PART 1 - INTRODUCTION 1. The politics of public administration - Andreas Ladner, Fritz Sager, and Alexander Bastianen PART II - PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN POLITICS 2. The evolution of bureaucracy as political actor: from instrument for power, via iron cage, to container and guardin of democracy - Jos C. N. Readschelders 3. The politics of the politics-administration dichtomy - Fritz Sager and Christian Rosser 4. Taking stock: New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms - trends and challenges - Tom Christensen and Per Loegreid 5. The politics of new public governance - Eva Sorensen 6. The politics of decentralization - Andreas Ladner 7. International public administration and politics - Jorn Ege 8. Politics, public administration, and evidence-based policy - Joshua Newman 9. Ministerial advisory systems and politics - Thurid Hustedt 10. The politics of policy implementation: a reassessment in more conflictual times - Fritz Sager and Markus Hinterleitner 11. The politics of administrative burden - Donald Moynihan 12. The politics of administrative reforms - Jorg Bogumil and Sabine Kuhlmann 13. Public management and politics: oxymoron or new political paradigm for the state sector? - Geert Bouckaert PART III - POLITICS WITHIN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 14. The politics of bureaucratic organizations - Adrian Ritz and Daniela Schadeli 15. The politics of regulation: mapping half a century of debates (1970-2020) - Jeroen van der Heijden 16. The role of constitutional and administrative law in the politics of public administration - Andreas Lienhard, Peter Bieri, and Anna Malandrino 17. The politics of public 18. The politics of staffing - Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S. A. Dijkstra 19. The politics of public administration in policy-making - Karin Ingold and Paul Cairney 20. The politics of performance management - Wouter van Dooren 21. The politics of accountability - Thomas Schillemans 22. The politics of evaluation - Céline Mavrot and Valérie Pattyn 23. Reputation and bureaucratic politics - Dovilè Rim 24. The politics of digital government - Tobias Mettler PART IV - COUNTRY STUDIES 25. The policies of public administration in the US: the role of structural fragmentation, professionalization, and path dependence - Kenneth J. Meier and Anita Dhillon 26. France: under the rule of a contested politico-administrative elite whose legitimacy erodes - Jean-Michael Eymeri-Douzans 27. Germany: still a politicized, but meritocratic bureaucracy? - Falk Ebinger 28. The relationship between politics and public administration in Sweden: an archetypical welfare state - Tomas Bergstrom 29. Switzerland: the politics of PA in amulti-party semi-direct consensus democracy - Andreas Ladner and Fritz Sager 30. The politics of public administration in the Russian Federation - Caroline Schlaufer and Tim Jakel 31. Public administration in China: a politics-administration relation perspective - G. Zhiyong Lan 32. Singapore: administrative city-state - J. J. Woo 33. Non-governability and lack of reform: politics and public administration in Israel - Nissim Cohen 34. Mexico: a public administration under fire - Oliver Meza 35. Divergent paths of (de-)politicization: the Colombian and Venezuelan public adminisration - John Polga-Hecimovich 36. The dynamic relationship between public administration and politics in Korea: actor and institutional perspectives - Tobin Im and Kwang-Hoon Lee 37. The politics of public administration in Japan - Masao Kikuchi 38. The politics of public administration in twenty-first century India - Srinivas Yerramsetti Index