The Policy-Making Process
The policy-making process involves multiple demands, conflicts, compromises, and decisions. They res ...View More
Types of Policies
There is great variety in the kinds of policies pursued by government entities. These can be disting ...View More
What is Planning Programming Budgeting?
Planning–programming–budgeting was an instrument of executive budgeting designed to alter processes ...View More
What is Performance Budgeting?
Performance budgeting is an approach to modern executive-budget making that gained currency in the 1 ...View More
Incrementalism and Mixed Scanning
A number of scholars have expanded on the criticisms of the rational model and have argued that indi ...View More
What is Intergovernmental Relations?
Intergovernmental relations is a relatively new term, used regularly only in the past sixty years. I ...View More
Citizen Participation in Public Administration
The ideology of citizen participation has firm roots among our political values, especially particip ...View More
Representative Democracy
A major political value in America has been representative democracy, and increasing emphasis has be ...View More
Public and Private Administration
Many similarities exist between administrative activities in the public and private sectors. In fact ...View More
State and Local Government Structures
In general, states and larger local governments resemble the national government in composition of t ...View More