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 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 Political culture and public administration Administrative culture General societal culture Political culture and administration Culture and the internal management of organizations The recruitment of public administrators Merit versus patronage Representative bureaucracy Public versus private employment Methods of recruitment Pattern of recruitment Problems of administrative structure West Germany United Kingdon France Sweden The structure of administration Internal organization Variations in internal organization Reorganization Politics and public administration Bureaucracy and pressure groups Bureaucracy and political parties The politics of bureaucracy Bureaucratic government Strategies in bureaucratic politics Paying for government: the budgetary process Basic questions Incrementalism in the budgetary process Alternatives to incrementalism Reactions to fiscal stress General problems of budgeting The politics of administrative accountability Dimensions of responsibility Instrument of accountability The limits of control Public administration in the 1990s Scarcity and public administration Increased challenges to government and administration Complexity in administration Managing in the 1990s