Public Management As Art, Science, and Profession

by Laurence E. Lynn

Makes a case for public management as an organized discipline for scholarship and teaching, analyzing the relationship between theory and practice in public management and the role of universities in creating and sustaining that relationship. Explores subjects including public management and politics, and the public manager as administrator and policymaker, and outlines concepts that can serve as foundations for scholarship and teaching. For public executives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996