GSU Library Research Guides: Public Management & Policy: Books

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Books can provide information on well-established theories or research or provide overviews of topics.

Use GSU Library's online catalog, GIL to find books in our library. (Note: The catalog also lists other materials that are in the library - including microfilm, dissertations, movies, music and special collections - for all campuses.)

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Books to start with

Encyclopedia of public administration & public policy
In an effort "to clarify what government agencies and their public administrators do and why," A-Z entries on American bureaucracy focus on events, topics, and personalities in public administration.
Defining Public Administration: selections from the International encyclopedia of public policy and administration
ISBN: 0813397669
This anthology, Defining Public Administration, is designed to assist beginning and intermediate level students of public policy, and to stir the imaginations of readers concerned with public policy and administration.