This is the final 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 R to Z.

Editorial Board -- R -- Rainy Day Fund -- Rationality in Public Administration -- Recommendation -- Reconciliation -- Recruitment -- Red Tape -- Reduction in Force (RIF) -- Reengineering -- Regime Values -- Region -- Regional Development -- Regionalism -- Regulation -- Regulation (EC) -- Reinventing Government -- Religious Organizations -- Reorganization -- Representative Bureaucracy -- Reproductive Rights Policy -- Republicanism -- Resource Dependence Theory -- Respondeat Superior -- Retirement -- Revenue Budgeting -- Revenue Diversification -- Revenue Forecasting -- Revenue Sharing -- Reverse Discrimination -- Reviewability -- Revolving Fund -- Riggs, Fred W. (1917–) -- Right to Die -- Right to Privacy -- Right-To-Work Law -- Ripeness Principle -- Risk Assessment -- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882–1945) -- Royal Commissions -- Rule -- Rulemaking -- Rule of Law -- Rule of Three, the -- Rural Governance -- S -- Salary Equity -- Sales and Consumption Taxes -- Scenario Development Planning -- Schengen Agreement -- Schuman, Robert (1886–1963) -- Science, Technology, and Public Policy -- Scientific Management -- Scope of Review -- Section 1983 -- Senior Executive Service -- Seniority -- Separation of Powers -- Settlement Houses -- Sexual Harassment -- Shared Services -- Simon, Herbert Alexander (1916–) -- Single European Act (Or European Act) -- Smith, Adam (1723–1790) -- Social Design -- Social Equity -- Social Indicator -- Social Responsibility of Business -- Social Security Systems (U.S.) -- Social Services -- Social Welfare Organization -- Social-Political Governance -- Solicitation of Gifts -- Solid Waste Administration -- Soveregin Immunity -- Space Policy -- Special Districts -- Special Relationship -- Speed-Ups and Slow-Downs -- Spoils System -- Staats, Elmer B. (1914–) -- Staffing -- Stakeholder -- Standards of Conduct -- Standing -- State Government -- State Reinvention -- State-Local Relations -- Statistics, History of -- Statutory Corporation -- Stein, Freiherr Heinrich Fredrich KARL vom und zum (1757-1831) -- Stein, Lorenz Von (1815–1890) -- Stewardship -- Stone, Donald Crawford (1903–1995) -- Strategic Budgeting -- Strategic Leadership -- Strategic Planning -- Strategic Supply Management -- Strategy -- Street-Level Bureaucrats -- Stress -- Strike -- Structure (Organizational) -- Subsidiarity -- Suggestion Systems -- Sunset Laws -- Sunshine Laws -- Supply-Side Economics -- Supranational Organization -- Survey Method -- Systems Analysis -- Systems Theory -- T -- Tactics -- Target-Based Budgeting -- Tax Administration -- Tax Amnesty -- Tax-Exempt Organization -- Tax Expenditure -- Tax Incidence -- Tax Revolt -- Taxes -- Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915) -- Technology Transfer -- Telecommunications Policy -- Terrorism -- Thatcherism -- Third Party Government -- Time and Motion Studies -- Time Management -- Tool Tropism -- Tort Claims Act -- Tort Liability (In Government) -- Total Quality Management (TQM) -- Trade Blocks -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Training and Development -- Transactional Analysis (TA) -- Transportation Policy -- Treaty on European Union -- Trainitarian Change: Alpha, Beta, And Gamma -- Trust Fund -- Turnover -- Twin-Headed Executive in France -- U -- Unemployment Insurance -- Unfair Labor Practice -- Unified Budget -- Union -- Union Security Provision -- United Way -- Unrelated Business Income Tax -- Up-Or-Out Systems -- U.S. Office of Management and Budget -- User Fees and Charges -- V -- Values Assessment -- Verwaltungsmanagement -- Veterans’ Preference -- Vickers, Sir Geoffrey (1894–1982) -- Virtual Organization -- Voluntarism -- Voluntary Action -- Voluntary Sector -- Voluntary Social Service Agencies -- Volunteer Administration -- Voucher System -- W -- Wage and Price Controls -- Waldo, Dwight (1913–) -- War Cabinet -- War on Poverty -- Watergate -- Webb, James Edwin (1906–1992) -- Weber, Max (1864–1920) -- Wellness Programs -- Whistleblower -- White, Leonard D. (1891–1958) -- Whitehall -- Wildavsky, Aaron (1930–1993) -- Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924) -- Wise Use Movement -- Work/Family Policies -- Workers’ Compensation -- Workforce Diversity -- Workload Measures -- Z -- Zero-Based Budgeting -- Zoning