The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

Description

The original Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication, the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the discipline. The eagerly-awaited new edition of this seminal international handbook continues to provide 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, the Second Edition explores the current state-of-the-art in academic thinking and the current structures and processes for the administration of public policy. The Second Edition has been fully revised and updated, with new chapters that reflect emerging issues and changes within the public sector. A dominant theme throughout the handbook is a critical reflection on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory. 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