Textbooks

2019 Fall 1 (8/26 - 10/20/2019)
Updated: 7/26/2019

1. PUB 495.51: Foundations of Public Administration
   Prof. G. Ackerman
   
   Textbooks:
   1) Shafritz, J.M., Russell, E.W., and Borick, C.P. (2013). Introducing Public Administration (8th Edition). ISBN: 9780205855896.
   2) Stillman II, R.J. (2010). Public Administration: Concepts and Cases. (9th Edition). ISBN: 978-0618993017.
   
   
   
2. PUB 495.52: Administration of Financial Resources
   Prof. I. Coyle
   
   Textbook:
   Menifield, Charles. The Basics of Public Budgeting and Financial Management – A Handbook for Academics and Practitioners. 3rd edition. 2017. ISBN: 978-0761869757
   
   
3. PUB 495.53: Applied Statistics in Public Administration
   Prof. C. Sneed
   
   Textbook:
   
   Healey Joseph F. Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, 10th Ed. ISBN13: 978128545885  
   
   Optional: 
   Aplia™ 1 term Instant Access for Healey's Statistic: A Tool for Social Research  
   https://cengage.com/c/statistics-a-tool-for-social-research-10e-healey/9781285770734
   
   
   
4. PUB 508.51: Public Human Resource Management
   Prof. Z. Yang
   
   Textbook:
   Berman, E.M., Bowman, J.S., West, J.P., and Van Wart, M.R. (2016). Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
   
   
   
5. PUB 512.51: Foundations of Ethical Administration
   Dr. Hugo Asencio
   
   Textbooks:
   1) Cooper, Terry. (2012). The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (6th ed.). Jossey-Bass. ISBN 9780470873946.
   2) Menzel, Donald. (2009). Ethics Moments in Government: Cases and Controversies. CRC Press. ISBN 9781439806906.​
   
   

2019 Fall 2 (10/28 - 12/22/2019)
Updated: 8/22/2019

1. PUB 500.51: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
   Prof. R. Sun
   
   Textbooks:
   1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2015). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill (ISBN-13: 978-0073379159).

   2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of public administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning (ISBN-13: 978-1305639034) (note that this edition has 54 chapters/articles).

2. PUB 510.51: Public Budgeting
   Prof. R. Sun
   
   Textbooks:
   Required:
   Title: Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector (10th Edition)
   Author: Mikesell, John L. (2018).
   Publisher: Cengage Learning 
   ISBN: 978-1-305-95368-0
   
    Recommended:
   Title: The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy and Process (3rd Edition)
   Author: Schick, Allen (2007).
   Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press
   ISBN: 978-0-8157-7735-9
   
   Note: Students have free access to this book via the CSUDH library at:
    http://0-site.ebrary.com.torofind.csudh.edu/lib/csudh/docDetail.action?docID=10193750
   
   
   
3. PUB 570.51: Administration of Health Care Organizations
   Prof. J. Thomas
   
   Textbook:
   
   Introduction to Health Care Management 3rd, (2015)
   Authors: Sharon B. Buchbinder and Nancy H. Shanks
   ISBN: 9781284081015
   
   
   
4. PUB 580.51: Nonprofit Leadership and Management
   Prof. K. Williams
   
   Textbooks:
   1) Renz, David O. (2010). Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (3rd edition). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN #978-0-470-392508
   2) Rowe, W. Glen, and Conway, Mary. (2013). Introduction to Nonprofit Management: Text and Cases. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. ISBN #978-1-4129-99236
   
   
   
5. PUB 592.51: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
   Prof. F. Prager
   
   Textbook:
   Bui. Y. N. (2014). How to write a Master’s thesis (2nd ed.). SAGE Publication. ISBN-13: 978-1-4522-0351-5.
   
   
   
6. CJA 563.51: Administrative Law, Policy, and Analysis
   Prof. T. Byrne
   
   Textbooks:
   1) Hall, D. E. (2015), Administrative law: Bureaucracy in a democracy (6th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-13-349387-0.
   2) Kraft, M.E., & Furlong, S.R. (2010). Public policy: Politics, analysis, and alternatives (3rd. ed.​
   
   

 * Textbooks are listed from the instructors and subject to change.

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