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。

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 Comsevo\atism 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