COVER

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

About the Editors

About the Authors

Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing

PART 1 - Public Management: Old and New

1 Public Management

2 Measuring Public Sector Performance and Effectiveness

3 Strategic Planning and Management

PART 2 - Human Resource Management

4 Identifying the Antecedents to Government Performance

5 Global Trends in Human Resource Management Practices

6 Pay and Prerequisites for Government Executives

7 Leadership and the Senior Service from a Comparative Perspective

8 Labor−Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented?

PART 3 - Organization Theory and Public Administration

9 How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective

10 Institutional Theories and Public Institutions: New Agendas and Appropriateness

11 Formal Theory and Public Administration

12 Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions

PART 4 - Administrative History

13 US Administrative History: Golem Government

14 Administrative Legacies in Western Europe

15 South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present

PART 5 - Implementation

16 Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration

17 Policy Design and Implementation

18 Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation

19 Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy

PART 6 - Law and Administration

20 The Continental System of Administrative Legality

21 Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition

22 The Limits of Law: Can Laws Regulate Public Administration?

PART 7 - Politics and Administration

23 Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government

24 Politicization of the Civil Service

25 Strategy, Structure, and Policy Dynamics

PART 8 - Administration and Society

26 Political Legitimacy for Public Administration

27 Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions

28 Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy

29 Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration?

PART 9 - Budgeting and Finance: Budget Watcher’s Blues

30 Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy

31 Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform

32 Accrual Budgeting in a Comparative Perspective

PART 10 - Comparative and International Public Administration

33 Comparative Public Administration: From General Theory to General Frameworks

34 International Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform

35 Administrative Patterns and National Politics

PART 11 - Administrative Reform

36 Administrative Reform: Analytics

37 Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies

38 Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States

PART 12 - Public Administration in Developing and Transitional Societies

39 Public Administration in Africa:Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts

40 Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration

41 Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America

42 Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe

PART 13 - Accountability

43 Accountability in Modern Government

44 The Pursuit of Public Service Ethics – Promises, Developments and Prospects

45 Accountability in an Age of Markets and Networks

PART 14 - Intergovernmental Relations

46 The Instruments of Intergovernmental Management

47 Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination

48 Multi-level Governance and Public Administration

Index