Handbook of public administration / edited by W. Bartley Hildreth, Gerald J. Miller and Evert A. Lindquist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hildreth, W. Bartley, 1949- editor.

Miller, Gerald, 1947- editor.

Lindquist, Evert A., editor.

Series:

Public administration and public policy.

Public administration and public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

The Handbook of Public Administration, Fourth Edition provides a compelling introduction to and depiction of the contemporary realities of public administration, and it will inspire new avenues of inquiry for the next generation of public-administration researchers.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction to the Fourth Edition of the Handbook of Public Administration

PART 1: THE CONTEMPORARY COMPLEXITY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Foundations and Tensions in Public Administration

2 A Transfer-of-Ideas Approach to the History of Public Administration: The Hybridizations of Administrative Traditions

3 The Administrative Presidency and the Degradation of the United States Civil Service

4 The Idea of Administrative Law and the Expansion of the Administrative State

5 The Challenges of Discretion, Collaboration, and Ambiguity for Administrative Law: Researchable Themes and Issues

The Evolving and Increasing Variety of Public Administration

6 Federalism and Multilevel Governance: Contexts for Public Administration

7 Concurrent Sourcing in Public Services: Theory, Evidence and Future Research

8 Multilevel Network Governance in Emergency Management

9 The Many Publics of Government Organizations

10 Engaging Citizens, Clients, and Communities for Policy and Service Delivery

Analyzing Public Administration with Complexity Lens

11 Complexity in Public Management: Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices

12 How Complexity Informs Public Policy and Administrative Practice: Selected International Cases

13 The Enmeshment of the Machine in Complex Governance Processes and Networks

PART 2: CRUCIBLES FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MONEY, PEOPLE, POLICY

Budgeting and Performance Monitoring for More Complex Environments

14 From Theories to Practice: The Ongoing Search for Control, Efficiency, Transparency and Results in Government

15 Conformity and Diversity in Budgetary Systems: Aspirations, Routines, and Recalibration.

16 Performance Management: Experiences and Challenges

17 Aptitude, Accountability, and Adaptation: Research Themes for Public Budgeting, Financial Management, and Accountability

Modernizing Human Resources Systems for the Public Sector

18 Developing Public Servants: International Trends in Human Resource Management

19 Human Resource Reforms in South Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States

20 Rapid Advances in HRM Technologies and Public Employment Systems: A Research Agenda for Acquiring and Managing Talent

Public Administration and Regenerating the Policy Cycle

21 The Policy Cycle and Policy Theory: From Theory-Building to Policy Making

22 Agenda-Setting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Policy-Making in France, the United Kingdom and the United States

23 The Policy Cycle: From Heuristic to a Theory-Informed Research and Advice

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-27068-2

1-000-40050-6

9780429270680

OCLC:

1244624893