CASES IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION by Jay M. Shafritz, Christopher P. Borick ( 9780205607426 )

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CASES IN PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT

By:

Jay M. Shafritz, Christopher P. Borick

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020560742X

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9780205607426

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Pub. date:

22 February, 2010

Pages:

304

Synopsis:

Writing the perfect complement to their bestseller, Introducing Public Administration, Shafritz and Borick highlight the great drama inherent in public policy -- and the ingenuity of its makers and administrators -- in this new casebook that brings thrilling, true life adventures in public administration to life in an engaging, witty style.Drawing on a unique assortment of literary, historic, and modern examples, Cases in Public Policy and Administration exposes students to public administration in practice by telling the tales of: * How Thurgood Marshall led the legal fight for civil rights and made it possible for Barack Obama to become president * How the ideas of an academic economist and a famous novelist led to the recession that started in 2008 * How Al Gore really deserves just a little bit of credit for inventing the Internet * How the decision was made by President Harry Truman to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan in order to end World War II * How the current American welfare state was inspired by a German chancellor * How a Nazi war criminal inadvertently provided the world with a lesson in bureaucratic ethics * How Napoleon Bonaparte encouraged the job of chief of staff to escape from the military and live in contemporary civilian offices * How an obscure state department bureaucrat wrote the policy of containment that allowed the United States to win the Cold War with the Soviet Union * How Dwight D.Eisenhower was started on the road to the presidency by a mentor he found in the Panamanian rain forest * How Florence Nightingale gathered statistics during the Crimean War that helped lead to contemporary program evaluation.

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