Handbook of Public Administration 4th Edition by W. Bartley Hildreth 9781000400502 1000400506

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• ISBN 10: 1000400506
• ISBN 13: 9781000400502
• Author: W. Bartley Hildreth

Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment. The very reach and complexity of public administration has been easy to take for granted, easy to attack, and difficult to explain, particularly in the soundbite and Twitter-snipe media environment. Not only has the context for the discipline changed, but the institutions of public administration have adapted and innovated to deliver services to the public and serve those in power while becoming increasingly complex themselves. Has public administration evolved? And what new lines of research are critical for effective policy and delivery of programs and public services while preserving foundational principles such as the rule of law and expert institutions? This Handbook of Public Administration sheds light for new researchers, doctoral students, scholars, and practitioners interested in probing modern public administration’s role in solving major challenges facing nations and the world. This fourth edition recognizes that the scholarship of public administration must reflect the diverse influence of an international orientation, embracing public administration issues and practices in governance systems around the world, and illustrating just how practice can vary across jurisdictions. Every section identifies foundational principles and issues, shows variation in practice across selected jurisdictions, and identifies promising avenues for research. Each chapter revisits enduring themes and tensions, showing how they persist, along with new challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology and contemporary political realities. 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.

Table contents:

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

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