Section I. Rethinking administrative rationality in democratic republic 1. Managing successful organizational change in the public sector - Sergio Fernandez and Hal G. Rainey 2. Back to the future? Performance-related pay, empirical research, and the perils of persistence - James L. Perry, Trent A. Engbers, and So Yun Jun 3. From "need to know" to "need to share": tangled problems, information boundaries, and the building of public sector knowledge networks - Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, and Theresa A. Pardo 4. Toward "strong democracy" in global cities? Social capital building, theory-driven reform, and the Los Angeles neighborhood council experience - Juliet Musso, Christopher Weare, Thomas Bryer and Terry L. Cooper 5. Reinventing administrative prescriptions: the case for democratic-constitutional impact statements and scorecards - David H. Rosenbloom Section II: Recapitalizing organizational capacity 6. Betting on the future with a cloudy crystal ball? How financial theory can improve revenue forecasting and budgets in the states - Fred Thompson and Bruce L. Gates 7. Managing public service contracts: aligning values, institutions, and markets - Trevor L. Brown, Matthew Potoski and David M. Van Slyke 8. A return to spoils? Revisiting radical civil service reform in the United States - Stephen E. Condrey, Condrey and R. Paul Battaglio Jr. 9. A Solution in search of a problem? Discrimination, affirmative action, and the new governance - Sally Coleman Selden Section III. Reconceptualizing institutions for new policy challenges Chapter 10: Is the world "flat" or "spiky? Rethinking the governance implications of globalization for economic development - Richard C. Feiock, M. Jae Moon and Hyung Jun Park 11. Spanning "bleeding" boundaries: humanitarianism, NGOs, and the civilian-military nexus in the Post-Cold War Era - Nancy C. Roberts 12. Left high and dry? Climate change, common-pool resource theory, and the adaptability of western water compacts - Edella Schlager, and Tanya Heikkila