本教材包括31篇经典的和现代的文本，为公共行政的当代议题注入了活力，使我们对公共行政在理论上和实践上都得到深入的理解。本版增补了16篇新的文章和4篇现实案例的研究，它们为学生展示了官僚制是如何运作的，详细描述了变化的环境、全球化社会和新的信息技术是如何影响公共行政的等。这些议题对拓展我国政府体制改革的思路亦裨益良多。

作者简介

弗里德里克·雷恩，美国纽约市立大学巴鲁克学院(Banlch College)公共管理系教授，普林斯顿大学伍德罗·威尔逊学院、佛蒙特大学访问教授。长期从事政治科学、公共管理方面的研究，尤其在战略规划与组织发展领域负有盛名。他为非营利组织、大学和政府机构提供管理咨询。

Preface
Introduction
PART ONE：WHAT IS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION?
Chapter1：Introduction to Public Administration
Why Study Bureaucracy?
Pubic and Private Management：Are They
Fundamentally Alike in AU Unimportant Respects?
Working for the Government Is Cool

PART TWO：BUREAUCRACY，POLITICS，AND PUBLIC POLICY
Chapter2：The Political Setting of Public Administration
The Rise of the Bureaucratic State
American Breaucracy in a Changing Political Setting
Chapter3：Public Policy and Administration in a Federal System
The Evolution of American Federalism
Fine Print：The Contract with America Devolution and the Administratie Realities of American Federalism
Chapter4：Public Administration in a Democratic Society
Two Roads to Serfdom：Liberalism Comsevoatism and Administrative Power
Accountabiliry Blattles in Stcte Admintstration
Public Administration and Ethies
PART THREE：THE MANAGEMENT OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Chapter5：Understanding Public Organizations
The Evobutin of Work in Public and Private Bureaucracies
Refturring Organisatimal Leadership
The Im plicatims of Changing Technology
Chaper6：Hurnan Resources Managernetn
The state of Merit in the Federal Govermnent
Realizing the Pronise of Diversity
Chapter7：Public Budgeting
Mapping the Federal Budget Prscess
Sense and Nomsense abour Budget Defvcis
Chapter6：Policy Analysis Implementation and Evaluation
Policy Analysis
Two Decades of Implementation Retearch：From Cuidance and Learning
Performance Mecasuremaent in Lncal Governmernt
PART FOUR：PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND CHANGE
Chapter9：Public Administration in a Three-Sector Society：Relationships among Governmental Business and Nonprofit Organizations
Chatper10：Public Administration in the Twenty-First Century
APPENDIX
About the Authors