B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre 
The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration 

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:

– Identifying the Antecedents in Public Performance

– Bureaucratic Politics

– Strategy Structure and Policy Dynamics

– Comparative Administrative Reform

– Administrative Ethics

– Accountability through Market and Social Instruments

– Federalism and intergovernmental coordination.

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.

The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration remains indispensable to the teaching, study and practice of public administration for students, academics and professionals everywhere.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to Second Edition – B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre

Introduction

Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing – B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre

PART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW – Hal G. Rainey

Public Management – Laurence E. Lynn, Jr

Measuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness – Carolyn J. Heinrich

Strategic Planning and Management – John M. Bryson

PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT – Patricia W. Ingraham

Identifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management – Donald P. Moynihan

Global Trends in Human Resources Management Practices – Sally Coleman Selden

Pay and Prerequisites for Public Executives – Joergen Gronnegaard Christensen

Leadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective – John Halligan

Labor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented? – James R. Thompson

PART THREE: ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – Tom Christensen

How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective – Morten Egeberg

Institutional Theories and Public Institutions: New Agendas and Appropriateness – Jean-Claude Thoenig

Formal Theory and Public Administration – Thomas H. Hammond and Jack H. Knott

Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions – Karen M. Hult

PART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY – Jos C. N. Raadschelders

US Administrative History: Golem Government – Mordecai Lee

Administrative Legacies in Western Europe – Fabio Rugge

South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present – James Warner Bjorkman

PART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION – Søren C. Winter

Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration – Søren Winter

Policy Design and Implementation – Peter J. May

Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation – Laurence J. O′Toole, Jr

Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy – Marcia K. Meyers and Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen

PART SIX: LAW AND ADMINISTRATION – Gavin Drewry

The Continental System of Administrative Legality – Jacques Ziller

Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition – Paul Craig

The Limits of Law: Can Laws Regulate Public Administration? – David Feldman

PART SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION – Carl Dahlström

Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government – Paul ′t Hart and Anchrit Wille

Politicization of the Civil Service – Luc Rouban

Strategy Structure and Policy Dynamics – Andrew B. Whitford

PART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY – Bo Rothstein

Political Legitimacy for Public Administration – Bo Rothstein

Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions – Kenneth J. Meier and K. Juree Capers

Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy – Steven Rathgeb Smith

Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration? – Helen Margetts

PART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER′S BLUES – Frans K. M. Van Nispen

Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy – Mark Hallerberg

Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform – Rita M. Hilton and Philip G. Joyce

Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective – Leonard Kok

PART TEN: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – Edward C. Page

Comparative Public Administration: From General Theory to General Frameworks – Marleen Brans

International Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform – Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoous and Agyris G. Passas

Administrative Patterns and National Politics – Martin Lodge

PART ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM – Theo A. J. Toonen

Administrative Reform: Analytics – Theo A. J. Toonen

Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies – Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid

Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States – Tony J.G. Verheijen

PART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES – Goran Hyden

Public Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts – Dele Olowu

Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration – O. P. Dwedivi and D. S Mishra

Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America – Jorge Nef

Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe – Patrycja Joanna Suwaj

PART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY – Paul G. Thomas

Accountability in Modern Government – Robert Gregory

The Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics – Promises, Developments and Prospects – Christoph Demmke and Timo Moilanen

Accountability in an age of Markets and Networks – Mark Considine and Kamran Ali Afzal

PART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS – Martin Painter

The Instruments of Inter Governmental Management – Beryl A. Radin

Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination – Alan Fenna

Multi-level Governance and Public Administration – Simona Piattoni

Über den Autor

I am a research professor in the department of political science, University of Gothenburg. I am also adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Nordland University in Bodö, Norway. I have held numerous overseas visiting appointments, most recently at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne and University of Auckland.