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scenarios invite evaluation of the behavior of the key actor with whom the reader is askedto identify.Keywords: public administration, public affairs, textbookPublic Administration: Understanding Management, Politics and Law in the PublicSector. 4th Edition. Rosenbloom, David. NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. 1998.http://www.mhhe.comPublic administration is one of the most widely adopted books for both undergraduateand graduate levels. The basis of the appeal is the three part framework of management,politics, and the law. Its theme is that all three perspectives are central to publicadministration, and that ignoring one or another leads to failures in both the practice ofand in academic treatments of the field. This edition continues to refer to these threeperspectives, but it divides management into two subsets: traditional and "the new publicmanagement".Keywords: public administration, public affairs, textbookPublic Management and Administration: An Introduction. Hughes, Owen E. N.: St.Martin's Press, Inc. 1998.http://www.stmartins.com/Since the mid-1980s, the public sectors of Western countries have undergone majorchange as governments try to respond to the challenges of technological change,globalization, and international competitiveness. This book provides an introduction to,and assessment of, the theories and principles of the new public management andcompares and contrasts these with the traditional model of public administration. Thesecond edition maintains the same essential argument as the first edition but updates it inseveral areas. Events since the writing of the first edition have shown even more clearlythat a major shift has been underway in the management of the public sectors around theworld, although the pace of change is greater in some countries than in others. Also, anew chapter has been added to discuss the particular problems of public management indeveloping countries.Keywords: public administration, public affairs, textbookPublic Sector Performance Management, Motivation, and Measurement. Kearney,Richard C. Colorado: Westview Press. 2000.http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/382