering, or an aesthetic affinity with the temple space that has been carefully maintained by the b&#333;mori as it is from hearing the words of a Pure Land sutra intoned by a professional priest. For temple wives, the spiritual practice of button h&#333;sha (repayment of the debt owed to the Buddha for one's salvation) finds expression through the conscientious stewardship of temple donations, caring for the Buddha's home and opening it to lay followers, raising the temple's children, and propagating the teachings in the domestic sphere. Engaging with what religious scholars have called the "turn to affect," Starling's work investigates in personal detail how religious dispositions are formed in individual practitioners. The answer, not surprisingly, has as much to do with intimate relationships and quotidian practices as with formal liturgies or scripted sermons.

Guardians of the Buddha's Home (Contemporary Buddhism)

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University of Hawaii Press

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