PUB-5000 V4

Cox, R. W. (2020). Public administration in theory and practice. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Read Part I: Theoretical Foundations, Chapter 1: Normative Foundations of Public Administration (pp. 7-27).
Read Chapter 14 (pp. 279-293).
These chapters introduce you to prominent theories and expectations for practice in public administration.
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Starke, A. M. (2018). Pariahs no more? On the status of theory and theorists in contemporary public administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 40(2), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2018.1458206
This article discusses the role of theory in the practice of public administration.

H. George Frederickson, Kevin B. Smith, Christopher Larimer, and Michael J. Licari