B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre 
The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration [EPUB ebook] 

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 Inter Governmental Management – Beryl A. Radin
Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination – Alan Fenna
Multi-level Governance and Public Administration – Simona Piattoni

I am a research professor in the department of political science, University of Gothenburg. I am also adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Nordland University in Bodö, Norway. I have held numerous overseas visiting appointments, most recently at the City University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne and University of Auckland.