Handbook of Public Administration; Concise Paperback Edition

by B Guy Peters

• ISBN13: 9781412945394
• ISBN10: 1412945399
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

The past two decades have been marked by a period of substantial and often fundamental change in public administration. Critically reflecting on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, the Handbook of Public Administration was a landmark publication which served as an essential guide for both the practice of public administration today and its on-going development as an academic discipline. The Concise Paperback Edition provides a selection of 30 of the original articles in an accessible paperback format and includes a new introduction by B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre. It is an essential point of reference for all students of public administration.

Table of Contents

Public Management: Old And New

Public Management

Measuring Public Sector Performance and Effectiveness

Human Resource Management

Innovations and Global Trends in Human Resource

Management Practices

Labor-Management Relations and Partnerships

Were They Reinvented?

Leadership and the Senior Service from a Comparative Perspective

Organization Theory And Public Administration

How Bureaucratic Structure Matters

An Organizational Perspective

Institutional Theories and Public Institutions

Traditions and Appropriateness

Formal Theory and Public Administration - Jack H. Knott

Administrative History

Administrative Traditions in Western Europe

Implementation

Implementation Perspectives

Status and Reconsideration

Interorganizational Relations in Implementation

Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy

Law And Administartion

The Continental System of Administrative Legality

Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition

Politics And Administration

Public Organizations and Public Policies

Politicization of the Civil Service

Administration And Society

Political Legitimacy for Public Administration

Representative Bureaucracy

Electronic Government

A Revolution in Public Administration?

Budgeting And Finance

Performance Information and Budgeting in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Accrual Budgeting in a Comparative Perspective

Comparative And International Public Administration

Comparative Public Administration - Marleen Brans

From General Theory to General Frameworks

Administrative Patterns and National Politics

Administrative Reform

Administrative Reform

Public Administration in Post-Communist States

Public Administration In Developing And Transitional Societies

Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America

Accountability

Accountability in Modern Government

On Acting Responsibly in a Disorderly World

Individual Ethics and Administrative Responsibility

The Instruments of Intergovernmental Management

Multi-Level Governance

What It Is and How It Can Be Studied

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