The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

Second Edition
B. Guy Peters - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jon Pierre - Gothenburg University, Sweden
The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration
August 2012 | 816 pages | Sage UK
Create Flyer

Purchase

eBook
ISBN: 9781473971134
Available from January 0001
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781446200506
Available from January 0001

Description

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.

Contents

Preface to Second Edition

Preface to Second Edition

Introduction

  • Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing

PART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW

  • Public Management
  • Measuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness
  • Strategic Planning and Management

PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

  • Identifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management
  • Global Trends in Human Resources Management Practices
  • Pay and Prerequisites for Public Executives
  • Leadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective
  • Labor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented?

PART THREE: 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
  • Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions

PART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

  • US Administrative History: Golem Government
  • Administrative Legacies in Western Europe
  • South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present

PART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION

  • Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration
  • Policy Design and Implementation
  • Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation
  • Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy

PART SIX: 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 SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION

  • Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government
  • Politicization of the Civil Service
  • Strategy Structure and Policy Dynamics

PART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY

  • Political Legitimacy for Public Administration
  • Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions
  • Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy
  • Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration?

PART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER'S BLUES

  • Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy
  • Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform
  • Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective

PART TEN: 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 ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

  • Administrative Reform: Analytics
  • Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies
  • Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States

PART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES

  • Public Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts
  • Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration
  • Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America
  • Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe

PART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY

  • Accountability in Modern Government
  • The Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics - Promises, Developments and Prospects
  • Accountability in an age of Markets and Networks

PART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

  • The Instruments of InterGovernmental Management
  • Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination
  • Multi-level Governance and Public Administration

Additional materials

Description

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.

Contents

Preface to Second Edition

Preface to Second Edition

Introduction

  • Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing

PART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW

  • Public Management
  • Measuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness
  • Strategic Planning and Management

PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

  • Identifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management
  • Global Trends in Human Resources Management Practices
  • Pay and Prerequisites for Public Executives
  • Leadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective
  • Labor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented?

PART THREE: 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
  • Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions

PART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

  • US Administrative History: Golem Government
  • Administrative Legacies in Western Europe
  • South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present

PART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION

  • Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration
  • Policy Design and Implementation
  • Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation
  • Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy

PART SIX: 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 SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION

  • Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government
  • Politicization of the Civil Service
  • Strategy Structure and Policy Dynamics

PART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY

  • Political Legitimacy for Public Administration
  • Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions
  • Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy
  • Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration?

PART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER'S BLUES

  • Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy
  • Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform
  • Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective

PART TEN: 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 ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

  • Administrative Reform: Analytics
  • Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies
  • Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States

PART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES

  • Public Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts
  • Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration
  • Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America
  • Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe

PART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY

  • Accountability in Modern Government
  • The Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics - Promises, Developments and Prospects
  • Accountability in an age of Markets and Networks

PART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

  • The Instruments of InterGovernmental Management
  • Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination
  • Multi-level Governance and Public Administration

Additional materials

SAGE Publishing Logo

The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

B. Guy Peters , Jon Pierre
Cancel Print

August 2012 | 816 pages | Sage UK

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Hardcover 31/03/2026 9781446200506 $220.00
Paperback 31/03/2026 9781446295809 $78.00
180 Day Ebook 28/03/2023 9781473971134 $32.00
Lifetime 28/03/2023 9781473971134 $47.00

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.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface to Second Edition
  • Introduction
  • Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing
  • PART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW
  • Public Management
  • Measuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness
  • Strategic Planning and Management
  • PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  • Identifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management
  • Global Trends in Human Resources Management Practices
  • Pay and Prerequisites for Public Executives
  • Leadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective
  • Labor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented?
  • PART THREE: 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
  • Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions
  • PART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
  • US Administrative History: Golem Government
  • Administrative Legacies in Western Europe
  • South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present
  • PART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION
  • Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration
  • Policy Design and Implementation
  • Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation
  • Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy
  • PART SIX: 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 SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION
  • Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government
  • Politicization of the Civil Service
  • Strategy Structure and Policy Dynamics
  • PART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY
  • Political Legitimacy for Public Administration
  • Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions
  • Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy
  • Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration?
  • PART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER'S BLUES
  • Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy
  • Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform
  • Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective
  • PART TEN: 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 ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
  • Administrative Reform: Analytics
  • Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies
  • Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States
  • PART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES
  • Public Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts
  • Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration
  • Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America
  • Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe
  • PART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Accountability in Modern Government
  • The Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics - Promises, Developments and Prospects
  • Accountability in an age of Markets and Networks
  • PART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
  • The Instruments of InterGovernmental Management
  • Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination
  • Multi-level Governance and Public Administration

Recent Product Reviews:

Great collection of top articles.
Professor Pedro Correia, Public Administration, University of Lisbon
All in all the book matches the expectations resulting from the book title - as far as the book provides an excellent comprehensive overview and an in-depth discussion of major administrative aspects. It turns out the diversity of topics as well as continuities and changes in public policy, administration and management.\Also because of the diverse and specialized team of contributors the book procures a solid knowledge base and a good reference book for advanced(!) students and academics.\The structure of the single parts and articles is convincing, especially due to the basic introductions and the mostly illustrating “case studies” respectively the deepening with regard to contents. Nevertheless the book would benefit from additional advices concerning main authors, websites and articles/books relating to a topic.\It is possible to read the chapters as free standing parts. The book would be more convincing if there would be more respectively deeper references to other book chapters - for example between governance-reforms (p. 505) and multi-level-governance (p. 668-680).\Al in all the book fulfils the expectations and requirements of an handbook. It provides an overview and deepens selected aspects and cases. However some aspects are missing and reveal a specific view to the over-all topic. There is no chapter or sub-chapter referring for example to the Asian region.
Ms Caroline Kärger, Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen
'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

Recommendations