Includes index. Peters, B. G., & Pierre, J. (Eds). (2012). The SAGE handbook of public administration (Concise 2nd ed.). Los Angeles: SAGE Reference.

Part 1: Public management: old and new -- Public management -- Measuring public sector performance and effectiveness -- Strategic planning and management -- Part 2: Human resource management -- Identifying the antecedents to government performance: implications for human resource management -- Pay and prerequisites for government executives -- Leadership and the senior service from a comparative perspective -- Labor-management relations and partnerships: were they reinvented? -- Part 3: Organization theory and public administration -- How bureaucratic structure matters: an organizational perspective -- Institutional theories and public institutions: new agendas and appropriateness -- Formal theory and public administration -- Part 4: Administrative history -- US administrative history: Golem government -- Administrative legacies in Western Europe -- South Asian and Western administrative experience: the past in the present -- Part 5: Implementation -- Implementation perspectives: status and reconsideration -- Interorganizational relations and policy implementation - Street-level bureaucrats and the implementation of public policy -- Part 6: Law and administration -- The continental system of administrative legality -- Administrative law in the Anglo-American tradition -- The limits of law: can laws regulate public administration? -- Part 7: Politics and administration -- Bureaucratic politics: opening the black box of executive government -- Politicization of the civil service -- Part 8: Administration and society -- Political legitimacy for public administration -- Representative bureaucracy: four questions -- Electronic government: a revolution in public administration? -- Part 9: Budgeting and finance: budget watcher's blues -- Fiscal rules and fiscal policy -- Performance-informed budgeting: a global reform -- Accrual budgeting in a comparative perspective -- Part 10: Comparative and international public administration -- Comparative public administration: from general theory to general frameworks -- International organizations and domestic administrative reform -- Administrative patterns and national politics -- Part 11: Administrative reform -- Administrative reform: analytics -- Administrative reforms in Western democracies -- Comprehensive reform and public administration in post-communist states -- Part 12: Public administration in developing and transitional societies -- Public administration in Africa: deepening crisis despite reform efforts -- Public administration and public sector in Latin America -- Public administration in Central and Eastern Europe -- Part 13: Accountability -- The pursuit of public service ethics - promises, developments and prospects -- Accountability in an age f markets and networks -- Part 14: Intergovernmental relations -- The instruments of intergovernmental management -- Federalism and intergovernmental coordination -- Multi-level governance and 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. - From the Book