ent, and the administrative behavior of public administrators within urban governmental structures. The author defines the scope of urban public administration, the significance of public administration in urban government, and the managerial expertise required of effective public administrators at the level of urban government.
The author points out that the interest of the general public in urban public administration in contemporary American society is centered in efficiency, responsiveness, and accountability. Unfortunately for the urban public administrator, however, the general public typically does not consider the implications that demands in one of these interest areas may have on the ability of the urban public administrator to perform at an acceptable in one of the other areas. As an example of such conflict, consider the paradox of simultaneous public demands for both improved efficiency and responsiveness in urban government, which, at first blush, might not appear to be a conflict of demands. In the contemporary time per
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