本着公共管理硕士教育项目（Master of Public Administration, MPA）为政府部门和非政府公共机构培养高层次、应用型专门人才的宗旨，公共管理应用英语的课程教学将英语语言教学和公共管理专业教学及公共管理实践有机结合起来，着重培养MPA学员的英语听、说、读、写、译能力。本教材由12个单元构成：单元 社会公正，第二单元 公共行政中的战略计划与管理，第三单元 生产力评估与测量，第四单元 荣誉与道德规范，第五单元 人事管理，第六单元 领导与责任，第七单元 管理主义与绩效管理，第八单元 管理与组织理论，第九单元 政府间关系，第十单元 有效改造政府机构，第十一单元 公共政策及其管理，第十二单元 公共管理的定义。
每个单元由围绕一个特定主题的两篇课文组成。课文A代表公共管理某个领域的研究成果或公共部门管理的经验，语言有一定难度，供教师和学员们课堂教学使用。课上讨论围绕一定的问题展开，旨在提高MPA学员用英语思考和分析公共管理领域问题的能力。为了方便教学，课文A后配有生词和短语表、注释（难句解析和参考译文）。课后练习包括：重要新词汇和短语使用、课文和课外短文阅读理解、重点段落翻译、理论与实践相结合的命题作文，目的是加强学员对新知识的应用能力、对课文和课外文章的阅读理解能力、英汉翻译能力和英语写作能力。课文B主要反映这个领域或相关领域的观点，语言相对简单，供学员们课外自学使用。

Unit 1 Personnel Management
Text A Civil Service Reforms
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B The Personnel Function
Unit 2 So Equity
Text A Public Administration and So Equity
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B The Impact of the Public Management Reforms on Democracy
Unit 3 Leadership and Accountability
Text A Accountability in the Public Sector
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B Leading for Performance
Unit 4 Strategic Planning and Management in Public Administration
Text A Purpose and Benefits of Strategic Planning
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B Case Studies in Public Sector Strategic Planning
Unit 5 Managerialism and Performance Management
Text A Criticisms of Managerialism
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B What Is Performance Management?
Unit 6 Evaluation and Measuring Productivity
Text A Evaluation
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B Measuring Productivity
Unit 7 Management and Organization Theory
Text A Scientific Management
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B The Origins of Scientific Management
Unit 8 Honor and Ethics
Text A Moral Standards in Organizational Conduct
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B The Ethic of Neutrality
Unit 9 Intergovernmental Relations
Text A Understanding Intergovernmental Relations ―Coercive-Collage Phase: 1990s―?
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B The Structure of Intergovernmental Relations
Unit 10 The Reinventing of the Machinery of Government
Text A Works Better and Costs Less? Sweet and Sour Perspectives on the NPR
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B The Administrative Architecture of the U.S. Government
Unit 11 Public Policy and Its Administration
Text A Taxation, Fairness, and Growth
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B What Is Public Policy?
Unit 12 Defining Public Administration
Text A The Legal Approach to Public Administration
New Words and Expressions
Exercises
Text B Managerial Definition of Public Administration
Key to Exercises
Translations of Text A for Reference
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