Dedication. Author bios.
1. Introduction to the Fourth Edition of the Handbook of Public Administration (Evert Lindquist, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller). PART 1: THE CONTEMPORARY COMPLEXITY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. Foundations and Tensions in Public Administration.
2. A Transfer-of-Idea Approach to the History of Public Administration: The Hybridizations of Administrative Traditions (Celine Mavrot, Christian Rosser, Fritz Sager, Pascal Hurni).
3. The Administrative Presidency and the Degradation of the United States Civil Service (William G. Resh).
4. The Idea of Administrative Law and the Expansion of the Administrative State (Lorne Sossin)
5. The Challenges of Discretion, Collaboration, and Ambiguity for Administrative Law: Researchable Themes & Issues (Christine Ledvinka Rush). The Evolving and Increasing Variety of Public Administration.
6. Federalism and Multilevel Governance: Contexts for Public Administration (Herman Bakvis).
7. Concurrent Sourcing in Public Services: Theory, Evidence and Future Research (Simon Porcher).
8. Multilevel Network Governance in Emergency Management (Qian Hu & Naim Kapucu).
9. The Many Publics of Government Organizations (John Clayton Thomas & John Alford).
10. Engaging Citizens, Clients and Communities for Policy and Service Delivery (Robyn Keast). Analyzing Public Administration with Complexity Lens.
11. Complexity in Public Management ? Perspectives, Institutions and Practices (Elizabeth Eppel, Mary Lee Rhodes, Lasse Gerritts).
12. How Complexity Informs Public Policy and Administrative Practice: Selected International Cases (Mary-Lee Rhodes, Lasse Gerrits, and Elizabeth Eppel).
13. The Enmeshment of the Machine in Complex Governance Processes and Networks (Lasse Gerrits, Elizabeth Eppel, Mary Lee Rhodes). 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 (Katherine G. Willoughby).
15. Conformity and Diversity in Budgetary Systems: Aspirations, Routines, and Recalibration (John Wanna).
16. Performance Management: Experience and Challenges (Tom Christensen & Per Laegrid).
17. Aptitude, Accountability, and Adaptation: Research Themes for Public Budgeting, Financial Management, and Accountability (Justin Marlowe). Modernizing Human Resources Systems for the Public Sector.
18. Developing Public Servants: International Trends in Human Resource Management (Rex L. Facer).
19. Human Resource Reforms in South Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States (Charlene Roach, Shahrin Shabnam Upoma, Meghna Sabharwal, Hugo Renderos).
20. Rapid Advances in HRM Technologies and Public Employment Systems: A Research Agenda for Acquiring and Managing Talent (Jared Llorens). Public Administration and Regenerating the Policy Cycle.
21. The Policy Cycle and Policy Theory: From Theory-building to Policy Making (Catheine Althaus & David Threlfall).
22. Agenda-setting in Comparative Perspective: Contrasting Policy-Making in France, the United Kingdom and the United States (Emiliano Grossman & Friederike Richter).
23. The Policy Cycle: Moving From Heuristic to a Theory-Informed Research Agenda (draft in progress) (Evert Lindquist & Adam Wellstead). Index.