根据公共管理硕士教育项目的培养目标，要求学员具有阅读公共管理专业英语文献的能力。《新编MPA英语阅读教程(第3版)》(作者陈世丹)的编写遵循以下原则：第一，根据MPA学员工作中对英语的需要，强调实用性和专业性；第二，跟踪国内外公共管理科学进展，选择当代经典的公共管理专业文章，按照专题编写难易程度、篇幅长短适中的课文；第三，加强学员对公共管理专业常用英语词汇的掌握和课文内容的理解，增强MPA学员阅读公共管理专业英语文献的能力。

公其管理硕士(MPA)教育项目旨在为政府部门和非政府公共管理机构培养高层次、应用型专门人才。与此相适应，本套公共管理应用英语教程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地结合起来，着重培养MPA学员的听、说、读、写、译的能力。

《新编MPA英语阅读教程(第3版)》的编写遵循以下原则：第一，根据MPA学员工作中对英语的需要，强调实用性及专业性；第二，跟踪国内外公共管理科学进展，选择当代经典的公共管理专业文章，按照专题编写难易程度、篇幅长度适中的课文；第三，加强学员对公共管理专业常用英语词汇的掌握及课文内容的理解，增强MPA学员阅读专业英语文献的能力。

《新编MPA英语阅读教程(第3版)》的作者是陈世丹。

Unit 1 Defining Public Administration

Text A Managerial Definition of Public Administration

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Text B The Legal Approach to Public Administration

Unit 2 Public Policy and Its Administration

Text A What Is Public Policy?

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Text B Taxation, Fairness, and Growth

Unit 3 The Reinventing of the Machinery of Government

Text A The Administrative Architecture of the U.S. Government

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Text B Works Better and Costs Less? Sweet and Sour Perspectives on the NPR

Unit 4 Intergovernmental Relations

Text A The Structure of Intergovernmental Relations

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Text B Understanding Intergovemmental Relations

Unit 5 Management and Organization Theory

Text A The Origins of Scientific Management

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Text B Scientific Management

Unit 6 Managerialism and Performance Management

Text A What Is Performance Managemem?

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Text B Criticisms of Managerialism

Unit 7 Leadership and Accountability

Text A Leading for Performance

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Text B Accountability in the Public Sector

Unit 8 Personnel Management

Text A The Personnel Function

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Text B Civil Service Reforms

Unit 9 Honor anti Ethics

Text A Moral Standards in Organizational Conduct

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Text B The Ethic of Neutrality

Unit 10 Evaluation and Measuring Productivity

Text A Evaluation

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Text B Measuring Productivity

Unit 11 Strategic Planning anti Management in Public Administration.

Text A Purpose and Benefits of Strategic Planning

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Text B Case Studies in Public Sector Strategic Planning

Unit 12 Social Equity

Text A Public Administration and Social Equity

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Text B The Impact of the Public Management Reforms on Democracy.

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