Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Part One: Fundamental Works
The Study of Administration - Woodrow Wilson
Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization - S. Eisenstadt
Nonmarket Decision-Making: The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy - William Niskanen
Administrative Decision-Making - Herbert Simon
Part Two: History of Public Administration
Wang Anshi and the Origins of Modern Public Administration in Song Dynasty China - Wolfgang Drechsler
Administrative History of the United States of America: Development and State of the Art - Jos Raadschelders
Administrative Legacies in Western Europe - Fabio Rugge
Part Three: Organizations in Public Administration
Ode to Luther Gulick: Span of Control and Organizational Performance - Kenneth Meier and John Bohte
Institutional Isomorphism and Public Sector Organizations - Peter Frumkin and Joseph Galaskiewicz
The Design of Public Agencies: Overcoming Agency Costs and Commitment Problems - Kutsal Yesilkagit
How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective - Morten Egeberg
Part Four: Reforming the Public Sector
40 Years of Public Management Reform In UK Central Government – Promises, Promises… - Christopher Pollitt
The Global Revolution in Public Management: Driving Themes, Missing Links - Donald Kettl
Globalization and Administrative Reform: What Is Happening in Theory? - Laurence Lynn Jr.
The Middle-Aging of New Public Management: into the Age of Paradox? - Christopher Hood and Guy Peters
Part Five: The Future of Public Administration
New Public Governance in Westminster Systems: Impartial Public Administration and Management Performance at Risk - Peter Aucoin
Maybe It Is time to Rediscover Bureaucracy - Johan Olsen
From Responsiveness to Collaboration: Governance, Citizens, and the Next Generation of Public Administration - Eran Vigoda
The New Public Service: Steering Rather than Steering - Robert Denhardt and Janet Vinzant Denhardt
VOLUME TWO: PEOPLE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Part Six: Civil Service Systems and Alternatives
Top Civil Servants under Contract - Per Laegreid
Canada’s Senior Public Service and the Typology of Bargains: From the Hierarchy of Senior Civil Servants to a Community of ‘Controlled’ Entrepreneurs - Jacques Bourgault
Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States - Tony Verheijen
Revisiting Politicization: Political Advisers and Public Servants in Westminster Systems - Chris Eichbaum and Richard Shaw
Part Seven: Representative Bureaucracy
Lipstick or Logarithms: Gender, Institutional Context, and Representative Bureaucracy - Lael Keiser et al.
What Drives the Implementation of Diversity Management Programs? Evidence from Public Organizations - David Pitts et al.
Rethinking Diversity for Public Organizations in the 21st Century: Moving toward a Multicultural Model - Sally Coleman Selden and Frank Selden
A Contingency Approach to Representative Bureaucracy: Power, Equal Opportunities and Diversity - Sandra Groeneveld & Steven Van de Walle
Part Eight: Motivations, Values and Rewards
Managing Conflicting Public Values: Governing with Integrity and Effectiveness - Gjalt de Graaf and Zeger Van der Wal
Bringing Society In: Toward a Theory of Public Sector Motivation - James Perry
Public Service and Motivation: Does Mission Matter - Bradley Wright
Into an Age of Multiple Austerities?: Public Management and Public Service Bargains across OECD Countries - Martin Lodge and Christopher Hood
VOLUME THREE: THE POLITICAL ROLE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Part Nine: Politicians and Bureaucrats I: Policy Advice
An Evaluation Crucible: Evaluating Policy Advice in Australian Central Agencies - Michael Di Francesco
Power Resources of Parliamentary Executives: Policy Advice in the UK and Germany - Julia Fleischer
When Does Power Listen to Truth? A Constructivist Approach to the Policy Process - Peter Haas
Policy Analysis, Science and Politics: From ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ to ‘Making Sense Together’ - Robert Hoppe
Part Ten: Politicians and Bureaucrats II: Patterns of Interaction
Structure and Process, Politics and Policy: Administrative Arrangements and the Political Control of Agencies - Matthew McCubbins, Roger Noll and Barry Weingast
Ministers and top officials in the Dutch Core Executive: Living Together, Growing Apart? - Paul ′T Hart and Anchrit Wille
Bureaucrats as Public Policy-Makers and Their Self-Interests. - Morten Egeberg
The New Public Management Reforms in Asia: A Comparison of South and Southeast Asian Countries - Ramanie Samartunge, Quamrul Alam and Julian Teicher
Part Eleven: Bureaucracy and Interest Groups
A Bias toward Business? Interest Group Influence on the US Bureaucracy - Jason Webb Yackee and Susan Webb Yackee
Interests, Influence and Information: Comparing the Influence of Interest Groups in the European Union - Adam William Chalmers
Labour Market Organizations’ Participation in Swedish Public Policymaking - Torsten Svensson and PerOla Öberg
Networks: Reified Metaphor or Governance Panacea? - Tanja Börzel
Part Twelve: Policy Making and the Bureaucracy
Bringing Politics Back In: Towards a Model of the Developmental State - Adrian Leftwich
Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques, and Emergent Meanings - John Alford and Janine O’Flynn
Why Bureaucratic Structure Matters for the Implementation of Democratic Governance Programs - Agnes Cornell
Part Thirteen: Bureaucracy and Budgeting
Beyond ‘Best Practice’ and ‘Basics First’ in Adopting Performance Budgeting Reform - Matthew Andrews
Budget Reform in OECD Member Countries: Common Trends - Jón Blöndal
A Budget for All Seasons? Why the Traditional Budget Lasts - Aaron Wildavsky
Public Sector Growth: Comparing Politicians’ and Administrators’ Spending Preferences - Dag Ingvar Jacobsen
VOLUME FOUR: IMPLEMENTATION AND SERVICE PROVISION
Part Fourteen: Implementation
Implementation Structures: A New Unit of Administrative Analysis - Benny Hjern and David Porter
The Thesis of Incongruent Implementation: Revisiting Pressman and Wildavsky - Peter Hupe
Synthesizing the Implementation Literature: The Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy Implementation - Richard Matland
Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration - Søren Winter
Part Fifteen: Street Level Bureaucracy
Mind the Gap: Dimensions and Influence of Street-level Divergence - Anat Gofen
Policy Work: Street-level Organizations under New Managerialism - Evelyn Brodkin
Street-level Bureaucracy and Public Accountability - Peter Hupe And Michael Hill
Part sixteen: Networks and Other Alternative Modes of Implementation
Social Movements and Policy Implementation: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty, 1965 to 1971 - Kenneth Andrews
Policy Implementation: The Organizational Challenge - Benjamin Crosby
Policy Implementation through Bargaining: The Case of Federal Grants-in-Aid - Helen Ingram
Combining Structure, Governance, and Context: A Configurational Approach to Network Effectiveness - Jörg Raab, Remco Mannak and Bart Camré
Part seventeen: Instruments in Public Administration
Design Principles for Policy Mixes: Cohesion and Coherence in ‘New Governance’ Arrangements - Michael Howlett and Jeremy Rayner
Instruments of Government: Perceptions and Contexts - Stephen Linder and B. Guy Peters
The Swiss Army Knife of Government - Roderick Macdonald
Behavioral Assumptions of Policy Tools - Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram
VOLUME FIVE: BUREAUCRACY IN PARTICULAR SETTINGS
Part Eighteen: Public Administration in the European Union
Agency Growth between Autonomy and Accountability: The European Police Office as a ‘Living Institution’ - Madalina Busuioc, Deirdre Curtin and Martijn Groenleer
EU-level Agencies: New Executive Centre Formation or Vehicles for National Control? - Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal
Several Roads Lead to International Norms, but Few via International Socialization: The Case of the European Commission - Liesbet Hooghe
Part Nineteen: Latin American Bureaucracy
Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America - Jorge Nef
New Wine in Old Bottles: How New Democracies Deal with Inherited Bureaucratic Apparatuses: The Experiences of Mexico and Spain - Guillermo Cejudo
Part Twenty: Public Administration in Africa
Public Sector Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Be Learnt from the Civil Service Improvement Programme in Ghana? - K. Antwi, F. Analour and D. Nana-Agyekum
The Politics of Bureau Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa - Janice Caulfield
Part Twenty-One: Public Administration in Asia
The Politics of Administrative Reform in Asia: Paradigms and Legacies, Paths and Diversities - Anthony Cheung
Administrative Reform in Japan: Past Development and Future Trends - Toshiyuki Masujima
Administrative Reform and Tidal Waves from Regime Shifts: Tsunamis in Thailand’s Political and Administrative History - Bidhya Bowornwathana
The Politics of Administrative Reform in East and South-East Asia: from Gridlock to Continuous Self-Improvement? - Martin Painter
Part Twenty-Two: Bureaucracy in International Organizations
Does Bureaucracy Really Matter?: The Authority of Intergovernmental Treaty Secretariats in Global Environmental Politics - Steffen Bauer
‘To Be, But Not to Be Seen’: Exploring the Impact of International Civil Servants - Xu Yi-Chong and Patrick Weller
Organizational Culture in a Multicultural Organization - Robert McLaren
International Bureaucracy: The Myth and Reality of the International Civil Service - Thomas Weiss
VOLUME SIX: ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONTROL
Part Twenty-Three: Accountability: General Issues
Analysing and Assessing Accountability: A Conceptual Framework - Mark Bovens
‘Accountability’: An Ever-Expanding Concept? - Richard Mulgan
Accountability as a Bureaucratic Minefield: Lessons from a Comparative Study - Edward Page
Does Horizontal Accountability Work?: Evaluating Potential Remedies for the Accountability Deficit of Agencies - Thomas Schillemans
Part Twenty-Four: Accountability II: Transparency and Openness
Indignation or Resignation: The Implication of Transparency for Societal Accountability - Monika Bauhr and Marcia Grimes
Administrative Discretion in the Transparent Bureaucracy - Hwang-Sun Kang
Perceptions of Transparency of Government Policy-Making: A Cross-National Study - Jeannine Relly and Meghna Sabharwal
Part Twenty-Five: Accountability–Controlling Corruption
Administrative Corruption - Gerald Caiden and Naomi Caiden
Globalization and Corruption Control in Asian Countries - Jon Quah
Motivation, Discretion and Corruption - Illoong Kwon
Why Do Some Regions in Europe Have Higher Quality of Government? - Nicholas Charron and Victor Lapuente

About the Author

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.

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.