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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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  • Global overview of public administration and public policy
  • Editors are internationally recognized scholars and practitioners of public administration
  • Touches on a variety of theories, methodology, & practical knowledge across the discipline

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Table of contents (2029 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-clxxiii
  2. A

    1. Abortion as Social Policy

      • Adrieme S. Walker
      Pages 1-6
    2. Absenteeism in Organizations

      • Ann-Kristina Løkke
      Pages 6-11
    3. Abusive Leadership

      • Lindie H. Liang, Douglas J. Brown
      Pages 11-17
    4. ACA Design: Rethinking Selznick

      • Reginald Shareef
      Pages 17-22
    5. Academic and Professional Associations in Public Sector HRM

      • Christie Bautista, Siegrun Fox Freyss
      Pages 22-26
    6. Academic Citizenship

      • Maria Rita Tagliaventi, Giacomo Carli, Davide Giacomini
      Pages 26-32
    7. Academic Encumbrances: Endowments Are for Scholarships

      • Joanne Howard, Leodis Scott, Diane Howard, Angela Freeman
      Pages 32-38
    8. Accountability

      • Paolo Ricci
      Pages 38-43
    9. Accountability and Corruption, Europe

      • Bernardino Benito
      Pages 52-60
    10. Accountability and Ethics

      • Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud
      Pages 67-73
    11. Accountability and Governance in Fiji

      • Usman W. Chohan
      Pages 82-86
    12. Accountability in Colombia

      • Carolina Isaza
      Pages 86-90
    13. Accountability in Federal Government

      • Jonathan Rauh
      Pages 90-96
    14. Accountability in Tourism Governance

      • Michelle Scobie
      Pages 104-110
    15. Accountability Mechanisms

      • Adam Graycar, Carole Jurkiewicz
      Pages 110-114

About this book

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

Expanded and updated, the second edition includes over a thousand of new entries representing the most current research in public administration, public policy, governance, nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and management covering such important sub-areas as: 1. organization theory, behavior, change and development; 2. administrative theory and practice; 3. Bureaucracy; 4. public budgeting and financial management; 5. public economy and public management 6. public personnel administration and labor-management relations; 7. crisis and emergency management; 8. institutional theory and public administration; 9. law and regulations; 10. ethics and accountability; 11. public governance and private governance; 12. Nonprofit management and nongovernmental organizations; 13. Social, health, and environmental policy areas; 14. pandemic and crisis management; 15. administrative and governance reforms; 16. comparative public administration and governance; 17. globalization and international issues; 18. performance management; 19. geographical areas of the world with country-focused entries like Japan, China, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe, North America; and 20. a lot more.

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

    Ali Farazmand

About the editor

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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