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Contents
Preface to the Second Edition xi
About the Editors xiii
About the Authors xv
INTRODUCTION 1
The Role of Public Administration in Governing
B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre
PART 1 PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW 13
Hal G. Rainey
1 Public Management 17
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr
2 Measuring Public Sector Performance and Effectiveness 32
Carolyn J. Heinrich
3 Strategic Planning and Management 50
John M. Bryson
PART 2 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 65
Patricia W. Ingraham
4 Identifying the Antecedents to Government Performance: Implications
for Human Resource Management 71
Donald P. Moynihan
5 Global Trends in Human Resource Management Practices 87
Sally Coleman Selden
6 Pay and Prerequisites for Government Executives 102
Jørgen Grønnegaard Christensen
7 Leadership and the Senior Service from a Comparative Perspective 115
John Halligan
8 Labor−Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented? 130
James R. Thompson
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vi CONTENTS
PART 3 ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 149
Tom Christensen
9 How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective 157
Morten Egeberg
10 Institutional Theories and Public Institutions: New Agendas and Appropriateness 169
Jean-Claude Thoenig
11 Formal Theory and Public Administration 180
Jack H. Knott and Thomas H. Hammond
12 Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions 193
Karen M. Hult
PART 4 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY 207
Jos C. N. Raadschelders
13 US Administrative History: Golem Government 215
Mordecai Lee
14 Administrative Legacies in Western Europe 228
Fabio Rugge
15 South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present 241
James Warner Björkman
PART 5 IMPLEMENTATION 255
Søren C. Winter
16 Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration 265
Søren C. Winter
17 Policy Design and Implementation 279
Peter J. May
18 Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation 292
Laurence J. O’Toole, Jr
19 Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy 305
Marcia K. Meyers and Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen
PART 6 LAW AND ADMINISTRATION 319
Gavin Drewry
20 The Continental System of Administrative Legality 323
Jacques Ziller
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CONTENTS vii
21 Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition 333
Paul Craig
22 The Limits of Law: Can Laws Regulate Public Administration? 346
David Feldman
PART 7 POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION 361
Carl Dahlström
23 Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of
Executive Government 369
Paul ‘t Hart and Anchrit Wille
24 Politicization of the Civil Service 380
Luc Rouban
25 Strategy, Structure, and Policy Dynamics 392
Andrew B. Whitford
PART 8 ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY 403
Bo Rothstein
26 Political Legitimacy for Public Administration 407
Bo Rothstein
27 Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions 420
Kenneth J. Meier and K. Jurée Capers
28 Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy 431
Steven Rathgeb Smith
29 Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration? 447
Helen Margetts
PART 9 BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER’S BLUES 463
Frans K. M. van Nispen
30 Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy 467
Mark Hallerberg
31 Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform 480
Rita M. Hilton and Philip G. Joyce
32 Accrual Budgeting in a Comparative Perspective 496
Leonard Kok
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PART 10 COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 507
Edward C. Page
33 Comparative Public Administration: From General Theory to
General Frameworks 511
Marleen Brans
34 International Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform 532
Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos and Argyris G. Passas
35 Administrative Patterns and National Politics 545
Martin Lodge
PART 11 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM 561
Theo A. J. Toonen
36 Administrative Reform: Analytics 565
Theo A. J. Toonen
37 Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies 577
Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid
38 Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States 590
Tony J. G. Verheijen
PART 12 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING
AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES 603
Goran Hyden
39 Public Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts 609
Dele Olowu
40 Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration 628
O. P. Dwivedi and D. S. Mishra
41 Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America 642
Jorge Nef
42 Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe 659
Patrycja Joanna Suwaj
PART 13 ACCOUNTABILITY 673
Paul G. Thomas
43 Accountability in Modern Government 681
Robert Gregory
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CONTENTS ix
44 The Pursuit of Public Service Ethics – Promises, Developments and Prospects 698
Christoph Demmke and Timo Moilanen
45 Accountability in an Age of Markets and Networks 712
Mark Considine and Kamran Ali Afzal
PART 14 INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 731
Martin Painter
46 The Instruments of Intergovernmental Management 735
Beryl A. Radin
47 Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination 750
Alan Fenna
48 Multi-level Governance and Public Administration 764
Simona Piattoni
Index 777
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