Citizen, Customer, Partner: Engaging the Public in Public Management

by John Clayton Thomas

Book Overview

For almost a half a century, scholars and practitioners have debated what the connections should be between public administration and the public. Does the public serve principally as citizen-owners, those to whom administrators are responsible? Are members of the public more appropriately viewed as the customers of government? Or, in an increasingly networked world, do they serve more as the partners of public administrators in the production of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765627213
• ISBN13: 9780765627216
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"