Now available in paperback: With a particular focus on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, this second edition provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in the field

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 InterGovernmental Management - Beryl A. Radin Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination - Alan Fenna Multi-level Governance and Public Administration - Simona Piattoni

′Guy Peters and Jon Pierre are rightly regarded as leading figures in the area, but even that does not guarantee the striking breadth reflected in the company of contributors: this quality may be because the 14 separate areas covered in the volume are ′franchised′ to separate expert (and geographically scattered) ′part editors′ to coordinate and discuss entries. There is in consequence a similarly striking breath to the field reviewed. The title is somewhat ′retro′ as the intellectual tradition is again reclaimed from policymaking, public sector management and other competing perspectives that have emerged. But while the label may be traditional, the content undermines any negatives associations that implies′ - Grant JordanEmeritus Professor of Politics, the University of Aberdeen ′If you are interested in a comprehensive yet compact and accessible account of current scholarly work on public sector organizations, this is the volume to have at hand. For this Handbook is not only a masterly and authoritatively selected collection of brilliant contributions, it also serves - interdisciplinary and comparative in outlook as it is - as a much needed cross-fertilizer between subfields of the public administration community′ - Eckhard SchroeterProfessor of Administrative Sciences, Zeppelin University ′Guy Peters and Jon Pierre and their colleagues have made an already essential handbook even more essential for students of public administration. New chapters on subjects such as administrative history, bureaucratic politics, representative bureaucracy, and intergovernmental relations add to the other excellent pieces to make for a magnificently comprehensive volume. Anyone interested in the administration of the contemporary state will want to read this volume and to have a copy of it at hand′ - Joel AberbachDistinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, UCLA