Handbook of Public Administration

Name: Handbook of Public Administration
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ISBN: 9780761972242

ISBN-10: 0761972242

ISBN-13: 9780761972242

Edition: 2003

Authors: B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

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`The study and practice of public administration, once seemingly stodgy subjects, have burst onto the scene as dynamic components of modern statecraft. Peters and Pierre have brought together an outstanding international team of scholars who examine just about every facet of administration, from the new emphases on marketization, flexibility and customer service to traditional concerns about hierarchy, accountability and administrative law. The volume covers theory and practice, administrative reform, implementation and the intersection of politics and administration - the old as well as the new public management - in a comprehensive volume that belongs in the collection of everyone… interested in the administration of the contemporary state' - Professor Joel D Aberbach, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA`Whatever any student and government official wants to know about the theory and practice of public administration is contained in this encylopaedia of knowledge. The international team of authoritative authors have produced an up-to-date survey of how public administration is carried on around the world and what scholars say about it. They establish public administration as central to the process of governing society' - Professor George Jones, London School of Economics'This handbook portrays public administration as an integrated part of politics and the process of governing society. With a strong team of authors representing experiences from many parts of the world, this handbook calls attention to the peculiar nature of public administration, with its complex mixes of tasks, objectives, types of personnel and resources, forms of organization and governing, and environmental circumstances. It demonstrates that there is more to public administration than consumer choice, efficient delivery of tailor-made services, flexibility, markets, management and quantitativeperformance measures to remind us why studying public administration is not only important but also fun' - Professor Johan P Olsen, ARENA, OsloThe past two decades have been marked by a period of substantial, and often fundamental, change in public administration. This major new 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.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. To this end it serves as an essential guide for both the practice of public administration today and its on-going development as an academic discipline.A major landmark publication, the Handbook of Public Administration will be indispensable to the teaching, study and practice of public administration for students, academics and professionals everywhere.

Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 7/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.882

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively in the areas of public administration and public policy, both for the United States and comparatively. Among his recent publications are the Handbook of Public Administration and The Quest for Control: Politicization of the Public Service.



Introduction



The Role of Public Administration in Governing



Public Management: Old And New


Introduction



Public Management



Measuring Public Sector Performance and Effectiveness



Strategic Planning and Management




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




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




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



Implementation


Introduction



Implementation Perspectives



Status and Reconsideration


Policy Design and Implementation



Interorganizational Relations in Implementation



Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy




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?



Politics And Administration


Introduction



Public Organizations and Public Policies



Politicization of the Civil Service



Interest Groups and Public Organizations in Europe




Administration And Society


Introduction



Political Legitimacy and Public Administration



Representative Bureaucracy



Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy



Electronic Government



A Revolution in Public Administration?



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




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




Administrative Reform


Introduction



Administrative Reform



Analytics


The Administrative State in Western Democracies



Public Administration in Post-Communist States




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




Accountability


Introduction



Accountability in Modern Government



On Acting Responsibly in a Disorderly World



Individual Ethics and Administrative Responsibility


Accountability in a Seamless Economy




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