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The Practice of Government Public Relations
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The Practice of Government Public Relations

by Mordecai Lee, Grant Neeley, Kendra Stewart
August 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
272 pages
8h 45m
English
CRC Press
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14 ◾  Mordecai Lee
from the news media, reporting to the electorate on agency activities, and generally
being responsive to the public. ese are not luxuries in the context of democratic
governance. Rather, they are obligations that can’t be ignored, even if and when a
politician denounces them as self-serving and wasteful propaganda. e qualita-
tive dierence between public administration and business administration is the
governmental context of agency management. In a democracy, public administra-
tors must engage in certain activities that are expected as the sine qua non of gov-
ernment. For example, government managers must respond to inquiries from the
news media, whether the particular issue would put the agency in a good light or a ...
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ISBN: 9781439834657