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Informationen zum Autor B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching and research focus on comparative public policy and administration as well as U.S. public administration. A selection of his recent and forthcoming publications includes Debating Institutionalism (Manchester University Press, 2008), co-edited with Jon Pierre and Gerry Stoker; and Mixes, Matches and Mistakes: New Public Management in the States of the Former Soviet Union (Budapest: LGI, 2009). His books The Politics of Bureaucracy (6th edition, Routledge, 2009) and The Future of Governing (2nd ed. University Press of Kansas) have been major works in the study of comparative public administration. He is also the founding co-editor of two journals, European Political Science Review and Governance: An International Journal of Political Administration and co-editor of a book series Political Analysis, in addition to serving on numerous editorial boards pertaining to public policy and administration. Jon Pierre is a research professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and professor of public governance, Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne. His main research is in the fields of public administration, governance theory and institutional analysis. He is co-editor (with Guy Peters and Gerry Stoker) of Debating Institutionalism (Manchester University Press, 2008), author of The Politics of Urban Governance (Palgrave, 2011), co-editor (with Jean-Marie Eymeri-Douzans) of Administrative Reform and Democratic Governance (Routledge, 2011) co-author (with Jacob Torfing, Guy Peters and Eva Sörensen) of Interactive Governance (Oxford University Press, 2012), and author of Globalization and Governance (Edward Elgar, 2013). Klappentext Zusammenfassung The readings in this major work cover the wide array of topics in public administration! blending classics in the field with more recent scholarship. Comparative in its approach! this collection is designed for both academics and practitioners across the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Part One: Fundamental Works The Study of Administration - Woodrow Wilson Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization - S. Eisenstadt Nonmarket Decision-Making: The Peculiar Economics of Bureaucracy - William Niskanen Administrative Decision-Making - Herbert Simon Part Two: History of Public Administration Wang Anshi and the Origins of Modern Public Administration in Song Dynasty China - Wolfgang Drechsler Administrative History of the United States of America: Development and State of the Art - Jos Raadschelders Administrative Legacies in Western Europe - Fabio Rugge Part Three: Organizations in Public Administration Ode to Luther Gulick: Span of Control and Organizational Performance - Kenneth Meier and John Bohte Institutional Isomorphism and Public Sector Organizations - Peter Frumkin and Joseph Galaskiewicz The Design of Public Agencies: Overcoming Agency Costs and Commitment Problems - Kutsal Yesilkagit How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective - Morten Egeberg Part Four: Reforming the Public Sector 40 Years of Public Management Reform In UK Central Government - Promises, Promises... - Christopher Pollitt The Global Revolution in Public Management: Driving Themes, Missing Links - Donald Kettl Globalization and Administrative Reform: What Is Happening in Theory? - Laurence Lynn Jr. The Middle-Aging of New Public Management: into the Age of Paradox? - Christopher Hood and Guy Peters Part Five: The Future of Public Administration New Public Governance in Westminster Systems: Impartial Public Administration ...
