THEORY & PRACTICE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

This book focuses on basic concepts and contemporary issues on theory and practice of Public Administration. The primary goal of the book is to bridge the gap in knowledge between theory and practice. The following contemporary issues are lucidly and clearly presented for readers’ understanding:

• Organization theory

• Privatization and liberalization

• Administration of higher education

• Health administration

• Integrated rural development

• Urban Administration

• Administrative law

• Leadership

• Public Financial Management

• Governance, E-government and E-governance

• Performance Management System and Performance Contract

• Public-private Partnership (PPP) and 

• Inter-governmental relations, among others

This book, therefore, would be of great value to undergraduate and post-graduate students in tertiary institutions, practitioners, consultants, researchers, general public and others that are involved in public management.