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.

′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

• Preface to Second Edition - B. Guy Peters and Jon PierreIntroductionIntroduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing - B. Guy Peters and Jon PierrePART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW - Hal G. RaineyPublic Management - Laurence E. Lynn, JrMeasuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness - Carolyn J. HeinrichStrategic Planning and Management - John M. BrysonPART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Patricia W. IngrahamIdentifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management - Donald P. MoynihanGlobal Trends in Human Resources Management Practices - Sally Coleman SeldenPay and Prerequisites for Public Executives - Joergen Gronnegaard ChristensenLeadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective - John HalliganLabor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented? - James R. ThompsonPART THREE: ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Tom ChristensenHow Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective - Morten EgebergInstitutional Theories and Public Institutions: New Agendas and Appropriateness - Jean-Claude ThoenigFormal Theory and Public Administration - Thomas H. Hammond and Jack H. KnottEnvironmental Perspectives on Public Institutions - Karen M. HultPART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY - Jos C. N. RaadscheldersUS Administrative History: Golem Government - Mordecai LeeAdministrative Legacies in Western Europe - Fabio RuggeSouth Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present - James Warner BjorkmanPART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION - Søren C. WinterImplementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration - Søren WinterPolicy Design and Implementation - Peter J. MayInterorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation - Laurence J. O′Toole, JrStreet-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy - Marcia K. Meyers and Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen PART SIX: LAW AND ADMINISTRATION - Gavin DrewryThe Continental System of Administrative Legality - Jacques Ziller Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition - Paul CraigThe Limits of Law: Can Laws Regulate Public Administration? - David FeldmanPART SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION - Carl DahlströmBureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government - Paul ′t Hart and Anchrit WillePoliticization of the Civil Service - Luc RoubanStrategy Structure and Policy Dynamics - Andrew B. WhitfordPART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY - Bo RothsteinPolitical Legitimacy for Public Administration - Bo RothsteinRepresentative Bureaucracy: Four Questions - Kenneth J. Meier and K. Juree CapersStreet-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy - Steven Rathgeb Smith Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration? - Helen MargettsPART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER′S BLUES - Frans K. M. Van NispenFiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy - Mark HallerbergPerformance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform - Rita M. Hilton and Philip G. Joyce Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective - Leonard KokPART TEN: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Edward C. PageComparative Public Administration: From General Theory to General Frameworks - Marleen BransInternational Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform - Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoous and Agyris G. PassasAdministrative Patterns and National Politics - Martin LodgePART ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM - Theo A. J. ToonenAdministrative Reform: Analytics - Theo A. J. ToonenAdministrative Reforms in Western Democracies - Tom Christensen and Per LaegreidComprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States - Tony J.G. VerheijenPART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES - Goran HydenPublic Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts - Dele OlowuChallenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration - O. P. Dwedivi and D. S MishraPublic Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America - Jorge NefPublic Administration in Central and Eastern Europe - Patrycja Joanna SuwajPART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY - Paul G. ThomasAccountability in Modern Government - Robert GregoryThe Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics - Promises, Developments and Prospects - Christoph Demmke and Timo MoilanenAccountability in an age of Markets and Networks - Mark Considine and Kamran Ali AfzalPART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS - Martin PainterThe Instruments of InterGovernmental Management - Beryl A. RadinFederalism and Intergovernmental Coordination - Alan Fenna Multi-level Governance and Public Administration - Simona Piattoni

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.

′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

• Preface to Second Edition - B. Guy Peters and Jon PierreIntroductionIntroduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing - B. Guy Peters and Jon PierrePART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW - Hal G. RaineyPublic Management - Laurence E. Lynn, JrMeasuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness - Carolyn J. HeinrichStrategic Planning and Management - John M. BrysonPART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Patricia W. IngrahamIdentifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management - Donald P. MoynihanGlobal Trends in Human Resources Management Practices - Sally Coleman SeldenPay and Prerequisites for Public Executives - Joergen Gronnegaard ChristensenLeadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective - John HalliganLabor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented? - James R. ThompsonPART THREE: ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Tom ChristensenHow Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective - Morten EgebergInstitutional Theories and Public Institutions: New Agendas and Appropriateness - Jean-Claude ThoenigFormal Theory and Public Administration - Thomas H. Hammond and Jack H. KnottEnvironmental Perspectives on Public Institutions - Karen M. HultPART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY - Jos C. N. RaadscheldersUS Administrative History: Golem Government - Mordecai LeeAdministrative Legacies in Western Europe - Fabio RuggeSouth Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present - James Warner BjorkmanPART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION - Søren C. WinterImplementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration - Søren WinterPolicy Design and Implementation - Peter J. MayInterorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation - Laurence J. O′Toole, JrStreet-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy - Marcia K. Meyers and Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen PART SIX: LAW AND ADMINISTRATION - Gavin DrewryThe Continental System of Administrative Legality - Jacques Ziller Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition - Paul CraigThe Limits of Law: Can Laws Regulate Public Administration? - David FeldmanPART SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION - Carl DahlströmBureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government - Paul ′t Hart and Anchrit WillePoliticization of the Civil Service - Luc RoubanStrategy Structure and Policy Dynamics - Andrew B. WhitfordPART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY - Bo RothsteinPolitical Legitimacy for Public Administration - Bo RothsteinRepresentative Bureaucracy: Four Questions - Kenneth J. Meier and K. Juree CapersStreet-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy - Steven Rathgeb Smith Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration? - Helen MargettsPART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER′S BLUES - Frans K. M. Van NispenFiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy - Mark HallerbergPerformance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform - Rita M. Hilton and Philip G. Joyce Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective - Leonard KokPART TEN: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Edward C. PageComparative Public Administration: From General Theory to General Frameworks - Marleen BransInternational Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform - Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoous and Agyris G. PassasAdministrative Patterns and National Politics - Martin LodgePART ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM - Theo A. J. ToonenAdministrative Reform: Analytics - Theo A. J. ToonenAdministrative Reforms in Western Democracies - Tom Christensen and Per LaegreidComprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States - Tony J.G. VerheijenPART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES - Goran HydenPublic Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts - Dele OlowuChallenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration - O. P. Dwedivi and D. S MishraPublic Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America - Jorge NefPublic Administration in Central and Eastern Europe - Patrycja Joanna SuwajPART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY - Paul G. ThomasAccountability in Modern Government - Robert GregoryThe Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics - Promises, Developments and Prospects - Christoph Demmke and Timo MoilanenAccountability in an age of Markets and Networks - Mark Considine and Kamran Ali AfzalPART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS - Martin PainterThe Instruments of InterGovernmental Management - Beryl A. RadinFederalism and Intergovernmental Coordination - Alan Fenna Multi-level Governance and Public Administration - Simona Piattoni