Handbook of Public Administration

349 Pages·2021·5.957 MB·English

by  W. Bartley Hildreth, Gerald J. Miller, Evert A. Lindquist

HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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 criti-
cal 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 prac-
tices 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 prac-
tice across selected jurisdictions, and identifies promising avenues for research. Each chapter re-
visits 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.
W. Bartley Hildreth is Professor and former Dean in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is a Fulbright scholar, a fellow of the National Academy
of Public Administration, and recipient of the Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarship.
Gerald J. Miller retired in 2017 as Professor of Public Administration in the School of Public
Affairs at Arizona State University in Phoenix. He was a Fulbright Scholar and received the Aaron
B. Wildavsky Award for lifetime scholarship.
Evert A. Lindquist is Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria, and
former Director of the School (1998–2015). He serves as Editor of the Institute of Public Admin-
istration of Canada’s scholarly journal, Canadian Public Administration.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
A Comprehensive Publication Program
Editor-In-Chief
David H. Rosenbloom
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration
American University, Washington, DC
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HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Fourth Edition
W. Bartley Hildreth, Gerald J. Miller and Evert A. Lindquist
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introduction to the Fourth Edition of the Handbook of Public Administration 1
Evert A. Lindquist, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller
PART 1
THE CONTEMPORARY COMPLEXITY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 11
Foundations and Tensions in Public Administration 12
2 A Transfer-of-Ideas Approach to the History of Public Administration:
The Hybridizations of Administrative Traditions 13
Céline Mavrot, Christian Rosser, Fritz Sager, and Pascal Y. Hurni
3 The Administrative Presidency and the Degradation of the United States
Civil Service 25
William G. Resh
4 The Idea of Administrative Law and the Expansion of the
Administrative State 40
Lorne Sossin
5 The Challenges of Discretion, Collaboration, and Ambiguity for
Administrative Law: Researchable Themes and Issues 55
Christine Ledvinka Rush
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Contents
The Evolving and Increasing Variety of Public Administration 66
6 Federalism and Multilevel Governance: Contexts for Public Administration 67
Herman Bakvis
7 Concurrent Sourcing in Public Services: Theory, Evidence and Future Research 83
Simon Porcher
8 Multilevel Network Governance in Emergency Management 94
Qian Hu and Naim Kapucu
9 The Many Publics of Government Organizations 107
John Clayton Thomas and John Alford
10 Engaging Citizens, Clients, and Communities for Policy and
Service Delivery 120
Robyn Keast
Analyzing Public Administration with Complexity Lens 134
11 Complexity in Public Management: Perspectives, Institutions, and Practices 135
Elizabeth Anne Eppel, Mary Lee Rhodes, and Lasse Gerrits
12 How Complexity Informs Public Policy and Administrative Practice:
Selected International Cases 147
Mary Lee Rhodes, Lasse Gerrits, and Elizabeth Anne Eppel
13 The Enmeshment of the Machine in Complex Governance
Processes and Networks 162
Lasse Gerrits, Elizabeth Anne Eppel, and Mary Lee Rhodes
PART 2
CRUCIBLES FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MONEY, PEOPLE, POLICY 173
Budgeting and Performance Monitoring for More
Complex Environments 174
14 From Theories to Practice: The Ongoing Search for Control, Efficiency,
Transparency and Results in Government 175
Katherine G. Willoughby
15 Conformity and Diversity in Budgetary Systems: Aspirations, Routines,
and Recalibration 197
John Wanna
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Contents
16 Performance Management: Experiences and Challenges 210
Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid
17 Aptitude, Accountability, and Adaptation: Research Themes for Public
Budgeting, Financial Management, and Accountability 223
Justin Marlowe
Modernizing Human Resources Systems for the Public Sector 239
18 Developing Public Servants: International Trends in Human Resource
Management 240
Rex L. Facer II
19 Human Resource Reforms in South Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America,
and the United States 249
Charlene M. L. Roach, Shahrin Shabnam Upoma, Meghna Sabharwal,
and Hugo Renderos
20 Rapid Advances in HRM Technologies and Public Employment Systems:
A Research Agenda for Acquiring and Managing Talent 272
Jared J. Llorens
Public Administration and Regenerating the Policy Cycle 282
21 The Policy Cycle and Policy Theory: From Theory-Building to
Policy Making 283
Catherine Althaus and David Threlfall
22 Agenda-Setting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Policy-Making
in France, the United Kingdom and the United States 293
Emiliano Grossman and Friederike Richter
23 The Policy Cycle: From Heuristic to a Theory-Informed
Research and Advice 303
Evert A. Lindquist and Adam Wellstead
Index 323
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