本书旨在提高MPA学员阅读公共管理专业英语文献的能力。编写遵循以下原则：第一，根据MPA学员工作中对英语的需要，强调实用性及专业性；第二，跟踪国内外公共管理科学进展，选择当代经典的公共管理专业文章，按照专题编写难易程度、篇幅长短适中的课文；第三，加强学员对公共管理专业常用英语词汇的掌握及课文内容的理解，增强MPA学员阅读专业英语文献的能力。

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

Unit 2 The Practice of Public Administration

Unit 3 Decision Making in Public Administration

Unit 4 Reinventing the Machinery of Government

Unit 5 Inter-Governmental Relations

Unit 6 Management and Organization Theory

Unit 7 Organizational Behavior

Unit 8 Managerialism and Performance Management

Unit 9 Stragegic Planning and Management in Public

Unit 10 Leadership and Accountability

Unit 11 Personnel Management

Unit 12 Public Budgeting

Unit 13 Evaluation and Measuring Productivity

Unit 14 Social Equity

Unit 15 Honor and Ethics

Keys to the Exercises in Text A

Glossary

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