Introduction The concept of public administration Comparative politics and comparative administration Comparative political theory and comparative administration Administrative theory and comparative administration Administration and public policy CHAPTER 1 - The persistence, growth, and change of government and administration The modern public sector The growth of government The growth of administration Countertrends in governmental growth CHAPTER 2 - Political culture and public administration Administrative culture General societal culture Political culture and administration Culture and the internal management of organizations CHAPTER 3 - The recruitment of public administrators Merit versus patronage Representative bureaucracy Public versus private employment Methods of recruitment Pattern of recruitment CHAPTER 4 - Problems of administrative structure West Germany United Kingdon France Sweden The structure of administration Internal organization Variations in internal organization Reorganization CHAPTER 5 - Politics and public administration Bureaucracy and pressure groups Bureaucracy and political parties CHAPTER 6 - The politics of bureaucracy Bureaucratic government Strategies in bureaucratic politics CHAPTER 7 - Paying for government: the budgetary process Basic questions Incrementalism in the budgetary process Alternatives to incrementalism Reactions to fiscal stress General problems of budgeting CHAPTER 8 - The politics of administrative accountability Dimensions of responsibility Instrument of accountability The limits of control CHAPTER 9 - Public administration in the 1990s Scarcity and public administration Increased challenges to government and administration Complexity in administration Managing in the 1990s