本书旨在提高MPA学员阅读公共管理专业英语文献的能力。全书共分12个单元，每个单元由围绕一个特定主题的两篇课文组成，文章跟踪国内外公共管理科学进展，均系当代经典的公共管理专业文章。课后有练习，全书后面还配有总词汇和短语表，课文的参考译文，供学员自主学习使用。

本教材可作为MPA学员的精读或泛读教材，也可作为大学相关学科本科生、研究生、公共管理领域研究者和公共管理人员的参考读物。

Unit 1 Defining Public Administration

 Text A Public Administration(by Frank Marini)

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 Text B The Legal Approach to Public Administration(by David H. Rosenbloom)

Unit 2 The Practice of Public Administration

 Text A The Rise of the American Administrative State(by David H. Rosenbloom)

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 Text B Public Management in Developing Countries(by Owen E. Hughes)

Unit 3 Decision Making in Public Administration

 Text A In Praise of Theory(by P.M. Jackson)

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 Text B Taxation Fairnss and Growth(by Thomas R. Dye)

Unit 4 Reinventing the Machinery of Government

 Text A Visions of the State and Governance(by B. Guy Peters)

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 Text B The Solution:Creating Entrepreneurial Organizations(from he National Performance Review)

Unit 5 Inter-Governmental Relations

 Text A Defining the Scale and Scope of the Federal State(by Janet E. Kodras)

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 Text B Understanding Intergovernmental Relations(by Deil S. Wright)

Unit 6 Management and Organization Theory

 Text A Politics and Power(by Harold F. Gortner Julianne Mahler and Jeanne Bell Nicholson)

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 Text B Scientific Management(by Frederick W. Taylor)

Unit 7 Organizational Behavior

 Text A Doctrine on Organization and Organizational Change(by John Paterson)

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 Text B Breaking through Bureaucracy(by Michael Barzelay with Babak J. Armajani)

Unit 8 Managerialism and Performance Management

 Text A Understanding and Applying Innovation Strategies in the Public Sector

(by Steven Cohen and William Eimicke)

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 Text B Criticisms of Managerialism (by Owen E. Hughes)

Unit 9 Strategic Planning and Management in Public Administration

 Text A Purpose and Benefits of Strategic Planning (by John M. Bryson)

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 Text B Case Studies in Public Sector Strategic Planning (by James L. Mercer)

Unit 10 Leadership and Accountability

 Text A The Concept of Administrative Conservatorship (by Larry D. Terry)

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 Text B Accountability in the Public Sector (by Owen E. Hughes)

Unit 11 Personnel Management

 Text A The Attack on Bureaucracy (by.Richard C. Kearney and Steven W. Hays)

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 Text B Civil Service Reforms (by Rex L. Facer II )

Unit 12 Public Budgeting

 Text A Facing the Constraints on Budgetary Choice (by James J. Gosling)

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 Text B The Changing Environment of Budgeting (by Naomi Caiden)

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