The Oxford Encyclopedia of Public Administration uniquely addresses public administration as a sprawling, diverse field that contains some elements of political science, economics, law, sociology, ethics and many other disciplines, while also comprising issues and approaches that are distinctive to public administration itself.

Contexts, Integrity, and Control Access or Right to Information and Its Impact on Public Administration (Gregory Michener) Accountability and Responsibility (Robert Gregory) Administrative Culture (Muiris MacCarthaigh and Leno Saarniit) Administrative Styles and Policy Styles (Louisa Bayerlein and Christoph Knill) Administrative Traditions (B. Guy Peters) African Public Administration (Goran Hyden) Auditing and Accountability (Jenny de Fine Licht) Central Agencies and Control in Public Administration (Donald J. Savoie) Communist State Administrative Structures (Astrid Hedin) Comparative Public Administration (Hellmut Wollmann) Competing Values in Public Administration (Zeger van der Wal) Controlling Bureaucratic Corruption (Ting Gong and Sunny L. Yang) East Asian Models of Public Administration: Issues, Challenges, and Prospects (Akira Nakamura) Economic Crisis and Public Administration (Denita Cepiku and Filippo Giordano) Ethics, Corruption, and Integrity of Governance: What It Is and What Helps (Leo Huberts and André van Montfort) The Extended Scope of Accountability in Public Administration (Richard Mulgan) Historical Development of American Public Administration (Mordecai Lee) Judicial Controls Over the Bureaucracy (Calliope Spanou) Latin American Public Administration (Mariana Chudnovsky) The Legitimacy of Civil Services in the 21st Century (Christoph Demmke) The Napoleonic Tradition in Public Administration (Edoardo Ongaro) The Principal-Agent Approach and Public Administration (Jan-Erik Lane) Public Administration and Development (Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira) Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (Stanislaw Mazur) Transnational Administration of Regional and Global Policies (Kim Moloney and Diane Stone) Transparency in Public Administration (Tero Erkkilä) Organizational Systems, Leadership, and Management Administrative Reform: Opportunities, Drivers, and Barriers (Anthony B. L. Cheung) Agencification in Public Administration (Koen Verhoest, Sandra van Thiel, and Steven F. De Vadder) The Anthropology of Bureaucracy and Public Administration (Thomas Bierschenk and Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan) Boundary Organizations: Intermediaries in Science-Policy Interactions (Anna Wesselink and Robert Hoppe) Career Patterns in Administration (Sylvia Veit) Centralization and Decentralization: Compatible Governance Concepts and Practices (Eva M. Witesman) Civil Service Systems (Vainius Smalskys and Jolanta Urbanovic) Collaborative Governance (Joris Voets, Taco Brandsen, Christopher Koliba, and Bram Verschuere) The Corps Model for Administration (Natacha Gally) Fundamentals of Government Structure: Alignments of Organizations at and Beyond the Center of Power (Ian Thynne) Governance Through Civil Society (Jacob Torfing) Governing by Silos (Ian Scott) High-Performance Government (Janine O'Flynn) How Effective are Political Appointees? (Gary E. Hollibaugh, Jr.) Institutionalism and Public Administration (Jan Olsson) Institutionalizing Public Action: Multiple Alignments of Goods, Services, Roles, and Tasks (Ian Thynne) Leadership and Change in the Public Sector (Jose Luis Mendez) Leadership and Public Administration (Ludger Helms) Machinery-of-Government Building Blocks: Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (Roger Wettenhall) Models of Administrative Reform (Giliberto Capano) Multi-Level Governance and Public Administration (Edoardo Ongaro) Network Management in Public Administration: The Essence of Network and Collaborative Governance (Erik-Hans Klijn) Networks and Public Administration (Robin H. Lemaire) New Public Management (Per Lægreid) The Organizational Basis for Public Governance (Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal) Organization Theory and Public Administration (Tom Christensen) Patronage and Public Administration (Francisco Panizza, B. Guy Peters, and Conrado Ramos Larraburu) Performance Management in Public Administration (Johabed G. Olvera and Claudia N. Avellaneda) Politicization of Public Services in Comparative Perspective (John Halligan) Human Resource Management in Public Administration: Key Challenges (John P. Burns) Public Sector Pay in Administration (B. Guy Peters) Public Service Motivation in Public Administration (Wouter Vandenabeele and Carina Schott) The Quality of Government and Public Administration (Alina Mungiu-Pippidi) Rational Choice Perspectives on Bureaucracy (Anthony M. Bertelli and Nicola Palma) State-Owned Enterprises: Structures, Functions, and Legitimacy (Ian Thynne) Strategic Management in Public Administration (John Bryson and Bert George) Weberian Bureaucracy (Fritz Sager and Christian Rosser) Women in Public Administration in the United States: Leadership, Gender Stereotypes, and Bias (Sofia Calsy and Maria J. D'Agostino) Policy Systems, Processes, and Instruments Agenda Setting and the Policy Process: Focusing Events (Thomas A. Birkland and Kathryn L. Schwaeble) Behavioral Public Administration (Lars Tummers) Bounded Rationality in Public Administration (JoBeth Shafran, Bryan D. Jones, and Connor Dye) Bureaucracies and Policy Ideas (Tobias Bach) Coordination, Integration, Coherence, and Collaboration of Public Policies (B. Guy Peters) Federalism and Policy Implementation (Kenneth Wiltshire) Implementation and the Policy Process (Peter Hupe) Implementation Capacity and Evaluation Capacity (Adrian Kay) Implementation Structures: The Use of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Policy Implementation (Mark T. Imperial) Incrementalism and Public Policy-Making (Michael Hayes) Information Processing and Digitalization in Bureaucracies (Tero Erkkilä) Inside Activism: Political Agency and Institutional Change (Jan Olsson and Erik Hysing) Instruments and Implementation in Public Policy and Administration (Michael Howlett) Interest Groups, the Bureaucracy, and Issue Prioritization (Bert Fraussen and Darren Halpin) Policy Advice From Bureaucracy (Marleen Brans and Ellen Fobé) The Policy Capacity of Bureaucracy (Sharma Shubham, Lei Shi, and Xun Wu) Policy Instruments and Administrative Capacities (Kai Wegrich) Policy Integration: Challenges for Public Administration (Christoph Knill, Christina Steinbacher, and Yves Steinebach) Real Property Tax in Local Public Finance (Yilin Hou) Reforming the Budget Process (John Wanna) Regulatory Governance: History, Theories, Strategies, and Challenges (David Levi-Faur, Yael Kariv-Teitelbaum, and Rotem Medzini) Street-Level Bureaucrats: Discretion and Compliance in Policy Implementation (Tony Evans) Think Tanks and Policymaking (Hartwig Pautz) Woodrow Wilson and the Tradition of Dualism in Public Administration (James Svara) Research Design and Methodology Archives in the Study of Public Policy and Administration (Grace Jaramillo) Constructivist Approaches to Public Administration (Nicholas C. Zingale) Interviewing in Public Administration (Philippe Zittoun) Q Methodology in Public Administration: The State of the Art (José Nederhand and Astrid Molenveld) Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Public Administration (Eva Thomann and Jörn Ege) Qualitative Research and Case Studies in Public Administration (Jason L. Jensen and Laura Hand)

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively in the areas of public administration and public policy, both for the United States and comparatively. Among his recent publications are Administrative Traditions: Understanding the Roots of Contemporary Administrative Behavior (2021) and Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration (2021). Ian Thynne has taught and researched public governance, policy, administration and management in New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has served as the co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration and Public Administration and Development.

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