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In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers. Investigators found that for more than five years Jones and a small ring of university officials had conspired to loot the university of $2 million in tickets, reselling them for $3-5 million. In what was pe...

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This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s.

Refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics. Topics covered include understanding public corruption, ethics as control, and ethics as administration and policy.

This book presents cutting-edge commentaries by leading scholars that address issues of public ethics in the current period of broken politics and challenged legitimacy.

How does the state of Kansas spend its revenue? What is the state government doing with it and why? Investigating these and related questions, the contributors in this book address the most pressing public policy issues confronting Kansas today. They survey general revenue and demographic issues and then analyze the five policy areas - education, prisons, transportation, welfare, and health that consume 84.3% of the state budget and that, in t...

The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches, from public institutional theory to theories of governance, and consider which are the most promising, influential, and important for the field. This book paints a full picture of how these theories contribute to, and expl...

Frederickson strongly defAnds broad grants of discretion to public administrators and then lays out the proper norms and ethic which should inform that discretion. And he firmly argues that the effectiveness of democratic government and modern governance, not just for the majority of but for all citizens, depAnds on the energetic exercise of bureaucratic discretion. The book concludes with seven principles that should guide everyone who works ...

This work considers how and why cities change their governing arrangements - and the implications for cities of the future. It provides case studies that show how actual cities have changed and adapted their structure to fit changing times and citizen demands.

Designed to be the defintive statement on social equity theory and practice in public administration, this offers general descriptions of social equity in changing political, economic, and social circumstances, traces the development of the concept over t

Refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics. Topics covered include understanding public corruption, ethics as control, and ethics as administration and policy.

Designed to be the defintive statement on social equity theory and practice in public administration, this offers general descriptions of social equity in changing political, economic, and social circumstances, traces the development of the concept over t