B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science in the University of Pittsburgh.

Jon Pierre is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Preface to Second Edition - B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre
Introduction
Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing - B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre
PART ONE: PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: OLD AND NEW - Hal G. Rainey
Public Management - Laurence E. Lynn, Jr
Measuring Public-Sector Performance and Effectiveness - Carolyn J. Heinrich
Strategic Planning and Management - John M. Bryson
PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - Patricia W. Ingraham
Identifying the Antecedents to Public Performance: Implications for Human Resource Management - Donald P. Moynihan
Global Trends in Human Resources Management Practices - Sally Coleman Selden
Pay and Prerequisites for Public Executives - Joergen Gronnegaard Christensen
Leadership and the Senior Executive Service from a Comparative Perspective - John Halligan
Labor Management Relations and Partnerships: Were They Reinvented? - James R. Thompson
PART THREE: ORGANIZATION THEORY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Tom Christensen
How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective - Morten Egeberg
Institutional Theories and Public Institutions: New Agendas and Appropriateness - Jean-Claude Thoenig
Formal Theory and Public Administration - Thomas H. Hammond and Jack H. Knott
Environmental Perspectives on Public Institutions - Karen M. Hult
PART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY - Jos C. N. Raadschelders
US Administrative History: Golem Government - Mordecai Lee
Administrative Legacies in Western Europe - Fabio Rugge
South Asian and Western Administrative Experience: The Past in the Present - James Warner Bjorkman
PART FIVE: IMPLEMENTATION - Søren C. Winter
Implementation Perspectives: Status and Reconsideration - Søren Winter
Policy Design and Implementation - Peter J. May
Interorganizational Relations and Policy Implementation - Laurence J. O¿Toole, Jr
Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Implementation of Public Policy - Marcia K. Meyers and Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen
PART SIX: LAW AND ADMINISTRATION - Gavin Drewry
The Continental System of Administrative Legality - Jacques Ziller
Administrative Law in the Anglo-American Tradition - Paul Craig
The Limits of Law: Can Laws Regulate Public Administration? - David Feldman
PART SEVEN: POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION - Carl Dahlström
Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government - Paul ¿t Hart and Anchrit Wille
Politicization of the Civil Service - Luc Rouban
Strategy Structure and Policy Dynamics - Andrew B. Whitford
PART EIGHT: ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIETY - Bo Rothstein
Political Legitimacy for Public Administration - Bo Rothstein
Representative Bureaucracy: Four Questions - Kenneth J. Meier and K. Juree Capers
Street-Level Bureaucracy and Public Policy - Steven Rathgeb Smith
Electronic Government: A Revolution in Public Administration? - Helen Margetts
PART NINE: BUDGETING AND FINANCE: BUDGET WATCHER¿S BLUES - Frans K. M. Van Nispen
Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Policy - Mark Hallerberg
Performance-Informed Budgeting: A Global Reform - Rita M. Hilton and Philip G. Joyce
Accrual Budgeting in Comparative Perspective - Leonard Kok
PART TEN: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - Edward C. Page
Comparative Public Administration: From General Theory to General Frameworks - Marleen Brans
International Organizations and Domestic Administrative Reform - Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoous and Agyris G. Passas
Administrative Patterns and National Politics - Martin Lodge
PART ELEVEN: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM - Theo A. J. Toonen
Administrative Reform: Analytics - Theo A. J. Toonen
Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies - Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid
Comprehensive Reform and Public Administration in Post-Communist States - Tony J.G. Verheijen
PART TWELVE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES - Goran Hyden
Public Administration in Africa: Deepening Crisis Despite Reform Efforts - Dele Olowu
Challenges of Culture and Governance in South Asian Public Administration - O. P. Dwedivi and D. S Mishra
Public Administration and Public Sector Reform in Latin America - Jorge Nef
Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe - Patrycja Joanna Suwaj
PART THIRTEEN: ACCOUNTABILITY - Paul G. Thomas
Accountability in Modern Government - Robert Gregory
The Pursuit of Public-Service Ethics - Promises, Developments and Prospects - Christoph Demmke and Timo Moilanen
Accountability in an age of Markets and Networks - Mark Considine and Kamran Ali Afzal
PART FOURTEEN: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS - Martin Painter
The Instruments of InterGovernmental Management - Beryl A. Radin
Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination - Alan Fenna
Multi-level Governance and Public Administration - Simona Piattoni