Abstract: Introductory Remarks – Public Management: The Word, the Movement, the Science – Public Management: A Concise History of the Field – Bureaucracy in the Twenty-First Century – Public and Private Management Compared – Public Management, Democracy, and Politics – Law and Public Administration – Public Management as Ethics – Public Accountability – Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations – Postmodern Public Administration – Networks and Inter-Organizational Management: Challenging, Steering, Evaluation, and the Role of Public Actors in Public Management – Whatever Happened to Public Administration? Governance, Governance Everywhere – Virtual Organizations – The Theory of the Audit Explosion – Public–Private Partnerships and Hybridity – Decentralization: A Central Concept in Contemporary Public Management – E-Government: A Challenge for Public Management – Professionals in Public Service Organizations: Implications for Public Sector “Reforming” – Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations – Organizational Cultures in the Public Services – Performance Management – Striving for Balance: Reforms in Human Resource Management – Public Service Quality Improvement – Budget and Accounting Reforms – NGOs and Contracting – Evaluation and Public Management – International Public Management – Management Consultancy – Change and Continuity in the Continental Tradition of Public Management – Afterword

Keywords: bureaucracy, culture, human resource management, inter-organizational, leader, leadership, organizational culture, partnership, performance management, quality, account, contract, performance, public sector, sector, accountability, function, management, network, policy, public policy, service