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This major international handbook provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in this essential field of inquiry. Assembling an outstanding team of scholars from around the world, it comprehensively explores the current state of the art in academic thinking and the current structures and processes for the administration of public policy following this period of rapid transformation and change.

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• Introduction
• The Role of Public Administration in Governing
• Part 1 Public Management: Old And New
• Introduction
• Public Management
• Measuring Public Sector Performance and Effectiveness
• Strategic Planning and Management
• Part 2 Human Resource Management
• Introduction
• Comparitive Performance Pay
• Innovations and Global Trends in Human Resource Management Practices
• Pay and Prerequisites for Govenment Executives
• Labor-Management Relations and Partnerships
• Were They Reinvented?
• Leadership and the Senior Service from a Comparative Perspective
• Part 3 Organization Theory And Public Administration
• Introduction
• How Bureaucratic Structure Matters
• An Organizational Perspective
• Institutional Theories and Public Institutions
• Traditions and Appropriateness
• Formal Theory and Public Administration
• Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions
• Part 4 Administrative History
• Introduction
• Administrative State and Society
• A Case Study of the United States of America
• Adminstrative Traditions in Western Europe
• South Asian and Western Administrative Experience
• The Past in the Present
• Part 5 Implementation
• Introduction
• Implementation Perspectives
• Status and Reconsideration
• Policy Design and Implementation
• Interorganizational Relations in Implementation
• Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy
• Part 6 Law And Administration
• Introduction
• The Continental System of Administrative Legality
• Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition
• The Limits of Law
• Can Laws Regulate Public Administration?
• Part 7 Politics And Administration
• Introduction
• Public Organizations and Public Policies
• Politicization of the Civil Service
• Interest Groups and Public Organizations in Europe
• Part 8 Administration And Society
• Introduction
• Political Legitimacy and Public Administration
• Representative Bureaucracy
• Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy
• Electronic Government
• A Revolution in Public Administration?
• Part 9 Budgeting And Finance
• Introduction
• Critical Choices for Design and Operation of Public Revenue Systems
• Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy
• Performance Information and Budgeting in Historical and Comparative Perspective
• Accrual Budgeting in a Comparative Perspective
• Part 10 Comparative And International Public Administration
• Introduction
• Comparative Public Administration
• From General Theory to General Frameworks
• International Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform
• Administrative Patterns and National Politics
• Part 11 Administrative Reform
• Introduction
• Administrative Reform
• Analytics
• The Administrative State in Western Democracies
• Public Administration in Post-Communist States
• Part 12 Public Administration In Developing And Transitional Societies
• Introduction
• The Crisis of African Public Administration
• Challenges of Culture and Governance in Asian Public Administration
• Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America
• Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe
• Part 13 Accountability
• Introduction
• Accountability in Modern Government
• On Acting Responsibly in a Disorderly World
• Individual Ethics and Administrative Responsibility
• Accountability in a Seamless Economy
• Part 14 Intergovernmental Relations And Public Administration
• Introduction
• Coordination in the Intergovernmental Setting
• The Instruments of Intergovernmental Management
• Multi-Level Governance
• What It Is and How It Can be Studied

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What is politics without public administration? Not much. Central government legislators might number in the hundreds as might appointees to executive departments. Judges constitute up to a few thousand, but public servants are invariably in the hundreds of thousands. More important, public servants advise on laws, and implement, adjudicate, and deliver them as services. Thus, politics, or making laws, would be worthless without public administrators to give laws meaning. Accordingly, every aspect of public administration is crucial to understanding governance--the premise of this tome. The premise is compelling, given the breadth, depth, and analytical acumen of the more than 50 renowned scholars on every known topic, traditional and managerialist, on public administration. The book is organized in 14 sections or "principal dimensions" of public administration. Each is introduced by an editor, summarizing three to four separately authored articles within and relating them to general themes. What magic enables editors to draw such high quality from over 50 contributors worldwide? This exceptional collection is one of several books published recently, defining public administration as a discipline in its own right. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. A. F. Johnson Bishop's University