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Why Public Service Matters: Public Managers, Public Policy, and Democracy

Robert Durant

Palgrave Macmillan

From the publisher: Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, with an unflinching eye on the realpolitik that drives public administration in America’s ‘compensatory state’ and on the pitfalls for the republic of reformers’ focus on bureaucratic rather than democratic administration. The book links the nation’s ability to deal with contemporary policy problems with the strategic, tactical, and normative quality of public management. In doing so, it offers newcomers a badly needed concise and accessible overview of the field. From its relentless historical, diagnostic, strategic, and normative focus, readers will gain an appreciation from each chapter for the challenges, choices, and opportunities facing public managers as they help advance a sense of common purpose informed by democratic constitutional values in twenty-first century America.

Robert Durant is professor of public administration and policy at American University, USA. He is the recipient of three lifetime awards for his contributions to public administration and policy research: the Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration, the John M. Gaus Award and Lectureship from the American Political Science Association, and the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award from the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment

edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven Rathgeb Smith, and Yutaka Tsujinaka

Johns Hopkins University Press

From the Publisher: Should a nonprofit advocate for its mission and its constituents with a goal of affecting public policy? What are the limits of such advocacy work? Will such efforts fundamentally jeopardize nonprofit work? What can studies of nonprofit advocacy efforts reveal? Editors Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven Rathgeb Smith, and Yutaka Tsujinaka recognize the urgent need for relevant research and insight into these issues as direct and indirect government services are squeezed by federal cutbacks.

Nonprofits and Advocacy defines advocacy and clarifies the differences among advocacy, lobbying, political activity, and education, as well as advocacy measurements. Providing original empirical data and innovative theoretical arguments, this comparative study is organized into two parts. The first part focuses on local and national dimensions of nonprofit advocacy, and the second part looks at organizational politics and strategies. The conclusion considers basic questions about nonprofit advocacy and seeks to draw lessons from research efforts and practice.

Providing a critical look at the multidimensional roles and advocacy efforts of nonprofits, this volume will be valued by scholars, students, leaders, and activists—many of whom advocate for the interests of their organizations while delivering services to their organizations’ constituents. The research is also relevant for policymakers involved in cross-sector public policy initiatives as they strive to provide more efficient public-private solutions to challenging governance issues.

Robert J. Pekkanen is an associate professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Steven Rathgeb Smith is executive director of the American Political Science Association and affiliate professor in the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Yutaka Tsujinaka is the president-elect of the Japanese Political Science Association and a professor of political science in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba.

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