Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

1. 1994 Electoral Reform in Japan: Background, Process, and Impact on Governance and Public Policy

   • Etsuhiro Nakamura

2. A Study of the Implementation of Indonesian Public Private Partnership Procurement Regulation

   • Sondang Erwin Siagian, Asep Sumaryana, Ida Widianingsih, Heru Nurasa, S. Sri Mantalia

3. Ability-Grouping and Relational Exclusion Within Schools in Chile

   • Lorena Ortega, Claudio Allende, Juan Pablo Valenzuela

4. Abortion as Social Policy

   • Adrieme S. Walker

5. Absenteeism in Organizations

   • Ann-Kristina Løkke

6. Abusive Leadership

   • Lindie H. Liang, Douglas J. Brown

7. ACA Design: Rethinking Selznick

   • Reginald Shareef

8. Academic and Professional Associations in Public Sector HRM

   • Christie Bautista, Siegrun Fox Freyss

9. Academic Citizenship

   • Maria Rita Tagliaventi, Giacomo Carli, Davide Giacomini

10. Academic Encumbrances: Endowments Are for Scholarships

    • Joanne Howard, Leodis Scott, Diane Howard, Angela Freeman

11. Accountability

    • Paolo Ricci

12. Accountability and Accounting: Insights from Russian Public Sector Reform

    • Konstantin Timoshenko

13. Accountability and Corruption, Europe

    • Bernardino Benito

14. Accountability and Democratic Administration

    • Ali Farazmand

15. Accountability and Ethics

    • Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud

16. Accountability and Ethics in Nonprofit Organizations

    • Christopher Corbett

17. Accountability and Governance in Fiji

    • Usman W. Chohan

18. Accountability in Colombia

    • Carolina Isaza

19. Accountability in Federal Government

    • Jonathan Rauh

20. Accountability in the Judicial Administration of Bangladesh

    • Abdur Rahman (Zibol)

This work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration and public policy. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the twin fields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge. 

Expanded and updated, the second edition includes hundreds of new entries representing the most current research in public administration and public policy, covering such important areas as: 1. organization theory, behavior, change and development 2. administrative theory and practice 3. bureaucracy 4. public budgeting and financial management 5. public finance and public management 6. public personnel and labor-management relations 7. crisis and emergency management 8. institutional theory and public administration 9. law and regulations 10. ethics and accountability 


Relevant to professionals, experts, scholars, general readers, and students worldwide, this work will serve as the most viable global reference source for those looking for an introduction to the field.​

• bureaucracy
• organization theory
• public administration
• public budgeting
• public ethics
• public policy

• Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Ali Farazmand

Ali Farazmand is Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, where he also teaches Intellectual Development (philosophy and theory) of Public Administration, Organization Theory and Behavior, Organization Change and Public Management, Public Personnel and Labor Relations, Collective Bargaining/Negotiation, Administrative Ethics and Accountability, Globalization and Sound Governance, Modern Systems of Government, and Bureaucratic Politics and Administrative Theory, and Executive Leadership.

Farazmand received his Ph.D. and MPA from the Maxwell School as well as an MS in Educational Administration from Syracuse University, and a BS in Business Administration from Tehran University. He is the author and editor of 24 books plus over 140 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has published in Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, Public Organization Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Administration Quarterly, International Journal of Public Administration, and Public Budgeting and Finance. He is also the Founding Editor in Chief of Public Organization Review: a Global Journal, and the new Editor-in-Chief of Public Organization Review, International Journal of Public Administration.  Farazmand is a leading, globally recognized international scholar, and a global consultant on public administration and governance reforms, administrative ethics, organizational change and public management, organization design and performance, crisis and emergency management, public sector quality and productivity management, leadership, and globalization and global studies.  His original groundbreaking contributions to knowledge are recognized in various areas of social science: bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, chaos and transformation theories, institutional theory, crisis and emergency management, surprise management theory, organizational elite theory, sound governance, and globalization.

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