The Craft of Public Administration

The Craft of Public Administration, 12th edition, responds to the growing demand for a textbook that is written to meet the learning requirements of both face-to-face and online instruction featuring content deemed essential to student professional/academic development. This edition continues to provide the classic collection of essential leadership and administrative notions that have formed the academic basis for generations of students majoring in public administration and public policy. The Five Modules provide the essentials of the discipline in a clear, precise, and engaging manner, intended to build a firm knowledge base for life-long public service. Understanding administrative systems built on past knowledge that work effectively in today’s rapidly changing world is a major strength of this book. The text, multiple examples, and case studies, reveal how successful administrators embrace change and uncertainty, with flexibility and creativity, enabling them to thrive in a framework of stability, fairness and equality that is expected of our administrative leadership.