- Summary
- Contents
- Subject index
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; ...
Chapter 2: Measuring Public Sector Performance and Effectiveness
Background
In many nations, human resource management (HRM) – personnel or civil service systems in the old terminology – has changed profoundly in the past two decades. From a theoretical perspective, the management of public employees and the institutions of the public service have moved from being ...
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