The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration

B Guy Peters

ISBN 10: 144629580X / ISBN 13: 9781446295809

Edité par SAGE Publications Ltd Apr 2014, 2014

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 714 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration
• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd Apr 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 144629580X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781446295809
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 170 H x 38 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 170 millimètres de hauteur par 38 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1210 grammes

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Synopsis

Now available in paperback: With a particular focus on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, this second edition provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in the field

À propos des auteurs

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.