This is the third volume of a four-volume encyclopaedia which combines public administration and policy and contains approximately 900 articles by over 300 specialists. This Volume covers entries from L to Q.

L -- Labor Law -- Labor Movement -- Labor Organization -- Labor Organizer -- Labor Relations -- Labor-Management Cooperation -- Laboratory Training and T (Train ing)-Groups -- Lambert Commission -- Latin American Administrative Tradition -- Layoffs -- Leadership -- Leadership, Agential -- Leave Policy -- Legal Services -- Level Playing Field -- Lewin, Kurt (1890-1947) -- Lindblom, Charles E. (1917-) -- Line-Item Budget -- Line-Item Veto -- Line and Staff Conflict -- Loan Guarantees -- Lobbying -- Local Government -- Local Government Budgeting -- Local Government Leadership -- Logistics -- Lotteries -- Luhmannian Perspectives on Public Administration and Policy -- Lying with Statistics -- M -- Machiavelli -- Machinery of Government -- Machinery of Government, Aus tralia -- Malaysian Administrative Tradition -- Management Audit -- Management by Fear -- Management by Objectives (MBO) -- Management Control -- Management Information System (Mis) -- Management Science -- Management Accounting -- Management, Contingency -- Management, Principles of -- Managerialism -- Mandates -- The Manhattan Project -- Markup -- Market Socialism -- Market Testing -- Martial Law -- Maslow, Abraham H. (1908–1970) -- Master of Public Administration (MPA) -- Masters of Nonprofit Management -- Matrix Organization -- McGregor, Douglas M. (1906–1964) -- Mediating Institutions -- Mentoring -- Merit System -- Metaphor, Organizational -- Metropolitan Organization -- Mexican Administrative Tradition -- Microeconomic Reform -- Micromanagement -- Middle Management -- Miles’s Law -- Military-Industrial Complex -- Ministerial Advisers -- Ministerial Responsibility -- Minority Set-Aside -- Mission Statement -- Mixed Economy -- Monash, Sir John (1865–1931) -- Monetary Policy -- Monnet, Jean (1888–1979) -- Morale -- Moses, Robert (1888–1981) -- Motivation-Hygiene Theory (MHT) -- Muckrakers -- Muddling through -- Multicommunity Partnerships -- Multiculturalism -- Multiculturalism Policy -- Municipal Bonds -- Municipal Bonds: Policy and Strategy -- Municipal Bonds: Security -- Municipal Housekeeping -- Municipal Research Bureaus -- Mutual Benefit Organization -- N -- National Charities Information Bureau (NCIB) -- National Interest -- National Security -- National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE) -- Nationalization -- Natural Law -- Natural Resource Policy -- Needs Assessment -- Neighborhood-Based Organizations (NBOs) -- Neocorporatism -- Nepotism -- New Public Management -- New Urbanism -- New Zealand Model -- Noblesse Oblige -- Nondistribution Constraint -- Nonfeasance -- Nongovernmental Organization -- Nonprofit Entrepreneurship -- Nonprofit Organization -- Nonprofit Sector Research Fund -- Northcote-Trevelyan Report -- O -- Objective Setting -- Occupational Safety and Health -- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Oecd) -- Off-Budget -- The Practices of U.S. State and Local Governments and Other Countries -- Official Immunity -- Offsetting Collections -- Omar Ibn-Al-Khattab (Also Umar OO’ MäR) (581–644) -- Ombudsman -- Opportunity Cost -- Optimizing Principles -- Oraganization Development -- Organization Theory -- Organizational Architecture -- Organizational Behavior -- Organizational Change -- Organizational Culture -- Organizational Learning -- Organizational Psychodynamics -- Organizational Renewal -- Organizational Trust -- Original Intent -- Outsourcing -- P -- Parkinson’s Law -- Parliamentary Appropriation -- Parliamentary Procedure -- Parliamentary Scrutiny -- Parliamentary System -- Parole -- Participation Management -- Patronage -- Pay-For-Performance -- Performance Appraisal -- Performance Audit -- Performance Budget -- Performance Indicator -- Performance Management -- Performance Measurement -- Permanent Secretary -- Persian/Iranian Administrative Tradition -- Personal Integrity -- Pert -- Peter Principle -- Philanthropic Advisory Service (PAS) -- Philanthropy -- Philanthropy, Historical and Philosophical Foundations -- Picketing -- Pillarization -- Planning, Programming, Budget ing System (PPBS) -- Plowden Report -- Pluralism -- Police Administration -- Police Review Board -- Policy -- Policy Advice -- Policy Analysis -- Policy Leadership -- Policy Monitoring -- Policy Network -- Policy Studies -- Political Commissar -- Political Economy -- Political Machine -- Political Neutrality -- Politics-Administration Dichotomy -- Position Classification -- Positivism -- Post-Communist Budgeting -- Postmodern Organization -- Poverty -- Practice of Public Administration -- Pragmatism -- Prices and Incomes Policy -- Primary Jurisdiction -- Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) -- Private Foundation -- Privatization -- Privy Council -- Privy Council Office (PCO) -- Procurement -- Productivity -- Productivity Politics -- Productivity Savings -- Profession -- Professionalism -- Program Budgeting -- Progressive Movement -- Project Control -- Project Management -- Property Tax -- Prostitution Policy -- Province -- Public Administration -- Public Administration Committee (PAC) -- Public Administration Education -- Public Administration Journals -- Public Administration, New -- Public Affairs -- Public Assistance -- Public Authorities -- Public Broadcasting -- Public Choice -- Public Enterprise -- Public Goods -- Public Hearing -- Public Management -- Public Pensions (Retirement) -- Public Personnel Administration -- Public Policy Analysis -- Public Policy Entrepreneur -- Public Sector Administrative Reforms -- Public Sector Engineering -- Public Service -- Public Trust -- Public Welfare -- Q -- Qualified Immunity. -- Quality Awards in Europe. -- Quality Circles. -- Quality Control. -- Quality Improvement. -- Quality of Work Life (QWL). -- Quangos (Quasi-Autonomous, Non-Governmental Organizations). -- Quasi-Governmental. -- Quasi-Judicial Power. -- Quiet Expenditures.